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What was the purpose of Osho’s astral travels? What did they achieve? Besides your inference that it confirms that “life is a a mystery” how do these experiences change anything?

Clearly they add to the mystique […]

I’m happy to send £50, just email me how to do so.

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Thanks very much, Simond, let’s see what happens re fund-raising responses.

Will it truly be a warts and real tell tell, Lokesh?! What about a film of the book, starring some of the Hollywood greats? Johnny Depp as Lokesh – I’m sure you’re already casting some of the other old dudes on […]

A great distinction, nicely said.

One day, most likely in the very distant future, Arpana, you may look back at the negative, cynical,deeply distrustful and pained character that you are, and see how this aspect of your personality hurt no one […]

As usual, an intelligent and thoughtful article from Lokesh, using as he generally does, his own experience and journey to explore, rather than quoting from others or using borrowed knowledge.

The question he […]

I’d say he was enlightened of the East, in the sense that his background was of the East and his teaching was conditioned very much but not totally, by the East. For example, Sannyas itself, the commune, the […]

For all practical reasons, for the ordinary person, the question as to who and what enlightenment is, is pretty irrelevant. The teacher may espouse his or her credentials in many ways, “enlightenment” in my […]

Who wouldn’t have seen the need for violence during the Second World War? We were forced to fight against an ideology of Nazism. Simples. We had to, as your piece indicated, put ourselves on the line.

War and […]

Thanks, Lokesh. I love your not so humble opinion. Humility is overrated, and for the Christians, Oshoites and other religionists, purist, sanctimonious, Buddhist types. The liberals of the world who crave […]

I’ve sometimes seen that, as Tagore I think once said, that we take one step forward and two back, because the reality of the so-called spiritual journey is that at times it is the most frightening, most deathly, […]

I appreciate that I’m a bit of an outsider to the the events of the Ranch as I never had an interest in visiting. Perhaps as a result it’s a difficult for me to understand the interest SN has in events that […]

Frank,
That you claim to know so much about Barry Long because you see me as some Reverend or another, is pretty irrelevant. It was a great jibe, which I also found funny and had a ring of truth about it […]

A little more investigation into BL might show you he said rather more than you think, Frank.
It’s a bit facile to represent his philosophy with a single quote.
Did you ever bother to find out any more?

I’ve rarely read such a hopelessly simplistic fantasy article as the one published here. Most humans can barely govern themselves or their own relationships without bickering and emotion. So the idea that any […]

Nicely said, Tan, but it’s good that he shares his new understanding and he is being authentic.

He, like the rest of us, is attempting to describe and live with his discovery. As I’m sure you know, we all have to […]

Nicely put, Sat. The power of the mob, eh!

As it happens, I passed the Remembrance Parade in Bristol on Sunday. The moment the whole crowd went silent. A stillness descended on a couple of thousand people. For a […]