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. »
·
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
