The Last Testament (Vol 1) ~ 28

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event type interview
date & time 14 Aug 1985 pm
location Jesus Grove, Rajneeshpuram
language English
audio Available, duration 1h 38min. Quality: good.
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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
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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?


(source:CD-ROM)


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