“The lingo at the ashram was ‘say yes’ and ‘say yes to life,” Smith says.
Ex-disciple Roselyn Smith, who went through six months of therapy groups at Rajneesh’s ashram in Pune (Poona), India, from 1980 to 1981, says that coercive psychological pressure was applied at the ashram-especially on women-to enforce participation in sexually promiscuous behavior and in the ashram’s notorious group-sex orgies. The leader who enforces participation achieves a much greater degree of subjugation of his followers’ wills, because he takes actual control of this most intimate area of a person’s life.”Īlso read: I was part of Osho’s spiritual whorehouse cult & flushed his mala in disgust: Mahesh BhattĮx-disciples of Rajneesh allege that the tendency of his cult is definitely to enforce sexual participation. Either way, what the cult leader is attempting to do is to prevent pair bonding and to stop couples from leaving because they love each other more than they love the group. “Either they prohibit it completely, or they enforce participation in it. “All cults control sex, in one way or another,” asserts Margaret Singer, a highly respected expert on mind control. Rajneesh’s much vaunted ideology of sexual liberation-besides being a calculated ploy to attract followers-is a major component, if not the moor component, of his particular cult’s system of psychosocial control, say the commentators. But what end does Rajneesh have in mind for his disciples when he incites them to sexual promiscuity?Īccording to some commentators on the subject, the real end Rajneesh seeks for his disciples in this area is most likely the loss of their ability to form stable love relationships such relationships might jeopardise his psychological hegemony over their lives.
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“Sex is just the beginning, not the end,” professes Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, who first achieved notoriety in India in the late sixties and early seventies when he began publicly advocating that his disciples practice free love.
Sometimes it allegedly extended to use of violence. Attempts to enforce sexual participation at the Pune ashram did not always stop at psychological pressure.
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