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 ...

“What is marriage now, or what has it been ever? Just a painful suffering – a long suffering, with false smiling faces. It has simply proved a misery. At the most it can be just a convenience.” -- ...

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 prison ...

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, a self-styled "sex guru," and his followers plotted a mass poisoning as well as murders in the early 1980s Johnny Dodd is a senior writer at PEOPLE, who focuses on human ...

Ma Anand Sheela and her attorneys face reporters after a day in court. “Wild Wild Country” paints a story as incredible as any futuristic fantasy flick. Consider the following plot: A mystic and his ...

There are few aspects of the story of the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and his Oregon commune that don’t sound too strange to be true. A bombing, a murder plot and a mass poisoning — all of it ...

Netflix has taken deep dives into the Wisconsin justice system with Making A Murderer and the Catholic church with The Keepers. Now, Netflix's new docu-series Wild Wild Country will take a closer look ...

“Despite the monastic simplicity in which rank-and-file members live,” Richard Delgado, a law professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, has written, “cults demonstrate great interest ...

“In my childhood I loved to follow everybody very much. Whosoever died, I would be there. Even my parents became very afraid; they would say, Why do you go? We don’t even know that man . . .” “I would ...

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 ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: While watching Netflix’s latest docuseries Wild Wild Country, you’ll probably ask yourself a lot of questions. Is Ma Anand Sheela more terrifying than any of Marvel’s ...