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The Face in the Corner of the Room
T’was a long time ago in a far away place when I found what I had been looking for. I had been living in India for a few years having bought a one-way ticket there with the thought that I will never...
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The Ultimate Moment
Buddha Hall was vibrating, people in maroon robes dancing and swaying to the beautiful beats of music, although loud yet somewhat quite soothing. A kind of music not really falling into the ears but...
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The Master’s Call: How I Met Osho
My spiritual journey started in 1972 when I began to practice Hatha, Japa and Kriya Yoga. In 1975 I wanted to deepen my practice, but importantly, I wanted to find a teacher who I felt was rooted in...
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It Happened in Pune
In 1979 I read Only One Sky by Osho. I was so moved that I literally jumped on a plane to Pune to meet this remarkable person. At the Koregaon Park ashram were thousands of people who felt the same...
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A Tale of Two Statues in Hawaii
We built our first Big island home amongst the immense Hapu’u ferns and Ohia-lehua trees at Volcano, Hawaii. Nestled at 4,000 feet elevation and just a mile from the Volcanoes National Park, we carved...
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Amy is a Pig – No, I am That
As I read the words on the wall ’Amy is a Pig’ my heart sank, I realized this was not the right place for me, I didn’t belong here; it was 1982. If there is one thing that we are acutely aware of as a...
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A Midsummer Day’s Dream
Last summer, for two months, I lived in a little hut at one end of a big garden and, with it, I had taken on the task of watering its plants and trees. I was a bit nervous at first because the job...
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The Breathless State
Before I started my 5-year training with Osho in Poona in 1976, I was fortunate to undergo 3 years of training and discipline with a Yogi by the name of Mahindra that started in 1972. He trained me in...
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Death Knocks in India
In much of Asia, hospitals are known as ‘the places you go to die’. This is for good reason. When I lived in Nepal, for instance, it was common practice for a family member to sleep on a pallet on the...
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A Strange Experience
Poona, Nov. 21, 1987 Disillusioned with ‘love’ and romance, deeply exhausted from lack of sleep, having just written several letters, I was lying back feeling that I had given my energy outwards until...
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Light was Matter and Matter was Light
We know next to nothing about the nature of the Universe, the nature of light and matter and once we do take insight into the underlying reality of All and Everything, our view radically alters and...
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The Airplane Game
After the Ranch, Subuddha and I lived in a communal house in Laguna Beach, California. Subuddha always wanted to get as rich as possible as quickly as possible; and was willing to work very, very hard...
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The Second Zen Stick
My first Zen stick happened when I was around three years old. It is one of the earliest memories I have. Of course I had never heard the term and it would be another twenty-three years or so until I...
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What Is Osho Doing These Days?
In the early 70s I was struck by the lightning of soul inquiry that set free within myself an all-consuming longing to enter upon the journey that I hoped would lead me close to the Face of God, or at...
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My Day of Ashes
This is a segment from the middle of three powerful premonitions I’ve had so far in my life that are revealed in this book. This one began on the afternoon of Ash Wednesday, 4 March 1981, shortly after...
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Dreaming: The Moonwork of Winter
I have always kept a dream journal as a record of inner dimensions and a source of nourishing awe. The way our elusive DreamMaker works is something like a mystical mermaid – she knows where you are...
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Have a little courage
The following is a selection from a longer essay on encounter groups. With the exception of my name and the group leader’s name, all participants have been assigned fictitious names. The events,...
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A brush with death
Two years ago my wife Vicky, lover and best friend, had a heart attack that would change our lives forever. She was told that she had Coronary Artery Disease and a rare form of angina called...
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Flying high in the toolshed
It was a chilly night in Rajneeshpuram, Oregon. Our community was going through yet another building crunch: the construction of Hotel Rajneesh needed to be finalized by a certain date because of legal...
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From Whinge to Wings
There was once a woman who found herself at 16,000 feet in a fabled mountain range, hiking a rocky track that barely clung to a steep slope, and failing badly with the altitude. Her companions, two...
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Svagito on the events that lead to Meera’s leaving her body (Part 1 of 3): "Nothing warned me of any danger. Everything happened suddenly and unexpectedly."
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In the first part of Svagito’s recollections, we followed him and Meera on their adventure in South Africa up to the fatal dive. In this part Svagito tells of the many decisions he had to make to take...
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In the third and final part, Svagito organises the transport of Meera's body and hears a first report from the police investigation.
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