Would it have fared better somewhere else? Perhaps… but ironically, one day Sheela came to the school in Antelope (during the short time I actually attended that school) and she was the first person I ever heard saying “power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. It was doomed from the start in many ways because of that, and I wonder was due diligence really done before making the deal? I don’t know the details of that and why this particular piece of property was deemed a good idea. The ranch was zoned agricultural so just buying that particular property in hindsight was a really bad idea I guess. Question 02 > Do you think that things would have gone differently had the community had different leadership or if Sheela would have been less combative? The context was just very different from your average American town… very, very different. I had good friends, good work, good food, and too many red clothes! We were like any group of teenagers getting up to what teens get up to. I worked hard at my job, long hours editing video, building electronics projects (including the security system for Sheela’s house), setting up and DJ’ing at the ‘kids’ disco, and a lot of other things. My mom had been involved with Rajneesh since I was about 5 or 6 years old so this was all very familiar to me. Question 01 > How did most of the kids you knew view their time at Rajneeshpuram? Were you longing to have a ‘normal’ childhood / high school experience or did you enjoy it? Want to read this story later? Save it in Journal.
Prompted by my eldest step-daughter after watching Wild Wild Country on Netflix, she suggested I do an Ask Me Anything (AMA), in response to the Wild Wild Country thread on reddit. The following is a series of answers to questions that were posted on reddit. I was one of those kids, and that was my home. Or the kids who went there because this was the life their parents had created for them. Those who didn’t go there for any other reason than they wanted to be close to their ‘master’. Wild Wild Country is the latest of quite a few documentaries, news stories and books that talk about the ranch, Bhagwan (not ‘the’ Bhagwan), and the people who were in power - who were indicted by the US and state government, but most of them leave out the stories of the ‘normal’ people who actually lived there. Rajneeshpuram, or ‘the ranch’ as we called it, is the place most commonly known for the series of crimes that were committed, or the 99 Rolls Royces driven by the Indian guru who the city was named after - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (now known as Osho). That was the start of the journey that led me to end up as a permanent resident of Rajneeshpuram in central Oregon from age 13 to 17. The author around the time his mom and dad went seeking spirituality in India
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