Christopher Calder and his Lying “Lost Truth”about osho.
A response to Mr. Calder´s “Osho, Bhagwan Rajneesh and the Lost Truth”
By Antyhony Thompson Ph. D.
*English is not my first language, so forgive my misspellings and gramatical
 mistakes.

Mr. Calder quotes Osho on several ocations.The way he does this is malicious
 and clearly his intention is not that of an expert detached observer, but t
hat of a resentful lover. His intention is to create an image of Osho that b
ecomes a passway for his own feelings of anger and hurt.
To be hurt or angry is Mr. Calder´s prerogative. However, to twist facts, qu
otes and ideas to spread the undertsnading that we are facing an evil charac
ter is just a manipuilative and indirect way of giving an outlet to his own 
personal vendetta.
In my understanding it is utterly nonsense to pick up a few statements from 
Osho's more than 8500 hours of talks and evaluate him based on that. I can’t
 believe that a person like him, who claims to know him since ages, can do i
t. And a funny thing is, Osho himself never denied being contradictory, on a
 contrary he glorified it. So, to this day to take a quote from osho means n
othing in itself. You can get the man to advice you on gardening, wall paper
s or sex. Out of a whole chapter refference a quote means nothing. He quotes
 (without a direct book or chapter reference) that Osho loved Hitler. I have
 serached the entire library of his talks and that quote is nowhere to be fo
und. 
Osho himself once said “ You need not agree whith what I say; you can only a
gree with me directly. There is no need to come through what I say. I say a 
thousand and one things and I contradict myself everyday. If you start agree
ing with me you will go mad! You can´t agree; nobody can´t agree with a what
 I say . You can anly agree witha few points but those wil not be all that i
 say. Contradiction is my method. I go on shattering. I go on shocking, offe
nding people; that is may method, to shatter people´s beliefs” (Osho, 1980, 
The Open Secret).
So I think Osho´s words need to be taken not as a comprehensive philosophy, 
but rather as a seductive invitation to self-explore and understand the natu
re of mind, body, emotions, and the role of meditation in this search.Beside
s, the discourses were given many times as responses to individuals, and in 
several ocations he was answering not only the question but the questioner h
imself/herself. 
The “Cult” Story
Also, mr. Calder speaks of the sannyas movement referring to it as a “cult”.
 I do not agree with his statements of Osho´s movement being a cult. This is
 why: Some of the pre-requisites to have a cult is to have systemathic body 
or set of beliefs. A complete belief system that explains everything in term
s of itself. As Mr. Calder´s knows, and has consistently argued so, Osho con
tradicted himself a lot. It is practically impossible to create a cult out o
f his words. The only consistent idea in his talks is that of awareness and 
meditation. The rest is simply not systemathic enough to do anything with it
. If you are going to join a sect, you need to have something to believe..s
ome promise of paradise or future enlightenment . You don´t join a sect that
 tells you that “you are already a buddha, enlightened” (from “The heart sut
ra”) and that you just “need to come back home. However you are, you are bea
utiful the way your are” (from “The Goose is Out”). 
My understanding is that Osho´s work was mainly deprogramming people against
 their self constructed ideas about love, spirituality, growth, relationship
s, etc. In fact if you want you can find statements where he speaks of karma
 and reincarnation and then onother statement where he sais there is no soul
, no reicarnation (see “Reincarnation a Misconception” discurse given in 198
9) , and that karma is just a way of social control. He speaks of god and th
en says there is no such a thing and it is just a” teddy bear” for fearful p
eople.
Second, you need rituals that people, old and new, can join to.Around his mo
vement there are no rituals, or any sort of worship. 
Third, a cult does not admit dissent, and mr. Calder and I have been writing
 and discussing in a sannyas owned website and the quotes he took from Parma
rtha´s article are also discussions crticizing Osho in sannyas websites.
Sannyasins tend to be free, open minded, closed, fanatics, or careless.. as
 any human being can be. But there is no official inforced dogma on believin
g or agreeing on anything.
My research shows that Osho was no " Deepak Chopra". The man was a rebelliou
s iconoclast who did and said what he thought was his truth. He demolished t
he catholic church,The islam and any form of organized religion; he spoke ag
ainst mother Theresa, Gandhi(precisely for being against technology, which O
sho strongly advocated, not as mr. Calder´s affirmation in his article).
Osho, was a man who saw no use for rituals, discipline and all the self-tort
ure that is going on in the name of renunciation or spirituality. The develo
pment of self-awareness was his flag. More over, he spoke against Indian tra
ditions. Reazon enough for the attempted murder against him in early eightie
s in Poona, by a fanatic Hindu during a public talk.
Calder´s suppositions
Calder states “Rajneesh's poor health and strange symptoms were a product of
 real neurological and immune system dysfunction, not some esoteric supersen
sitivity caused by his enlightenment. Rajneesh also had Type II diabetes, as
thma, and severe back pain.” According to him and his conclusions Osho had “
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)”. Now this is simply his own idea, not based 
in any medical diagnosis made by any certified doctor.
He also states: “Rajneesh used prescription drugs, mainly Valium (diazepam),
 as an analgesic for his aches and pains and to counter the symptoms of dysa
utonomia (dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system). He took the maximum 
recommended dose of 60 milligrams per day. Rajneesh also inhaled nitrous oxi
de (N2O) mixed with pure oxygen, which he claimed increased his creativity. 
The nitrous oxide probably did relieve the sensation of severe exhaustion an
d suffocation patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome often feel, but it did 
nothing for the quality of his judgment. Naive about the power of drugs, and
 overconfident of his ability to fight off their negative effects, Rajneesh 
succumbed to addiction.”
Now this information that is stated as a “fact” comes, in fact, from second 
hand sources which are Hugh Milne´s book “The god that failed” and an Interv
iew that Sheela, former Osho secretary, denounced by the master, gave to Ste
rn magazine in Germany and 60 minutes in CBS in USA. Sheela was angry at Osh
o. She was actually enraged with the man, after all it was his accusations t
hat threw her into jail. And also it was a way to undermine Amrito´s (Osho´s
 doctor) work. We should not forget that she tryed to kill him at the ranch.
 And this has been documented. Now, a simple reflection would be to try to d
rive a car each day in the awful ranch roads with 60 miligrams of valium in 
the body and not to crash into the hunmdred of sannyasins standing by the si
de of the road to greet him.
Consulted eye witnesses to these two accusations refuted Milne´s and Sheela´
s accusations, and of course, Calder´s statements:
Devageet, Osho personal dentist from poona one, to the end of Osho´s life st
ated to me: “Osho never used nitrous oxide, I used it, as his dentist, durin
g 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 Ni
trous Oxide during his dental treatment had no effects of diminishing his cl
arity and awareness. Nitrous Oxide is a valid and valued analgesic and anaes
thetic agent, as you know, and it still provides the basis of anaesthetic te
chniques 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 nitro
us oxide in a purely dental context." Also, Sw. Jalal the dental equipment t
echnician stated the following: “during the Ranch and in Poona 2 I was the d
ental room technician, responsible for looking after the equipment. Unless O
sho 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 wa
nt a session at strange times (6am in the morning) but that was Devageets pr
oblem”. This is to the claim that Mr. Calder made to me that Devageet had to
ld that Osho used "N02 for months on end". Which is just a lie or a misinfor
mation. 
Mr. Calder uses in his article a text From Jim weaver where this congressman states tha
t he saw nitrous oxide spigots by the side of the bed of rajneesh´s room in rajneeshpur
am 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. J
ust one paragraph above the famous spigots, Weaver writes, with seemingly re
markable clarity of memory: 
“Two days later, the Bhagwan and Ma Anand Sheela absconded from the Big Mudd
y, 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. N
ow I am supposed to believe this kind of witness? 
That’s before we come to telling apart, say, an oxygen spigot for a known as
thma 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 i
n relation to Osho´s drug addiction he wrote to me: “When I visited the Oreg
on ranch in the 1980s I could tell he was on drugs just by looking at him. N
o one even had to tell me.” ( Calder, 2007). This was his final eyewitness p
roof. 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 perce
ptive. When I discussed this point with Mr. Calder he called me “dis-honest,
 crazy, fanatic and neurotuic. and in denyal”. Simply because of my disagre
eing with his second-hand information. So, his ultimate proof is his percept
ion of Osho. If he felt it..then, it must be true.
When I confronted Mr Calder with the quotes from Devageet, he just wrote tha
t “Devageet was a a crazy man” and so was I. Therefore my disagreeing with h
is second-hand information made me into a “fanatic cult follower”.
The Sheela Story 
Milne  had serious conflicts with Sheela´s facsist style in the Commune in U
SA. He assumed that Osho was behind her actions. In fact she usually said th
at the “order comes from the chief” to convince someone to do something they
 felt their consciousness would not allow. So people thought it was a “divis
e” from the master. Now, Osho and his personal staff have clarified that man
y “orders” did not only not come from Him, but were deliverate moves on Shee
la´s part to expand her power to areas where it was weak, such as the inner 
circle of the personal staff around Osho.
This area that was not under her command in the commune. In fact the attempe
ted murder of Osho´s doctor was a move in this direction.
Many people were expelled from the commune in Oregon and big international a
nd prosperus communes like Medina in England and Sushila´s in Autralia, were
 closed down because they were too succesful and independent from Sheela ´s 
regime. Osho knew nothing about it (we must remember he was not speaking in 
public or having personal contact with his disciples) and to all of them it 
was said that it was Osho´s order.
Sheela´s fascist style developed under time as a response to the intense antagonism that the commu
ne created around them . There were 17 state agencies trying to get them out of there; the sighn a
nnouncing the nearby commune was used as shooting target by the local resident of the area; the ho
tel they bought in Potland was bombed, and even there is convincing evidence that the CIA hired so
meone to kill Osho. All this has been documented in the books " Passage to america" by Max Brecher
 and, "The way of the heart" By Judith Thompson, and "rajneesh garden", by Dell Murphy. Also, it c
an be checked Juliette Forman´s accout of the time and Ms appletton´s Book. See: http://www2.
db.dk/pe/twotales.htm , Or for a complete stoty of Osho´s commune see: http://www.
ashe-prem.org/two/davisson.shtml
Also, in his article, Mr. Calder joins, or at leat holds morally responsable
, Osho´s arrest and deportation from USA with Sheela´s crimes. What he fails
 to see is that all those crimes, the salmonella poisoning, the intent of mu
rder of Osho´s doctor, Devaraj, and the plot against the attorney general, t
he bugging of the commune, including Osho´s own room, were crimes commited b
y sheela and her associates. These crimes were exposed by Osho and it was HI
M who invited the FBI to investigate them in his own commune. Which ultematl
ey lead to the arrest of Sheela and her friends in Germany. If he had kept s
ilent, no one would have ever guessed or known about them. We should know th
at the salmonella poisoning in The Dalles was attributed to "unproper food h
andling" by the authorities. Now this is referred to by the media as “The on
ly american case of Bio-terrorism”.
We could argue that Osho had a poor eye for choosing his secretary or that s
he changed over time, or that he should have been more involved in controlin
g what she did in his name, but we can not accuse him of crimes that include
 him as a victim, such as the wire-tapping of his own room. To think of Osho
 as omniscient or infallible is nothing but a god-like father projection. He
 was a human being. Wise, awake, but a human being. He himself said when a j
ournalist asked him “if he was enlightenmed how he did not know about theses
 crimes?”. His answer was “ enlightenment means I know myself. It does not m
ean that I know that my room is being bugged” (Osho, Interviews with the pre
ss, 1985)
Osho´s factual “criminal” records
These are the "terrible" crimes he was sentenced in the plea bargin in USA :
 Arranging sham marriages, and lying in the visa application. And in relatio
n to this last charge, according to his attorney, Niren, and the research he
 did, no one in the whole history of the United states has been even prosecu
ted by such act and, what to say about the half a million dollar fine that h
e was forced to pay for his excarcelation.He could not arrange any marriage.
 He hardly came out of his house and was in public silence, not speaking to 
his disciples.
The attorney general said when he was asked why Osho was not accussed of the
 same crimes as Sheela that “I did not have any proof whatsoever linking Raj
neesh to Sheela´s crimes.” And “ all we wanted was to dismantle the commune”
. And he forgot to add that the complaint that lead to Sheela ´s arrest was 
filed by Osho himself.
Also he did not denouce Sheela, as he states, when he suspected she was stea
ling money from him, but when she left the commune and people started commin
g up with the stories of her crimes..including the money stealing.
All through out his article Mr calder confuses facts with his personal opini
on based on second hand information, and assumptions, such as when he quotes
 Sheela´s statement on Osho using 60 miligrams of valium a day. Suddenly the
 cheat, liar criminal becomes a reliable source of information. How convenie
nt.
The calder´s death theory
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 com
mit suicide, I am sure they used morphine or barbiturates”. Now, these excep
tional ideas come from Mr. Calder´s talent to “feel” or “ tell” how people d
ie. Because actually nobody knows for sure what killed the man. The doctors 
consulted thought that the case looked like heavy metal poisoning. As they c
ould not trace anything in the blood , they thought of Thalium, as it can no
t 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 ha
ve 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 clarificati
on of what 'regularly' means. It could mean once or twice a year. But the as
sumption, or rather, the implication here is that it was on a daily basis. O
ne does not get nitrous poisoning just by using it a few times a year. And y
et there is absolutely no evidence that Osho used laughing gas more than tha
t. Nor that he had nitrous poisoning. We are just asked to accept this as "f
act".
Mr calder says that the poisoning does not equate with thalium poisoning sym
ptoms. 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 thali
um poisoning says “Note that Thallium poisoning symptoms usually refers to v
arious 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 l
oss. 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. However, the doctors might have been wrong and t
he 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, Mr. Calder argument is that his death is the result of N02 addiction. W
ell, it has been already proved that the people who used this gas on him, us
ed it only during dental sesions as anaesthtic. Therefore the possibility of
 being poisoned by N02 is out of question. We could argue that those people 
(His dentist and technician, and caretakers) are lying to protect Osho´s vic
e. But then, if we begin with that argumant, then everybody could be lying, 
including myself, Mr. Calder, Osho, his personal stuff.. Then we have nothi
ng to hold on to and all this discussion is irrelevant. What I have done is 
taking eyewitnesses account as facts, for the argument sake, and then contra
st it with second–hand information. Not only that, second-hand emotionally m
otivated information. It is clear from Mr. Calder letters, articles, and res
ponses, that he is emotionally driven, as myself, to discuss what we think i
s the truth.
What I do know is that as far as second hand information I have closer and m
ore reliable ones: The actual people involved in the stories he tells. And, 
of course, bibliographical references for the quotes I use. Not just words I
 assume I heard, or heard someone else saying them. I insist: A quote withou
t a reference is a lie. And Mr calder lies a lot.
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