

This oregon youth went on to save half a billion lives.guess who?Ī local Willamette Valley teen-ager named Bert Hoover, an orphan sent from Iowa to live with his uncle, went on to save millions of lives and become a singularly ill-starred U.S. Check out the story of Florence's famous exploding whale.

But he still thinks the operation was a success. The highway department guy didn't know how much dynamite to use, and said so on camera. It's now known as the "Osho International Mediation Resort." Here's a link to a "virtual tour" of the facilities there. The Bhagwan's ashram in Poona has expanded considerably since the 1980s. It's about 15 minutes inland from Mumbai (Bombay). Pune (Poona) is not the best-known city in India, but it's no rustic village four million people live there. Here's a link to the trailer, on the film's Web site.

Here's a shorter video - actually, a slideshow of photos shot for a German magazine in 1979.Ī Swiss production company earlier this year released "The Guru," a feature film telling the Bhagwan's story from the early years to the denouement, mostly through the eyes of Ma Anand Sheela and his bodyguard, Hugh Milne.
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Robert Hillman made this movie in 1978, while the ashram was still in Poona, India. Through his Web site (the Rajneesh story's home page is here) you can access source documents, court transcripts and audio recordings of interviews with people who were there. Investigative reporter Les Zaitz of The Portland Oregonian has just published a five-part package on the unknown stories from Rajneeshpuram.
