Word: rajneeshpuram
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PARADISE WAS LOST recently for some sojourners from society living and loving in Rajneeshpuram, Oregon. How and why it happened is a lesson for our time about ourselves...
Then in late October, a Federal grand jury in Portland secretly indicted Rajneesh and his aides on charges that they had arranged phony marriages to bring foreigners into the country. Rajneesh apparently found out about the indictment, because he left Rajneeshpuram in a jet on Oct. 27. But he didn't get too far. The same day, he was arrested in Charlotte, N.C. and returned to Portland to face charges...
...weeks ago, Ma Prem Niren, the Mayor of Rajneeshpuram, told the commune's residents that they should plan on leaving, as the city would soon be dissolved...
...founding members of a new society are seeds for the old one. Among the flowers at Rajneeshpuram, sprouted some too familiar weeds: ambition and avarice. It was only a matter of time before the weeds overwhelmed the flowers...
Apparently tipped off that immigration charges against him had been secretly handed up by a federal grand jury in Portland, the Bhagwan departed forthwith from Rajneeshpuram. The guru and six disciples chartered two Learjets and took off so quickly that their pilots had to obtain final clearances while aloft. As the Bhagwan's retinue tried to arrange a flight to Bermuda, Federal Aviation Administration controllers tracked the planes. When Rajneesh's touched down at 2 a.m. at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, authorities arrested...