Rajneeshpuram

Inside the Cult of Bhagwan and Its Failed American Utopia

Russell King (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2022
Chicago Review Press (Verlag)
978-1-64160-472-7 (ISBN)

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“Russell King has written the most definitive account of this grand American saga. Rajneeshpuram is rich storytelling.” —Chapman and Maclain Way, directors of Wild Wild Country

In 1981, ambitious young Ma Anand Sheela transported the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh to the United States to fulfill his dream of creating a utopia for his thousands of disciples. Four years later, the incendiary Rajneeshpuram commune in Oregon collapsed under the weight of audacious criminal conspiracies hatched in its inner sanctum, including the largest bioterrorism attack in US history, an unprecedented election fraud scheme, and multiple attempted murders.

Rajneeshpuram explores how this extraordinary spiritual community, featured in the Netflix docuseries Wild Wild Country, went so wrong. Drawing from extensive interviews with former disciples and an exhaustive review of commune records, government and police files, and archival materials, author Russell King probes the charismatic power that Bhagwan (later known as Osho) and Sheela exercised over the community and the turbulent legal and political environment that left commune leaders ready to deceive, poison, and even murder to preserve their home and their master.

Rajneeshpuram is a fresh examination of the Rajneesh story, using newly available information and interviews with high-ranking disciples who have never before shared their stories.

Russell King is Professor of Geography and Co-Director of the Sussex Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex.

Author’s Note
Prologue
Part I: New Jersey, 1981
1. The Godman of Mumbai
2. Oasis in Pune
3. The New Commune
4. Exeunt
Part II: Oregon, 1981–1982
5. Foundations in the Desert
6. The Mirage
7. Between a Rock and Antelope
8. “Better Red Than Dead”
9. A Small Farm Town
10. Making It Legal
11. Bhagwan Takes a Trip
12. Truth and Consequences
Part III: Oregon, 1983
13. Religion at Its Highest
14. Children of the Commune
15. Horse Trading
16. Terror in the Buddhafield
17. God Versus the Universe
Part IV: Oregon, 1984
18. The Spook
19. The Enemy Inside
20. Sharpening the Sword
21. The Chinese Laundry
22. How to Win an Election
23. Something in the Water
24: Desperate Times
25: Sannyasin Hospitality
26. The Election of 1984
27. The Lost Discourse
Part V: Oregon, 1985
28. Desperate Measures
29. Downward Spiral
30. The Turning Point
31. Internal Affairs
32. The Garden of Epicurus
33. Master’s Day 1985
34. Catharsis
35. Plan B
36. Collapse
37. Glad News
Part VI: Flight, 1985
38. Cracks in the Dam
39. Life and Death
40. Meanwhile in Europe
41. Flight from Oregon
42. Wind Down
43. Aftermath
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	05.03.2022
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Chicago
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Gewicht	730 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
ISBN-10	1-64160-472-7 / 1641604727
ISBN-13	978-1-64160-472-7 / 9781641604727
Zustand	Neuware