Osho's cult: Sex to Superconsciousness

The night the ego called "Rajneesh" died and OSHO was born: March 21, 1953

(Mystics of India) Ego death for OSHO? What happened to Rajneesh on March 23, 1953

You say funny stuff, Guru. You must be awake.

Osho was Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain, Dec. 11, 1931–Jan. 19, 1990), also called Acharya Rajneesh [2][1], now commonly referred to as Osho.

He was an Indian godman [3], hippie sex guru, philosopher, mystic [4], and founder of the Rajneesh Movement [1].

I'm like India's Einstein in silly slippers.

He was a controversial new religious movement leader during his life. He rejected institutional religions [5][1][6], insisting that spiritual experience could not be organized into any one system of religious dogma [7].

As a money and sex guru, he advocated meditation and taught a unique form called dynamic meditation.

Rejecting traditional ascetic practices, he encouraged his followers to embrace life fully [hedonism] while remaining unattached to worldly desires. More

Sex holyman Bikram on his cross

Those interested in Osho (Acarya Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh) may also be interested in other psuedo-holymen sex gurus selling easy enlightenment to the West:

• Bikram (rape charges in Bikram Yoga)
• Nithyananda (on the lam in India)
• Sakyong Mipham (Shambhala's alleged rapist)

Inside Osho's controversial cult: The dark side of the Rajneesh Movement

Tibetan deity Kubera (Jambhala) in yab-yum pose with consort (Tantrika), 18-19th century

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Not the Buddha but Vajradhana

(wocomoHUMANITY) April 16, 2024: The wild 1970s followed after the liberating 1960s. There was a quest for higher consciousness, spirituality, and sexual freedom. In his ashram (religious compound) in Poona, India, Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh (aka Osho) urges his disciples to meditate and practice tantric sex in order to reach a higher level of consciousness.

Hugh, the guru’s bodyguard, watches his ascent on people. Sheela becomes his [killer] secretary and the powerful boss of Bhagwan Rajneesh’s community in the mountains of Oregon.

Send money, and I will "initiate" you into tantric sex?

The guru, decried as "sex-guru” by the Western media in the 1970s, is now making headlines with his Rolls-Royces and Rolex watches. The dream turns into a nightmare, for Hugh it turns into a mental breakdown, for Sheela into a prison sentence. Where did it all go wrong?

CHAPTERS

• ▷ 0:00:00 - Intro
• ▷ 0:03:58 - Rajneesh as a religious movement
• ▷ 0:06:50 - Osho's family background
• ▷ 0:13:09 - Bhagwan Rajneesh
• ▷ 0:14:53 - Feelings
• ▷ 0:17:16 - The pressure on Rajneesh
• ▷ 0:03:58 - Rajneesh as a religious movement
• ▷ 0:23:07 - Love for life
• ▷ 0:26:30 - Paradise
• ▷ 0:31:31 - Therapy
• ▷ 0:47:58 - The beginning
• ▷ 0:49:22 - Working Vision
• ▷ 0:51:45 - Big Muddy Ranch
• ▷ 1:33:13 - Credits

Bikram Yoga's 26 pose sequence in high heat

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Altadena Library's Poetry & Cookies (5/17)

WHAT HAPPENED?

It rained lightly, just a mist, as poets gathered to get on the open mic list or read from their forthcoming anthology (online publication). There will be another event when it finally comes out. One reader got up to chant Sanskrit as part of extended piece that was both comedic and skillful, revelatory and astounding in its sophistication. The Poets Laureate Sarwar and Lennon welcomed all and promised more events.

• AltadenaLibrary.org
• New Poets Laureate for 2024-2026 — Altadena Library District
• Anthology: Golden Foothills Press | Pasadena, CA 91104
• Support: Friends of the Library — Altadena Library District

NEW photos of 1960s San Francisco

The Monterey Int'l Pop Festival 1967

The Monterey International Pop Festival

Brian Wilson's Beach Boys were a no-show at the Monterey International Pop Festival

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I was born too late! I would've wanted to go

Once upon a time there was a three-day music festival. That time was June 16, 17, and 18, 1967, at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California [1].

The festival is remembered for the first major American appearances by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Who, and Ravi Shankar, the first large-scale public performance of Janis Joplin and the introduction of Otis Redding to a mass American audience.

Artsy flyer for the giant music event

The festival embodied the theme of California as a focal point for the [hippie] counterculture and is generally regarded as one of the beginnings of the "Summer of Love" in 1967 and the public debut of the Hippie, Flower Power, and Flower Children mass movements and era [2].

Because Monterey was widely promoted and heavily attended, featured historic performances, and was the subject of a popular theatrical documentary film, it became an inspiration and a template for future music festivals, including the Woodstock Music and Art Festival two years later.

Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner said, "Monterey was the nexus; it sprang from what the Beatles began, and from it sprang what followed" [3]. More

• (studioag1) The Monterey International Pop Festival (full), 1967, Summer of Love, California; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

Poetry by Charles Harmon "Beat It"

When you're burning on the inside...

American Buddhist Jack Kerouac is recognized for his style, which is stream of consciousness called "spontaneous prose."

Thematically, his work covers topics such as Buddhism, promiscuity, his Catholic spirituality, drugs, jazz, travel, life in NYC, and poverty.

He became an underground celebrity and, with other Beat Poets, a progenitor (precursor) of the hippie movement...

He greatly influenced many 1960s cultural icons, including the Beatles, the Doors, Bob Dylan, and the founder of the Grateful Dead Jerry Garcia. More

BEAT IT

By Charles Harmon (edited by Seven)

Allen Ginsberg with Jack Kerouac

Cruising Hollywood, 1959,

family wagon, parents at the

wheel, little sisters gawking at

Grauman's and the imprints of idols,

feet, hands, endearments

etched in concrete, Walk of Fame,

pointing at the stars set in the sidewalk

between tourist toes and heels

"Look, a Beatnik!" mom directs us

toward a man who sits on the curb,

his sandaled feet dangling in the gutter,

dressed in a dark turtleneck and smart

black beret, whacking a bongo,

singing, billowing smoke

as a young woman sits next to him

with an arm around his waist, cigaretting

smoldering on his lipstick stained cheek,

as tourists drop coins in a cup

"What's a Beatnik?" I ask, but a man

without options, who looks cool doing

nothing

"They like poetry," Mom explains, "and

music, don't care too much about money,

seeking enlightenment or come what may"

Wow, I think, a man after my own heart,

as I'd already memorized dozens of poems

in school and liked to sing, a choirboy

with a radio and TV, eager to learn

the way to enlightenment, something I

read in the World Book of all the Buddha

knew, understanding stated in haiku

like a novel on James Bond in the 6th

grade, when 007 visits a faraway land

to extract useful information from the

Japanese Secret Service, offering

some spy service in return, but JSS

Head Tiger Tanaka teaches 007 how

to compose haiku instead

You only live twice

once when born and once when you 

finally face death

A spy evades capture, and a ten-year-old

is blown away, one avoids execution

the other asks his mom, Is Death here yet?

There is reality and there is fate

and are they not the same? Knowing

that we all know Death, who is yet to

come, I resolved to live, to do something

to make life amount to more than

not yet dying

So I did, I understood what the Buddha

must have meant, only etching out haiku

much later on a cube of rice paper, square

and the size of a cigarette with twisted ends,

discovering Kerouac Jack, who presented it

to an audience American, altering the rules,

setting it free

On the Road, The Dharma Bums, and

artful lines in 5-7-5 or not

all to kindle a sense of the adventure, an

excursion with and without signs

do not enter here

do not look behind

enter over there

Did it rhyme? Did I trek with Scouts

arm myself with the Sierra Club

get away with friends until my 16th

summer on the planet, hitching my sole

and the other on a hike to NorCal to visit

Berkeley and Stanford and grandparents in the Bay,

listening to the Jefferson Airplane and Grace

steering clear of the scene psychedelic, blazing

on a natural high and the books at City Lights

and a man named Ferlinghetti

who gave me a Little Red Book by Mao

a souvenir of what might have been had I

been a Beat, had I penned as artfully as

the JuBu Ginsberg and other rows at City Lights

Rodolfo Ybarra: On the Beat Generation and Bob Kaufman

Snyder, Everson, Rexroth, Jeffers, Welch, McClure

many of whom I met at their readings, discovering

former Zen monastic Leonard Cohen who sat atop

Mount Baldy overlooking L.A., searching for Truth

in nature, peace, love, spirituality, seeking

the mystical in the ordinary, while I climbed mountains

in the vast out of doors, seeking it in science at the UC

with Fritjof Capra's Tao of Physics, exploring the

parallels of East and West on a quest for Truth

ism after ism saying the same thing: we are all

connected as we learn to see

all of it a mystical experience, haiku poetry

• POEM: Me and Jack Kerouac: "Repo Man"

17 cartoons for adults, BoJack Horseman

17 cartoons that are definitely not for children

(Wealth of Geeks) The fact that they are animated does not necessarily make them fit for children. Generally seen as indecent or highly suspect, some cartoons don’t live up to this reputation. But some do. Even if kids love them, do they understand them? Here are 17 of them. (Amaka Chukwuma via MSN.com)

• Study shows most kids grow out of gender confusion
• Picture Worlds: Greek, Maya, and Moche Pottery (getty.edu)
• I embraced this alternative lifestyle for the freedom - but I ended up trapped
• One Tree Hill star Sophia Bush comes out as queer after divorcing husband
• What students say about the protests rocking their campuses
• Lesbian Rebel Wilson’s controversial memoir is bemusing, tone-deaf and obsessed with money (msn.com)

New photos of original Woodstock 1969

Photos from Woodstock not be seen before

Black Woodstock: Harlem
Cultural Festival 1969 (free)

(Prime Discovery) March 30, 2024: The summer of 1969's Woodstock Music and Art Festival was legendary. With an epic lineup that included everyone from Jimi Hendrix to the Grateful Dead, the festival has gone down in history as one of the most iconic events of 1960's youth counterculture. It set a precedent for epic music festivals that is still unrivalled today. Coachella is one of the largest at a max of 150,000 each weekend. Woodstock had 500,000. But who knew there were photos from Woodstock that have never been revealed? Well, let’s look at them. New photos of iconic Woodstock with stories to match? What can be seen that stands out and unveils another side of this historic festival? Let’s take a journey back in time.

Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters (doc)

Jeremy Fluff, YouTube, Sept. 27, 2016; Seth Auberon, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Tripping (documentary)

(Jeremy Fluff) Broadcast by Channel 4 in August 1999 in anticipation of Ken Kesey's trip to the UK for the total eclipse, this is a well-constructed documentary look at Kesey, the Merry Pranksters, the bus trip, the Electric Acid Tests, and all the other fun they got up to in the 1960s.

Now all folks can have a bus: VW bus

It features lots of great archive footage, contemporary (late 90s) footage filmed at Kesey's home and on the road with the latest bus, and interviews with a relevant writer (a subtitled Hunter S. Thompson) and the curious (Malcom McLaren and Fatboy Slim).

There is no trace of this interesting artifact online (or maybe the generic title just makes it hard find with a usual Google search). So [Jeremy Fluff has] extracted his first-generation VHS video copy, for which he makes no copyright claim.