Osho, also known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh was an Indian mystic and spiritual teacher who garnered an international following. His syncretic teachings emphasize the importance of meditation, awareness, love, celebration, creativity and humour - qualities that he viewed as being suppressed by adherence to static belief systems, religious tradition and socialisation. His teachings have had a notable impact on Western New Age thought, and their popularity has increased markedly since his death.Osho was a professor of philosophy and travelled throughout India in the 1960s as a public speaker. His views against socialism, Mahatma Gandhi, and institutionalised religion were controversial. He also advocated a more open attitude towards sexuality, a stance that earned him the sobriquet "sex guru" in the Indian and later the international press. Moving to Pune in 1974, he established an ashram that attracted increasing numbers of Westerners. The ashram offered therapies derived from the Human Potential Movement to its Western audience and made news in India and abroad, chiefly because of its permissive climate and Osho's provocative lectures.In 1981, Osho relocated to the United States and his followers established an intentional community, later known as Rajneeshpuram, in the state of Oregon. Within a year the leadership of the commune became embroiled in a conflict with local residents, primarily over land use, which was marked by hostility on both sides. The Oregon commune collapsed in 1985 when Osho revealed that the commune leadership had committed a number of serious crimes, including food contamination on the citizens of The Dalles. Osho was arrested and charged with immigration violations. He was deported from the United States. His ashram is today known as the Osho International Meditation Resort. This book describes the time of Osho's arrest in the US, and his journey from prison to prison on the way back to Oregon.

Bhagwan: Twelve Days That Shook the World

Juliet Forman

Swami Swatantra Sarjano

Biographies & Memoirs

The Rebel Publishing House

Language: EnglishPages: 512 (33 Color Illustrations)About the BookIn this world of ours where every religion is screaming for love, where politicians of every country go on signing the agreements of peace, a man of love and peace, Osho (formerly known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh), a contemporary mystic, was turned away from the doors of twenty-one so-called democracies.The state of affairs depicted by the author, Juliet Forman, is a challenge to history.She raises a profound question:If - as was her experience, accompanying Osho on his world tour - the people of each country he visited so clearly loved him and, just as clearly, the priests and politicians of those same countries hated him, how can the latter be considered representatives, true leaders of the people?Juliet Forman has documented the tragedy of Osho's world odyssey in 1986 with great sensitivity. Interwoven through- out the drama and uncertainty of the times are countless vignettes - touching, startling, humorous - that afford the reader a unique glimpse into the life of one of the most remarkable men to have ever lived on this Earth.Ms. Forman's writing style is mature, and so powerful that the incidents she depicts throb in the pulse of the reader."I raise my hand against the whole past of mankind. It has not been civilized, it has not been human. It has been a calamity, a crime committed on a vast scale. But somebody has to stand against it."We disown our past, and we will start living according to our own inner being and create our own future. We will not allow the past to create our future."At any cost, this earth and the people of this earth have to be saved from the calamity that is coming from your whole past. An abs

Bhagwan: One Man Against the Whole Ugly Past of Humanity

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