--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > <snip> > > > Didn't they try to spread some kind of food poisoning at local > > > restaurants also or some such thing? > > > > Hadn't heard that part. Would NOT surprise me. The Rajneesh > > followers I knew in England were kinda crazy but not THAT crazy. > > The ones that lived in the same community as he did apparently were. > > I think it was mostly the woman who was > Rajneesh's second-in-command, Ma Sheela. > She was totally bonkers, ultimately went > to prison for the Salmonella stunt, which > sickened a whole bunch of people, and some > other outrageous stuff, death threats and > things. It's not clear Rajneesh was aware > of everything she and her henchpersons were > doing. > > I saw her interviewed on Nightline when all > this was going down. She was pretty clearly > a raving loony, a real paranoid Dragon Lady > with delusions of grandeur.
I remember her from a Nightline appearance. What struck me was her use of four-letter-words which is/was quite unusual for broadcast TV...and it must have been "live" because the words weren't bleeped out... > > There are a couple of good books about the > whole Rajneeshpuram/Antelope era. The commune > seems to have worked out brilliantly for the > first year or so, then went bad quite rapidly. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
