Documentary on Osho Rajneesh to be released by Netflix

I hope the documentary correctly explains that Rajneesh disciples set off the bomb in the Portland Oregon Rajneesh hotel to gain sympathy. There was no terrorist attack against them.

“Adolf Hitler’s violence with the Jews was far more peaceful, because he killed people in the most up-to-date gas chambers, where you don’t take much time.” – “Thousands of people can be put in a gas chamber, and just a switch is pressed. Within a second you will not know when you were alive and when you died. Within a second, you evaporate.” – “The chimneys of the factory start taking you, the smoke – you can call it the holy smoke – and this seems to be a direct way towards God. The smoke simply goes upwards.” — Osho’s own words from his 1985 book, From Death to Deathlessness.

During official testimony at the United States District Court in Portland, Oregon, Ma Ava (Ava Avalos) stated that Ma Anand Sheela had played a tape recording of a meeting Sheela had with Rajneesh about the ‘need to kill people.’ Ma Ava stated under oath that “She (Ma Anand Sheela) came back to the meeting and … began to play the tape. It was a little hard to hear what he was saying … And the gist of Bhagwan’s response, yes, it was going to be necessary to kill people to stay in Oregon. And that actually killing people wasn’t such a bad thing. And actually Hitler was a great man, although he could not say that publicly because nobody would understand that. Hitler had great vision.” See:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/73907-ava-avalos-trial-testimony.html#document/p53/a14420

See “Osho, Bhagwan Rajneesh, and the Lost Truth” at:
http://meditation-handbook.50webs.com/osho2.html

and “The Ridiculous Teachings of Wrong Way Rajneesh: at:
http://meditation-handbook.50webs.com/wrong-way.html

I bet you never read a book from Osho.

I was Bhagwan Rajneesh’s second Western sannyasi, just behind Ma Ananda Prem. I lived in his Bombay apartment at Woodlands Building in the bedroom next to his in 1970 and 1971. I wrote the introduction to *The Silent Explosion* and came up with the title at his request, and helped edit the book, which was a collection of essays I picked myself. I was at Poona 1 and left India in August 1975. After that I only visited the infamous ranch in Oregon twice for two meditation camps. The last time I went there the atmosphere was so totalitarian and sick I vowed never to go back. The man was on drugs and that was easily visible in his face. Rajneesh’s/Osho’s downfall reminds me of David Lean’s movie, *Lawrence of Arabia*. Power went to his head and he started to believe his own propaganda about himself.