08. Life at the ashram – a pressure cooker
Encounter groups, free sex, drugs at the ashram? Early impressions. Later, Arjava writes a book about his experience with Osho from 1978 until 1990.
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The ashram is like a pressure cooker. It is a place where buttons are being pushed and situations are used to get one out of one's comfort zone.
Arjava, still a kid really, neither takes part in psychotherapeutic encounters nor does he join sex orgies. Instead he participates in a 10-day Vipassana meditation.
The book in René's hand during the question recounts life in Poona and the USA with and around Osho. (Still … Here and Now, 2022).
It was the closest I ever got to being a monk.