Craig Corbett, Author at The Sociable

Craig Corbett

Craig Corbett is a Scottish journalist based in Barcelona. He is principal at media incubator ESPACIO, senior writer for Publicize, and a contributor for Entrepreneur magazine. He covers startup culture, media relations and PR, and media strategies for growing companies.

Business Technology

Techstars launches Alabama EnergyTech Accelerator for innovation and sustainability

Craig Corbett3 years ago

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Global startup accelerator Techstars launches the Alabama EnergyTech Accelerator for accelerating solutions that will make long-lasting effects on energy, create jobs, and drive...

Business Technology

Startup ecosystem spotlight on Hungary from past, present, and future

Craig Corbett5 years ago

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Our friends at 150sec spoke to a number of experts on the ground to compile this overview of the tech...

Business Social Media

Get Your Team Typing: How to Jumpstart a Social Media Content Machine

Craig Corbett5 years ago

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In 1996, Microsoft founder and then CEO Bill Gates gave a famous speech entitled Content is King, in which he...

Social Media

Are Facebook’s censorship policies politically motivated?

Craig Corbett6 years ago

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During a recent United Nations summit in New York, Mark Zuckerburg was put in the hot seat when German Chancellor,...

Mobile

Newsmeister turns today’s news into a fun & engaging mobile quiz

Craig Corbett6 years ago

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If like me, you find the idea of grown adults playing Candy Crush on the metro abhorrent, then Newsmeister has...

Business

When is the best time to get started with a PR solution?

Craig Corbett7 years ago

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“The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.” Arnold H....

Social Media

A digital ‘magic looking glass’ for sharing updates from social hotspots to the conflict in Ukraine

Craig Corbett7 years ago

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Sociable's Craig Corbett reviews uCiC, the photo-sharing app with an eye-in-the-sky that allows you to ask users from all over...

Mobile

An app that gives you fashion advice in real-time when faced with a dressing room dilemma?

Craig Corbett7 years ago

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Sociable's Craig Corbett gives us the rundown on his torturous attempts to try on the right outfit when shopping, and how one...

Brains Byte Back

We explore how our brains, psychology, and society are impacted by the ever-evolving technology that surrounds us. If you want to be better prepared for the new information age, have a healthier relationship with technology, and get more out of life using top technology and psychology hacks, this is the podcast for you! Every other Friday we bring you interviews with leading experts in the fields of technology and psychology combined, with past guest speakers such as New York Times journalists, MIT Professors, and C-suite executives of top tech companies.

You may have heard of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and his followers, commonly known as Rajneeshees or sannyasins, from the incredibly popular Netflix documentary “Wild, Wild Country.”

Well in today’s episode we speak with a former follower of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh cult to get a better understanding of how this society functioned, what it was like to live in normal society as a member of the cult, and what it was like on the famous Oregon ranch.

With our guest, Annie (who has asked to remain anonymous but showed her mala that she wore during her time as a Rajneshee to prove her affiliation with the cult), we find out how she first find out about Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and the Rajneeshees, and what inspired her to join their cult, where she goes into great detail about how she found them when she was 16 at an Alcoholics Anonymous event.

She also shares why life as a Rajneeshee was difficult off the ranch in normal society, as society often treated them with a mixture of suspicion, curiosity, and fear. In fact, she was fired from all of her jobs due to her membership in the cult, but she also explains how she saw this as a positive, “a trial by fire” as she claims.

Annie also goes into detail about what it was like visiting the ranch in 1983, when, she believes, much of the footage used in the documentary was filmed. She talks about the important role meditation played in being a Rajneeshee and what a normal day was like on the ranch.

She also shares her thoughts on how accurate the documentary was, how close she came to meeting Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and finally, how she left the cult in the end.

Overall, Annie explains why she doesn’t see the following as a religion or cult, but instead as a community and how this community had such an overall, lasting positive experience in her life.