Just saying that's the only one I heard of....hard to tell.
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It's like they fell through a crack in time. I'm reading about Oregon residents at the time who didn't know about it until recently, via some stories out shortly before this series.
Maybe it's fake news.
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I've heard of Osho. | OSHO | Meditation - Mindfulness and the Science of the Inner
No, that Maharasha fellow that the Beatles hung out with was the founder of Transcendental Meditation, Transcendental Meditation movement - Wikipedia which I learned in my teens, and still use, occasionally. I don't find it superior to any other meditation technique, nor particularly unique, and certainly not magical. But meditation remains a pretty vital part of a vibrant spiritual life, and it was certainly a gift that the Beatles helped to share with a frightened world (Cold War period).
No, that Maharasha fellow that the Beatles hung out with was the founder of Transcendental Meditation, Transcendental Meditation movement - Wikipedia which I learned in my teens, and still use, occasionally. I don't find it superior to any other meditation technique, nor particularly unique, and certainly not magical. But meditation remains a pretty vital part of a vibrant spiritual life, and it was certainly a gift that the Beatles helped to share with a frightened world (Cold War period).
No, the footage is real.
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There's way too much about it to support it, and very little out there to suggest it's not real. The documentary I would say has a bias in terms of what was shown vs. not, but I would be very surprised to hear that the overall information is fake.
For example - Salmonella Bioterrorism: 25 Years Later | Food Safety News
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There were children, just little coverage in the documentary. A very low rate of obesity doesn't surprise me, considering how things were run, I'm sure there were some who were too, but the footage of large amounts of people can make it hard to pick them out quickly. At any Indian meditation group at the time, I suspect obesity rates would also be low.
I did see some info that abortions and sterilization were encouraged, so that would reduce the number of children.
There's at least one book written by someone who was a child living with the group.
They had a vegetarian diet. And um, they seemed to get a lot of exercise, um, dancing and stuff.
As chemgal said, there were kids, it just wasn't encouraged. Some moved there with parents.
They were no normal Indian meditation group...nor a normal "ashram" (commune). For one, they were pro-capitalist materialism, apparently supported militancy in "self defense", they were quite hedonistic. The leaders were (the) anti-Gandhi.
As chemgal said, there were kids, it just wasn't encouraged. Some moved there with parents.
They were no normal Indian meditation group...nor a normal "ashram" (commune). For one, they were pro-capitalist materialism, apparently supported militancy in "self defense", they were quite hedonistic. The leaders were (the) anti-Gandhi.
Something tells me that, had this happened today, their punishments would be much harsher. The Australian woman interviewed - I think she definitely has remorse, though.
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Watched The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks on Crave.
I remember the first time I was working with mammalian cells and coming across HeLa cells for the first time wondering a little bit about the woman. Thinking I wouldn't want to be well known for a cancer likely caused by an STI and not much else. That was before much was out there about the actual person, early 2000s. I've since come across a fair bit about her, but enjoyed this too. I'll have to read the book sometime.
I remember the first time I was working with mammalian cells and coming across HeLa cells for the first time wondering a little bit about the woman. Thinking I wouldn't want to be well known for a cancer likely caused by an STI and not much else. That was before much was out there about the actual person, early 2000s. I've since come across a fair bit about her, but enjoyed this too. I'll have to read the book sometime.
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Thanks for the info
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I did not read all the threads. We loved Grace and Frankie and the Crown. There are others we hope to watch some time.
I hope to be able to watch any Netflix some time.
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I am on the second episode of Alias Grace and have enjoyed it so far. Caught up with Call the Midwife, still working my way through The Crown and Sherlock. I clearly tend toward British shows!
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Me, too. I'm dawdling through Call the Midwife, because I like it so well.
Watched "Lo and Behold: Reveries of the connected world", a documentary by Werner Herzog. He accomplished another amazing documentary - full of depth and meaning and humanness - about the past, present and future of internet technology, like only he could. He'd be what I might call a modern day prophet.
I've thought that he was a very special human being ever since my first introduction to the marvel that is Herzog. I saw the documentary about "The Making of Fitzcarraldo" - which was better than the movie, Fitzcarraldo - which chronicled Herzog's, and his cast and crew's adventures of completing the massive feat of shooting a film in the middle of the Amazon, and getting an antique river boat to the Amazon River - climbing through the jungle, and up and down muddy embankments - I think they had to take it apart along the way, and rebuild it, if I recall correctly - interacting with the native tribes there, shooting the film on the wild Amazon River. It was all quite dangerous. Jason Robards, the lead, got amebic dysentery and was replaced, by Klaus Kinsky, Mick Jagger dropped out to go on tour...but Herzog kept going. I think he started from scratch at least once. It was absolutely chaotic, but fascinating. I thought, "This man is totally off his rocker, but he has an imagination and a thirst for life that's amazing!" The completed movie, I think, was a flop...but the director is legendary.
I digress...I recommend both documentaries, but only "Lo and Behold..." is on Netflix.
I've thought that he was a very special human being ever since my first introduction to the marvel that is Herzog. I saw the documentary about "The Making of Fitzcarraldo" - which was better than the movie, Fitzcarraldo - which chronicled Herzog's, and his cast and crew's adventures of completing the massive feat of shooting a film in the middle of the Amazon, and getting an antique river boat to the Amazon River - climbing through the jungle, and up and down muddy embankments - I think they had to take it apart along the way, and rebuild it, if I recall correctly - interacting with the native tribes there, shooting the film on the wild Amazon River. It was all quite dangerous. Jason Robards, the lead, got amebic dysentery and was replaced, by Klaus Kinsky, Mick Jagger dropped out to go on tour...but Herzog kept going. I think he started from scratch at least once. It was absolutely chaotic, but fascinating. I thought, "This man is totally off his rocker, but he has an imagination and a thirst for life that's amazing!" The completed movie, I think, was a flop...but the director is legendary.
I digress...I recommend both documentaries, but only "Lo and Behold..." is on Netflix.
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