A Montreal synchronicity

See discussion for an exploration of theme, aim and format of this page, at this point fairly flexible. General idea is a collection of uncategorizable "stories" relating to Osho, general intention non-serious and amusing.

What does this Canadian political cartoon have to do with Osho? We shall see. In early 1976, Osho is talking with a Canadian sannyasin from Montreal, trying to convince him to be with women. He says, "Your Montreal is almost all homosexual, the whole city ... A woman is needed. It is as if you are trying to be reborn from a man. I think sooner or later in Montreal people will try that -- to be finished with woman completely". Meanwhile in Montreal, the city was getting ready to put on a Summer Olympics. The mayor, Jean Drapeau, had sold the Olympics to the city as something that would pay for itself, stating famously that "The Olympics can no more have a deficit than a man can have a baby". When the Olympics, held later that year, did indeed run a whopping great deficit (that took thirty years to pay off), the cartoon came out. Drapeau preggers, and on the phone to Henry Morgentaler, Canada's well-known principled abortionist. (Because he was so public, he got arrested and tried many times but no jury would convict him.) And Osho foresaw this! (sort of :-))