An essay by Kul Bhushan
Part 16 of Shanti’s series quotes these scientists: Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Galileo Galilei, Jane Goodall, Rachel Carson, Camille Flammarion
Nityaprem reports on and assesses an experiment; “If people choose to learn about Osho from Chat AI they may well get a much less biased view than if they read old lifestyle magazine articles…”
In Part 15 of Shanti’s series: Friedrich Nietzsche, Rabindranath Tagore, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Ruth St. Denis, Dalai Lama
Subhan writes, “Years ago, I heard someone say that the universe is one, and that we are all interconnected with everyone and everything around us. But that was NOT my experience.”
Doris Stellmacher (Sangit Masto) recalls the three-month Esoteric Science Training with Wadud and Waduda of autumn 1988
This beautiful meditation is from The Book of the Secrets: ‘Toward the Untouched Inner Reality’: “I have used it in Channeling groups as well as Tantra groups and private Tantra meditations,” writes Madhuri
by Waduda (aka Leela) to the 1991, now out-of-print, boxed edition of The Book of the Secrets by Osho, where she writes about her experience in preparing herself for and then leading the three-month Esoteric Science Training workshop
An excerpt from Madhuri’s latest book, Reluctantly to Kunzum La: Motorbiking in the Himalayas in the Name of Love
For Part 14 of his series, Shanti’s invited to speak: Walt Whitman, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu and Lieh Tzu
From Subhan’s desk; “We can say that something has ended, but it’s helpful to remember that this exists ONLY in the mind.”
“Just as Drugs, Sex and Rock ‘n’ Roll were popular in the 60s, inquiry about The End is a popular topic among my generation of Boomers,” writes Rico Provasoli
In part 13, Shanti lets the mystics speak: Gautama Buddha, Dōgen Zenji, Hakuin Ekaku, Kabir and Ramakrishna
Purushottama is sharing with the sangha a priceless body of work he has collected over the years while offering online and in-presence meditation courses
In part 12, Shanti lets artists and poets speak: Michelangelo, Robert Frost, Rabindranath Tagore, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Miguel de Cervantes, Gertrude Stein, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikos Kazantzakis, Ōtagaki Rengetsu, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Maria Angelou, Sappho
Ailon’s initiation into sannyas in Pune, from his yet-unpublished memoir, Diary of a Neurotic Jewish Yoga Teacher
In Part 11 of his series, Shanti calculated costs and savings when switching to an efficient and renewables energy system using our present defense budgets
Part 2 of Sajjad’s photographs from his mountaineering trips with his beloved Saaralya, in the Italian Alps
A video interview (in English) by Vrienden van Osho with the vice-president of the Humaniversity, a world-renowned therapy institute in Egmond aan Zee, the Netherlands
Divakar (Marc Itzler) writes, “Society has become more sensitive and more discerning. We now ask more of ourselves. We demand a higher standard of self-awareness, of values, of behaviour.”
In Part 10 of the series, Humans Are Still Young, Shanti discusses the size of global military spending and the concept of nations
Abheeru and Divya interviewed Leela on zoom about her life with Osho and of course about the Mystic Rose
In Part 9 of his series, Shanti explores the socio-economic and earth-system trends of the new geological epoch called Anthropocene
Part 8 of Shanti’s series: “The Holocene has seen many of us creating… some of us have flowered as caretakers… in scientific research, on the path of devotion, or exploring beyond the frontiers of the known.”
…is when the mind cannot articulate what it sees, when it is unable to make it linear, logical, writes Subhan
Sarjano remembers in his memoir the events leading up to the Italian journalist Enzo Biagi interviewing Osho on 12 January 1986 in Kathmandu. The program was then shown on national television Rai Uno, on 28 January 1986 (video with transcription)
Leela from Osho France interviews four experienced facilitators on: Mystic Rose, No-Mind, Born Again, and Reminding Yourself of the Forgotten Language of Talking to Your BodyMind
In Part 7 Shanti writes, “We may have shown our ugliest face to the mirror, to others and to life on the planet, but we have also expressed our potential.“
In Part 6 Shanti writes, “The next step in the development of human societies… cannot be other than One World and a World Administration. “
One of the facilitators, Dhyan Tarpan, describes the weekend – which was punctuated by very special sessions
In Part 5 of Shanti’s series, we travel through the history of humankind, from family groups, to tribes, chiefdoms and states, kept together by organized religions