Rajneesh cult: Arson, attempted murder, drug smuggling, vote fraud, et cetera

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh born in Poona, India, as Rajneesh Chandra Mohan founded the Rajneesh Foundation International in 1974. He was one of the most controversial of modern gurus, in large part due to his take the freedom to do whatever you want view of life.

Bhagwan (The blessed one) earned a degree in philosophy, a subject he then taught for ten years before setting up his commune.

The commune, later at times referred to as the ultimate cult based on sex, attracted many educated Westerners who donated large sums of money.

Bhagwan was a skilled orator and a prolific author. He left behind hundreds of books and taped lectures which have allowed his followers (fractured though they are) to continue to market his teachings.

His own sexual preferences, a liking for pretty young women, were central to the cults lifestyle, which promoted a total lack of inhibitions. Like most cults with links to Eastern traditions, the Rajneesh utilized the emphasis on self to encourage his followers to reject the constraints of their past and adopt a free-love philosophy.

In reality the Rajneesh was brainwashing his followers by forcing them to work long hours and then take part in disorientating meditation sessions which would often result in a free-for-all orgy. Source: Sarah Moran, The Secret World of Cults. p.38

In 1981 he was deported from Oregon under a bevy of serious criminal charges associated with his ashram, or spiritual community.

Many people were unfamiliar with the story of this cult which committed the first act of bioterrorism on U.S. soil until the recent Netflix hit documentary, Wild, Wild Country.

[A]lso called OSHO and ACHARYA RAJNEESH, original name CHANDRA MOHAN JAIN, Indian spiritual leader who preached an eclectic doctrine of Eastern mysticism, individual devotion, and sexual freedom while amassing vast personal wealth. []

In 1981 Rajneeshs cult purchased a dilapidated ranch in Oregon, U.S., which became the site of Rajneeshpuram, a community of several thousand orange-robed disciples. Rajneesh was widely criticized by outsiders for his private security force and his ostentatious display of wealth. By 1985 many of his most trusted aides had abandoned the movement, which was under investigation for multiple felonies including arson, attempted murder, drug smuggling, and vote fraud in the nearby town of Antelope. In 1985 Rajneesh pleaded guilty to immigration fraud and was deported from the United States. He was refused entry by 21 countries before returning to Pune, where his ashram soon grew to 15,000 members. In later years he took the Buddhist title Osho and altered his teaching on unrestricted sexual activity because of his growing concern over AIDS. Source: Rajneesh, Bhagwan Shree, quoted from an earlier edition of this Encyclopedia Britannica entry

[] the only known successful use of biological weapons in the United States was by the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh cult in 1984. The group contaminated salad bars in 10 restaurants in The Dalles, Ore., with Salmonella Typhimurium, causing several hundred people to become ill. Source: Biological and Chemical Warfare Q and A, ABC News, Sep. 24, 2001

Hinduism is not> by nature a proselytizing religion, however, in part because of its inextricable roots in the social system and the land of India. In recent years, many new gurus, such as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and Satya Sai Baba, have been successful in making converts in Europe and the United States. The very success of these gurus, however, has produced material profits that many people regard as incompatible with the ascetic attitude appropriate to a Hindu spiritual leader; in some cases, the profits have led to notoriety and even legal prosecution. Source: Hinduism Outside India, From an earlier edition of this Encyclopedia Britannica entry

In 1988 thirty years after taking the title, Bhagwan, (which means the embodiment of God) Rajneesh admitted the title and his claim to be God were a joke. I hate the word I dont want to be called Bhagwan (God) again. Enough is enough. The joke is over, stated Rajneesh saying he was really the reincarnation of Buddha and claiming for himself the new title of Rajneesh Gautaman the Buddha, (Star Telegram, Dec. 29, 1988; Sec.1, p. 3). Later he took the title, Osho Rajneesh, a Buddhist term meaning on whom the heavens shower flowers. (Ibid, 1/20/90). Source: Guru Rajneesh Dead at 58, Watchman Expositor, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1990

Followers of Rajneesh were known as Sannyasins.

Sannyasin is a Sanskrit word that describes someone who has reached the life stage of sannyasa, or renouncement of material possession.

A sannyasin has turned away from all material possessions and emotional ties. They now live only to perfect their understanding of the spiritual world. This is seen as a state of sacrifice that leads to final liberation from the cycle of death and rebirth, or moksha.

For many advanced yogis, becoming a sannyasin is the final stage of yoga practice. They can devote themselves wholly to the pursuit of the spiritual understanding that comes from yoga. Source: Definition at Yogapedia

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Ever wonder what ever happened to the guy whose religious followers were linked to the only episode of domestic mass bioterrorism in America? Well, in the case of the late, notorious Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, old renegade sex gurus never die. He just left his body somewhere in India in 1990 and later emerged as a thriving, modern-day publishing machine known as Osho.

Rajneeshs flock caught much of his meditative bon mots on tape, and now incessantly recycle these ponderings as spiritual wisdom under the author name of Osho.

Rajneesh is a self-proclaimed spiritual rebel who thrives in the controversy that he has created, particularly in India, by his trainings (such as the tantra group, and the often violent encounter group) and his denunciations of respected religious and political leaders. Tal Brooke, a former devotee of the popular Indian guru Sai Baba, after visiting Poona effectively summed up the scene there:

An object of media fascination and horror, Rajneesh is known for his bizarre revelations on sex. He has constructed a vision of the New Man that repudiates all prior norms and traditions. Man, by Rajneeshs thinking, is the hedonist-god, fully autonomous (barring the inner voice of Rajneesh), and free to carve out the cosmos in his own image. He is the sovereign pleasure seeker, self-transcender, who owes nobody anything. The family is anathema, children extra trash. And so long as the Neo-sannyasin has the money the fun ride continues. Afterward, however, he or she is usually a non-functional casualty. Homicides, rapes, mysterious disappearances, threats, fires, explosions, abandoned ashram children now begging in Poonas streets, drug busts all done by those amazing hybrids in red who believe they are pioneering new and daring redefinitions of the word love.

Christians working in a Poona asylum confirm such accounts, adding the breakdown rate is so high the ashram has wielded political power to suppress reports

The only proven incident of bioterrorism the United States has ever experienced, we learned, was a bizarre plot by the Rajneeshees, a religious cult, to steal a county election in Oregon in 1984. The Rajneeshees, followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, a self-proclaimed guru exiled from India, had moved into a ranch in rural Wasco County, taken political control of the small nearby town of Antelope, and changed its name to Rajneesh. Next, the cult sought to run the whole county by winning the local election in 1984.

The amazing story of the Wasco County election scandal was revealed to the conferences riveted participants by Leslie L. Zaitz, an investigative reporter for The Oregonian, and Dr. John Livengood, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control. To win the county election, the Rajneeshees planned to sicken a good portion of the population in the town of The Dalles, where most Wasco County voters live. Their weapon of choice to keep local residents from voting was salmonella bacteria. Cult members decided to test the use of salmonella and, if successful, to contaminate the entire water system of The Dalles on Election Day. First, the Rajneeshees poisoned two visiting Wasco County commissioners on a hot day by plying them with refreshing drinks of cold water laced with salmonella. Then, on a shopping trip to The Dalles, cult members sprinkled salmonella on produce in grocery stores just for fun. According to reporter Zaitz, that experiment didnt get the results they wanted so the Rajneeshees proceeded to clandestinely sprinkle salmonella at the towns restaurant salad bars. Ten restaurants were hit and more than 700 people got sick.

In 1981, Wasco County school children learned a new word: Rajneeshees. Even before the start of the school year, a few lessons on this strange East Indian word and what it meant. Followers of the nomadic Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh purchased the rambling, 64,229 acre Big Muddy Ranch in Wasco and Jefferson counties in July of 1981 as the central commune for the Bhagwan and his devoted followers.

At first, the residents of nearby Antelope viewed the sudden appearance of the red-clad Rajneesh disciples, known as Sannyasins but more commonly referred to as Rashneeshees, as nothing more than a curiosity. It wasnt long, however, before they realized the seriousness and full intentions of the Rajneesh movement, or invasion, as some locals preferred to call it.

While the Bhagwans chief aide Ma Anand Sheela was declaring the movements plan to operate a simple farming commune in the desert, his other disciples were busy in the background developing grand plans for a huge resort city for up to 100,000 Rajneeshees.

Within a matter of weeks, construction began on a number of buildings within the newly-christened Rancho Rajneesh, including a shoppng mall, restaurant, a resort-like motel and commune service offices. In many cases, Bhagwan followers moved ahead without securing proper county building permits.

In the meantime, new recruits continued pouring into the desert commune -many of them wealthy European and American followers who were more than willing and able to finance the Bhagwans movement.

But the Rajneesh movement began to falter in October 1981 when two months after arriving at Rancho Rajneesh, the Bhagwan applied to the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service for an extension of his visa. Immigration officials began a full-scale investigation into the activities of the religious sect, focusing on the gurus intent in coming to the United States and a pattern of suspect marriages between the U.S. citizen and foreign followers.

The investigation turned up information that the Bhagwan and his followers left India in the spring of 1981 owing the Indian government more than $6 million in unpaid taxes. An Indian tax court voided the Rajneesh organizations tax-exempt status and assessed millions of rupees (Indian currency) in back taxes.

But the movement forged ahead in the Oregon desert. In April 1982, Rajneeshees, voting as a bloc, managed to secure enough votes to take over the town of Antelope, which was renamed Rajneesh. They also voted to incorporate Rancho Rajneesh the former Big Muddy Ranch as the town of Rajneeshpuram.

Though the six-hour series may seem like a lot, in reality, much was left on the cutting room floor in favor of focusing on some of the more sensationalized aspects of the group. Footage of what appears to be an orgy in the first episode is part of a 1981 documentary called Ashram in Poona, allegedly filmed in secret in India. Much of the media coverage of sannyasins from the early 1980s and today honed in on these segments of the documentary, referring to the group as a sex cult. But according to several former residents of Rajneeshpuram, this is a misrepresentation and argue that Wild Wild Country leaves out or breezes past many more important aspects of life as a sannyasin.

When you watch the hundreds of lectures that Osho gave, sex plays a very small part, Massad explains. His main message about that was that repressing sex does not make you a more spiritual person, as is so often depicted in traditional religions.

For Jane, what started out as a journey seeking spiritual enlightenment began to descend into darkness as she sacrificed her marriage and children, and eventually through a monstrous act of attempted murder her freedom. After serving time in the US, Jane started a new life in Germany, but soon realized she could never truly be free until she had faced up to the past. With an international arrest warrant hanging over her head, and a son who is gravely ill, Jane finally does so with devastating clarity. Source: From the book description

The cult that formed was as paranoid as scientology, as bizarre as Jonestown, and as controlled as the Manson family. Yet until the release of Wild Wild Country, Netflixs latest hit documentary series directed by brothers Mclain and Chapman Way, it had not entered the cultural conversation in the same way as those movements. Now it seems people can talk about little else. The six-part documentary, available to view now, scored 100% on the review site Rotten Tomatoes, and received even more glowing endorsements from other filmmakers, including Barry Jenkins, the Oscar-winning director of Moonlight, who tweeted: Im on my second watch of Wild Wild Country. Ill probably make it through a third. The film has spurred hundreds of articles revisiting the events as other journalists attempt to get in touch with former members or relive their sannyasins experiences.

The tenor of the excitement around the show isnt just about the intimate footage the directors have unearthed, or the fact they secured in-depth interviews with nearly all the cults living leaders. Viewers also seem to be shocked that they didnt already know this story. Jenn McAllister, a YouTuber with more than three million subscribers, had a typical reaction of those not yet born during the period: I cant believe that happened in the US and I never knew until now. Source: Sam Wolfson, The Guardian

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Wild Wild Country, Chapman and Maclain Ways new Netflix docuseries, tells the story of Rajneeshpuram a utopian commune established in rural Oregon in the early 1980s, by the the followers of Indian mystic Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (later called Osho). The riveting series charts the escalating criminal activity that took place on the ranch, led by Bhagwans ruthless personal secretary Ma Anand Sheela, who adopts ever more extreme methods (poison, arson, and more) to oppose the forces like the U.S. government that she sees threatening their group.

But what was day-to-day life like in Rajneeshpuram? Wild Wild Country focuses on Sheelas criminal activities and behind-the-scenes machinations which, to be fair, included the largest bioterror attack in U.S. history. But in doing so, the documentary leaves open the question of why so many thousands of people were drawn to uproot their lives and follow Bhagwan. These followers called themselves Sanyassins, though others might call them cult members.

We talked to nine current and former Sanyassins, many of whom continue to use the names their leader gave them, about life on the Rajneesh ranch and what Sheela was like in person.

The following interviews have been edited and condensed.

Rashid Maxwell

Artist/painter and farmer living in England. Lived at Rajneeshpuram for four years.

Because of my agricultural experience, I was one of the first people to go to Rajneeshpuram. My job then was taking the land, which had been totally neglected and overgrazed, and getting the basics of agriculture started. Very soon after that I had many disagreements with Sheela, I never got on with her. It didnt feel to me like she was intelligent, even. She was cunning, clever, but not intelligent.

The arguments were about policy. She said we should have chickens because wed need lots of eggs, and I said, Yeah, we should have them all scattered around, and she said, No, put them all together. And I said then you have the likelihood of disease and you need to give them antibiotics. And she said, so give them antibiotics. And that was really not my way, I was an organic farmer. And there were more profound disagreements. Like, I did have contact with the Nike shoes guy in the documentary [rancher Bill Bowerman]. I had very nice contact with him: I went over to his ranch, we talked about growing grapes and having a vineyard, and he taught me how to roll cigarettes one-handed on a horse. But somehow I couldnt and wouldnt go along with Sheelas aggression towards the neighbors, so within another three months, I was out of farming and gardening and in the pot room washing pots. I was very unhappy in the pot room because I felt like my dream of an environmental paradise was just lost, and she handed it over to someone who would be more obedient to her wishes.

I didnt like or trust Sheela but none of us had any clue what was going on the poisonings, the fire-bombing. It was inconceivable to me. After it all came out, we were all sort of wandering in shock for days. I just remember walking down one of the roads not knowing what I was doing, what, what, where am I?

The documentary I felt quite queasy watching it. Actually like a feeling of nausea.Im not very supportive of the film, people talk about it as being balanced, but it was balanced between villains and rednecks. It felt to me like a male, puritan, American movie, lavished with the usual ingredients of sex, guns, and money.

I went to Osho to have the rug pulled out from under my feet the sort of comfortable rug that I was given in my education and my upbringing. I could go on forever about how important that experience was for me. Im 80 and I just feel so happy, so rich, so free, so my life is so joyous. And I blame him for all that! He did the work on me. I also read a few days ago that 42 percent of millennials say they are engaged in meditation of one sort or another. So I think thats amazing that that message, that understanding that we have struggled and fought and battled with that they got it just like that. Meditation was the tool Osho gave us stepping out of ego, and stepping out of the busy traffic of the mind.

Hira Bluestone

Physicians assistant living in Seattle, Washington. Was brought to Rajneeshpuram by her parents when she was 7 and lived there until she was 11.

For my whole life, people have been asking me what it was like. And just like if you ask anybody what their childhoods were like, it had pluses and minuses. I had a tremendous amount of freedom and responsibility and opportunity to learn things like, I was a mechanic on airplanes when I was 9 years old. At the same time, it was an oppressive culture, there was not a lot of school or formal education, there were times when we had school but the school moved around and had sort of a rotating cast of characters and was sort of optional, and that was something I really wanted.

I would say there was neglect of the kids there, only by virtue of the fact that the children lived separately in a group kids house and there were weeks when some kids wouldnt see their parents. I didnt see any physical abuse, though there was some verbal or mental abuse.

It was a powerful experience that people were willing to give up their lives and create this oasis in the desert, and it created this energy that really was a force. Were all still really connected; my closest friend is a Sanyassin from the ranch. But also we were this tiny microcosm of society where shit rises to the top and corruption corrupts. I think it was ultimately doomed to fail, because it was a concentrated intensity of a city we grew up and then we exploded. I think the documentary felt really shallow. It didnt really represent the day to day lives and it didnt really show us as people, it was just kind of the politics.

Ma Anand Bhagawati

Writer, currently living in Indonesia. Lived in Rajneeshpuram for about four years.

The directors did a pretty good job, but what they could not show is why were we there. We were all there for an inner journey. We have been misunderstood in the press so many times and only the most spectacular things are ever being showed, like the Rolls-Royces. We had nothing to do with the Rolls-Royces! It was a joke, and America didnt get it. Still, its amazing and its wonderful that people are laughing with us. People love the clothes we had. We had a lot of fun with it. We stuck out and we wore it and didnt mind the ridicule. Life is about joy and fun and doing what you really want to do.

I lived there for four years, and I lived in India both in the 70s and 80s, and also in a European community. Oregon was definitely different because we were on raw land, on barren land, and we created a oasis. It was everyday living a very intense, awake life, enjoying this amazing scenery, being with my friends, and seeing Osho everyday. You had to have been there to feel it. I had several jobs: one I liked very much was being a pickup taxi driver, and then I was in press relations and we related with the journalists and the visitors. People were very curious; they came from far and wide.

The energy on the whole property was never dark, but something started to become strange in 85 to me. I had no clue what was going on until the whole bubble burst. To me, Sheela in the documentary just had the same soundbites since shes had since the 70s. She loves Osho, I think, I can see that that she is still connected in some ways to the master but she went down a very dark alley. My impression of her always was that she was hard to take, because she was so caught up in her ego. On the other hand, without her and her energy and her dedication we couldnt have had that whole thing.

Leela

Director of the Osho Institute for Meditative Therapies, currently living in Australia. Lived in Rajneeshpuram for two years.

When I first arrived in America and we were in Antelope and I sat there on the bus looking around I thought to myself, What the hell are we doing here? It was immediately obvious that we are in a very strange place to be bringing ourselves, because these are country people, very settled in their ways and strong in their beliefs, and they aint gonna move an inch. Weve come there to dance around and be jolly and build a whole city, and I could sense that it was not going to be easy.

The first year in America was okay, though context was strange, because we were out of India, and we werent as close as we had been in Pune. And then the energy began to change. For the first year I was there, I was the coordinator of the welding shop, and then they moved me to working in legal services. I knew nothing about law and didnt like being in the law department, because I felt it was like a war game of the mind. The longer we went into this year, the final year, I kept feeling uneasy about a lot of things. There was a lot of secrecy, there was a lot of people feeling afraid to say anything. For me personally it became quite stressful. Can you imagine you start in a community in India where youre all growing and thriving and sharing about yourselves and growing beautifully and spiritually, and here we are, we have a police force guarding us when were in the meditation hall? It was just too weird.

How did I feel about the movie? I only watched two episodes. It wasnt about Osho; it was about how a group of people kind of termed a cult came into a very foreign and threatened environment and then what happened, and everyone giving their point of view. For me it was just like, Enough already. Been there, done it, I dont want to watch the whole thing, I was there. After a certain point it wasnt happy days. It isnt important in the gestalt of what Osho was about and the millions of people that came and did the groups and meditations and are still doing this. Ive been doing this for 30 years with thousands of people all over the world. Thats the work.

Ma Ananda Sarita

Now atantra teacher in the U.K., lived on Rajneeshpuram the whole time.

I was there with the first 20 people before Osho came to the ranch and then I was there until there were only six people left. It was a super positive time of my life. We took a desert and we completely transformed it in only five years and turned it into an oasis. People were working 16-hour days but always singing, dancing, hugging, laughing, and having love affairs. It was a very vibrant and alive place and very joyful. Most of the people who were there had no idea about the crimes that were being committed by Sheela and her close entourage.

The documentary was very touching and fascinating to watch. They tried to be very balanced. I did find what was missing was more about Osho and the meditative aspect. There were personal development groups happening, people were coming from all over the world to work on themselves. For the outsiders looking in, they would think oh, thats a cult, but you know, the fact of guru and disciple has been a thousands-of-years-old approach to life in India and I think it should have been at least given some kind of attention or spoken about in some way.

In the very early days, I was working in Sheelas house as a cleaner and later on I was shifted to work in the press office. I saw that things were going in a not very pleasant direction with her and the people around her. I saw that she was under a lot of stress. Osho had invited her to live in his compound, and he advised her to work during the day but in the evening to come back to a meditative space in his compound, to leave the work behind she chose not to do that. When people are under stress, they do strange things. Still, it was a dangerous situation for the people living there actually, and I think Sheela was responding to that. It was like she was just saying Okay, this is how you want to play the game. We are going to play the same game.

John Jameson

Handwriting analyst in the U.K., visited the ranch for three weeks.

Seeing this documentary excited me so much that I got my mala [a traditional necklace worn by Sannyasins] out and I wore it for a couple of days and gosh, it didnt half take me back to the wonderful heady days of being a Sannyasin. They really were some of the happiest years of my life. Overall, I just thought this was the best coverage weve ever had, though I found it very shocking in places.

The only thing I didnt like was that Sheela was given so much air time which is, of course, what she absolutely adores, given the egotist she is.She got far more attention than she deserved, in my opinion. In my book, she was the big bad wolf. It all went wrong because of her. I only went there for three weeks for the summer celebration of 1988. I didnt like it. I didnt like all the guns. And I could see by then it had turned rotten. We didnt feel safe. It felt like an artificial society by then. The fact that shes running an old peoples home and looking after elderly people frightens me to death. Shes not fit to be looking after vulnerable people. And of course thats whats she was doing when she was head of the ranch. She was overseeing a lot of vulnerable people.

Prem Goodnight

Retired and lives in Atlanta with his wife Amido, lived on the ranch for three years.

I had two jobs that I did there. I did the books sales and distribution and I was also in the Peace Force, which was different than the Security Force the Peace Force was a sanctioned body by the state of Oregon. Whats missing from Wild Wild Country is you have no feeling at all of the center core [of Rajneeshpuram] the people working, and playing, and meditating, and loving and being in this eco-friendly conscious community in the middle of the Oregon desert. None of that, or very little of that, is there in Wild Wild Country. For a lot of us, we feel thats too bad.

I often was involved with what we called the share-a-home program [where homeless people were invited to live on the ranch]. I went to a park in Miami, and this fellow came up to me and he had a tracheostomy, so he had to speak through a device in his throat. He came up to me and he handed me this newspaper article about us getting people and taking them to the ranch, and he wanted to come. He was an older fellow. He went to the ranch and I saw him many, many times. In fact, this fellow left long after many of us were gone. He stayed until the very end. He wouldve been there for the rest of his life if he could have.

I was not frightened of Sheela. I respected her, and in fact, I loved Sheela. I would go and say hello and give her big hugs. But some people were frightened of Sheela. Things very much changed from the security standpoint after the hotel was bombed. We actually then could just really feel the danger that was there.

For the outsider, a really important thing to understand is Sheela and her group were charged with creating this community. The people inside [the commune] had no idea of what forces there were that were trying to stop the community from existing at all. Sheela and her people, their work was to protect the ranch, and of course she had her own desire for power and wanting to keep power. I dont think that this was an act of an evil person. It was simply problem-solving that got crazier and crazier. Many of us will look back and say we lived ten lives at the ranch because it was so intense and so packed with so many opportunities to see your own ego at play.

Amido Goodnight

Retired nurse, lives in Atlanta with her husband Prem. Lived on the ranch for three years.

My time at the ranch was completely not involved with any of the overall administration, it was just working and being with friends. I really was not very aware of the darkness until after it was very, very close to the end. But, there was one thing I had to do which that I had difficulty doing. I was one of the people who went out to invite homeless people to come back to the ranch. I was asked by somebody in an office in Oregon to ask two people to leave the bus when we were partway on our journey back to Oregon. They were two people that I felt were very, very vulnerable and I felt very uncomfortable dropping them off away from home. I called several times to see if I could get a different answer, but they were very insistent I do it, so eventually I did.

I think that from the film I got a better understanding of what she was facing. Im originally from England, so I had absolutely no appreciation of, say, the history of what had happened to cults in this country, so I had absolutely no appreciation of the danger that we were ever in. So, you can see all these forces amassed against Sheela, and even though obviously she made some very, very strange choices, you could see that she was trying to do what she thought would work.

My favorite memory from Rajneeshpuram was [Oshos] daily drive-by. Everybody would stop work and youd all line up and youd chat with each other. It was like a sacred moment, as hed pass by in the car.

Surendra

Retired social worker and photographer living in Japan, lived in Rajneeshpuram for nine months.

I grew up in the East End of London, a very congested area with no greenery around, and now suddenly I was in the cowboy set this was Oregon, this was John Wayne country. It was so wonderful for me to be out in the wide open spaces. I was working the 12-hour days and I used to run to work.

Watching the documentary was shocking there was sort of doubt whether anything was really as bad, and gruesome, or heinous [as it turned out to be], like the salmonella poisoning and the extent of the wiretapping and the attempt to murder Oshos doctor. I had no idea just how far Sheela and the group around her were prepared to go to. The other big thing that shocked me is, it sounded like the FBI and other big law enforcement organizations were getting ready to actually attack the ranch with machine guns and helicopters.I had no idea how it might be coming close to sort of bloodbath, that was even more shocking than anything else.

Having said that, I wouldnt point the finger at Sheela, in a way because I think she was under tremendous pressure from outside and wanted to protect what she believed in. Sheela was an unusual Sanyassin. She was a politician with a politicians ability, and in a way she was the only person who could have done that. Most of the Sanyassins didnt have the tough titties bit to go out there and challenge and really sort of heckle with other people or be very provocative. I was there during the share-a-home program when all of these so-called street people were bused in, and Sheela was becoming quite active politically around the commune. For the first time I was in meetings, which, instead of just being sort of a silent bunch of meditators, were becoming like political rallies with Sheela trying to enthuse the people on the share-a-home program. She was very much doing things which Ive never seen Sanyassins do before we were mostly a sort of more inward-looking lot. I thought, Well, shes got a lot of energy thats for sure.

The share-a-home thing was quite something. I was building fences at the time and then I suddenly got given the few people who were on the share-a-home program and I was really frustrated, because they were unfocused; they werent working. And I complained to one of the bosses we always had female bosses, Osho put women in charge of everything and she said, Look, its not about production, this is about connecting and sharing our commune and sharing what we feel. I ended up with two guys and we really created a friendship between us. I can still see their faces and their gradual sort of relaxation: they were in a safe place, there was no crime, no one was going to beat them up, they had a place to sleep, good food, and work to do. We were all a bunch of kids in a way, wanting to get hold of our tools and go out and dig holes and put out fences. Like young children have that energy, we had that energy. But I think there was sort of a blinkered attitude: We were a a bit too much like playful kids and not aware of what was going in the commune as a whole.

Much later, a few years ago here in Japan, I heard from someone I knew who said she stopped being a Sanyassin because she was being asked to take the clothes off the backs of people and it was cold weather by then and people were just being sent back on buses and that just grated with her. Most of us just saw the positive side of things.

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Quite frankly, weve been told that Personal Success Intensive is one of the best programs of its type in Australia. Weve been running it for over a decade, refining and improving all the time, so we love to hear that our years of hard work and listening to your feedback has created something so good.

Personal Success Intensive was built by people like you. People who knew that they wanted to make some changes, wanted more confidence, clarity, and focus to get the results they really want in life, but didnt know exactly how, or where to start.

So, rather than fluff about with special sales lines and good ol cliches designed to convince you to come, we thought wed just give you some straight up facts, and you can decide for yourself whether Personal Success Intensive is for you.

Oh, and by the way, just so you know, this is a two day weekend seminar which runs regularly all over Australia. Its interactive, its fun, its powerful, and over 45,000 Australians have attended so far.

Now, if youd like some more details about the seminar before you make your decision to register, read on

Most seminars like Personal Success Intensive are designed to hype you up with all kinds of chest thumping over-excited processes so youll sign up for more expensive courses on the spot. Weve been there, and we know its not a long term solution for most people.

Thats where Personal Success Intensive differs from other courses.

It concentrates on giving you the focus, commitment, clarity and confidence you need to get results in the real world. Sometimes that means we might need to challenge you to achieve that if thats what is needed for you to get what you want, then so be it.

Wecontinually watch and model ourselves on highly successful people, past and present, all over the globe. We filter, refine, and testeverything we learn so that we can share with you the most up-to-date tools and techniques for maximum achievement.Well then give you the opportunity to test them out in a safe and supportive environment. It doesnt get much easier (or cooler) than that!

So basically, you get to spend two days in a Life Simulator. Youll take in some great information and learn some new techniques, then get the chance to test them out, maybe make some mistakes, and learn from those mistakes before going out and using what youve learnt in the real world.

This just boosts your chances of success.

Lovely. So, youre probably already wondering what these techniques are. Well, we dont want to give it all away here, because its very much the experience that youll get the most learning from, however, heres a couple ofsnippetsto give you an idea

Learn how to focus your mind like a laser-beam. (The difference between successful people and people who struggle through life is where they put their focus well show you how to de-clutter your mind and focus on the things that really matter to you.)

Get Inspired! Get a crystal clear vision for your future. Once youve completed the 2 day Personal Success Intensive course, youll know exactly where youre going, and what you need to do to get there.

We also want to share with you our 5 steps to getting everything you want in your life. Sounds kinda cliche, we know. But we also know that it works. Youll get to practice using the 5 steps there and then. That way, you know exactly how to apply them to your life in the real world.

Youll get to participate in a guided process to uncover your Lifes Purpose. This is so, so cool, because when you know what your Lifes Purpose is, it becomes so much easier to make decisions, stay motivated, and your life just becomes more meaningful. Again, youll get to test out your Lifes Purpose to make sure it is really right for you. It is a truly eye opening process.

Procrastinators, this one is for you! Youll learn how to finish what you start every time! Well show you how to achieve goal-after-inspiring-goal, and how simple and fun it can be. Well also cover how you can be committed to getting what you want in your life, and how get it for reals.

But wait theres more LOL how cliche is that..? Uhem but seriously, theres more

Youll love our hands-on process to work out whether youre a leader or a follower and if you want to change that, well show you how.

Get some real certainty that you are on track, like Superman on his way to save Lois Lane. Completely unstoppable.

Youve probably spotted people who are totally certain about what theyre doing and where they are going. Theyre the ones who have all the luck, who seem to just have great opportunities land in their lap, and who always manage to land on their feet no matter how many times they stumble, fall, or get dumped on.

The truth is, you can live like that too. Theres only one thing you need to do come spend a weekend with us at Personal Success Intensive.

If you do choose to dramatically improve your life by attending Personal Success Intensive, well also ask you to make a donation (big or small, it doesnt matter) to the eQ foundation. One of the reasons we want as many people as possible to come spend the weekend with us, is so that, through the eQ foundation, we can help educate children in developing countries, and in Australia, to help break the cycle of poverty and provide a better quality of life for future generations.

We could say that this is a very rare opportunity to change your life. The truth is that there are plenty of opportunities, but this one has the most realistic, practical, real world uses that we know of, and weve been in the industry and running Personal Success Intensive for over a decade.

So if youre thinking of ignoring this opportunity if you think youre too busy, tired, sceptical or suspicious if you think that this type of seminar might be okay for other people, but not for you we want you to consider two short words: what if

What if this seminar just happened to change your life? What if you walked out at the end of 2 days totally free of the fears that have been holding you back? WHAT IF five years from now you looked back on your decision to attend Personal Success Intensive as one of the smartest decisions youve ever made?

The truth is, you wouldnt be reading this if your life was everything you wanted it to be right now. And there is at least a part of you that wants to attend this seminar. That wants to change. That wants to start taking action to get the wonderful results you deserve.

This thing is risk free. Its not a 2 day sales pitch. Its just a jam-packed, eye-popping, results-getting journey that could easily change your life forever.

If that little speech wasnt enough for you to see that your life could be completely awesome after attending Personal Success Intensive, then heres what a few of our previous participants had to say

From the deepest depths of my heart and soul I want to say thank you for all that you have done for me. PSI has changed my life, I feel like ME again!!! After so long feeling dissociated and distant I have awakened to my truth once again and I know that PSI and the wonderful people of eQ were the catalyst for this change. Thank you. I love you.Anthony Owen

Thank you for the experience of a lifetime! I gained more clarity and direction with the course and experienced many AHA moments. I feel like Ive found more pieces of the puzzle and it left me hungry for more!Rosie Ambrosio

Personal Success Intensive has helped me face my fears, realise I need to make decisions and act on them straight away without doubting myself. It has empowered me to believe in myself and know I have an abundance of opportunities to achieve my goals/dreams. Realise there is so much love available from people around me. Its important to let go in order to move forward and step closer toward my goals.Rachael McNicol

Simply the best better than all the rest! Thank you and God Bless you for your time and energy. It has been an amazing weekend. I can now move forward with the skills I have learnt this weekend with a new confidence and determination in the area of goal setting and stronger relationships. I cant wait for my friends and family to do this weekend.Mary Jeffery

This seminar was certainly worth the sacrifice of my weekend which is the most valuable time with my family. I would like to thank my friend for recommending I do this seminar. I call her a true, true friend. I certainly had the opportunity this weekend to release my doubts about my true potential. I now know I can move forward towards goals I didnt believe in. Thank you for this opportunity. Those I have recommended will surely benefit personally, mentally, socially, financially/economically and politically. Go for it, just do it, dont be fearful of the dark.Carla Davey

I have really enjoyed these past few days. The information I have taken on board will make me a better person. I have clarity on life and have set some personal goals already. I just want to share these experiences. I have released feelings that have been suppressed and I feel free!! I feel wonderful and even feel that I am walking tall. I know that by giving and forgiving I am receiving more. I have made some great friendships which I intend to keep. I have had so much FUN and in a way I feel as that this is coming to an end. I will remember this experience forever. Thank you all the team for a great weekend.Dawn Melville

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When asked to lead a workshop on the keys to success in business, I came up with a theory. The truth is, I wanted the group of 80 people to wrestle with their own definitions of success and envision their own personal success story. So how to achieve this?

In order to inspire, I decided the workshop needed to begin with an authentic story. My story about labels.

The intent was not to have people learn more about me. I wanted my vulnerability to give them a story for context, that might help them see their own pursuit of success in business differently.

In order to prepare, I drew a timeline of my career, making hash marks for each defining moment that played into my personal success. What story could I share to inspire? And then it hit me.

Without getting detailed about every defining moment, the surprising realization was that the majority of these moments were negative or at least at the time, felt like significant challenges. And therein lies the magic. Looking at these events now from the zoomed-out perspective, I realized that each of these events wascatalytic in shaping a stronger, more unique version of me. Each one now plays an important role in my career and personal success. I will share in greater detail below. But first

A refreshing and more realistic perspective on success:

Lifes challenges could have been my excuse. Instead, success and amazing opportunities were born each time I began to accept each challenge as a unique gift.

My personal success story continues to unfold but heres what I realized. Accepting default labels from lifes challenges can easily limit your aimif you allow it.

I could have let life label me as the rejected, inexperienced, remote employee. But I didnt.

The keys to success come from:

Heres how that looks for me:

As an example, I went from not being hired by Block Imaging as a receptionist to now serving as their Senior Vice President of Marketing.

As another example, I went from being a remote employee very removed from the team. to instigator of content marketing culture. It was because I was so removed from my team that I had to figure out ways of staying connected digitally and building trust and influence from afar. Overcoming this challenge is the very reason I was able to imagine a content marketing culture that empowers every employee to better connect with our industry through online content.

So now its your turn. Draw up your own timeline and see which defining moments stand out. How can you use each challenge for good to empower you to get a clearer picture of why you do what you do and to help others in your journey to pursue success?

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Keys to Success in Business and Your Personal Success

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That program youre followingthe one you lovemay be more harmful than beneficial. Or maybe, with some slight alterations, that program is exactly what you need. Thats why Nick developed Your Workout PERFECTED. Its a unique and cooperative approachone that works to improve, not replace, your routine.

Inside, there are 243 exercises and 71 programs to develop your fitness, promote fat loss, improve your function and performance, or work on your physique, including beginner workout programs for those who are just starting and even alternative home or hotel gym workouts and bodyweight workouts. Plus, youll learn the following:

The mistakes you may already be making Minor changes to techniques that can produce big results Why certain exercises are preferable over others Whether men and women should be trained differently Exercises to avoid and proven principles to follow Combinations and sequences to maximize results

Every weekend warrior has two goals: compete successfully and look great doing it. Enter Building Muscle & Performance: The Program for Strength, Size, and Speed.

No fads, gimmicks, or miracle claims.

Just science-based programming, sensible strategies, and the results you desire.

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What happens when the worlds leading Personal Trainers takes over Sydneys leading Personal Training gym, Clean Health? After a million dollar upgrade you get UP Sydney and a culture of maximum results in minimum time that Australias most international city has long been crying out for.

Sydney is full of great gyms of that there can be no doubt, but its not full of great Personal Training gyms in the UP mould.

There has never been a high quality gym that catered to the serious trainer, to the man or woman who wanted to get something a little extra from their gym sessions and who didnt take a little extra to mean a bank of plasma screens in which to watch MTV whilst they spin their wheels not losing body fat on the exercise bikes. Yes, there are both plenty of hardcore bodybuilding gyms and scores of smaller PT studios, but none of these have the qualities of a UP gym.

What makes UP Sydney so unique is that we have created a gym environment and venue where any Olympic athlete could train, but we have designed it for so-called regular people who want maximise the efficiency of the limited time that they can exercise and achieve results in months, or even weeks, that usually take years.

We are not trying to talk down Sydneys Personal Training studios, but they all cater more for other professional trainers needs above ordinary people. Weightlifting, powerlifting and Ido Portal inspired bodyweight training are all excellent forms of exercise, but they are not optimal tools for rapidly changing your body composition. And it is that ability to rapidly improve our clients bodies that has seen UP heralded as the worlds leading personal trainers, and pushed us become the only international PT business on the planet with gyms stretching from Los Angeles and London, to Dubai, Hong Kong and Australia.

Why do we think our Sydney personal training gym is so special? Lets look at the list of reasons:

Can we back up these extravagant claims? Have a quick look at our Real Results and Testimonials pages to make up your own mind.

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Thanks to the physical transformations we produce and the endorsements we have received, the Ultimate Performance name is synonymous worldwide with startling improvement in body fat levels, muscle mass, and overall body composition. Every single day I receive scores of emails and Facebook messages from all over the world, where people just like you are desperate for hard-hitting advice that produces real and quantifiable results.

My goal has always been to help as many people as possible to realize the eminently achievable goal of significantly lowered body fat and pleasing muscle shape and definition, and I am absolutely evangelical in wanting to spread the gospel of how to really train for results that actually shout to the world I workout, and I workout smart and hard!

I appreciate that getting to see us in our gyms isnt always possible or even affordable. Because of the results that we are famous for achieving we are amongst the most sought after, and admittedly expensive, personal trainers in the world. But, I want to give as many people as possible the chance to benefit from the knowledge we have developed at Ultimate Performance, after years and years of work and thousands of successful transformations.

I have seen so many unsuspecting, nave trainees palmed off with promises of spectacular changes if they only buy this one, funny-looking contraption. And dont even get me started on the fantastically well marketed but wholly limited bodyweight and interval training craze amongst internet marketers who masquerade as fitness experts!

This is a bespoke programme that gives you unprecedented access to the training methods, nutritional regimes and supplement protocols we use right here in the gym. No gimmicks, no fads just proven methods that, with your hard work, will get you the results you are looking for.

We should warn you that we expect a lot from our clients. We expect even more from our Online clients. Our focus is absolutely unwavering and is not for everyone. We will do everything necessary to get results, and we do not take passengers.

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YOU ARE A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL BEING... operating in many levels of awareness. You know when you are hungry or if you are feeling an intense emotion ...maybe even having a negative thought or two. But do you know when you are expanding into a higher vibration...or if you are in denial or....your soul needs to journey to gain wisdom and healing? Do you know when it is time to receive a gift from Divinity or expand one of your inner healing gifts? What if you had a map, a guidance system, with directions that you could reference located right inside yourself? What if, by knowing exactly what aspect of your awareness needed attention, you could exponentially speed up your evolutionary process? What if that map was....inside of you, waiting to be discovered and put to use on a daily basis? Please consider the following information......

The Five Realms of Consciousness, with their 220 levels of awareness exist as a reflection of what is deep within us. Readily enough we can perceive ourselves reflected in the physical, emotional and mental states. Students of healing may have an awareness of the seven charkas. Others may be familiar with the concepts of our Shadow self, Maya ( Illusion), the Void or the Collective Unconscious. Do we understand where these fields of energy fit in to our personal cosmology? Can we grasp where they relate to each other on the harmonic scale of vibration? These are all questions answered by PanHarmonics map of The Five Realms of Consciousness.

Many on the spiritual path experience evolving and expanding their awareness through meditation, yoga, movement and energy work. While many have guidance through a spiritual teacher, others are drawn to access their spiritual path from a number of sources. It is for these aspirants that the PanHarmonic Map is offered.

The PHH map is divided into five realms of consciousness. There are progressively subtle levels of awareness within each of those five realms.

Lets explore the main features of that grid.

For more information about the Five Realms please access:

Conscious Realm Integrating Ordinary Reality Levels 1-22Unconscious Realm Delving into Non-Local Reality Levels 1-22 Depth Reality: Journey to the Divine Feminine Levels 23-100 Superconsciousness: The Sacred Laws of the Divine Masculine Levels 23-100 The Sacred All: Spiritual Powers for Ascension Levels 1-20

Imagine a sphere where you are located in the very middle. All around you are increasing levels of subtle energy, superimposed on each other, expanding out into the Cosmos. This describes the essence of how your energy is perceived and maintained on multiple levels of consciousness.

You experience the physical world with your five senses. You experience the world of body functions by observing breathing, elimination, heart rate, digestion etc. You feel and express your emotions when they arise. You may even observe your thoughts, although most of our thoughts are unconscious.

This is how you perceive the first four levels of the PHH Map. Now, imagine there are 216 more levels to your awareness! These multiple levels of awareness are vibrating around you at all times, with or without your awareness. Yet this Universe of vibration affects us profoundly in all ways: our health, our mental and emotional wellbeing and of course, our awareness of ourselves as spiritual beings.

Through PanHarmonic Healing, we learn to access the expanded states of vibration and navigate through our own path of evolution. We begin our exploration in the second realm of awareness, the Unconscious Realm.

Level I of the PanHarmonic training Attuning Your Energy Field begins by learning to access the energy field around us using various tools. We then attune the energy field so that it functions as a bridge between normal and expanded states of awareness. The training removes past shocks and traumas and reorganizes, activates and tunes the electro-magnetic field around us. This training increases cognitive abilities, enhances our healing abilities, organizes our energy field and gives us spiritual tools for staying in balance in day-to-day life. This is a critical first step on any path of evolution for spiritual awareness.

Level 2 of PanHarmonic Healing moves to the Conscious Realm, exploring the Body Code and Emotional Programs. Through Evolution Through Emotional Healing, the student experiences how emotions are direct indicators of our state of awareness. By clearing negative emotions as they arise, we learn to remain in the present moment. Emotional reactions arise from past unresolved issues that cloud our awareness. By clearing our emotions, we can accelerate our evolution to become clear channels for higher vibrations. These two trainings alone give practitioners critical tools for accelerated learning and evolution on their spiritual path.

Each new level of training expands the practitioners access to the map. In addition, group sessions provide advanced learning training, so that each practitioner is rewired energetically to learn more efficiently and gracefully.

The intent of PanHarmonic Healing Seminars is to provide a view into all known worlds that we have access to as humans. By understanding how we both exist in and bring through the energy of the Five Realms into this world, we expand our consciousness and the consciousness on our planet. Never has this been more important for the survival of the human consciousness.

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