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Blaming the victim: what really influences our sense of control and culpability in society

Sam Brake Guia4 years ago

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More than swiping right: How these 36 questions can result in love between strangers

Sam Brake Guia4 years ago

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Efficiency is a wonderful thing. By streamlining a process we can make something quicker, easier and more effective. Why wait in...

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Sam Brake Guia4 years ago

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‘Selfitis’: Obsessive selfie taking as a real disorder and the fake news stories that inspired its research

Sam Brake Guia4 years ago

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We can all relate to one person on our news feeds that loves taking selfies just a little too much....

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Ego Depletion: do we have a finite amount of self-control in all of us?

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Staying motivated is a struggle we can all relate to. Going to the gym, eating healthy or staying late to...

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Living In an Urban Jungle: How Cities are Impacting our Brains and Sleep

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In the early 20th century, we witnessed an incredible turning point within society. By 1920, more Americans lived in cities...

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Tinder as a tranquilizer for our 5 most primordial fears

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Seventy percent of Tinder users never meet up with people they meet on the online dating platform, and about 40%...

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Bombs for bullets: Why are mass shooting suspects almost never taken alive?

Tim Hinchliffe6 years ago

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Why is it that mass shooting suspects are almost never taken alive? Here we analyze police training, psychological profiles, and...

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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.