Ebook: The Rajneesh Chronicles: the True Story of the Cult That Unleashed the First Act of Bioterrorism on U.S. Soil

Foreword : the biggest criminal conspiracy in the history of Oregon -- Chronology of the Rajneesh cult -- The chronicles. Articles from Oregon magazine 1981-1985 -- Range war : the disciples come to Antelope -- Sagebrush gothic : Antelope's last stand -- Zorba the baker -- Sleeping with the Bhagwan -- Painting Oregon red -- Cultivating cultists -- Raising a red flag -- Bhagwan bucks -- Burnin' desire -- Bhagwan's Jewish problem -- Last year at Rajneeshpuram -- Bhagwan's escape from India -- Death of a dream : memoirs of an ex-sannyasin -- Bhagwan's hypnotic spell -- A mind's eye view of 1984 -- Bhagwan's mind control -- Sex : Bhagwan's greatest trick -- Bhagwan's flock -- Bhagwan's devious trap -- Rajneesh's pseudo-religion -- Checkpoint Central Oregon : Rajneesh's police state -- Valley of death : the Rajneesh cult turns to arms -- The will of Bhagwan : drugs and prostitution -- Ticking time bomb -- Bhagwan's death wish -- Rajneesh and money : Bhagwan's bottom line I -- Rajneesh and money : Bhagwan's bottom line II -- The land-use issue : Bhagwan's law-stretching I -- The land-use issue : Bhagwan's law-stretching II -- Bhagwan's strange eugenics -- Bhagwan's child rearing -- Bhagwan's drug runners I -- Bhagwan's drug runners II -- Bhagwan's power : the human potential movement gone awry -- Bhagwan's biggest gamble : the attempted takeover of Wasco County -- Bhagwan's medical corporation I -- Bhagwan's medical corporation II -- Ma prem hasya -- Is the end near? -- Bhagwan's final year -- Articles written after the implosion of the Rajneesh cult -- Bhagwan's sexism -- Bhagwan's rich folk -- The Rajneesh theft of the Church of Religious Science of Laguna Beach -- Afterword : how close was disaster? -- Appendix 1 : the anti-semitism letters -- Appendix 2 : the town that was poisoned -- Appendix 3 : the Rajneesh cast of characters.;The Rajneesh Chronicles is a collection of in-depth investigative and analytical articles published in Oregon Magazine covering the establishment of the city of Rajneeshpuram in Central Oregon in mid-1981 to its dramatic disintegration at the end of 1985. While most press treated the Rajneeshees' antics as a humorous sideshow typified by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh's dozens of Rolls-Royces, editor in chief Win McCormack and other of the magazine's writers systematically exposed the full range of the cult's depraved behavior, including its involvement in prostitution and international dr.