{"id":2288,"date":"2016-05-21T20:21:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T14:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wild-wild-country-netflix-rajneeshpuram\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T19:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:29:23","slug":"wild-wild-country-netflix-rajneeshpuram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=2288","title":{"rendered":"Revisit Wild Wild Country Before You Start Searching for Sheela"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span> remember, it was my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/fixo-kadha-prasad-sikhism-turban-gurdwara\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">grandfather<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who first introduced me to Osho. This favourite white-haired, soft-spoken relative of mine would be listening to Osho on his tape recorder on most mornings right after he finished with the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/guru-nanak-gurpurab-sikhism-hate-crimes\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Japji Sahib<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Osho, he told me once, was a wise man before he went mad. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">History has come to comfortably accord <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/its-official-osho-is-dead-rajneesh-meditation-ashram-osho-death-legacy\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Osho<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 the man who pursued spirituality through sex \u2013 the madman tag, as does the new <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/netflix-nithari-case-karma-killings-india-noida-aarushi-talwar\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Netflix docu-series<\/span><\/a> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wild Wild Country<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The six-part docu focuses on the part of Osho\u2019s life at which even the staunchest \u201cRajneeshee\u201d would look back and say \u2013 yeah, he lost it for a bit there. The docu focuses on the infamous Rajneeshpuram chapter in Osho\u2019s story that has been more or less obliterated from his own history by his followers. Filed under \u201cshocking scandal\u201d in the media, this story has all the elements that justifies those two words: Greed, money, arms, poisonings, and\u2026 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/series\/sexuality-and-the-city\/world-aids-day-sex-sex-addiction\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sex<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Oh lots and lots of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/cyber\/sex-virtual-reality-robots-teledildonics-nsfw-westworld\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sex<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rajneeshpuram made it ridiculously easy to remain part of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/gender\/beware-of-the-brocialist-harvey-weinstein-sexism-feminism-gender-femininity-masculinty-metoo-notallmen-bro-code-brocialism-sexual-harassment-harassment-molestation\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cscandal\u201d file<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which is why we have a documentary in the first place. There is the fact that the members of the commune practiced wild group sex all night. There is the fact that the leader of their cult had a collection of 99 Rolls Royces. There is also the fact that a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/navratri-sex-gujarat-the-mating-dance-of-the-gujarati-sunny-leone-garba-condoms\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gujarati lady<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of slight build almost single-handedly created this city in the middle of Oregon scrubland from a 64,000-acre muddy ranch. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But what <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wild Wild Country<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> doesn\u2019t cover is the Rajneesh that came before Rajneeshpuram. <\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\">Things got horrifically ugly at Rajneeshpuram \u2013 drugs, embezzlement, wire-tapping, poisonings, and immigration frauds \u2013 before the Feds came in and shut the whole show down.<\/blockquote>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When this soft-spoken philosopher from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/madhya-pradesh-shivraj-singh-chouhan-better-usa-khajuraho-bhopal-tragedy\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Madhya Pradesh<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> first came to Mumbai, his incessant chatter on sex is what got everyone\u2019s attention. They didn\u2019t care that he had revolutionary ideas on everything from love, death, living in the present, meditation, marriage to the soul, and dogma of religion that has filled up a library of books. They only picked sex from the line-up and made Tantra, the mystery-shrouded sex workshop, the hero of their hate. They didn\u2019t care that the techniques of Tantra are based on the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, a key text in Shaivism, in which Shiva answers Parvati\u2019s questions on consciousness with 112 meditation techniques \u2013 each involving all five senses of the body that involved <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/kama-sutra-valentines-day-sex-india-millennial-lovers-day\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sexual and non-sexual contact<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as a manifestation of those techniques. They only cared about the sex, in all its physical and gory detail. The gorier the detail the better the headlines. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so Osho made headlines all over the world. His communes flourished in several European and American countries and from the success, came the idea of creating this ambitious mothership, this homeland of peace-loving souls that would usher in a free-thinking world order. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is sad, then, that they <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-narendra-modi-texas-india\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">chose America<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32588\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1521800544.jpg\" alt=\"Osho wild\" width=\"670\" height=\"364\" \/>\n<figcaption>\n<p>Everything that the Americans held sacred \u2013 marriage, religion, morals \u2013 Osho dissed.<\/p>\n<p>Image Credit: Hipertextual<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">America, provincial and bigoted on a good day, went berserk on a bad one. The very existence of Rajneeshpuram offended their morality and they crusaded for its obliteration. Crusading just as hard on the other side was Ma Sheela, the wholly controversial and astoundingly shrewd personal secretary of Osho (one of the central narrators of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wild Wild Country<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) ruthlessly attacking the community of Oregon that was halting her progress and striking <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/donald-trump-usa-president-of-america-muslim-ban-us-attorney-general-iraq-syria-iran-mexico\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fear in the heart of America<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the other. All before breakfast. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And boy, was America scared. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everything that they <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/indian-american-andheri-east-desi-fourth-of-july\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">held sacred<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 marriage, religion, morals \u2013 Osho dissed. He mocked their puritanical, provincial minds and ideas by shoving sex in their face. They couldn\u2019t look away. They had to engage in this fight for their white values and fight they did. With everything they had. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The full force of their law enforcement, including the immigration and the FBI, landed on these naked people in the Oregon scrubland who dared to infiltrate their world and suggest a future that was wildly heathen. \u201cBetter dead than red,\u201d was the slogan of the town but it might as well have been the ringing cry of America and they began walking around with threatening guns. The response of Ma Sheela was to arm Rajneeshpuram and begin training her <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/series\/kumbh-uncensored\/great-indian-dk-trick\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sanyasins<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with AK-47s and hand grenades like the apocalypse was coming. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From there on, the experiment that began as a world commune, began frantically unravelling. \u00a0<\/span>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32589\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1521800509.jpg\" alt=\"Crowded Osho\" width=\"985\" height=\"407\" \/>\n<figcaption>\n<p>History will show that these brilliant and mad people are capable of great ideas but incapable of engineering their survival.<\/p>\n<p>Image Credit: Digg<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Things got horrifically ugly at Rajneeshpuram \u2013 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/vice\/weed-marijuana-drugs-stash-truck-420-dealer\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">drugs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, embezzlement, wire-tapping, poisonings, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/doodle\/daler-mehndi-arrest-human-trafficking\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">immigration frauds<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 before the Feds came in and shut the whole show down. Ma Sheela, in her quest for survival, had destroyed the essence of the very thing she\u2019d created and thousands of Rajneeshis, who had no idea about these shenanigans and who had left their lives behind for Osho, were left adrift. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In one of the interviews in the documentary, a long-time Rajneeshi and someone who\u2019d been part of the foundation team that envisioned Rajneeshpuram talks aggrievedly about walking away from the garden, the houses, the lakes that they built and how each one in Rajneeshpuram had once lived with laughter and the appreciation of what an incredible gift it was to be alive: \u201cIt was an incredibly joyous city where real people lived real lives.\u201d<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rajneeshpuram was hardly the first <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-experiment\/letter-to-body-parts-body-positivity-self-love-mumbai-artist\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">social experiment<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to build a new world order. The hippies (or freaks, as they liked to be called) have been doing that for generations. For years, these freaks have gathered around the idea of a world that was less capitalistic, less hung up on morality, with a more peaceful version of humanity. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/sridevi-death-hawa-hawai-queer-gay-icon\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These freaks<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have always existed at the fringes of our civilisation because they were always the round pegs in the square holes, the truly mad ones. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But just think about it: Had Rajneeshpuram been a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/series\/ho-ja-regender\/ho-ja-re-gender-india-todays-debate-on-gender-equality\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">successful experiment<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, they might have been mainstreamed. Osho was an idea that had daunting potential, before he went and armed himself to the teeth. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is what <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wild Wild Country<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> tells you without spelling it out. It leaves you with the enormous sense of what is possible when ordinary human beings come together and create a dream. Rajneeshpuram is a testament to the power of a leader and to the potential that humans beings have to change the world order. For a brief period, before it descended into anarchy, Osho and Rajneeshpuram showed us that potential. And then it became a freak show. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That is the problem with Osho and his legacy. History will show that these brilliant and mad people are capable of great ideas but incapable of engineering their survival. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Which is sad because God knows, we could all do with a little bit of madness. \u00a0<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had Rajneeshpuram been a successful experiment, would the \u201cfreaks\u201d \u2013 the ones with radical ideas \u2013 have had a chance at being mainstream? 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