the City of Rajneeshpuram on the violation of the Constitutional separation of Church and State.ġ985 (October 28): Rajneesh was arrested in Charlotte NC, while attempting to flee the USA.ġ985 (November 2): Rajneesh pleaded no contest to two counts of immigration fraud and left the USA.ġ985 (December 12): Rajneesh embarked on a “World Tour” with members of his inner circle, seeking to establish an Ashram in Western Europe, South America or North India.ġ986: Sheela was extradited from Germany. He invited state and federal authorities to Rajneeshpuram investigate his charges.ġ985 (October 28): The Federal District Court in Oregon ruled in favor of the State in the State of Oregon v. The Mayor of Rajneeshpuram later became a federal witness.ġ985 (September 16): Rajneesh publicly accused Sheela of attempted murders, masterminding the 1984 poisonings in the Dalles, mistreatment of devotees and bomb plots. Rajneeshees boycott the county election and within a month less than 50 homeless individuals remained at Rajneeshpuram.ġ985 (September 13): Sheela and members of her inner circle fled from Rajneeshpuram.
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This was a test of a plan to poison local salad bars in order to incapacitate anti-Rajneesh voters in he November county election.ġ984 (October 13): The Oregon Secretary of State instituted a special process to interview applicants for new voter registration in Wasco County. Salmonella that was sprinkled over salad bars sickened over 750 individuals in the Wasco County seat, the Dalles.
Devotees claimed that the Share-A-Home initiative demonstrated how people could be rehabilitated.ġ984 (September): Rajneeshees initiated the single largest bioterrorist attack on US soil. There were also residential centers and businesses in or near major Western European and American cities.ġ981: July 10: Ma Anand Sheela, Rajneesh’s personal secretary, represented Rajneesh and purchased 64,229 Big Muddy Ranch in Central Oregon for $5.9 million USD and Bhagwan arrived six weeks later.ġ981 (October): The Big Muddy was incorporated as Rajneeshpuram.ġ981: Citing state land use laws, thousands of Friends of Oregon, a public interest group with considerable support from Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman, filed a lawsuit against the incorporation.ġ982: Rajneeshees settled in Antelope, the small town closest to Rajneeshpuram, which is eighteen miles away and they won the municipal elections, effectively taking over the town.ġ983 (October): Oregon Attorney General David Frohnmayer issued an opinion and filed a lawsuit challenging the incorporation of Rajneeshpuram because of the violation of the Constitutional separation of Church and State.ġ984 (July): Rajneesh began lecturing to a small group called the Chosen Few, breaking the silence and seclusion that began inġ984 (September): National media sent crews to cover over 2,000 homeless individuals, primarily men, who were recruited and bused into Rajneeshpuram. 1931: Osho/Bhagwan was born as Mohan Chandra Rajneesh in Kuchwada on the Indian plains.ġ953: Rajneesh experienced spiritual enlightenment under a tree in the Bhanvartal Garden, Jabalpur.ġ958-1966: Rajneesh received an appointment and moved from Lecturer to Professor (1960) at Jabalpur University.ġ966: Rajneesh resigned from Jabalpur University and assumes the title Acharya (Teacher), after his backers established an educational trust to support lectures and rural meditation camps.ġ970: Rajneesh formally initiated his first disciples).ġ971: Rajneesh first called himself Bhagwan (enlightened one) Shree Rajneesh.ġ974: The Shree Rajneesh Ashram was established in Pune.ġ977: The worldwide Rajneesh Movement peaked at approximately 25,000 active devotees.