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Entrepreneurs lead the charge for a more connected Africa

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In the satirical novel In the United States of Africa, the French-speaking, Djiboutian author Abdourahman A. Waberi depicts an alternative...

Technology

Colombia’s government is digitalizing social inclusion, expanding connectivity

Sophie Foggin2 years ago

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Colombia’s Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications (MinTic) is currently rolling out a three-pronged digitalization strategy to encourage the social...

Technology

How LiFi will make common WiFi problems obsolete

Grace Brennan2 years ago

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LiFi is poised to make many WiFi problems obsolete from slow connections and unstable wireless connections to health concerns, restricted...

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Mobile Technology Web

Smart bandwidth key to upcoming surge in wireless device connectivity

Pat Rabbitte3 years ago

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Wireless communication has been a key facilitator of most recent and pending technologies. Smart bandwidth usage is a prerequisite if society...

Science Technology

Photonics: quantum entanglement or light-speed networks? EU Passion Project

Tim Hinchliffe4 years ago

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A group of scientists backed by the EU's Horizon 2020 report that they have harnessed the power of photons to...

Technology

Why nonprofits need to embrace tech in social connectivity

Francesco Segramora4 years ago

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We live in the information age and technology is an aspect of our daily lives, but it is seemingly lacking...

Social Media

Twisting the Tweets: Assange’s Gag Goes Much Deeper Than Catalonia

Tim Hinchliffe4 years ago

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Wikileaks editor Julian Assange loses his internet connection through a tricky twist of Tweets, but it wasn't just about Catalonia;...

Social Media

Digital Colonialism: Facebook’s agenda to limit connectivity in developing countries

Tim Hinchliffe6 years ago

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Facebook has been working hard to spread its influence to developing nations; however, it's not about providing access to all of...

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.