Hey there! I love the name you have chosen, and wish you had an avatar to go with it. I am attaching one you are welcome to take, if you wish. (And yes, this is a detail of the cover of L. Ron Hubbard’s pulp novel “The Chee-Chalker.”)

Just right click on the image below and “Save As” with any title you like on your desktop or in a file.

Then click on your existing avatar, and choose the Edit function. In the gray bar that runs down the left hand side there is a tab for the Avatar. Click on that and choose the first option. Select the image you saved and it will appear on all your posts.

Or don’t. It’s your choice!

Understood. This is a free country. 🙂 Glad to meet you here.

Thanks for the answer. I won’t be checking out his e-books, though, because I really don’t believe in that stuff.

No. I still don’t understand them all the way. When I finished my book about my time there I was meditating about it all and realized that he may have bought them all just to tie up Sheila’s funds with the ashram. So that she could not take take the ashram over after he died — he was very weak. He knew he was dying. He told some friends of mine who were part of his inner circle that the ashram was not what he had planned it to be. The recordings of that Darshan (meeting with the Master) were conveniently lost by the audio/video group (controlled by Sheila).

I’m sure there are other reasons… One being it was so outrageous that people are still talking about it. And curious about his work. His organization gives all his books away for FREE at http://www.oshoworld.com (e-books). He could have lived and died as an Indian mystic, and instead he made a real dent in the world. Even the Dalai Lama and Deepak Chopra honor him as an Enlightened Master. He was amazing. Go see a few videos that have been posted on YouTube. If you don’t like the, then never listen to one again. If you do like them you have found a wonderful treasure chest of fathomless love and understanding.

I took sanyasi in 1979. It was amazing. The first time I had experienced love. Unconditional love.

I got to Sciectology in 2000 or 2001. My business (screenwriting) was not doing well – people were stealing my stuff and I decided that I needed to go to business school to see what I was missing. A friend sent me to CCI in LA. I had also just lost my younger brother who died from alcoholism. I couldn’t stop crying for years. When I got to Scientology and auditing I began to realize that his death was stirring up a lot of the family dynamics we grew up in. He went to alcohol to solve it, I went to god. He succumbed at 47 (he was a virtuoso guitarist) and I loved him very much. When I started to make some money and could pay for auditing that first auditing was magic. It helped me to see my brother’s death from a different point of view and be grateful I had him as a brother. And it also helped me to see and totally release the controlling family dynamic that had tormented me all my life. It was amazing. That’s why I continued for several years.

I never considered Scientology to be a religion. It was good self help. I was with a field group — I didn’t go to the org for auditing. There was nothing spiritual about my experiences there. Nothing exalted. I had spent the previous 5 years singing in Della Reese’s choir. Now THAT was a spiritual experience.

Every cell in my body hopes this becomes a reality. He’s gotten away with tooooo much for way tooooo long. The internet has been his downfall and his complete denial that anyone else can have an opinion or disagree with his opinion. How fantastic that those former executives testified in public Court rooms. His insanity is ALL over the internet for all to see.

So, you were in scientology before that? Or after?

The emperor has no clothes, and no comprehension of how deep he’s in shit with wog laws because he’s always been able to avoid the worst — in the past. It’s a new ballgame, and he hasn’t realized how deep he is in the shit storm is.

Maybe this is the reason why the good Judge Wally (by name and by nature) Jefferson stepped down as chief justice. The psychosis has done its job. This is hilarious, and may i add my research to your research, !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Even more exCLAMation points. Lets fill the page with research.