Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
editthumb|Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh The Rajneeshism or Rajneesh movement started in Pune, India. It was created by a person name Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. He was the leader of the movement. Under his guidance Ma Anand Sheela carried the movement to Wasco County, Oregon. Ma Anand Sheela was her personal secretary, who decided that United States was he best place for their movement to thrive. This was because of the complicated view point of the leader who din't believe in the traditional, and moral value. Their arrival to Antelope, Oregon, a small town in Wasco County, also caused tension between people of that town and Rajneeshee, the follower of Rajneesh. The tension between them grew as Rajneesh's ideology got more popular in The United States. Ideology of Rajneesh movement is to create a "new human" combining the sensuality of Zora-the-Geek with the spirituality of the Buddha. [1]
Arrival in Oregon
editFirst, just small group of people arrived in Antelope, with the signature color of rad and orange. They started to build what they called a Big Muddy Ranch, which was set in 64,229-acre. It was purchased for $5.75 million in 1981. The Rajneeshees turn a big muddy ranch in to a city of 7,000 people. They had their own police department, fire department, houses, malls. This created a problem with the people of Antelope who were told that the Rajneeshees were their to create a small agriculture farm. Rajneeshees use everything in their power to expand their ideology and started to expand their reach in to the politics. In addition, Rajneeshes were mostly non American, so to win election to have their people in public office of Wasco County, Rajneeshees decided to get homeless people from all over the USA to shelter them, feed them. At the time they said it was right thing to do to help them who were ignored by society, but as later relieved that they were gathered to vote against the opposition of rajneeshees.
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Rajneeshpuram
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1983 festival at Rajneeshpuram
1984 bio terror attack
editAs a result of this increasing tension, some antelope resident started to leave their homes. Rejneesh wanted to have some of Rajneeshees to be in county's political office. To out vote county's people Rajneeshees went to major cities in all over The United States and brought in homeless people. They decide to call it mercy but as later reviled they wanted them to vote for Rajneeshees in next election. Rajneeshees also use 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack to stop most of the people from coming in to vote which failed, and Rajneeshees lost the election. Rajneeshees use Salmonella in the fast food to to injured people. The election was a big win for the people of Antelope, and the Rajneeshees wanted to fight back. This only helped to created more instance salutation between Antelope residents and Rajneeshees.
References
edit- ^ Carter, Lewis F. (June 1987). "The 'New Renunciates' of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh: Observations and Identification of Problems of Interpreting New Religious Movements". Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. vol. 26: 148–172.
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