The new Association for Enlightened Disciples of Osho Rajneesh announces its first conference: Sunday, 5 May 2024 in Sofia, Bulgaria
The international association EDORA has been legally registered today, 1 April 2024, in Dublin, Ireland by a group of sannyasins and ex-sannyasins from as far afield as Central & North America, Australia, Nepal, India and Scandinavia. The aim of the association is to create an international platform to promote enlightenment, share ideas through mutual interviews (later made available to the public through YouTube), conferences and seminars, and to set up a dedicated online platform and social media presence.
The date for the first official conference has already been set: Sunday, 5 May 2024, to take place in Bulgaria at the centrally-located 5-star hotel, Sofia Balkan Palace, chosen for its spacious conference room. On the agenda there will be topics ranging from marketing (advertising, web presence, social media), public speaking skills, article-writing and interviewing skills, accounting and recruiting of volunteers.
The date coincides with the Orthodox Easter Sunday, which is seen as auspicious. It might, however, increase travel within and to Bulgaria, causing delays and over-bookings. It would be therefore recommended to book flights and hotel early. The core team is discussing if part of the conference could not be broadcast via zoom (TBC).
Food for the conference will be provided by each attendee’s entourage, as it is anticipated that a consensus on right diet would be difficult to obtain. Kitchen space will be available. The rooms are large and can accommodate many items of sacred significance, i.e. each participant can bring their own environmental aids: Aura Soma, crystals, Osho marble, background music, grounding sheets, etc. Although entourage members might be unable to find space in the hotel – depending on how many invitees there are – there is the modern 3-star Hotel Rila nearby that will be happy to accommodate them.
Those who wish to be invited to the conference can write to EDORA via their new official email address and phone numbers as soon as these are made public (watch this space). The criteria of membership to the association were not yet set at the time of going to press, but it can be expected that a detailed document (PDF) will be available upon request as soon as the hotline is open. This delicate issue will also be part of the discussions at the conference in Sofia.
The foundation of EDORA is a first step towards creating space for more tolerance, mitigating the vilification and persistent incomprehension and ridicule, inflicted by the so-called regular, unenlightened sannyasins.
From EDORA Press Release, 1 April 2024
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