Maybe you saw the 1918 Netflix Doc, “Wild Wild Country” about a Utopian Oregon community created by followers of OSHO, the unorthodox, Indian, Meditation Guru. But if you didn’t, there’s a Cosmic lesson to be learned from his beliefs, defined in this book.
OSHO taught his form of Dynamic Meditation required three steps: Relaxation, Watching, Non-Judgment. He suggested dancing and shaking to wipe free the mind of insanity.
But in 1984, after some of the followers in his large Oregon community poisoned 10 local salad bars with salmonella (in order to sway a local election in the community’s favor), his Utopia imploded.
The restaurant poisoning was considered a “Bio-terror attack”, and some of the members, including his personal secretary, were arrested. But not OSHO.
Instead,OSHO was indicted for Racketeering and Immigration Fraud, and, in 1985, deported to back to India. He died in 1990, but is still followed by a small “niche” of spiritual seekers.
The point here is despite OSHO’s “fall from grace,” and loss of thousands of followers, 36 years after his death, there are those in India, and elsewhere online, who remain Non-judgmental about his controversial past, and continue to rely on his teachings and guidance.
You can’t say that about many of the 20th & 21st Century contemporary “Spiritual” Gurus, charged with crimes, whose teaching, communes and followers vanished.
In our own Psychic lives, ridding Insanity and becoming “non-judgmental,” as OSHO taught, is key to accessing the Invisible and the Unknown. Meditation can help take you to the Ineffable, but non-judgment will help keep you there. In that sense, we are followers, too.