The Book of Man
Osho, 2002
Osho Rajneesh
India
226 pages
Read in 2023.04
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✔ Cult
🔽 Review summary 🔽
★★☆☆☆ I now get it, I understand why he was and continues to be so popular. He's smart and eloquent, very rich and decadent, and encouraged all sorts of violence. His wish from the world was to follow the big power that was him.
🔽 Book review and notes 🔽
Finally read something by Osho, though technically it's not written by him personally, but it's from his talks.
I now get it, I understand why he was and continues to be so popular.
It's not like I don't understand at all what he says, but his talent lies and his aim was clear, to make you a follower, he's not hiding that either.
Becoming religious or spiritual itself is nothing unusual, and most of the times it brings good things.
But what he says he wishes from the world is to blindly follow the big power that's him.
Maybe also he came at the right time in the 70s when people, especially American, wanted psychedelic experiences, when the West wanted the exotic East.
One of his idea was that austerity is bad, and encourages people to enjoy life, which from Googling I understand he had a very luxurious and decadent life, riding around 93 Rolls-Royce just to show off, or manufactured and spread illegal drugs within his communities and beyond, or encouraged violence, where sexual violence towards kids became a norm.
Definitely scandalous, whether conspiracy or not.
So back to the book, it's 100% an interesting to read as a book to read, as a study, but I won't go beyond that.
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