Despite the ubiquity of news coverage in the 1980s, the Osho-Rajneesh movement’s experiment in building a spiritual city out the Oregon desert has for the most part receded from the national memory. It is little more than a quirky footnote to the history of Reagan’s American. There remain a...
From the archives Vol 7, Issue 2, 127-130, Fall 2008. Angels-on-a-Pinhead: History of the Order of Perpetual Indulgence Sr. Soami On Holy Saturday, 1979 I donned a nun’s habit for the first time. With two other ‘gay male nuns’ I sashayed out among the faithfully queer on the Castro and then...
THE SOURCE: The Untold Story of Father Yod, YaHoWha 13, and The Source Family Isis Aquarian and Electricity Aquarian Process Media, 2007 “The Source Family” (film, 2012) Jodi Wille and Maria Demopoulous Jim Baker founded some of the nation’s first health food restaurants. Opening in the late sixties, the Source...
by Sven Davisson From the Archives Ashé Journal, Vol 2, Issue 2, 2003. Seeing Red In Cattle Country The Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (later known simply as Osho) was born Chandra Mohan in the village of Kuchwada in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh on 11 December 1931. Due to the...