My life in orange
growing up with the guru
Guest, Tim
creator
London
Profile Books Ltd
c2018
297 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
In 1981 Tim Guest was taken by his mother to a commune in a small village in Suffolk. It was modeled on the teachings of the famous Indian "guru," Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, who preached an eclectic doctrine of Eastern mysticism, chaotic therapy, and sexual freedom. Both were given Sanskrit names, dressed entirely in orange and instructed to abandon their former identities completely. Tim - or Yogesh, as he was now known - spent the rest of his childhood in Bhagwan's various communes in England, Oregon, Pune, and Cologne. While his mother meditated, chanted and ran therapy groups, Yogesh lived a life of unsupervised freedom, occasionally catching glimpses of the strange behavior of the adults around him. In 1985 the movement collapsed after Bhagwan's arrest, and Yogesh was once again Tim, about to start life at a secondary school in North London, along with the secret of his extraordinary childhood. In his first book, now in a new edition, Guest describes the other-worldly experience of growing up in an environment of unsupervised freedom and often disturbing adult behavior.
Tim Guest
Osho, 1931-1990
Cult
Guest, Tim, 1975
Childhood and youth
Collective settlements
Children
Religious life
Great Britain
Rajneeshees
Great Britain
Biography
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