NCRV - Bhagwan, de sexgoeroe uit Poona (1980)
- TV documentary in the series "Niet Te Geloven" (Not To Be Believed), episode 1, by Dutch public broadcaster NCRV. Presenter: Sipke van der Land.
- Some quotes, in translation:
- ... There are many more women than men, on average around 30 years old.. They walk around in orange, as that is the color of the the dawn.
- Many of the followers are artists and intellectuals, who are searching for a solution for their depressions, their broken relationships, their sexual inhibitions, their loneliness and all kinds of other problems. Most of the day, they walk around aimlessly. ...
- (After footage of Osho giving sannyas to Sw Amito:
- The English pronunciation of the master is pathetic. But his discourses sound very profound. At first, you would think that he has a tremendous wisdom. Until you find out that he is just stringing together lots of book learning, from big thinkers of East and West, with some literary tricks, to keep up attention. But he is proclaiming nothing but vagueness, like "cosmic energy" and "the presence of the living universe", and other woolliness, completely impractical.
- language
- Dutch
- released
- Sep 30, 1980
- length
- 57 min
credits
- Niet Te Geloven
- Vraagtekens bij sekten en kulten
- Poona, Aflevering 1
- Bhagwan, de sexgoeroe uit Poona
- Samenstelling en regie: Sipke van der Land & Jaap van den Hurk
- Interviewees (Dutch sannyasins/background): Poona Ashram: Erik Höchheimer (doctor), Bella Bruins (jounalist), May Kortenhorst (active in humanist psychology), Mw. Kortenhorst (active in humanist psychology, through her doughters), Gerard Hartkamp (actor), Zuster Truus, Bas de Jong (Clarinet-player in the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra). In Amsterdam: Sw Anand Niketana.
- Niet Te Geloven!
- Narrator voice: Guus van der Steen
- Samenstelling en regie: Sipke van der Land & Jaap van den Hurk
- Een NCRV produktie ©1980
see also
- OshoFilmArchive catalog no : OFA00,017
still 03m 44s.
still 07m 15s.
still 28m 26s: Sw Anand Niketana, in front of "de boot", the Amsterdam meditation centre in a house-boat.
still 33m 32s: sannyas of Sw Amito, 15 Jan 1980.