The author with her mother and sister when her mother first came back from the India ashram. She's wearing the black-beaded Bhagwan mala and sunset colors.Courtesy of Ronit Plank My mother left me ...

The caption to a picture in the book The Sound of Running Water, a history of the Shree Rajneesh Ashram in Pune (Poona), India, during the 1970s, refers to “the unholy trinity of Arup, Laxmi and ...

Sarah T., a body therapist who had been practicing in California, went to the Shree Rajneesh Ashram in Pune in June 1978, after reading some of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh’s books and attending workshops ...

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My mother left me twice to go live in an ashram, once when I was 6 and then again when I was 12. When I was an adult, she told me her leader felt children were obstacles. After finding out how kids ...