The cult that formed was as paranoid as scientology, as bizarre as Jonestown, and as controlled as the Manson family. They called it Rajneeshpuram, and when it was ready, Rajneesh and his followers relocated to the US. They built a giant dam, an airport, an electricity station and a meditation centre that could hold 10,000 people. The land was largely uninhabitable but he sent his followers ahead to create a utopia.
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Rajneesh, who died in 1990, was a popular spiritual leader in India, attracting thousands of followers – called sannyasins or “orange people” – to practise free love and take part in his unusual style of meditation: lots of primal screaming followed by dancing as if Fatboy Slim had just come on to Glastonbury’s Pyramid stage.īy the 1980s he was at odds with the government in India and so decided to buy a ranch in Oregon. Yet if you go on the Osho website, or are one of the 200,000 people that visit the Osho International Centre in Pune, India each year – you’ll hear nothing about the most eventful section of his life, before he was rebranded as “Osho”, and known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.
The bearded Indian mystic has had his books translated into more than 60 languages, published by more than 200 publishing houses – you’re likely to find his works next to the crystals and yoga mats in your local hippy shop.
A nyone who has ever dipped a toe in the pool of new-age mysticism is likely to have come across Osho.
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