Sex, drugs and the Rolls Royce guru: The incredible story of the free-love cult, the 'conman mystic' with 93 Rolls-Royces who led it and the biggest mass poisoning in US history
Guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (left) attracted tens of thousands of followers in India. He was known as the 'Sex Guru' and the 'Rolls Royce Guru' he owned 93 luxury cars (inset). He was a philosophy lecturer who, in 1970, founded a spiritual movement and commune in Pune, near Mumbai (formerly Bombay). His teachings were a bizarre mixture of pop psychology, ancient Indian wisdom, capitalism, sexual permissiveness and dirty jokes that he gleaned from the pages of Playboy magazine (pictured right, documentary footage shows a crowd of naked men and women). The story of the Rajneesh movement's slide from peace-and-love hippiedom into machine gun-toting, homicidal darkness is revealed in a new six-part Netflix documentary entitled Wild Wild Country.
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