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Gaming

Potatoes to teach coding and solve STEM skills gap

Ben Allen5 years ago

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As the tech sector needs more people who can code and the education system catches up, kids games are the...

Technology

Why we need to develop AI to explain AI

Luke Taylor5 years ago

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Business Technology

What smart cities look like outside the US

Omar Elorfaly5 years ago

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Mobile

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Tasha Bronitska5 years ago

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Business

How Big Data, Business Intelligence and Analytics Are Fueling Mobile Apps

Arun Goyal5 years ago

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Mobile

7 Mobile App Development Trends That Are Happening Now

Alina Kem5 years ago

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Business

Why character counts and characters count for Mirror.co & it should for your business too

Daniel Mattio10 years ago

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The Mirror's (mirror.co) founder, Daniel Mattio, tells us why every single detail counts for start-ups and why the smallest character can help develop a strong character.

Business

483 Versions. The truth about how awesome products are made

Bronson Taylor10 years ago

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Bronson Taylor is the co-founder of Iconify, the portfolio app creation service, which just left private beta. He tells us how his start-up got to this stage and where it is going from here.

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.