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Neither met nor heard of him before reading your post, VF.

What are these tv programme people saying here, Veet Francesco?

‘Not Dark Yet (But It’s Getting There)’…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ1bzKISLBw&list=RDFJ1bzKISLBw&start_radio=1

My God, what a song.

Apologies, by the way, for having been so late with the moderation on Thursday, which was due to a major computer problem that required expert treatment until it was finally solved around 9.30pm (Uk time).

That’s not a particularly wide-ranging set of genres, NP.

“Similarly with novels, most are just vehicles for fun, without much depth or reality. Not much better than other people’s dreams.”

So many are published, as so many paintings, so many pieces of music, so many […]

Well. not the images of Jesus that I’ve ever seen.

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There’s a new article just published, from Iqbal Singh (formerly Swami Shantam Prem): ‘High-Profile Indian Guru Lies About Osho’s ‘Rescue’ From the U.S.’.

But please feel free to carry on commenting under […]

I find Trump’s niece, Mary Trump, offers the most authentic analysis of why he is the way he is. As well as coming from personal experience of the man and her background as a clinical psychologist, she comes […]

Of course the intense ongoing publicity and debate over ‘the Epstein scandal’ is due to many rich and powerful people having been involved, exposing their moral corruption and how keen they are now to distance […]

A ritual is defined as “a religious or solemn ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed according to a prescribed order.”

The White Robe ceremonies were ritualistic, yes, although as far as I know […]

Can you provide a few examples of scientific superstitions, please, Lokesh?

I think you’re another who’s creating a problem.

I think such speculation casts an unnecessarily negative slant on Osho, who became increasingly physically frail as the years went by, which was obvious to those who were around in the later 70s and 8os.

The armed guards at the Ranch were about physical security, the very survival of the place and even the people there, which was a matter of worldly common sense, given the hostility from some quarters, but surely […]

You’re talking about love and kindness, NP, feeling, while Simond is concerned with emotion. There’s a difference, which is too often ignored or glossed over, the two assumed to be within the same category. Barry […]

Spot on, Kavita, thanks for your research! Surely the Bible’s statement refers to the individual’s experience of ultimate Truth, aka spiritual ‘enlightenment’. If we think we’ve found such Truth and it doesn’t set […]

On the other hand, such a belief might be useful, a breath of fresh air for the psyche for someone (like you?) who was previously far too naive, too easily seduced by exotic-sounding tales of spiritual wonders […]