The Mystic Sixties/: "reden ist silber, schweigen ist ..."

[Otto]

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Subject: re: The Mystic Sixties/: "reden ist silber, schweigen ist ..."
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>
> Otto quoted:
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> > "Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and
> > the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius" by Gary Lachman.
>
> > How did a decade of love and peace end in Altamont and the Manson Family
> > bloodbath?
>
> >
> > " ... the moment of destiny
> > from which I for one was glad to escape alive" - Marianne Faithfull
>
> > The 1960s ... the rise of a powerful current that permeated pop culture
> > and has been a  central influence on it ever since. It was a magical
> > revolution - a revival of the occult. Previously rejected and ridiculed
> > beliefs took centre stage, reaching the Beatles and the Rolling Stones,
> > saturating the hippies and flower power ... But the vibes went bad,
> > the auras darkened. Did that darker undercurrent win out?
>
>
>   + moin otto,
>
>   here come some sentences from your former guru:
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>   "rebellion is a very silent phenomenon that will go on spreading without
>   making any noise and without even leaving any footprints behind. it will
>   move from heart to heart in deep silences, and the day it has reached to
>   millions f people without any bloodshed, just the understanding of those
>  millions of people will change our old primitive animalistic ways."
>  (osho rajneesh)
>
>   now tell us an ashram story or two!
>
>   kai°  //:: ps. of course these things did not come out of nothing. for
>             california see especially -- 'john carter': sex and rockets.
>             the occult world of jack parsons. introduction by robert anton
>             wilson. venice 1999: feral house. -
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>

Kai,

the world has turned since then.

Mostly I liked Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho) for his jokes:
http://www.globalserve.net/~sarlo/Jokes1.htm

Mulla Nasrudin was talking to his friends in the teahouse about the new
preacher. "That man," said the Mulla, "is the talkingest person in the
world. And he can't be telling the truth all the time. There just is not
that much truth."
http://www.oshoworld.com/jokes/archive.asp?tod=198&id=197&Nav=P

I've never been to India. And it turned out that in the end he was wrong in
many things, isn't it? His "club" just became part of the esoterics
industry.

But I still like many of those people who once were associated with him, for
example Rupam. The initials of his "real" name are ET, nothing could be more
true:
http://www.rupam.de/frame.htm

Love & Peace

Otto