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 to his ...

Martina Zangger shares her eight-year experience inside the Rajneeshee cult, from devotion and abuse to healing and ...

You can own a tiny part of the Rajneeshees’ Oregon commune as seen in “Wild Wild Country,” the Netflix documentary about guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, his powerful personal secretary, Ma Anand Sheela, ...

After more than three decades, John Silvertooth, believed he’d finally put the memories to rest about the time the Indian cult leader Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and thousands of his devotees in bright red ...

Ed Timms / The Dallas Morning News Take a look back into the archives of The Dallas Morning News. The Rajneeshee sect featured in the Netflix documentary Wild Wild Country may have put down roots in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the most bizarre periods in Oregon history began over 40 years ago in a remote part of the state still populated by more ...

The Oregon commune no longer exists, but retired Seattle Times reporter Carol M. Ostrom still keeps a few “sex kits” that were given out to disciples of Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. Many ...

In January and February 1985, Ma Anand Sheela and other top Rajneesh officials (including many of the same disciples who would suddenly leave Rajneeshpuram the following September) conducted a ...

For $258,500, or the highest bid, you can own a two-story building filled with tall tales, many told in the Netflix documentary “Wild Wild Country,” about the Rajneeshees commune that took over the ...

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, whose spokespeople claim that approximately one-third of his American following is Jewish, nonetheless seems to have a problem with at least some official segments of the ...