“Mike Edwards was unlike your average balaclava-wearing cellist in a rock group,” Jeff Lynne once said in tribute to his former bandmate. What a eulogy. But the thing was, it was actually very true. Edwards was absolutely not your average…[Continue Reading...]
Rosalind Piper was in her mid-20s, managing the Gloucester Motel in Pemberton in Western Australia, when a well-dressed man walked through the door and asked for her help. "He said he was looking for his daughter and she'd gone missing,"…[Continue Reading...]
Watching the Netflix docuseries Wild Wild Country, about the Rajneeshpuram community, was not a comfortable experience for Martina Zangger. Curled up in the lounge with her husband and daughter in Newcastle, Australia, she shook her head in renewed shock that…[Continue Reading...]
With an illustrious past life as a trades hall, theatre venue and hub for the orange-robed Rajneesh cult in the wild 80s, few homes can lay claim to such a colourful past. Built in 1904 as the Fremantle Trades Hall,…[Continue Reading...]
Enlightenment, freedom and belonging were just three of the promises Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh promised his thousands of followers. But in return, they had to pay several thousand dollars to take his courses or for the privilege of living and working…[Continue Reading...]
UFC commentator Joe Rogan recently welcomed historian Rebecca Lemov in episode #2322 of his podcast. Rogan started a conversation about the Netflix documentary 'Wild Wild Country' and Lemov slammed it for glossing over the cult of Osho. Lemov asserted that…[Continue Reading...]
A small Oregon town with an estimated population of only 37 people is the first in the state to become a Dark Sky Community, meaning an incorporated place where the quality of the night sky is preserved through lighting ordinances…[Continue Reading...]
But The Sun can reveal that the mystical organisation with thousands of followers across the globe hid far darker secrets in the UK. We have spoken to women who claim they were the victims of child abuse at two of…[Continue Reading...]
In 1978, when I was nine years old, I unexpectedly moved to India with my free-spirited mother, who had recently become a disciple of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (later known as Osho). Like others of her generation, she was swept up…[Continue Reading...]
Documentaries about cults have become sensationalist streaming fodder in recent years, but Children of The Cult strips away the headlines and brings you face to face with victims and their stories. It’s an investigation into the Rajneesh Movement, a cult…[Continue Reading...]
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