What follows is Corboy's speculation.
It would a valuable contribution if someone expert in analyzing trance induction could examine some of Rajneesh/Osho's lectures, and give a report.
Here is my amateur attempt to do so.
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a great recipe for zoning out.
It looks like a guided meditation, lots of repetitions.
Corboy: Lets look at the repetitions of certain words.
This talk is filled with repetitions.
What I find interesting is that Rajneesh repeats the word "door" three times. He says 'door' twice -
at the beginning of the talk and says 'door' for the third and last time at the very end of the talk.
We use a door to enter and exit a situation.
It is possible that Rajneesh leads the subjects into trance, the doorway, with the first mention of door. Perhaps he leads the subjects out of the trance, or partly out of it, when he mentions 'door' for the second and last time - toward the end of this talk.
Rajneesh begins:
(Friends, the ninth and last time Rajneesh refers to keys, he then refers not to the mala but to the locket -- the pendant on the mala that has Rajneesh's picture.
Now Rajneesh brings it all home with a punch. After suddenly
instilling anxiety with 'keys are always lost'
Raj for the first time gives the solution to the puzzle.
All through the talk, Raj refers to keys and doors.
But, something is missing.
A key opens a lock. But in this script, Raj has never mentioned lock.
But now he introduces the one word missing from the chain of cause and effect
Key-->Door
But Raj does it with a twist.
So this much can be said: use the locket, and you will know much.
Key-->Lock-->Door
Key-->Rajneesh/Beloved/Locket-->Door
All that I have said will be known, and more that I have not said will be known also.
He makes the mala, his picture, and the locket the ultimate solution in his
subjects' minds.
Keys close and open locks. Locks are used to close and secure stuff we treasure and consider important. Locks also hold captive. Locks make prisons.
And in the English language, "locket" has special meaning - a locket is where we keep a picture of someone we specially love and treasure.
Rajneesh was a highly educated man, a teacher at university level, before he entered the guru business. He knew English better than most of us do.
Al this is Corboy's hunch. I wish The Anticult were here.
TAC analyzed some of Byron Katie's material. TAC could have been very helpful in examining Rajneesh/Osho's output.
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It would a valuable contribution if someone expert in analyzing trance induction could examine some of Rajneesh/Osho's lectures, and give a report.
Here is my amateur attempt to do so.
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From Osho News Instructions on how to use the mala. To Corboy this sounds likeQuote
“Before I left for Pune [Poona, India], I was a very capable, articulate, professional woman,” claims Roselyn Smith, a forty-one-year-old social worker who was known as Ma Prem Sugatha when she followed the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. “When I got back I was in a totally hypnotic state. I was absolutely helpless.”
a great recipe for zoning out.
It looks like a guided meditation, lots of repetitions.
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The Mala is a Device for Meditation
Protection Quotes — 21 August 2015
You ask me, “Why this mala? Why this picture?”
I will say, “Use it in this way, and this will happen,” and my answer is as scientific as possible.
Religion never claims to be rational, the only claim is of being irrational.
(Corboy: this is merely an opionion. It is not fact - unless you are already
a disciple of Rajneesh.)
Osho and mala
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Use the mala in this way: meditate on the picture, then the picture will not be there.
It happens so.
Then the absent picture becomes a door.
Through that door communicate with me.
It happens so.
After doing meditation, take this mala off and feel, and then put this mala on and feel, and you will see the difference.
Without this mala you will feel totally unprotected, totally in the reins of a force which can be harmful. With this mala on you will feel protected, you will be more confident, settled. Nothing can disturb from the outside.
It happens so
you will do the experiment and know. Why it happens cannot even be answered scientifically. And religiously there is no question to answer. Religion never claims, that is why so many rituals of religion become irrelevant.
As time passes by, a very meaningful ritual will become meaningless, because keys are lost and no one can say why this ritual exists. Then it becomes just a dead ritual. You cannot do anything with it. You can perform it, but the key is lost. For example, you can go on wearing the mala, and if you do not know that the picture in it is meant for some inner communication, then it will be just a dead weight. Then the key is lost. The mala may be with you, but the key is lost. Then one day or another you will have to throw away the mala because it is useless.
The mala is a device for meditation. It is a key. But this will come only through experience. I can only help you toward the experience. And unless it happens, you will not know. But it can happen, it is so easy, it is not difficult at all. When I am alive, it is so easy. When I am not there, it will be very difficult.
All these statues that have existed on this earth were used as such devices, but now they are meaningless. Buddha declared that his statue should not be made. But the work that was done by statues still will have to be done. Although the statue is meaningless, the real thing is the work that can be done through it.
Those who follow Mahavira can communicate with Mahavira through his statue even today. So what should Buddha’s disciples do? That is why the Bodhi tree became so important; it was used instead of Buddha’s statue. For five hundred years after Buddha there was no statue. In the Buddhist temples only a picture of the Bodhi tree and two symbolic footprints were kept, but this was sufficient. That still continues. The tree that exists in Bodhgaya is in continuity with the original tree. So still today those who know the key can communicate with Buddha through the Bodhi tree at Bodhgaya. It is not just meaningless that monks from all over the world come to Bodhgaya. But they must know the key, otherwise they will just go and the whole thing will be just a ritual.
So these are keys – particular mantras chanted in a particular way, pronounced in a particular way, emphasized in a particular way with such-and-such frequencies. A wavelength should be created, the waves should be created. Then the Bodhi tree is not just a Bodhi tree; it becomes a passage, it opens a door. Then twenty-five centuries are no more, the time gap is not there. You come face to face with Buddha. But keys are always lost. So this much can be said: use the locket, and you will know much. All that I have said will be known, and more that I have not said will be known also.
Osho, I am the Gate, Ch 3, Q 2 (excerpt)
Corboy: Lets look at the repetitions of certain words.
This talk is filled with repetitions.
What I find interesting is that Rajneesh repeats the word "door" three times. He says 'door' twice -
at the beginning of the talk and says 'door' for the third and last time at the very end of the talk.
We use a door to enter and exit a situation.
It is possible that Rajneesh leads the subjects into trance, the doorway, with the first mention of door. Perhaps he leads the subjects out of the trance, or partly out of it, when he mentions 'door' for the second and last time - toward the end of this talk.
Rajneesh begins:
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Use the mala in this way: meditate on the picture, then the picture will not be there.
It happens so.
Then the absent picture becomes a door*. (door is repeated only a second time at the end of this talk.
Through that door* communicate with me.
It happens so.
After doing meditation, take this mala off and feel, and then put this mala on and feel, and you will see the difference.
Without this mala you will feel totally unprotected, totally in the reins of a force which can be harmful.
(Fear induction - Corboy)
With this mala on you will feel protected, you will be more confident, settled. Nothing can disturb from the outside.
It happens so;
you will do the experiment and know.
Why it happens cannot even be answered scientifically. And religiously there is no question to answer. Religion never claims, that is why so many rituals of religion become irrelevant.
Confusion induction - detaching people from former ties to religion and familiar rituals (Corboy hunch here)
As time passes by, a very meaningful ritual will become meaningless, because keys are lost1 and no one can say why this ritual exists. Then it becomes just a dead ritual. You cannot do anything with it. You can perform it, but the key is lost2.
For example, you can go on wearing the mala, and if you do not know that the picture in it is meant for some inner communication, then it will be just a dead weight. Then the key is lost3. The mala may be with you, but the key is lost4. Then one day or another you will have to throw away the mala because it is useless.
(Before this, Rajneesh gave the suggestion that the mala makes you feel protected, confident, settled. He also said "Without this mala you will feel totally unprotected, totally in the reins of a force which can be harmful. To say as he does here ' you will have to throw away the mala' 'the mala is useless'--this plants FEAR.
The mala is a device for meditation. It is a key.5 But this will come only through experience. I can only help you toward the experience.
(Rajneesh says the word 'key' for a sixth time and seventh time and an eight time-- and a ninth time. He does this further along in his talk
after he's stunned listeners with data overload.
And...when Rajneesh uses the word 'key' for the ninth and last time, he does something special, very special.)
(At the very moment Rajneesh speaks words to banish the fear he has elicited, he links himself to the mala. Fear followed by relief and gratitude -- that is a powerful combination.)
Corboy: After confusing the listener and detaching associations with past religions and familiar rituals, Rajneesh is making himself the only source of
focus and stability and tying this to the picture of him in the disciples mala.)
And unless it happens, you will not know. But it can happen, it is so easy, it is not difficult at all. When I am alive, it is so easy. When I am not there, it will be very difficult.
(More fear induction - while Rajneesh is alive comfort from the mala is easy, when he is gone, it will be more difficult. This ensures fear is part of the recipe for the attachment bond R instills in subjects.- Corboy's guess.)
All these statues that have existed on this earth were used as such devices, but now they are meaningless.
??(Corboy
Is this to detach subjects from meaningful associations they have formed with statues? This is very important. Statues hold ties to national and religious identity - the Statue of Liberty, Nelson's Statue in Trafalgar Square, statues of Jesus, Mary, saints, statues of Hindu, and Buddhist figures)
Buddha declared that his statue should not be made. But the work that was done by statues still will have to be done. Although the statue is meaningless, the real thing is the work that can be done through it.
Those who follow Mahavira can communicate with Mahavira through his statue even today. So what should Buddha’s disciples do?
(Rajneesh tied himself to Zorba the Buddha, conflating a popular book, a popular movie, and annexing buddhism for his own purposes. Here Rajneesh is linking himself to the buddhist heritage. Perhaps he is also exploiting the Tree of Life archetype, linking it to the Bodhi Tree - and to himself. As for Mahavira, Mahavira was an important figure in Jainism. Rajneesh was born into a Jain family. He talked about Mahavira a lot.
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So in the following paragraph see how Rajneesh links the mala to the names he drops in his lectures. --C)
In this paragraph he bombs listeners with information - names, years, details, blah, blah. Raj is doing a data dump . This stuns the listeners' analytical minds, exactly the way a computer processing time slows down if its RAM is overwhelmed by too large a file.Or when we eat too much at a holiday meal and get bellyaches. Rajneesh is giving listeners cognitive indigestion)
That is why the Bodhi tree became so important; it was used instead of Buddha’s statue. For five hundred years after Buddha there was no statue. In the Buddhist temples only a picture of the Bodhi tree and two symbolic footprints were kept, but this was sufficient. That still continues. The tree that exists in Bodhgaya is in continuity with the original tree. So still today those who know the key6 can communicate with Buddha through the Bodhi tree at Bodhgaya. It is not just meaningless that monks from all over the world come to Bodhgaya. But they must know the key7, otherwise they will just go and the whole thing will be just a ritual.
So these are keys8 – particular* mantras chanted in a particular way1, pronounced in a particular way2, emphasized in a particular way3 with such-and-such frequencies.
A wavelength should be created, the waves should be created.
Then the Bodhi tree is not just a Bodhi tree; it becomes a passage, it opens a door*.
(Rajneesh is tying the beginning of this talk to the end of this talk. He used the word 'door' at the beginning of this lecture. He's closing the loop, tying the package up, neatly. Imagine this entire lecture given in Rajneesh's hissing voice -- many different sources refer to this.
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Then twenty-five centuries are no more, the time gap is not there.
(Corboy Confusion of time, past present collapse - this is deep confusion, folks. And Rajneesh is linking it to that mala with his picture on the pendant)
You come face to face with Buddha.
But keys9( are always lost.
So this much can be said: use the locket, and you will know much.
All that I have said will be known, and more that I have not said will be known also.
(Friends, the ninth and last time Rajneesh refers to keys, he then refers not to the mala but to the locket -- the pendant on the mala that has Rajneesh's picture.
Now Rajneesh brings it all home with a punch. After suddenly
instilling anxiety with 'keys are always lost'
Raj for the first time gives the solution to the puzzle.
All through the talk, Raj refers to keys and doors.
But, something is missing.
A key opens a lock. But in this script, Raj has never mentioned lock.
But now he introduces the one word missing from the chain of cause and effect
Key-->Door
But Raj does it with a twist.
So this much can be said: use the locket, and you will know much.
Key-->Lock-->Door
Key-->Rajneesh/Beloved/Locket-->Door
All that I have said will be known, and more that I have not said will be known also.
He makes the mala, his picture, and the locket the ultimate solution in his
subjects' minds.
Keys close and open locks. Locks are used to close and secure stuff we treasure and consider important. Locks also hold captive. Locks make prisons.
And in the English language, "locket" has special meaning - a locket is where we keep a picture of someone we specially love and treasure.
Rajneesh was a highly educated man, a teacher at university level, before he entered the guru business. He knew English better than most of us do.
Al this is Corboy's hunch. I wish The Anticult were here.
TAC analyzed some of Byron Katie's material. TAC could have been very helpful in examining Rajneesh/Osho's output.
[www.google.com]
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