News from the Ranch - Oct 14, 1985

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The wiki has received copies of some dispatches from ashram / commune / resort authorities to inform the wider sannyas family as to "newsy" developments. The master page for these newsy items is Communiqués. This one is a fax from Sw Prem Jayadip, of Baile Neo-Sannyas Commune (NSC) in Hamburg, reporting to other major European centers on a phone call he had with Hasya Osho's new secretary at the Ranch.

A pdf image file of this fax can be found here. Below is the text extracted from this doc. This text, unlike most in this collection, has been edited for easier reading, as the OCR process was very messy and the original fax has numerous spelling errors. Every attempt has been made not to depart from the sense and intent of the original fax. It will take some time, please be patient. Some repetition of lengthy whole passages has been eliminated ....

CALL FROM HASYA
85-10-14 13:16

5218133 byen d
1150 rundsen d
212996 baile d (14.10 12.24)

fr: baile rajneesh nsc, hamburg
att: swami prem jayadip

to: all center coordinators of:
wioska rnsc, doerfchen rnsc, rajneesh school, de stad rnsc, kota rnsc, rajneesh byen nsc.

beloved friends,
love.

in the following lines you will find an short overview of the telephone call with ma hasya yesterday from the meeting in amsterdam.
hasya started like: bhagwan is Looking good, but is tired from a lot of work.

all communes are to be autonomous and comfortable.
no one is on top of another, take your own responsibility, to find out what-freedom is.
the situation on the ranch: first a big relief when sheela Left, then depression about the past and all the things which were found, then the whole ranch went to the opposite end: rebellion. now it is going back more and more to the middle.
she continued: freedom is a very heavy responsibility. first nobody wanted it, because it is so difficult.
once we move all the terrible things aside, we can see that sheela did a very good job with the whole set up of the ranch.
she said that bhagwan once talked about the collective unconsciousness and that we are now in the middle of it to experience what that is and what is possible through us because of it.

the only control we should stick to is the aids-protection.
whatsoever we hear from the medical side, we should not swallow it, because when they Look deep down inside they do not know either where aids is coming from. 1977 it somehow jumped from the monkeys in africa over to the human being, but the monkeys had that for 1000s of years. what bhagwan said 2 years ago about aids-protection matched later all that the hospital and medical people advise now. we do not know what he sees in his vision and why.

the whole ranch had a meeting and voted:
[AIDS-]positive people have to be in total isolation, they can come to lecture, but have to live in desiderata. they cannot work with the others. it is true that we have to face the problem with the outside world in discotheques, but we should at least be clear in our own communes. we want to maintain an international checking and protecting system. the medical level should be in america and europe equally organised.
for the positive people we should create a place for all of them to live together. we move so quickly that an equal system is a must.
rubbers, gloves for genital contact, spraying with alcohol before eating and on the toilet are still in. the whole ranch voted for that.

vouchers or cash-money it is up to us how we deal with that.
we should drop positions and jobs which were created only to watch others. leave things and structures which were for a good reason.
watch for more decentralisation to avoid power concentration. bring people with expertise to the jobs, but don't lock them there for a constant job.

about therapy in communes:
witnessing is the technique we got from bhagwan to deal with our problems. we can go on for 20 years in dumping our problems out and there is no end. but we can send some therapists to the communes.
the ranch will take care that the videos come faster to europe, so we can get advice more fitting with the current mood of the people. there will be more messages for the communes by someone who will come from the ranch.

about colours:
many people on the ranch changed back to the red colour. the other colours are mainly meant for times you will get problems because of red. all the oId-time residents stick to red. the other colours are mainly meant to avoid and eliminate negative situations. the ranch buys only very few other colours.
hasya was pleased about the board of financial people from all the communes.
it is a good idea to send the mala back if you do not wear it any more.
if people take sannyas they will still get a spiritual name, even when they do not use it, don’t wear mala and red.

school:
bhagwan did not know and there is no reason to separate children and parents.
it is up to the individual commune what they do about the school.
if we want to do the school, do it.
make sure that the children in the communes don't stop the people in the communes' work.
the ma who wants to open a nursery school is free to do it, if she wants.
make sure that you follow the laws of each country.
basically she agreed to do the school how we decided to set it up.

about malas:
malas which have been taken away in sheela's time because of punishment should be given back. malas which have been taken away for different reasons should be given back after a talk with the individual and the feeling that comes out of it.
people who want to take sannyas should do one month of meditation and then see if they really want to do it. follow your feeling, if the person is weird. it is up to the coordinator.

people with [AIDS-]positive tests cannot do groups and meditations but it might be possible to do a group and meditations with only positive-people. everybody who comes to the ranch and didn't do the test has to do it there, this is not for people who just pass by on the county road.
also positive people might start their own place, if they want.

ma susheela on the phone:
she is doing good, is still smoking and sends all the love to everybody.
then hasya again:
we celebrate everything, the times are weird, but we have to Learn to celebrate.
lots of love and celebration to all of you.
swami prem jayadip