Surviving Wild Wild Country: Erin Robbins Speaks Out On Osho Horrors
A Little Bit Culty
Sarah Edmondson & Anthony “Nippy” Ames
4.6 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2022
⏱️ 82 minutes
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We took zero breaks between seasons because we need you to hear this episode. Erin Robbins wasn’t featured in Wild Wild Country, the 2018 Netflix Docuseries about Bhagawan Shree Rajneesh, also known as Osho. She lived it in real-time. She discovered the controversial guru’s teachings at age 23 in 1977, and by the time he summoned her to his bedroom a year later for a ‘special and secret’ meeting that quickly devolved into a vile and violating encounter (the first of many) she thought he was the greatest spiritual master who’d ever walked the planet. Erin disregarded her father, the co-founder, and owner of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream company, risking her family connection and inheritance in order to follow a man who would eventually lead his disciples into a world of murders, mass poisonings, and the gross sexual violation of children. After nearly 45 years of staying quiet, Erin is sharing her story after waking up just a year ago. This episode is full of potentially triggering content related to child abuse, coerced sterilization, and sexual assault. It also contains a staggering amount of bravery. Here’s to the healing power of the truth.
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Erin Robbins, M.Ed. is an award-winning artist who lives in Northern California.
Website: erinrobbins.life
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| 0:00.0 | The views and opinions expressed by a little bit culty are those of the hosts |
| 0:04.1 | and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast. |
| 0:08.1 | Any content provided by our guests, bloggers, sponsors or authors |
| 0:12.1 | are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion, group, club, |
| 0:16.6 | organization, business individual, anyone or anything. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to a little bit culty, a podcast about what happens when something that |
| 0:33.8 | seems like a great thing at first goes to the dark side and takes you with it. |
| 0:38.3 | I'm your host, Sarah Edminson. |
| 0:40.0 | And I'm also your host, Anthony Ames, aka Nippy. |
| 0:43.0 | Sarah and I met, fell in love in a, quote, self-help organization that turned out to be |
| 0:47.5 | a mega cult cult nexium. |
| 0:50.2 | Heard of it? |
| 0:50.8 | We got out of there together and on our way out, we helped shut it down. |
| 0:54.6 | Our journey as nexium whistleblowers was captured in detail in a |
| 0:57.6 | docu-series called the vowel on HBO and also on the front page of a newspaper. |
| 1:02.4 | New York Times, babe. |
| 1:03.6 | Right. |
| 1:04.0 | Have you heard of it? |
| 1:04.8 | Each week on a little bit culty, we talk with other former cult members and whistleblowers, |
| 1:09.6 | plus experts in things like cultic abuse and coercive control. |
| 1:13.6 | We also turn the micover to advocates and clinicians with wisdom to share |
| 1:17.2 | on recovering from everything from MLMs and toxic religion to bad romances with raging |
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