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Beware of Wikipedia's phony article on Rajneesh, alias "Osho"

calderhome@yahoo.com

2006-04-03, 1:33 am

Below is a copy of a letter I sent to the Wikipedia on-line
"encyclopedia" concerning their fraudulent article on Rajneesh, alias
"Osho," which can be found at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajneesh

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dear Sirs,

My name is Christopher Calder and I was Rajneesh's second Western
disciple to become an initiated sannyasin. I lived with Acharya
Rajneesh in his Bombay apartment, staying in the bedroom just across
the hall from his, from December of 1970 to April of 1971, and was at
the Poona ashram until September of 1975. Your article on Rajneesh is
full of factual errors, outright lies, and is in fact a crude
propaganda piece. I corrected the article to make it at least minimally
truthful and someone keeps switching in back. What kind of ethics does
your organization have to promote such falsehoods on the Web?

1) You wrote:

"As is customary with spiritual teachers in India, Osho received
several honorifics over his life. He was known as Acharya Rajneesh
(teacher Rajneesh), later Shree Rajneesh and finally Bhagwan Shree
Rajneesh".

Acharya Rajneesh was never called "Shree Rajneesh" as stated in your
article. He went straight from Acharya Rajneesh to "Bhagwan Shree
Rajneesh." No one gave him the title "Bhagwan Shree." He never received
that "honorific." He gave the name to himself. I know because I was
there! I was sitting in the hallway of his apartment late at night with
Swami Yoga Chinmaya. Ma Yoga Laxmi, his secretary, came out of
Rajneesh's bedrooms and told us that he had decided to change his name
from Acharya Rajneesh to Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, basically because it
had more clout. He gave himself that "honorific." No one wanted him to
change his name and no one called him "Bhagwan" spontaneously. It was
all his own doing and an honor he bestowed upon himself. He did not win
any prize and was never elected to any post as GOD. It was all his own
idea and his own self praise.

2) You wrote:

"This was a bit inconvenient so his disciples proposed several names
over these weeks until he accepted the loving offer by his oldest
American disciple Swami Harideva (who introduced Osho to the West and
organized Rajneesh's last international festival in India) to use the
name "Osho" which had previously been used for hundreds of years in
Japan when addressing a spiritual master. The name "Osho" in this
context means "The Friend.""

I do not remember any "Swami Harideva" at the Woodlands Building in
Bombay, and whoever this self-deluded person is, he was not the oldest
American disciple. The very first American (or Western) disciple to
become a sannyasin was Ma Prem, a short, dark hailed Jewish woman from
New York City who spoke with a thick Brooklyn accent. I was the second
Western Sannyasin and was given the name Swami Krishna Christ. No one
person "introduced Osho to the West," as the West came to him. People
from all over the world came to the Woodlands Building and no single
individual other than Rajneesh himself was responsible for his growing
fame. It was a gradual growth from the dissemination of his books and
simple word of mouth. That paragraph is pure propaganda and written by
someone with a delusional and egoistic agenda.

3) You wrote:

"In this regard, it is worth noting that Osho, as a spiritual teacher,
was what is sometimes referred to as a Bodhisattva, that is, a person
who has achieved enlightenment and is willing to transmit his wisdom,
thus, he has disciples. This is in contrast to an Avatar who is an
incarnation of an immortal being in a mortal body and thus has
devotees. Though immortal beings might be in short supply so that few
may turn into an Avatar, Osho insisted on the Buddhist concept that
enlightenment is a condition that can come naturally to everyone, just
as himself, meditation being the best path to this. The traditional
Indian greeting Namaste can be interpreted as "I salute the Buddha in
you", a reminder of this capability."

This is pure propaganda and hogwash. It is not appropriate for any
encyclopedia to declare anyone a "Bodhisattva." This is pure egoism and
cultism and throws any semblance of neutrality out the door.

4) You wrote:

"While these controversial events brought much negative publicity to
the commune, it is worth noting that Osho himself spoke very strongly
against these acts, and that it was only a handful of people who were
responsible out of the thousands of people who were living in the
commune either permanently or temporarily."

This is true but you fail to mention that Rajneesh never apologized to
any of the victims of the germ warfare attacks, some of whom were women
and little tiny children. What kind of a "Bodhisatva" is so callous,
arrogant, and irresponsible that he does not take responsibility for a
dreadful situation that he himself created. Rajneesh hand picked the
people who committed the crimes and he had a duty to make sure they
behaved themselves. The problem was he was too busy inhaling nitrous
oxide, popping 60 milligrams of Valium a day, and swimming in his
indoor pool and watching movies on his projection television to notice
that he had created a concentration camp in the Oregon desert run by
maniacs and fools.

5) You wrote:

"In one of his daily discourses after Sheela left, Osho claimed that he
chose Sheela as his secretary for several reasons, and one was to teach
his followers not to blindly follow authority. He claimed that he
wanted to make it clear by example that even if a beloved leader's
first in command says to do something that it is ultimately up to each
individual to make the right choice. In this view, Rajneeshpuram was a
risky game, a lesson in questioning authority."

This paragraph is so pathetic that it is unworthy of any encyclopedia
entry. Rajneesh demanded total surrender and the giving up of an
individual's sense of right and wrong. Rajneesh wanted 100% total
obedience to his word and the word of his mangers. It was either his
way or the highway. After the disaster and scandal Rajneesh came up
with all kinds of pathetically dishonest rationalization for why it all
happened, and only the demented believed them. The quality of his lies
and rationalizations went downhill due to his constant drug use and in
the end he made no rational sense at all.

6) You wrote:

"On January 19, 1990, four years after the arrest, he died. Osho
claimed, and there is in fact debatable evidence to support, that his
rapid health decline leading to his death was caused by his poisoning
by US authorities while he was in prison. He claimed a plot led by the
CIA and Ronald Reagan to assassinate him had been carried out due to
their fear of Osho's controversial and counter-cultural teachings
combined with his powerful ability to influence people. While this may
sound like a typical conspiracy theory, it is worth noting that Osho's
commune was rapidly growing and hosted an annual festival that
attracted tens of thousands of seekers."

Your statement that "there is in fact debatable evidence to support,
that his rapid health decline leading to his death was caused by his
poisoning by US authorities while he was in prison." is an outright
lie. There is no and has never been a single shred of evidence at all!
This is all just made up propaganda! Rajneesh first claimed to have
been poisoned with the element thallium, which is an obvious lie
because thallium causes rapid and profound hair loss within one week of
exposure. Rajneesh never had any abnormal hair loss at all. Later his
disciples suggested that he was exposed to radiation in prison and that
is why he was sick. Again, radiation causes obvious specific symptoms
which he did not have, including major hair loss. Even later Osho
himself suggested he was poisoned with "synthetic heroin," which is
ridiculous as all of the synthetic opiate drugs are short acting and
all are relatively nontoxic as long as you don't overdose and die
immediately from respiratory arrest. No CIA poisoning scheme could
possibly explain his mental and physical problems, which date back to
his early years in college, long before he even came to the USA.

Rajneesh had Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and he had it all of his adult
life. That is the reason he was so sensitive to smells and chemicals
and why he went for weeks without leaving his room in his Bombay
apartment. He was almost always weak and sick from his teenage years
until the day of his death. With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome there may be
periods of remission in the early stages of the disease, but by his
thirties he was constantly weak and always getting what he thought were
colds and flu, one right after another.

On top of his having Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, which is know to cause
cognitive problems and mental confusion, Rajneesh started to take
excessive amounts of Valium in the early 1980s (or possibly even
earlier), and experimented with all kinds of sleeping pills. He
combined sedative drugs, which is a very bad thing to do. On top of
this he developed a liking to nitrous oxide after having routine dental
surgery. Over the years Rajneesh probably inhaled more nitrous oxide
than any human being in the history of the world. He had tanks and
tanks of the stuff delivered to both the Oregon ranch and the Poona
ashram after his return to India. His dentist admitted much of this
publicly and part of the story can be found in the article "Osho in the
Dental Chair" at:

http://www.sannyasnews.com/Articles...entalChair.html - Parmartha's
article

also see:

http://www.resort.com/~banshee/Info...us.dangers.html - article
on N2O dangers - why Osho went insane

Hugh Milne (Swami Shivamurti) did a excellent job of documenting
Rajneesh's drug use at the ranch and several other books have been
written by other commune insiders that make the same claims of drug
use, corruption, and constant dishonesty. The FBI knew about Rajneesh's
Valium addiction and nitrous oxide use and this was extensively
reported in newspapers around the world, including "THE NEW YORK TIMES"
and "THE OREGONIAN." Denying Rajneesh was a drug addict is like trying
to deny that Bill Clinton had an affair with Monica Lewinsky. If you
don't know about it you have had your head in the sand.

Jim Weaver, a former Oregon Congressman who represented Oregon's 4th
District in Congress from 1975 to 1987, visited the Oregon commune
after it was abandoned and wrote the following in a newspaper article
which was published in the Eugene, Oregon's "REGISTER GUARD"
newspaper(see the full article at:
http://home.att.net/~meditation/Weaver.html ).

"I went through the abandoned city of Rajneeshpuram and saw things that
were almost unbelievable. Ma Anand Sheela's headquarters, a group of
mobile homes pieced together, was a hive of secret doors and hidden
tunnels, her private room a command post with electronic listening gear
tapped into every room in the development. The Bhagwan's
parquet-paneled quarters had nitrogen oxide spigots by his bedside, and
was surrounded by huge bathrooms with multiple showers." - Jim Weaver

When you become such a heavy nitrous oxide user that you have nitrous
oxide spigots installed by your bedside, you are a serious drug addict!
Rajneesh's drug use is a proven fact of world history, not speculation,
not rumor, and not personal opinion. It happened! He did it! Those who
deny his drug use are either woefully ignorant or premeditated liars!

7) You leave out important information, as his drug use, and the
bizarre circumstances surrounding his death. His death seemed planned
and his body was cremated immediately without an autopsy or
investigation. Vivek, his longtime female compassion, had committed
suicide in a Bombay hotel a month earlier by taking an overdose of
sleeping pills. It was widely speculated by the media and those who
knew Rajneesh that he himself had committed suicide because of his poor
physical and mental health. He was so deranged and paranoid in the
final months before his death that he actually thought a group of
German cultists had cast an evil spell on him and were using death
chants to kill him off.

If your organization wants to be a real "encyclopedia" and not just a
devious mouthpiece for what's left of the Osho cult, I suggest you ban
whoever wrote that propaganda piece from working on the article and do
a complete rewrite that is truthful and not just ridiculous fiction.

The most complete Web source for the Rajneesh-Osho story can be found
at: http://home.att.net/~meditation/Osho.html - "Osho, Bhagwan
Rajneesh, and the Lost Truth"

The best book source is "Bhagwan: The God That Failed," by Hugh Milne,
Saint Martin's Press. This book can be bought second hand through
Amazon.Com.

Also of value is "Promise of Paradise: A Woman's Intimate Life With
'Bhagwan' Osho Rajneesh," by Satya Bharti Franklin, published by
Barrytown/Station Hill Press. Her book is also out of print but can be
purchased secondhand through Amazon.Com.

Unlike the fictional "Swami Harideva," Satya Bharti Franklin and Hugh
Milne were actually at Rajneesh's Bombay apartment in 1971, and Satya
Bharti Franklin did ghost write Rajneesh's second full book that was
published in hardcover form. Both authors know me and can verify that I
was there, as can many early Indian disciples including Swami Yoga
Chinmaya, Swami Krishna Saraswati, Ravi, Karuna, Kabir, Taru, Ma Yoga
Laxmi and a dozen others who frequented his Bombay apartment. Funny how
I can remember all those people but don't remember a "Swami Harideva"
at all. You people have been hoodwinked!

Regards, Christopher Calder http://home.att.net/~meditation/ - my home
page

dee

2006-04-03, 1:33 am

calderhome@yahoo.com wrote:
> Below is a copy of a letter I sent to the Wikipedia on-line
> "encyclopedia" concerning their fraudulent article on Rajneesh, alias
> "Osho," which can be found at:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajneesh
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Dear Sirs,
>
> My name is Christopher Calder and I was Rajneesh's second Western
> disciple to become an initiated sannyasin. I lived with Acharya
> Rajneesh in his Bombay apartment, staying in the bedroom just across
> the hall from his, from December of 1970 to April of 1971, and was at
> the Poona ashram until September of 1975. Your article on Rajneesh is
> full of factual errors, outright lies, and is in fact a crude
> propaganda piece. I corrected the article to make it at least minimally
> truthful and someone keeps switching in back. What kind of ethics does
> your organization have to promote such falsehoods on the Web?
>
> 1) You wrote:
>
> "As is customary with spiritual teachers in India, Osho received
> several honorifics over his life. He was known as Acharya Rajneesh
> (teacher Rajneesh), later Shree Rajneesh and finally Bhagwan Shree
> Rajneesh".
>
> Acharya Rajneesh was never called "Shree Rajneesh" as stated in your
> article. He went straight from Acharya Rajneesh to "Bhagwan Shree
> Rajneesh." No one gave him the title "Bhagwan Shree." He never received
> that "honorific." He gave the name to himself. I know because I was
> there! I was sitting in the hallway of his apartment late at night with
> Swami Yoga Chinmaya. Ma Yoga Laxmi, his secretary, came out of
> Rajneesh's bedrooms and told us that he had decided to change his name
> from Acharya Rajneesh to Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, basically because it
> had more clout. He gave himself that "honorific." No one wanted him to
> change his name and no one called him "Bhagwan" spontaneously. It was
> all his own doing and an honor he bestowed upon himself. He did not win
> any prize and was never elected to any post as GOD. It was all his own
> idea and his own self praise.
>
> 2) You wrote:
>
> "This was a bit inconvenient so his disciples proposed several names
> over these weeks until he accepted the loving offer by his oldest
> American disciple Swami Harideva (who introduced Osho to the West and
> organized Rajneesh's last international festival in India) to use the
> name "Osho" which had previously been used for hundreds of years in
> Japan when addressing a spiritual master. The name "Osho" in this
> context means "The Friend.""
>
> I do not remember any "Swami Harideva" at the Woodlands Building in
> Bombay, and whoever this self-deluded person is, he was not the oldest
> American disciple. The very first American (or Western) disciple to
> become a sannyasin was Ma Prem, a short, dark hailed Jewish woman from
> New York City who spoke with a thick Brooklyn accent. I was the second
> Western Sannyasin and was given the name Swami Krishna Christ. No one
> person "introduced Osho to the West," as the West came to him. People
> from all over the world came to the Woodlands Building and no single
> individual other than Rajneesh himself was responsible for his growing
> fame. It was a gradual growth from the dissemination of his books and
> simple word of mouth. That paragraph is pure propaganda and written by
> someone with a delusional and egoistic agenda.
>
> 3) You wrote:
>
> "In this regard, it is worth noting that Osho, as a spiritual teacher,
> was what is sometimes referred to as a Bodhisattva, that is, a person
> who has achieved enlightenment and is willing to transmit his wisdom,
> thus, he has disciples. This is in contrast to an Avatar who is an
> incarnation of an immortal being in a mortal body and thus has
> devotees. Though immortal beings might be in short supply so that few
> may turn into an Avatar, Osho insisted on the Buddhist concept that
> enlightenment is a condition that can come naturally to everyone, just
> as himself, meditation being the best path to this. The traditional
> Indian greeting Namaste can be interpreted as "I salute the Buddha in
> you", a reminder of this capability."
>
> This is pure propaganda and hogwash. It is not appropriate for any
> encyclopedia to declare anyone a "Bodhisattva." This is pure egoism and
> cultism and throws any semblance of neutrality out the door.
>
> 4) You wrote:
>
> "While these controversial events brought much negative publicity to
> the commune, it is worth noting that Osho himself spoke very strongly
> against these acts, and that it was only a handful of people who were
> responsible out of the thousands of people who were living in the
> commune either permanently or temporarily."
>
> This is true but you fail to mention that Rajneesh never apologized to
> any of the victims of the germ warfare attacks, some of whom were women
> and little tiny children. What kind of a "Bodhisatva" is so callous,
> arrogant, and irresponsible that he does not take responsibility for a
> dreadful situation that he himself created. Rajneesh hand picked the
> people who committed the crimes and he had a duty to make sure they
> behaved themselves. The problem was he was too busy inhaling nitrous
> oxide, popping 60 milligrams of Valium a day, and swimming in his
> indoor pool and watching movies on his projection television to notice
> that he had created a concentration camp in the Oregon desert run by
> maniacs and fools.
>
> 5) You wrote:
>
> "In one of his daily discourses after Sheela left, Osho claimed that he
> chose Sheela as his secretary for several reasons, and one was to teach
> his followers not to blindly follow authority. He claimed that he
> wanted to make it clear by example that even if a beloved leader's
> first in command says to do something that it is ultimately up to each
> individual to make the right choice. In this view, Rajneeshpuram was a
> risky game, a lesson in questioning authority."
>
> This paragraph is so pathetic that it is unworthy of any encyclopedia
> entry. Rajneesh demanded total surrender and the giving up of an
> individual's sense of right and wrong. Rajneesh wanted 100% total
> obedience to his word and the word of his mangers. It was either his
> way or the highway. After the disaster and scandal Rajneesh came up
> with all kinds of pathetically dishonest rationalization for why it all
> happened, and only the demented believed them. The quality of his lies
> and rationalizations went downhill due to his constant drug use and in
> the end he made no rational sense at all.
>
> 6) You wrote:
>
> "On January 19, 1990, four years after the arrest, he died. Osho
> claimed, and there is in fact debatable evidence to support, that his
> rapid health decline leading to his death was caused by his poisoning
> by US authorities while he was in prison. He claimed a plot led by the
> CIA and Ronald Reagan to assassinate him had been carried out due to
> their fear of Osho's controversial and counter-cultural teachings
> combined with his powerful ability to influence people. While this may
> sound like a typical conspiracy theory, it is worth noting that Osho's
> commune was rapidly growing and hosted an annual festival that
> attracted tens of thousands of seekers."
>
> Your statement that "there is in fact debatable evidence to support,
> that his rapid health decline leading to his death was caused by his
> poisoning by US authorities while he was in prison." is an outright
> lie. There is no and has never been a single shred of evidence at all!
> This is all just made up propaganda! Rajneesh first claimed to have
> been poisoned with the element thallium, which is an obvious lie
> because thallium causes rapid and profound hair loss within one week of
> exposure. Rajneesh never had any abnormal hair loss at all. Later his
> disciples suggested that he was exposed to radiation in prison and that
> is why he was sick. Again, radiation causes obvious specific symptoms
> which he did not have, including major hair loss. Even later Osho
> himself suggested he was poisoned with "synthetic heroin," which is
> ridiculous as all of the synthetic opiate drugs are short acting and
> all are relatively nontoxic as long as you don't overdose and die
> immediately from respiratory arrest. No CIA poisoning scheme could
> possibly explain his mental and physical problems, which date back to
> his early years in college, long before he even came to the USA.
>
> Rajneesh had Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and he had it all of his adult
> life. That is the reason he was so sensitive to smells and chemicals
> and why he went for weeks without leaving his room in his Bombay
> apartment. He was almost always weak and sick from his teenage years
> until the day of his death. With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome there may be
> periods of remission in the early stages of the disease, but by his
> thirties he was constantly weak and always getting what he thought were
> colds and flu, one right after another.
>
> On top of his having Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, which is know to cause
> cognitive problems and mental confusion, Rajneesh started to take
> excessive amounts of Valium in the early 1980s (or possibly even
> earlier), and experimented with all kinds of sleeping pills. He
> combined sedative drugs, which is a very bad thing to do. On top of
> this he developed a liking to nitrous oxide after having routine dental
> surgery. Over the years Rajneesh probably inhaled more nitrous oxide
> than any human being in the history of the world. He had tanks and
> tanks of the stuff delivered to both the Oregon ranch and the Poona
> ashram after his return to India. His dentist admitted much of this
> publicly and part of the story can be found in the article "Osho in the
> Dental Chair" at:
>
> http://www.sannyasnews.com/Articles...entalChair.html - Parmartha's
> article
>
> also see:
>
> http://www.resort.com/~banshee/Info...us.dangers.html - article
> on N2O dangers - why Osho went insane
>
> Hugh Milne (Swami Shivamurti) did a excellent job of documenting
> Rajneesh's drug use at the ranch and several other books have been
> written by other commune insiders that make the same claims of drug
> use, corruption, and constant dishonesty. The FBI knew about Rajneesh's
> Valium addiction and nitrous oxide use and this was extensively
> reported in newspapers around the world, including "THE NEW YORK TIMES"
> and "THE OREGONIAN." Denying Rajneesh was a drug addict is like trying
> to deny that Bill Clinton had an affair with Monica Lewinsky. If you
> don't know about it you have had your head in the sand.
>
> Jim Weaver, a former Oregon Congressman who represented Oregon's 4th
> District in Congress from 1975 to 1987, visited the Oregon commune
> after it was abandoned and wrote the following in a newspaper article
> which was published in the Eugene, Oregon's "REGISTER GUARD"
> newspaper(see the full article at:
> http://home.att.net/~meditation/Weaver.html ).
>
> "I went through the abandoned city of Rajneeshpuram and saw things that
> were almost unbelievable. Ma Anand Sheela's headquarters, a group of
> mobile homes pieced together, was a hive of secret doors and hidden
> tunnels, her private room a command post with electronic listening gear
> tapped into every room in the development. The Bhagwan's
> parquet-paneled quarters had nitrogen oxide spigots by his bedside, and
> was surrounded by huge bathrooms with multiple showers." - Jim Weaver
>
> When you become such a heavy nitrous oxide user that you have nitrous
> oxide spigots installed by your bedside, you are a serious drug addict!
> Rajneesh's drug use is a proven fact of world history, not speculation,
> not rumor, and not personal opinion. It happened! He did it! Those who
> deny his drug use are either woefully ignorant or premeditated liars!
>
> 7) You leave out important information, as his drug use, and the
> bizarre circumstances surrounding his death. His death seemed planned
> and his body was cremated immediately without an autopsy or
> investigation. Vivek, his longtime female compassion, had committed
> suicide in a Bombay hotel a month earlier by taking an overdose of
> sleeping pills. It was widely speculated by the media and those who
> knew Rajneesh that he himself had committed suicide because of his poor
> physical and mental health. He was so deranged and paranoid in the
> final months before his death that he actually thought a group of
> German cultists had cast an evil spell on him and were using death
> chants to kill him off.
>
> If your organization wants to be a real "encyclopedia" and not just a
> devious mouthpiece for what's left of the Osho cult, I suggest you ban
> whoever wrote that propaganda piece from working on the article and do
> a complete rewrite that is truthful and not just ridiculous fiction.
>
> The most complete Web source for the Rajneesh-Osho story can be found
> at: http://home.att.net/~meditation/Osho.html - "Osho, Bhagwan
> Rajneesh, and the Lost Truth"
>
> The best book source is "Bhagwan: The God That Failed," by Hugh Milne,
> Saint Martin's Press. This book can be bought second hand through
> Amazon.Com.
>
> Also of value is "Promise of Paradise: A Woman's Intimate Life With
> 'Bhagwan' Osho Rajneesh," by Satya Bharti Franklin, published by
> Barrytown/Station Hill Press. Her book is also out of print but can be
> purchased secondhand through Amazon.Com.
>
> Unlike the fictional "Swami Harideva," Satya Bharti Franklin and Hugh
> Milne were actually at Rajneesh's Bombay apartment in 1971, and Satya
> Bharti Franklin did ghost write Rajneesh's second full book that was
> published in hardcover form. Both authors know me and can verify that I
> was there, as can many early Indian disciples including Swami Yoga
> Chinmaya, Swami Krishna Saraswati, Ravi, Karuna, Kabir, Taru, Ma Yoga
> Laxmi and a dozen others who frequented his Bombay apartment. Funny how
> I can remember all those people but don't remember a "Swami Harideva"
> at all. You people have been hoodwinked!
>
> Regards, Christopher Calder http://home.att.net/~meditation/ - my home
> page

hmm... I have the impression that everyone can participate in editing
and correcting wiki articles, so maybe you can have a go and help them
out. Click on 'edit' for the paragraph you would like to change, type
in text changes, then preview, if correct, save.

Also it is stated clearly on that page:

"The neutrality of this article is disputed. Please see the discussion
on the talk page."

"To meet Wikipedia's quality standards, this article or section may
require cleanup. Please discuss this issue on the talk page, or replace
this tag with a more specific message. Editing help is available. This
article has been tagged since January 2006."

Konrad

2006-04-03, 11:33 am

If you disagree, go and change it.

Sending a message to a random guy from wikipedia seems
conter-productive, if all you want is the truth.

--k

calderhome@yahoo.com

2006-04-03, 11:33 am

Konrad wrote:

"If you disagree, go and change it. Sending a message to a random guy
from wikipedia seems conter-productive, if all you want is the truth."

--k

Hi Konrad!,

I changed it twice and some Osho nut keeps changing it back. I sent
the letter to their disputes department, not "some random guy."

The problem is that what is left of the Osho cult are the most
dishonest people on the face of the earth. What started out as a
promising spontaneous happening turned into a sleazy cult, worse than
Scientology. As far as I know Scientology was never involved in germ
warfare. I mean isn't poisoning little children about as low as you
could possibly sink? An insane drug addict guru spouting out spiritual
double-talk and the sleep walking Osho zombies still talking about
"trust and love." These are like people who bought swamp land from a
crook and even after the crook was put in jail and the scandal was in
all the newspapers, they are still sending in their monthly payments
for their piece of swamp. If it were not so tragic, it would be funny.

Ugh! It's just incredible.

Cheers, Christopher

Paul

2006-04-03, 6:33 pm

Interesting post, shows up the flaws in Rajneesh and Wikipedia. I
would keep on changing it back and keep on complaining to
Wikipedia. It's probably not suitable to keep on posting here,
but there must be wikipedia and rajneesh groups out there to create
a continuous stink in. It would be interesting to compare Rajneesh to
Chogyam Trungpa if you want to come back with a more Buddhist angle.

Alok Nartano

2006-04-03, 6:33 pm

> Regards, Christopher Calder http://home.att.net/~meditation/ - my home
> page

May I write you in private?
I'd love to exchange points of view about Osho!
Thanx!

--
Sw. Alok Nartano (27, 163, NA)

calderhome@yahoo.com

2006-04-04, 1:35 am

Alok Nartano wrote:

"May I write you in private? I'd love to exchange points of view about
Osho!"

Sure you can write, but I cannot guarantee you will get an answer ahead
of time. I get allot of crazy and often long winded letters from
people and I cannot answer all of them. If you have a point, please
make it very brief. My long winded views (laughs) are already on the
Web at:

http://home.att.net/~meditation/

Regards, Christopher

AnthonyTh

2007-09-25, 2:49 pm

CHRISTOPHER CALDER IS HIGLY MISINFORMED

he writes:Acharya Rajneesh was never called "Shree Rajneesh" as stated in
your
article. He went straight from Acharya Rajneesh to "Bhagwan Shree
Rajneesh." No one gave him the title "Bhagwan Shree." He never received
that "honorific." He gave the name to himself. I know because I was
there! I was sitting in the hallway of
his apartment late at night with
Swami Yoga Chinmaya. Ma Yoga Laxmi, his secretary, came out of
Rajneesh's bedrooms and told us that he
had decided to change his name
from Acharya Rajneesh to Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, basically because it
had more clout. He gave himself that "honorific." No one wanted him to
change his name and no one called him "Bhagwan" spontaneously. It was
all his own doing and an honor he
bestowed upon himself. He did not win
any prize and was never elected to any
post as GOD. It was all his own
idea and his own self praise.

The Truth:

1.- Bhagwan shree was a name chosen by
Sw. Yoga Chinmaya to address his master when rajneesh asked him to picK up a new name for him because he did not wish to
be called acharya in the new phase of
his work.
Yoga Chinmaya spoke about it in an interview given to ma prem Maneesha in
one of the darshan diaries.
Later in 1989 when he dropped the name Bhagwan, He was shortly called shree rajneesh. see books of that time.

He writes:
I do not remember any "Swami Harideva"
at the Woodlands Building in
Bombay, and whoever this self-deluded person is, he was not the oldest
American disciple. The very first American (or Western) disciple to
become a sannyasin was Ma Prem, a short, dark hailed Jewish woman from
New York City who spoke with a thick Brooklyn accent. I was the second
Western Sannyasin and was given the name Swami Krishna Christ. No one
person "introduced Osho to the West," as the West came to him. People
from all over the world came to the Woodlands Building and no single
individual other than Rajneesh himself was responsible for his growing
fame. It was a gradual growth from the dissemination of his books and
simple word of mouth. That paragraph is pure propaganda and written by
someone with a delusional and egoistic agenda.

The Truth:

2.- Shyam singha,together with ma Veena introduced rajneesh to the west. Both in London and later in wahshington DC.
Shyam singha was the accupunturist at Quaesitor and mA Veena intruduced dynamic meditation.Ma yoga prem, Sw. chrishna Krist, and ma Tao, ma Mukta, and ms. eunice wellington were early disciples who might have shared with their friends their knowledge of Rajneesh, but nothing compared to the work of Sinhga and Veena
Sw. Harideva, is an american disciple who chose the name Osho for rajneesh in 1989, taken from Zen stories. It is a way to addrees a master in japan.

He writes:
This is pure propaganda and hogwash. It is not appropriate for any
encyclopedia to declare anyone a "Bodhisattva." This is pure egoism and
cultism and throws any semblance of neutrality out the door.

The truth:
3.- "bodhisattva is a buddist word that defines an enlightened master who helps others towards their own awakening. that
is exactly what Osho was doing.

He writes:
Rajneesh never apologized to
any of the victims of the germ warfare attacks, some of whom were women
and little tiny children. What kind of a "Bodhisatva" is so callous,
arrogant, and irresponsible that he does not take responsibility for a
dreadful situation that he himself created. Rajneesh hand picked the
people who committed the crimes and he had a duty to make sure they
behaved themselves. The problem was he was too busy inhaling nitrous
oxide, popping 60 milligrams of Valium a day, and swimming in his
indoor pool and watching movies on his projection television to notice
that he had created a concentration camp in the Oregon desert run by
maniacs and fools.

the truth:
4.- Osho was not responsable for the crimes of ma anand sheela. he exposed her and made every attempt to bring things at ease with their neigboring oregionians, including giving them back the town of antelope which had been changed to the name Rajneesh.
regarding the addiction srory.Devageet, Osho personal dentist from poona one, to the end of Osho´s life stated: “Osho never used nitrous oxide, I used it, as his dentist, during his dental treatment sessions. Osho, as other masters have demonstrated ( see Nikhilananda taking a massive dose of LSD on his first meeting with Guru Ram Dass, and showing no effects whatsoever), showed that the effects of Nitrous Oxide during his dental treatment had no effects of diminishing his clarity and awareness. He repeatedly showed that he could easily use the physiological effects of relaxation for a creative purpose, hence the three books dictated while in the dental chair: “Notes of a Madman”, “Books I have loved”, and “Glimpses of a Golden Childhood”.Having said that I can speak about aspects which do not betray that trust. Nitrous Oxide is a valid and valued analgesic and anaesthetic agent, as you know, and it still provides the basis of anaesthetic techniques because of its proven track record of safety and efficacy. It is a fact too that people have used it for leisure purposes. Osho was given nitrous oxide in a purely dental context."
Also, Sw. Jalal the dental equipment technician stated the following: “during the Ranch and in Poona 2 I was the dental room technician, responsible for looking after the equipment. Unless Osho was having surreptitious sessions without my knowledge, he wasn't using gas on a daily, or even weekly basis. He did have an annoying tendency to want a session at strange times (6am in the morning) but that was Devageets problem”. This is to the claim that Mr. Calder made to me that Devageet had told that Osho used "N02 for months on end". Which is just a lie or a misinformation.

He writes:This paragraph is so pathetic that it is unworthy of any encyclopedia
entry. Rajneesh demanded total surrender and the giving up of an
individual's sense of right and wrong. Rajneesh wanted 100% total
obedience to his word and the word of his mangers. It was either his
way or the highway. After the disaster and scandal Rajneesh came up
with all kinds of pathetically dishonest rationalization for why it all
happened, and only the demented believed them. The quality of his lies
and rationalizations went downhill due to his constant drug use and in
the end he made no rational sense at all.

The truth:
5.-Osho himself advised his disciples not to believe in him unless it was their direct experience (see Golden Nuggets). And repeatedly he told his disciples he was “no savior or prophet or only begotten son of god, just an ordinary human being, like you” (Osho 1985, Interviews with the Press). Or "a master is not someone who has achive anything. a master is someone who has discovered that there is nothing to Achieve"(Dying for enligtenment, 1979, By bernard Gunther)

He writes:Your statement that "there is in fact debatable evidence to support,
that his rapid health decline leading to his death was caused by his
poisoning by US authorities while he was in prison." is an outright
lie. There is no and has never been a single shred of evidence at all!
This is all just made up propaganda! Rajneesh first claimed to have
been poisoned with the element thallium, which is an obvious lie
because thallium causes rapid and profound hair loss within one week of
exposure. Rajneesh never had any abnormal hair loss at all. Later his
disciples suggested that he was exposed to radiation in prison and that
is why he was sick. Again, radiation causes obvious specific symptoms
which he did not have, including major hair loss. Even later Osho
himself suggested he was poisoned with "synthetic heroin," which is
ridiculous as all of the synthetic opiate drugs are short acting and
all are relatively nontoxic as long as you don't overdose and die
immediately from respiratory arrest. No CIA poisoning scheme could
possibly explain his mental and physical problems, which date back to
his early years in college, long before he even came to the USA.

Rajneesh had Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and he had it all of his adult
life. That is the reason he was so sensitive to smells and chemicals
and why he went for weeks without leaving his room in his Bombay
apartment. He was almost always weak and sick from his teenage years
until the day of his death. With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome there may be
periods of remission in the early stages of the disease, but by his
thirties he was constantly weak and always getting what he thought were
colds and flu, one right after another.

On top of his having Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, which is know to cause
cognitive problems and mental confusion, Rajneesh started to take
excessive amounts of Valium in the early 1980s (or possibly even
earlier), and experimented with all kinds of sleeping pills. He
combined sedative drugs, which is a very bad thing to do. On top of
this he developed a liking to nitrous oxide after having routine dental
surgery. Over the years Rajneesh probably inhaled more nitrous oxide
than any human being in the history of the world. He had tanks and
tanks of the stuff delivered to both the Oregon ranch and the Poona
ashram after his return to India.

The truth:

6.-Mr calder argues that he thinks that Osho died of “the addiction effects” of N02. He said to me in our discussion “Rajneesh was destroyed by illness and by his own drug use.... the official cause of his death was listed as heart failure, but there was much speculation he committed suicide. If he did commit suicide, I am sure they used morphine or barbiturates”. Now, these exceptional ideas come from Mr. Calder´s talent to “feel” or “ tell” how people die. Because actually nobody knows for sure what killed the man. The doctors consulted thought that the case looked like heavy metal poisoning. As they could not trace anything in the blood , they thought of Thalium, as it can not be traced in the bloodstream after a while. This was told to Osho and then he and his personal staff concluded that the only place where this could have happenned was while held in cutody in USA for his imigration trial. It is a proven fact that he was held in a jail in Ocklahoma under the false name of David Washington. It is assumed throughout Mr. Calder´s article that Osho 'regularly used nitrous oxide' in the dental chair, without any clarification of what 'regularly' means. It could mean once or twice a year. But the assumption, or rather, the implication here is that it was on a daily basis. One does not get nitrous poisoning just by using it a few times a year. And yet there is absolutely no evidence that Osho used laughing gas more than that. Nor that he had nitrous poisoning. We are just asked to accept this as "fact".
Mr calder says that the poisoning does not equate with thalium poisoning symptoms. Now, as far as I know, Mr. Calder is not a doctor and at the worst he could have got the information from internet. Now, in the webpage for thalium poisoning says “Note that Thallium poisoning symptoms usually refers to various symptoms known to a patient, but the phrase Thallium poisoning signs may refer to those signs only noticable by a doctor.”
Mr. Calder argument is that the main symptom for Thalium poisoning is hair loss. Well, Osho did loose his hair in huge quantities, as it was reported by Anando, his persobnal secretary. Usualy the hair is not lost in the beard, but in the head, where Osho was certainly bald... and had been for some time. Here is a quote from Osho on the subject:
“Dr. Dhyan Yogi, immediately took my blood samples, urine samples, samples of my hair, and went to England, to Germany, to the best experts. The European experts suggest that after two years there is no poison, which can be detected in the body, but all the symptoms show that a certain poison has been given. No resistance against disease, falling weight without any reason, hair falling out without any reason, tingling sensations in the extremities, loss of appetite, tastelessness, nausea, the bone pain in my right hand ... One of the experts, a doctor from Germany had come twice to check my bone; he could not figure out what kind of disease it is - because there is no disease. The expert here - Dr. Hardikar, a man who loves me - has been here continuously watching for three months and has not been able to figure out why this pain should be there. The European experts in England and Germany have suggested a name of a certain poison, thalium. It is a poison of a family of poisons of heavy metals. It disappears from the body in eight weeks' time, but leaves its effects and destroys the body's resistance against diseases. And all the symptoms that I have told you are part of thalium poisoning. The American experts have suggested a different poison, which they think has been used by governments against rebellious individuals. The name of the poison is synthetic heroin. It is one thousand times more dangerous than ordinary heroin. All the symptoms are the same as with thalium, but the poison is more dangerous and after two years there is no possibility to find any trace of it in the body.The Japanese experts, who have been working in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on atomic radioactivity, have suggested that these symptoms can also be created in a more sophisticated way by radioactive exposure - either while I was asleep, or food can be exposed to radioactivity and there is no way to find any trace of it. One of the scientists who is immensely interested in me is coming within a week or two. He has been working for twenty years only on radioactivity. His suggestion is that the Americans, the bureaucracy in America, must have used the most sophisticated poisoning which leaves no trace.”(Osho, November 6, 1987)
However, the doctors might have been wrong and the toxin used was not Thalium...or there was no toxin. Who knows. Diagnosis is not as infallible as the Pope. But the fact is that Osho died at 59 years of age and his health was certaily deteriorating since the US deportation.

Now regarding Mr. Calder uses of a text From Jim weaver where this congressman states that he saw nitrous oxide spigots by the side of the bed of rajneesh´s room in rajneeshpuram in USA. This Weaver text that Christopher keeps referring to and which is available at http://home.att.net/~medi tation/Weaver.html is obviously not reliable. Just one paragraph above the famous spigots, Weaver writes, with seemingly remarkable clarity of memory:

“Two days later, the Bhagwan and Ma Anand Sheela absconded from the Big Muddy, attempting to flee the country, and leaving their acolytes high and dry. On the same day, the two Prineville BLM chiefs announced their resignations.”

There is just a little problem … nothing like this happened. Sheela left on her own for Germany, Osho stayed in Oregon and denounced her to the press. Now I am supposed to believe this kind of witness?

That’s before we come to telling apart, say, an oxygen spigot for a known asthma sufferer from a nitrous oxide spigot … if indeed there were any spigots at all.

I exchanged some posts in a website with Mr. Calder and when I produced the evidence and arguments of true eyewitnesses to the events he was reporting in relation to Osho´s drug addiction he wrote to me: “When I visited the Oregon ranch in the 1980s I could tell he was on drugs just by looking at him. No one even had to tell me.” ( Calder, 2007). This was his final eyewitness proof. He saw him with 15.000 thousand people, perhaps no less than 40 meters away, I do not think he got front seat at the ranch. And he “could tell” he was on drugs. Wow! Even I can not tell all the time when my friends are on drugs in parties at my own house. But, again, perhaps I am just not so perceptive. When I discussed this point with Mr. Calder he called me “dis-honest, crazy, fanatic and neurotuic.. and in denyal”. Simply because of my disagreeing with his second-hand information. So, his ultimate proof is his perception of Osho. If he felt it...then, it must be true.

best regards
Anthony Thompson Ph. D.

See full article answering Christopher Calder at:
http://www.dynamicbrain.net/christo...rmed-lost-truth