The Cult that Poisoned an Oregon Town

Deconversion Therapy

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Religion & Spirituality, Documentary, Religion, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.9 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Bonnie and Karen talk about the sex cult called the Rajneesh this week. If you haven’t watched the Netflix documentary Wild Wild Country, Bonnie goes over it while trying to capture the insanity. Bagwan Shree Rajneesh, the guru, gathers up well-educated Western followers in Pune, India. They then all move, with his Rolls Royces, to Antelope, Oregon. That’s when they take over the small town and things go to hell. This story has orgies, robes, beavers in blenders and on women, bombs, poison, salad bars. It seems like a fictitious story, but it’s very real. Karen tells her own story of being a missionary in India and visiting the Rajneesh ashram with hopes that her presence and under-her-breath prayers will slay the devil and they’ll all repent.

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0:00.0	I'm trying to get hyped up and broken up.
0:13.2	You're woke.
0:17.1	So welcome.
0:19.6	Welcome to Deconversion Therapy, the podcast. That's Karen laughing. And that's Bonnie, not laughing. We started this podcast. Gosh, this is episode 22-ish. That's crazy.
0:38.1	I know.
0:39.1	And we have been laughing all our lives about everything appropriate and non-appropriate and at the wrong times and occasionally the right times.
0:49.9	And it's gotten us through a lot of horseshit.
0:56.2	I guess.
0:57.6	But it's also, we just would laugh for the hell of it when we were bored.
1:02.3	So it's gotten us through a lot of stuff, you know.
1:06.2	And this.
1:07.7	Good times, bad times, boring times.
1:10.6	That's it. My breakup with Bread Pit, it got us through.
1:16.1	Lots of hard, hard things that I've gone through. You know what we do? We live, love, laugh.
1:23.8	That's right. I'm sorry. Okay, so. Tell me. Go ahead. So that's what I was going to say. Deconversion
1:35.6	therapy is for anyone who just wants to laugh at things, especially anything that touches religion.
1:43.5	So although we grew up evangelical Christians, we both don't prescribe to that.
1:51.6	That's right.
1:52.6	Anymore.
1:53.5	But Christians listen to this, and so do Catholics.
1:58.4	It's my ongoing joke since we were told Catholics weren't Christians.
2:03.3	But you know what? The thing is, like, there's so much funny stuff to be mine from organized
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