The Last Testament (Vol 1) ~ 28
event type | interview |
date & time | 14 Aug 1985 pm |
location | Jesus Grove, Rajneeshpuram |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 38min. Quality: good. |
online audio | |
video | Available, duration 2h 1min. Quality: good, but the last part of Osho leaving, outside, is quite dark (from 1:55:24 to 2:01:10). |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | LAST128 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Interview. Announcements by Ma Anand Sheela : Tracy Berry, (inaudible), Eugene.
- CD-ROM on this chapter: Interview with KEYI TV, Eugene, Oregon, Tracy Berry.
- Question 1
- About these press interviews that you've been doing the past few weeks: Journalists have learned a lot about you from these sessions. What have you learned about some of the journalists?
- Question 2
- Where do you go from here? You've called yourself the world's greatest showman. Are you planning to perhaps take your show on the road?
- Question 3
- Does this herald an expansion phase for Rajneeshees -- your going so public?
- Question 4
- Specifically, what sort of efforts are going on?
- Question 5
- Do you feel that you have a moral code? Is there a wrong? Is there a right?
- Question 6
- The perception outside of Rajneeshpuram is that what you're teaching amounts to anarchy -- maybe a pleasant sort of anarchy.
- Question 7
- How do you counsel your followers to deal with the laws of the land? For example, do you urge them to perform civil disobedience where they see it necessary?
- Question 8
- It must be disappointing to you to have met with the level of rejection and persecution.
- Question 9
- It also sounds, though, like you're enjoying some of the commotion you're causing around the state.
- Question 10
- Has the furor throughout Oregon and the U.S. contributed at all to this cynicism?
- Question 11
- Who do you feel has treated you fairly since you've come to this country? I can't believe that everyone here has been against you.
- Question 12
- Did you plan to maybe go out and speak to people?
- Question 13
- If you went out and met Oregon and talked to the people, and they found out you weren't this horrible monster, in the middle of a bunch of red-robed followers, it would be easier that way?
- Question 14
- Well, let's say, I'm the average person in Eugene or Portland, I haven't seen anything except what's on the news or in the paper, does that mean that I have to drive to Rajneeshpuram to find out or how would I get.
- Question 15
- The rumors that perhaps you might be moving to Australia... And yet, I see a lot of expansion going on here, what is the real story?
- Question 16
- Question on the joking: You've rattled so many people's cages by saying, "Oh, well maybe I'll go to Australia." Or "Oh, yes, I want to take over the world."
- Question 17
- Do you and Sheela sit down and say, "Ok, let's frighten Australia this week," or is it...
- Question 18
- The Constitution offers freedom of religion. It seems that what you are offering is freedom from religion.
- Question 19
- So, how do you counsel people to pursue that? Is freedom from religion possible?
- Question 20
- Many people become religious because they want to be told what to do with their lives. They need a church to make decisions for them. And if that is true, how could these religions ever be abolished when it is those people who are supporting them?
- Question 21
- Here in Rajneeshpuram they've made the desert flower. There are some parallels with the mormons settling in Utah, the Jews in Israel; and the only thing that really separates organized religions from cults, is just time and money and effort. Do you see similarities between the Rajneeshees and...?
- Question 22
- Well, you have Rolls Royces, they had wives.
- Question 23
- The precautions the commune has taken against AIDS is probably one of the foremost efforts world-wide to fight the disease. How did you first become aware of it and recognize the serious nature of that illness?
- Question 24
- There were those charges filed several months ago regarding your childrearing tactics here in the commune. Could you just briefly deal with that issue?
- Question 25
- I peered through the window and watched as your car arrived, and you danced with your sannyasins. When you look into their eyes, what do you see on their faces?
- Question 26
- Are you afraid of death?
- Question 27
- At your news conference a couple weeks ago, you invited someone to assassinate you. Is it a joke? Is it fear of death by natural causes, or is it just because that would be logical way you could see the end of your life?
- Question 28
- So what happens to them? Years from now when you die, what happens to the Rajneeshees?
- Question 29
- And then go to the four winds, or stay together...?
- Question 30
- What will Rajneeshpuram look like in ten years? Or what do you want it to look like in ten years?
- Question 31
- You made the comment that there can never be peace between Oregonians and Rajneeshees. Why is that? Do you not want peace?
- Question 32
- What if Oregonians decided just to leave Rajneeshees alone?
- Question 33
- The most open wound in the state was when the Rajneeshees won the election in what was then Antelope. Although it was legal, people felt it was a take-over. Is there any chance the Rajneeshees would ever pull out of the city of Rajneesh?
- Question 34
- Will you and Rajneeshees get involved in the Oregon political system you so despise, run for office?
- Question 35
- Can we expect people in Rajneeshpuram to be running for the state house or the state senate in the next few years?
- Question 36
- You've received so much opposition from the political arena that you've mentioned that you've beaten then at their own game before.
- Question 37
- But you're not planning to run for governor?
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