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	<title>Comments on: Bioterrorism Beginnings: The Rajneesh Cult, Oregon, 1985</title>
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		<title>By: 2012 end</title>
		<link>http://blog.oup.com/2009/10/bioterrorism-beginnings/comment-page-1/#comment-161274</link>
		<dc:creator>2012 end</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 06:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The only alignment that will take place in December 2012 will be that of the Earth and the Galactic Equator.</description>
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		<title>By: Osho Lover</title>
		<link>http://blog.oup.com/2009/10/bioterrorism-beginnings/comment-page-1/#comment-153853</link>
		<dc:creator>Osho Lover</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Osho, Bhagwan Rajneesh is one of the most rebellious and intelligent enlightened Master ever walked on this planet. Evil minded people are intentionally dragging the name of Osho or Bhagwan Rajneesh and associating it with poisonous incident in which thank God not even a single person died. It shows how much Osho hate is still strong in orthodox minded people including journalist and politicians. 
Will you put the Mayor of a City in prison for the crimes of the secretary of that Mayor?
Will you put the President of a country in Prison for killing hundreds of thousands of innocent women and children of another country for the false accusation of WMD. That seems even more justified than above Mayor example.
Crimes of Ma Anand Sheels are not the crimes of Osho Bhagwan Rajneesh. Bhagwan Rajneesh cannot make a person better. It does not matter how much physically close a person is to Bhagwan if that person(Ma Sheela) is not ready to learn good things.
Jesus Christ could not make Judas a good person even when Judas was one of the closest disciples of Him.

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh had millions of good things to give to this world. Just creating and concentrating on negative aspects cannot drive humanity in better direction.
Oregon is one of the blessed pieces of Earth where Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh put His feet. 
Love to Osho.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Osho, Bhagwan Rajneesh is one of the most rebellious and intelligent enlightened Master ever walked on this planet. Evil minded people are intentionally dragging the name of Osho or Bhagwan Rajneesh and associating it with poisonous incident in which thank God not even a single person died. It shows how much Osho hate is still strong in orthodox minded people including journalist and politicians.<br />
Will you put the Mayor of a City in prison for the crimes of the secretary of that Mayor?<br />
Will you put the President of a country in Prison for killing hundreds of thousands of innocent women and children of another country for the false accusation of WMD. That seems even more justified than above Mayor example.<br />
Crimes of Ma Anand Sheels are not the crimes of Osho Bhagwan Rajneesh. Bhagwan Rajneesh cannot make a person better. It does not matter how much physically close a person is to Bhagwan if that person(Ma Sheela) is not ready to learn good things.<br />
Jesus Christ could not make Judas a good person even when Judas was one of the closest disciples of Him.</p>
<p>Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh had millions of good things to give to this world. Just creating and concentrating on negative aspects cannot drive humanity in better direction.<br />
Oregon is one of the blessed pieces of Earth where Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh put His feet.<br />
Love to Osho.</p>
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		<title>By: exOsho</title>
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		<dc:creator>exOsho</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Another quote from Tim Guest:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/jan/11/india.biography

&quot;Not long after, the worldwide movement (there were now 126 sannyasi centres in Europe, including 22 in the UK and 43 in West Germany) began to implode. There were allegations of fraud, mass poisonings, assassination attempts. A plot was uncovered to fly an aircraft into a building in the US.&quot;

Does the last sentence sound familiar?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Another quote from Tim Guest:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/jan/11/india.biography" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/jan/11/india.biography</a></p>
<p>&#8220;Not long after, the worldwide movement (there were now 126 sannyasi centres in Europe, including 22 in the UK and 43 in West Germany) began to implode. There were allegations of fraud, mass poisonings, assassination attempts. A plot was uncovered to fly an aircraft into a building in the US.&#8221;</p>
<p>Does the last sentence sound familiar?</p>
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		<title>By: exOsho</title>
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		<dc:creator>exOsho</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Happenings at the Ranch, and later at the commune schools are well described by Tim Guest in &#039;My Life in Orange.&#039;

http://www.wnyc.org/books/44690

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/jan/11/india.biography

Medina Commune (UK) &quot;As time went by, we kids settled on each other as the source of the comfort we needed. In the dormitories at night we borrowed each other&#039;s blankets; there was a lively trade in stolen soft toys. The older girls tucked the younger kids into bed. Some of the older boys started to get girlfriends, and beds were swapped in the middle of the night.&quot;

&quot;&#039;The attraction of someone who said, &quot;Do whatever you want, because that can be the path to enlightenment&quot; was enormous. A lot of it was sexual.&#039; There was no monogamy for Bhagwan&#039;s followers, although Guest&#039;s mother had a long relationship with a sannyasi known as Sujan - before and afterwards called Martin - to whom she is now married.&quot; 

&quot;At the beginning, sex was promoted as celebratory, joyful. (Later, as the movement became more paranoid, Bhagwan decreed that Aids had been sent to wipe out two-thirds of the human population: sannyasi mothers must stop kissing their children, while commune kids who sucked their thumbs must wear rubber gloves at night). All this exploration of sexual energy was bound to have a darker side. Watching your lover borrowed by someone else might offer an opportunity to practise your detachment, but what if the detachment didn&#039;t kick in? There were many injuries in the encounter groups.&quot;

&quot;Fourteen- and 15-year-old girls were often initiated into sex by visiting group leaders. This was, of course, undertaken lovingly, with the best intentions because, as one victim explained after being raped again in order to confront her terrors, how could anything that happened to you in the ashram be bad?&quot; 

&quot;Now, Guest says carefully, he thinks the Medina children &#039;would say that the sex, at the time, was a thrill. But looking back, they feel that if not wholly abusive, it was at times a little inappropriate.&#039; When the worldwide movement was summoned to headquarters in Oregon for a celebration lasting several weeks, all the children were left to their own devices, as usual. Inevitably, with so much sex around, many of them decided to explore their own sexual energy.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Happenings at the Ranch, and later at the commune schools are well described by Tim Guest in &#8216;My Life in Orange.&#8217;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wnyc.org/books/44690" rel="nofollow">http://www.wnyc.org/books/44690</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/jan/11/india.biography" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/jan/11/india.biography</a></p>
<p>Medina Commune (UK) &#8220;As time went by, we kids settled on each other as the source of the comfort we needed. In the dormitories at night we borrowed each other&#8217;s blankets; there was a lively trade in stolen soft toys. The older girls tucked the younger kids into bed. Some of the older boys started to get girlfriends, and beds were swapped in the middle of the night.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;&#8216;The attraction of someone who said, &#8220;Do whatever you want, because that can be the path to enlightenment&#8221; was enormous. A lot of it was sexual.&#8217; There was no monogamy for Bhagwan&#8217;s followers, although Guest&#8217;s mother had a long relationship with a sannyasi known as Sujan &#8211; before and afterwards called Martin &#8211; to whom she is now married.&#8221; </p>
<p>&#8220;At the beginning, sex was promoted as celebratory, joyful. (Later, as the movement became more paranoid, Bhagwan decreed that Aids had been sent to wipe out two-thirds of the human population: sannyasi mothers must stop kissing their children, while commune kids who sucked their thumbs must wear rubber gloves at night). All this exploration of sexual energy was bound to have a darker side. Watching your lover borrowed by someone else might offer an opportunity to practise your detachment, but what if the detachment didn&#8217;t kick in? There were many injuries in the encounter groups.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Fourteen- and 15-year-old girls were often initiated into sex by visiting group leaders. This was, of course, undertaken lovingly, with the best intentions because, as one victim explained after being raped again in order to confront her terrors, how could anything that happened to you in the ashram be bad?&#8221; </p>
<p>&#8220;Now, Guest says carefully, he thinks the Medina children &#8216;would say that the sex, at the time, was a thrill. But looking back, they feel that if not wholly abusive, it was at times a little inappropriate.&#8217; When the worldwide movement was summoned to headquarters in Oregon for a celebration lasting several weeks, all the children were left to their own devices, as usual. Inevitably, with so much sex around, many of them decided to explore their own sexual energy.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: exOsho</title>
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		<dc:creator>exOsho</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Further info. can be found here:

http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/10/the_poisoning_of_an_oregon_tow.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Further info. can be found here:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/10/the_poisoning_of_an_oregon_tow.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/10/the_poisoning_of_an_oregon_tow.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: exOsho</title>
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		<dc:creator>exOsho</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It is rumoured that after the poisoning many British members of the Rajneesh Ranch were imprisoned by the US authorities. After release they returned to the UK where they used to run Osho-based schools until these were closed down, Osho-based communes which are still functioning, and AUM Meditations. They have also infiltrated and contaminated the Tantra scene with the tenets of the Rajneesh / Osho cult. &#039;Osho&#039; is now a huge multi-media business based in New York, USA.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is rumoured that after the poisoning many British members of the Rajneesh Ranch were imprisoned by the US authorities. After release they returned to the UK where they used to run Osho-based schools until these were closed down, Osho-based communes which are still functioning, and AUM Meditations. They have also infiltrated and contaminated the Tantra scene with the tenets of the Rajneesh / Osho cult. &#8216;Osho&#8217; is now a huge multi-media business based in New York, USA.</p>
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