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Lokesh commented on the post, The Meaning of a Cult?, on the site sannyasnews 12 years, 5 months ago
Arpana, I actually went through a very intense period of disillusionment with Osho and his credo. That disillusionment contained disappointment. A lot of holy water has passed under the bridge of sighs since then. […]
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Lokesh commented on the post, The Meaning of a Cult?, on the site sannyasnews 12 years, 5 months ago
One of the problems of getting hitched up with a guru is that you want the best. Who wants a second rate guru? Nobody. Osho was very much aware of this and eventually started telling people he was the master of […]
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alokjohn commented on the post, The Meaning of a Cult?, on the site sannyasnews 12 years, 5 months ago
I tend to agree with Frank here. Did you know that the encounter group was created by the CIA in the post war years as a means of social control.
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alokjohn commented on the post, The Meaning of a Cult?, on the site sannyasnews 12 years, 5 months ago
Well yes, but I think he also says in the book that when the formal encounter groups started he prayed Osho would not ask him to do one, and he did not.
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frank commented on the post, The Meaning of a Cult?, on the site sannyasnews 12 years, 5 months ago
if the encounter groups were so successful,why did they pave the way for a crypto-fascist cult situation,where people were even less able to “encounter” others who were abusing their power over them in their […]
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Lokesh commented on the post, The Meaning of a Cult?, on the site sannyasnews 12 years, 5 months ago
The biggest mystery about sannyas is how anyone calling themselves a sannyasin, wearing orange clothes, a mala with an indian guru’s photo in a plastic locket round their neck and allowing a complete stranger to […]
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Parmartha commented on the post, The Meaning of a Cult?, on the site sannyasnews 12 years, 5 months ago
Krishna Prem did the group to end all groups. The Kailesh (excuse possible spelling error) experiment. There is an account of it in the book you mention. It contains everything that also occurred in the encounter […]
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alokjohn commented on the post, The Meaning of a Cult?, on the site sannyasnews 12 years, 5 months ago
Well yes, but Krishna Prem of Osho, India and Me did no groups and it does not sound from his book that he missed very much. Maybe Amrito also did not need groups. You talk of encounter group leaders engaging in […]
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Parmartha commented on the post, The Meaning of a Cult?, on the site sannyasnews 12 years, 5 months ago
It’s a paradox Jay of which I suspect you are aware that many of those who reached positions of power in the ashram and the Ranch, and still run things now (like Amrito) never did any real apprenticeship in and […]
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, The Meaning of a Cult?, on the site sannyasnews 12 years, 5 months ago
Anthony is welcome, as is Calder. Both will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
– MistlBORGer
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, The Meaning of a Cult?, on the site sannyasnews 12 years, 5 months ago
p.s. — the ‘Rachmilievitch’ of this particular community seems to be JCPenny. Perhaps sannyasnews should pay him to be here.
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, The Meaning of a Cult?, on the site sannyasnews 12 years, 5 months ago
Perhaps we can tweak this line ‘existence is indifferent to human affairs’ to ‘existence is indifferent to human interpretation’.
In other words, a type of balancing may indeed be occurring (even if understood […]
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P.T. Mistlberger commented on the post, The Meaning of a Cult?, on the site sannyasnews 12 years, 5 months ago
Worth exploring is the distinction between ‘cult’ and ‘mystery school’. The former implies a closed system that essentially feeds a King (or Queen) Bee of powerful charisma but questionable merit. The latter […]
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Parmartha commented on the post, The Meaning of a Cult?, on the site sannyasnews 12 years, 5 months ago
To me the words, Cult, sect or religion are just words, they should not tug the nose of the discussion, but be servants of the discussion.
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Parmartha commented on the post, The Meaning of a Cult?, on the site sannyasnews 12 years, 5 months ago
Thanks for the longer list Jay. I think it is a very moot point whether “evolution” can be said to have occurred with the human species.
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Parmartha commented on the post, The Meaning of a Cult?, on the site sannyasnews 12 years, 5 months ago
Nothing very complicated here Frank. Just there are those with delusions of grandeur that find a way beyond them (as Dharmen indicates elsewhere – they become ordinary).
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frank commented on the post, The Meaning of a Cult?, on the site sannyasnews 12 years, 5 months ago
did you know that there is now less violence happening per capita on planet earth than at any time in the history of mankind on earth?
statistically,even in the second world war you had less statistical chance of […] -
frank commented on the post, A Personal Watershed, Sept 19th, 1985, on the site sannyasnews 12 years, 5 months ago
thanks for clarifying.
it does seem a remarkable synchronicity.
where was the sofa
and the crowd you mention?
in his room where he was giving a teaching,or did you just run into him in the lobby?
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dharmen commented on the post, The Meaning of a Cult?, on the site sannyasnews 12 years, 5 months ago
I reckon existence was right there yin-yanging away, even with Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot. Just we have to take in a bigger picture; this world don’t always look pretty. Yin-yang is indifferent, all it knows is a […]
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Lokesh commented on the post, The Meaning of a Cult?, on the site sannyasnews 12 years, 5 months ago
Yes, simple. I couldn’t have put it better myself.
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