The Netflix docuseries Wild Wild Country follows the saga of the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and his cult in 1980s Oregon. But it doesn’t really address how it’s possible that thousands ...

The appeal of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh isn’t easy to explain. He had no doctrine. He promoted religiousness while disdaining formalized religion. Oregonians were baffled by the thousands flocking ...

If you watched "Wild Wild Country," the Netflix documentary about the tumultuous 1980s events that resulted from the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh's decision to make the U.S. his home, you probably ...

Also in 1981, Rajneesh’s group purchased the approximately 64,000-acre Big Muddy Ranch in Oregon’s Jefferson and Wasco counties, where John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn had once filmed a movie.

Capably assembled from hundreds of hours of archival footage, Wild Wild Country’s focus is the late Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, an Indian guru in flowing robes and sporting a Rip Van Winkle-style ...

Who are Osho, Rajneesh, and Bhagwan? Trick question, because they’re all the same guy! For most of Wild Wild Country, his disciples refer to him as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, or just Bhagwan or ...

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, a self-styled "sex guru," and his followers took over the town of Antelope, Oregon, in the early 1980s Johnny Dodd is a senior writer at PEOPLE, who focuses on human ...

This remote 4-year-old city may lose its Indian guru namesake, and there are indications it won`t survive without him. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, being held without bail in North Carolina, faces priso… ...

The Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh following his arrest for trying to flee the U.S., Oct. 28, 1985. Bettmann Archive. By early 1985, things were unraveling.

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh breezed into rural Oregon in the early 1980s to spread love, enlightenment and, for those who did not believe, a little bit of salmonella. On Sept. 17, 1984, the Wasco County… ...

When Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh transferred his operation from Pune to Oregon in 1981, the emphasis within his community shifted from personal and interpersonal exploration to the arduous job of ...

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (1931-1990), an Indian-born spiritual teacher with a mostly European and American following, preached peace, love and liberation. By the time his movement collapsed in 1985 ...