One of his followers was actually accused of having put salmonella at a banquet, infecting hundreds of people. Osho was also known to have been addicted to Valium (also known as diazepam, which is used against anxiety, alcohol withdrawals…etc) and sex. Osho’s addictions and last days Photo: Osho and a follower A reason why they assume it to be murder. It is hard for them to say how he could possibly have died.Īccording to them, he had countless of enemies, because Osho was delivering the “truth” to the world. However, his followers believe he died from poisoning or other sinister forms. Here he preached and lived with his students until he passed away from a heart condition. In the end, he returned to India where he settled in his Ashram located in Maharashtra. Osho traveled around the world seeking refuge but was always kicked out or arrested. Shortly after, he was released as all the crimes he was accused of, were not done by him but by members of the community.
Osho was kicked out of the United States, but not before being temporarily incarcerated with his followers. This caused enough controversy for the state of Oregon to call the National Guard and remove Rajneesh and his following out of the area. Stories of sex orgies and violence being practiced in the compound, murder and the poisoning of the local water. In the United States Osho set up a commune near a small town in Oregon, but that spiritual “paradise” was short-lived, as the commune was shut down by the pressure of surrounding towns and neighbors. In the end, Rajneesh’s teachings and followers were so eccentric and liberal that they had to leave India in search of a place where they could “self-express” freely. Rajneesh’s teachings and his following were getting out of control, thousands of people attended his lectures and retreats. (Ashram: a spiritual hermitage or a monastery in Indian religions) The Controversy However, his teachings were controversial as they instigated collective expressions of aggression and sexual orgies, which called the attention of the local authorities in his Ashrams. Rajneesh following grew rapidly, he was popular amongst Indian politicians and many foreigners from the United States and Europe visited him. In the 1970s Osho arose in popularity initiating his followers as the orange people, a color identified in Hindu tradition as a “holy person”. Photo: Osho and his Rolls Royce along with his orange peopleĬhandra Mohan Jain, known as Rajneesh and Osho was born in Madhya Pradesh India, Studied philosophy and became a teacher of philosophy at the University of Saugar. Osho was a philosopher at Jabalpur University, where he slowly became a guru under the pseudonym/title of Acharya Rajneesh, and for many of his critics he was called a “sex guru”. Wild Wild country has done the rounds online, many people have spoken about it as a go-to documentary on the topic of “cults”. At a first glance, it looks just like another documentary, about the many New-age cults that still exist around the U.S. In 2018 Netflix released a documentary called “Wild wild country”.