Wild Wild Country - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

[Saj]

Just finished watching this fascinating series on Netflix.

It's about the controversial Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, his one-time personal assistant Ma Anand Sheela, and their community of followers in the Rajneeshpuram community located in Wasco County, Oregon.

Anyone seen it?

Thoughts on it?

 

[JaDed]

Nope, heard a lot abt it being one dimensional.

Osho still lives lol, wonder if his message was ever clear to his followers, Vinod Khanna was also his followers for 5 peak years of his stardom, what a waste of talent and let Amitabh take over.

 

[IgnitedMind]

yeah, Loved it.

Ma Anand Sheela is the original Boss !! It was fascinating to see a bunch of people come together and built their own city...

Although Ma Anand Sheela took some really bad and controversial decisions...I felt the beggining of it all was the ingrained xenophebia among the natives ! Should have let them be...and would have been fascinating to see what they would have become a decade or two later...

I do agree with some of the OSHO philisophy of life

 

[Napa]

Met a lot of very intelligent and professionally successful people who Osho's followers. Personally haven't been interested enough to check him out.

 

[gani999]

Rajneesh was a decent chap. His only fault was that he left the entire running of his ashram to Anand Sheela, who was a arrogant to the boot, a certified gold-digger, and a fraudster on top of it. She was even jailed in the US. Her handling of the Rajneeshpuram Ashram was the beginning of the end for Rajneesh and his movement.

Rajneesh passed away a few years ago. Anand Sheela is till around, running her 'clinic' somewhere in Switzerland.

 

[TM Riddle]

Just finished watching this fascinating series on Netflix.

It's about the controversial Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, his one-time personal assistant Ma Anand Sheela, and their community of followers in the Rajneeshpuram community located in Wasco County, Oregon.

Anyone seen it?

Thoughts on it?

Brilliant documentary. It's astonishing that so few people know about this.
Osho was a huge name in India and still has lot many followers.
I would take him anyday over these Pakhandi Aasarams.
A man ahead of his time for sure!

 

[Saj]

What amazed me was just how many followers they got in such a short space of time and how organised they were.

But at the end of the day they were literally brainwashing people.

 

[IgnitedMind]

What amazed me was just how many followers they got in such a short space of time and how organised they were.

But at the end of the day they were literally brainwashing people.

Brainwashing to do what?

I thought, they all had their intentions at the right place at the beginning. To build an alternate world for themselves away from the societal norms, expectations and restrictions. But the reaction of the locals...and Ma Anand Sheela's attitude , Rajneesh's absense from the daily activities lead to the downfall. But I dont think, they had a bad ulterior motive to brainwash people for their benefit.

 

[Dingolfy]

What amazed me was just how many followers they got in such a short space of time and how organised they were.

But at the end of the day they were literally brainwashing people.

Every organized religion in the world has been doing the same thing to poor folks for centuries.

 

[TQ89]

One thing i never understood about osho was how did he get so many Rolls royces?

 

[humzy]

Brainwashing to do what?

I thought, they all had their intentions at the right place at the beginning. To build an alternate world for themselves away from the societal norms, expectations and restrictions. But the reaction of the locals...and Ma Anand Sheela's attitude , Rajneesh's absense from the daily activities lead to the downfall. But I dont think, they had a bad ulterior motive to brainwash people for their benefit.

Brainwashed to give the foundation boat loads of money so the leader could siphon some of it for himself and buy fleets of rolls royces and a bunch of meaningless objects.

Dont forget people could only get direct access to him if they donated a certain amount of money to him. While the others just stand around all day waiting for him to drive by in a rolls Royce. Sounds like a monarch to me.

Both Anand and Rajneesh were sociopaths who realised they had a goldmine in their hands and wanted to keep as much control of it as possible. Once there was a downfall what happened was what always happens with sociopaths, they try and shift blame on each other even though they were all involved in the deceit.

 

[Cpt. Rishwat]

I watched the first episode when it was released a few weeks ago after reading a review of it, but never followed up. I'll have to get round to it, certainly seems to have got a lot of attention.