THE INVESTIGATIONS MADE BY WIN MCCORMACK ABOUT OSHO

Win McCormack is a renowned American journalist from the state of Oregon, that is, precisely the state where took place the conflicts with the Osho community and the United States, and therefore he was able to investigate this organization very closely, interviewing witnesses, analyzing the trials and following the events that took place.

The investigative coverage made by McCormack and his equip of the Rajneeshee movement was awarded a William Allen White Commendation from the University of Kansas and the City and Regional Magazine Association.

And later, in the year 1987, Win McCormack published the book “The Rajneesh Chronicles“, which is a compilation of the articles they wrote.

About this book, Win McCormack says:

« The Rajneesh Chronicles is a collection of in-depth investigative articles, originally published in Oregon Magazine, covering the time from the cult’s arrival in Oregon in 1981 to its dramatic disintegration at the end of 1985. This second edition of the definitive text on the Rajneesh cult includes an introductory chronology that extends the story up to the present time.

While most press treated the cult’s antics as a humorous sideshow typified by the Bhagwan’s dozens of Rolls-Royces, Oregon Magazine's editor-in-chief Win McCormack and the magazine’s other writers systematically exposed the full range of the Rajneeshees’ depraved behavior, including their involvement in prostitution and international drug smuggling, sexual exploitation of children, attempted poisoning of local government officials and over 700 voters, abuse of the homeless, and the use of brainwashing techniques that bordered on torture.

The tale of the Rajneesh has become an amorphous legend few inside or outside of Oregon actually understand. The Rajneesh Chronicles fully illuminates the shocking reality behind that legend. »

And Win McCormack also posted several of those articles on the internet that you can read (here).

·        Bhagwan’s Devious Trap

·        Memoirs of an Ex-Sannyasin

·        Bhagwan’s Death Wish

·        Antelope’s Last Stand

·        Range War: The Disciples Come to Antelope

·        A Mind’s Eye View of 1984

·        The Human Potential Movement Gone Awry

·        Bhagwan’s Jewish Problem

·        A Beautiful Place for an Ashram

·        Valley of Death? The Rajneesh Cult Turns to Arms

·        The Attempted Takeover of Wasco County

·        Bhagwan’s Bottom Line

·        Bhagwan’s Final Year

·        Bhagwan’s Sexism

·        Bhagwan’s Mind Control

·        Last Year at Rajneeshpuram?

·        Rajneesh’s Police State

·        The Rise and Fall of the Rajneesh Cult

·        Bhagwan’s Rich Folk

·        Outside the Limits of the Human Imagination