Tupe claims that he undertook the attack, because he believed Osho to be an agent of the CIA.

Osho believed such cathartic methods were necessary, since it was difficult for modern people to just sit and enter meditation.

Especially after his move to the United States, Osho became increasingly critical of homosexuality and also believed that homosexuality created or caused AIDS, though it is unclear what he believed about the concrete biological mechanism by which a sexual orientation may create a contagious virus.

Osho had said as early as 1964 that " the third and last war is now on the way " and frequently spoke of the need to create a " new humanity " to avoid global suicide.

In March 1984, Sheela announced that Osho had predicted the death of two-thirds of humanity from AIDS.

Honor Blackman, notable for her appearances in the James Bond film Goldfinger and the TV series The Avengers, was born in Plaistow, as were actor Jimmy Akingbola and comedienne, actor, and playwright Andi Osho.

Osho ( 11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990 ), born Chandra Mohan Jain, and also known as Acharya Rajneesh from the 1960s onwards, as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh during the 1970s and 1980s and as Osho from 1989, was an Indian mystic, guru, and spiritual teacher who garnered an international following.

Osho was deported from the United States in accordance with a plea bargain.

Osho was born Chandra Mohan Jain, the eldest of eleven children of a cloth merchant, at his maternal grandparents ' house in Kuchwada ; a small village in the Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh state in India.

Osho was profoundly affected by his grandfather's death, and again by the death of his childhood girlfriend and cousin Shashi from typhoid when he was 15, leading to a preoccupation with death that lasted throughout much of his childhood and youth.

Osho later said he became spiritually enlightened on 21 March 1953, when he was 21 years old, in a mystical experience while sitting under a tree in the Bhanvartal garden in Jabalpur.

A few later said that, while Osho was not directly involved, they discussed such plans and activities with him in darshan and he gave his blessing.

By the latter 1970s, the Poona ashram was too small to contain the rapid growth and Osho asked that somewhere larger be found.

Conflicts with various Indian religious leaders aggravated the situation — by 1980 the ashram had become so controversial that Indira Gandhi, despite a previous association between Osho and the Indian Congress Party dating back to the sixties, was unwilling to intercede for it after her return to power.

A public statement by Sheela indicated that Osho was in grave danger if he remained in India, but would receive appropriate medical treatment in America if he were to require surgery.

It was renamed " Rancho Rajneesh " and Osho moved there on 29 August.

Commune administrators tried to resolve Osho's own difficulty in this respect by declaring him the head of a religion, " Rajneeshism ": in November 1981 Osho applied for residence as a religious worker, which was refused on the grounds that he could not lead a religion while unwell and in silence.

Sheela later stated that Osho took sixty milligrams of Valium each day and was addicted to nitrous oxide.

Osho had coached Sheela in using media coverage to her advantage and during his period of public silence he privately stated that when Sheela spoke, she was speaking on his behalf.

According to the testimony of Swami Devageet ( Charles Harvey Newman ) she was admonished in front of the others, with Osho declaring that his house, and not hers, was the centre of the commune.

On 30 September 1985, Osho denied that he was a religious teacher.

Osho stated that because he was in silence and isolation, meeting only with Sheela, he was unaware of the crimes committed by the Rajneeshpuram leadership until Sheela and her " gang " left and sannyasins came forward to inform him.

Nevertheless Gordon ( 1987 ) reports that Charles Turner, David Frohnmayer and other law enforcement officials, who had surveyed affidavits never released publicly and who listened to hundreds of hours of tape recordings, insinuated to him that Osho was guilty of more crimes than those for which he was eventually prosecuted.

Osho was indicted on thirty-five counts in Multnomah County, Oregon on 28 October 1985: charges included immigration violations and making false statements on his visa application.

On 28 October 1985, Osho and a small number of sannyasins accompanying him were arrested aboard a rented Learjet at a North Carolina airstrip ; according to federal authorities the group was en route to Bermuda to avoid prosecution.

According to Osho, only persons with appropriate qualifications should be allowed to vote.

* The Osho Tarot calls this card Inner Voice and depicts it as a quiet person with a circle face in her center, holding a crystal in both hands and surrounded by two dolphins, a crescent-moon crown, and water.

* The lifestyle of Osho ( Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh ) with his 93 Rolls Royces at his disposal ( though as a gift from his followers ), a bioterrorist attack at The Dalles, Oregon by some of his followers, the group's successful effort to take control of the city of Antelope, Oregon, his unusual teachings that contradicted both traditional morality and Hindu norms, the group therapy sessions with little restraints, and the liberal sexual freedom that he promoted.

Osho became an anti-theist, took an interest in hypnosis and briefly associated with socialism and two Indian nationalist organisations: the Indian National Army and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

In evening darshans, Osho conversed with individual disciples or visitors and initiated disciples (" gave sannyas ").

On 10 April 1981, having discoursed daily for nearly 15 years, Osho entered a three-and-a-half-year period of self-imposed public silence, and satsangs — silent sitting with music and readings from spiritual works such as Khalil Gibran's The Prophet or the Isha Upanishad — replaced discourses.

According to court testimony by Ma Ava ( Ava Avalos ), a prominent disciple, Sheela played associates a tape recording of a meeting she had had with Osho about the " need to kill people " in order to strengthen wavering sannyasins resolve in participating in her murderous plots: " She came back to the meeting and [...] began to play the tape.

On 23 October 1985, a federal grand jury issued a thirty-five-count indictment charging Osho and several other disciples with conspiracy to evade immigration laws.

According to Osho every human being is a Buddha with the capacity for enlightenment, capable of unconditional love and of responding rather than reacting to life, although the ego usually prevents this, identifying with social conditioning and creating false needs and conflicts and an illusory sense of identity that is nothing but a barrier of dreams.

Osho aimed to create a " new man " combining the spirituality of Gautama Buddha with the zest for life embodied by Nikos Kazantzakis ' Zorba the Greek: " He should be as accurate and objective as a scientist ... as sensitive, as full of heart, as a poet ... as rooted deep down in his being as the mystic.

Osho also spoke in favor of euthanasia of children with a broad variety of birth defects such as blindness, deafness, and dumbness.

This is hosted by Arthur Smith on Radio 4 Extra, with occasional relief presenter Andi Osho.

Nirmala Srivastava was known to have been concerned with the damage being done to society by ' false gurus ' and because of this visited a meditation camp in Nargol that was presided over by Rajneesh ( later known as Osho ).

Hindu groups which have presence in Russia are ISKCON, Brahma Kumari, Ramakrishna Mission, Ananda Marga, the organizations associated with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Sahaja Yoga, Chinmaya Mission, Satya Sai Baba and Osho Rajneesh.

Rajneeshpuram, Oregon was an intentional community in Wasco County, Oregon, briefly incorporated as a city in the 1980s, which was populated with followers of the spiritual teacher Osho, then known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.

In the United States, following a 10-year legal battle with Osho Friends International ( OFI ), the OIF lost their exclusive rights over the trademark OSHO in January 2009.