Here's an excellent interview with Nicola Ranson a former "Sannyasin" of the Rajneesh commune in Oregon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=YoGoOpcujEg
During my time in Yelm I met some wonderful former devotees of this Cult who found refuge in RSE following the collapse of
their massive Utopian commune soon after their cult leader Osho was arrested and deported in 1985.
These events are depicted in the 2018 Netflix documentary series Wild Wild Country.
During this interview Nicola shares many powerful insights into the physiological conditioning that blindsided her critical thinking that she
dedicating her life to the teachings of Osho after moving to their commune in Oregon.
Especially powerful that Nicola is now a psychotherapist specializing in trauma and working with cult survivors
and served as adjunct faculty in National University's Counseling Psychology program for seventeen years and worked with Survivors of Torture International, San Diego.
And more recently wrote a book titled "A Slice of Orange: loving and leaving the Osho Rajneesh cult
https://nicolaranson.org/a-slice-of-orange/
A Slice of Orange – loving and leaving the Osho/Rajneesh cult. May 11, 2025
Writer and Trauma Therapist NICOLA RANSON joined the Rajneesh sect in the 1970s, hoping to make the world a better place. What she found was hypocrisy and scandal at the hands of the group's leader - the guru, Osho.
MARK from Talk Beliefs dives into the world of Osho and the commune in Oregon known as Rajneeshpuram, and how thousands of people from all over the world were convinced that wearing orange and gyrating daily would save the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=YoGoOpcujEg