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Sarito Carroll breaks her silence about the abuse she suffered as a child at Rajneeshpuram, the cult community of Baghwan …
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People I knew thought he was like God and read all his books. Somehow I knew he was OFF. He arranged marriages. Not healthy.
I'm glad this is coming out.
Her irresponsible parents left her alone with a bunch of hippies. Why so much focus on Osho?
This doesn’t seem out of ordinary compared to the larger culture… we have a president who is guilty of rape, corruption, misconduct to the tune of 34 felonies and yet he stands in front of us making promises of prosperity, love, and freedom… meanwhile people ignore, make excuses, and actively try and lie to cover up trumps abuses. People miss the point thinking this is the behavior of some strange foreign cult.
I grew up in Madras Oregon during that time and I remember the rajneesh. My brother and I would see them in town walking around and would talk to each other about how they seemed drugged. Then after watching that documentary bottom I found out they were putting halcy on in the water out there on the muddy ranch. There was nothing good about that cult
He never had any children. Why lie?
Religije su obmane ….
Sad and verey tragic and sad everyone stood around and aloud this to happen someone needs helled acountable 😊
my father was in it, 1st in Poona India, and then went to usa, and used by them to build the plumbing. It attracted wealthy pedos and rapists. He told me the women/mothers, were encouraged to have condom sex, with a new man, EVERY DAY! Children were abused. When i met his Rashneeshi gf's children, they play acted sex acts in front of me when i was eleven and they were only 2 & 3 – lead by the older girl – who's whole short lives were seriously ruined. It scarred me and luckily i stayed in Australia. Then there was a commune in Pemberton Western Australia and Sheila also ran that, and said "tough titties" to our local media to their presence 😮 I could say more but there is no point, as you can imagine. They were run like a cult, all worked 1 week in kitchen, then laindry, and kids separated and were brain-washed/conditioned every night watching the manipulator entertain them on video or live. But at least daily between the work, encounters fing, and sat sangs
Wow, was this the same guru as Osho?!
It wasn’t a cult.
Horrific what this woman experienced as a young girl. Her "enlightened" parents completely abandoned her and allowed her to be sexually abused and exploited. So disgusting. So many of Osho's followers seem so arrogant and ignorant of what happened. I've known a bunch of former Osho followers over the years. They lived in the community in India and also lived in the Oregon community. I've heard a lot of stories about life there. It's good that this is coming out. It must be so painful for her to go back and tell her story. Painful but necessary and healing and I'm sure more abuses will come to light from others. What's weird is that I had an experience with an ex Osho man who is in my community. We've been aquaintances for years and he was kind to me following a surgery I had. We had a brief sexual affair that became so weird and disturbing to me. I'm an elder woman and I felt used by this man. A far cry from being a young girl without a mother or anyone to protect her.
It’s important to hear her tragic story and path to healing. The people who abused her and ignored her plight are sick and criminally negligent. It’s horrific to realize how many religions and religious people have hidden or condoned those who sexually abuse boys and girls.
Thank you ❤️
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I'm very saddened and angered to hear about Sarito. However, it was never a cult. I can understand why people thought so. I never went to Oregon but was a sannyasin in the UK. I had to ask to join and show that I'd been meditating for about a year and had read some of Bhagwan's books and was genuinely interested to join. Cults, as I understand it, recruit people so I certainly wasn't recruited. We were free to come and go as we pleased if we visited any of the centres in the UK. Nobody forced us to join and nobody minded if we left. In fact, sometimes Bhagwan told sannyasins at his commune in Poona and the ranch in Oregon to leave if he felt they needed to go or if they were disruptive. I chose to wear the red clothes and the mala as it was a requirement for becoming a sannyasin. I could have chosen not to bother and gone elsewhere. NO MONEY was given to anyone by me. There were no rules as such, just meditate and wear the colours of the rising sun. If we didn't, nobody was any the wiser or cared, to be honest. We lived quiet lives in Bournemouth, meditating and celebrating the joy of having Bhagwan as a master. Now and again we'd visit the Suffolk commune, mainly for celebrations like Bhagwan's birthday. Gays and women were celebrated, a very rare thing for religious/spiritual movements and Bhagwan was the very first public figure in the world to suggest all sannyasins, gay or straight or bi or whatever wore condoms during sex in the wake of AIDS. He was a charismatic leader but by the time I joined he had gone into silence and the dreadful Sheela with her crazy ideas was his spokesperson. SHE made a cult. I was very suspicious of her and called it Sheela's Cult. Bhagwan was kept in the dark and drugged to keep him quiet, I understand. He was opposed to organised religions and cults.
You give all of us who have survived sexual abuse validation and courage-thank you🙏 Your authenticity shines through and I wish you the best in life going forward💛
Sarito, you are brave, beautiful, and worthy of a good life. You have nothing to be ashamed of. You also deserve at the very least an apology from those guarding Osho's legacy. Please continue your path of healing and sharing your story. It's important.
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I had a friend who was there with her little girl, who saw more than she should ever have seen at that age.
Rajneesh's way was always centered around individual adults' growth, separation, freedom, individual seeking. It was not designed for married people. The best course for her parents would have been to give her away to another loving accepting family outside of the commune. And if she chose to accept the original parents and the ways of the commune, she would have returned. It is horrible what has happened with her. And the parents are at fault completely for prioritizing their own seeking and needs above her protection. But truth is – they had abandoned her when choosing this pathway to live themselves. It is extremely saddening what has happened with her. Leave your children if you are not fit for them.
What a nice man at the museum
As a former kid of this cult, Sarito’s story is very familiar to me. She is so brave to tell her story and help bring the truth to light.
I would never agree with a spiritual statement that sexuality is divine. LOVE is divine, which is not the same. Love through heart, not through genitals.
Oh she was 12. Geesh, I thought she said 20 at first. This is awful