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9781641604727

Rajneeshpuram Inside the Cult of Bhagwan and Its Failed American Utopia

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    9781641604727

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  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2022-03-08
  • Publisher: Chicago Review Press

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Summary

“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.

Author Biography

Russell King is a writer, investigator, and attorney. In 2018 he created the podcast Building Utopia: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, which explores the history of Bhagwan and his disciples. As a law partner at an international law firm, King spent a decade piecing together factual narratives based on complex and contradictory evidence, experience that makes him uniquely qualified to tackle this rich and complicated history. King lives in Chicago, IL.

Table of Contents

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
 

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