Ma Anand Sheela
(Sheela Ambalal Patel aka Sheela Silverman aka Sheela Shelfer aka Sheela Birnstiel)
Osho's secretary between 1981 and 1985. In 1985, faced with a number of criminal charges, she fled to Europe, but was arrested in West Germany and extradited to the USA, where she pleaded guilty to a few of the charges. She was sentenced to a 24-year jail term in federal prison, but was released 1988 after 29 months in jail and moved to Switzerland on Dec 13th, 1988. There she now owns two nursing homes in Maisprach und Waldenburg.
Contact Details
- address
- Badhof 103
- CH-4464 Maisprach
- Switzerland
- phones
- Phone: +41 (0)61 841 21 11
- Fax: +41 (0)61 841 21 01
- website
- Matrusaden & Bapusaden
- bibliography
- 1983 : Rajneeshism
- 1996 : Tötet Ihn Nicht!
- 2005 : My Treasure
- 2010 : Love Inspires
- 2012 : Don't Kill Him!
- filmography
- Guru: Bhagwan, His Secretary & His Bodyguard (2010) - self/interviewee
- Wild Wild Country (2018) - self/interviewee