7 min read Why is it time for the “Old Man” to move over? Basically, old men, particularly white old men, hold most of the power on the planet. So let’s look at the current state of the world they have created. There is increasing talk that we are in greater danger now than during the cold war....
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“This paper is not a mere newspaper; it is a messenger. So you have to keep alert that it beats with my heart, that it keeps in tune with me, that it does not lose contact with my vision. If you simply want it to be a newspaper, then my name should be removed from it. Then you can collect all kinds of stupid things that are happening around the world – murders, suicides, wars, and certainly you will be selling better…. Our concern is not sensational, but to spread the message. And anything that you can find in the world happening which supports the message, choose it, but the message remains your criterion…. Now, you have to use your ability of expression to make that vision available to as many people as possible. That will be your creativity.”
Osho, The Last Testament, Vol. 3, Chapter #24
The Childcare Revolution That Changes Everything
9 min read “Up to seven years, if a child can be left innocent, uncorrupted by the ideas of others, then to distract him from his potential growth becomes impossible…. He will be as sharp as a sword. His eyes will be clear, his insight will be clear.” Osho
Democracy — Towards a Democratic Meritocracy
13 min read “We have to find a way… we have to find out why old attempts have failed, and we have to work out new methods, new strategies."
Democracy — The Other Fatal Flaws
9 min read “Religion goes on preaching belief and destroys the intelligence of people to question, makes them retarded. And the state goes on exploiting them in every possible way – still managing to keep the people's support, because the people have been trained to believe, not to question."
Democracy — The Primary Fatal Flaw
12 min read "You are giving so much power to power-hungry people; with your own hands, you are telling them to hang you! This is not democracy. In the name of democracy, these people have been exploiting the masses."
It’s the Conditioning That Kills, Stupid!
7 min read It is so clear that if we have been conditioned to fight against ourselves, to be at war with our own nature, how can we not also be against the nature of our neighbors, or against nature in general? Unless this changes, we are bound to live in conflict with ourselves, with others, and with the natural world around us.
Black Lives Matter More – Part 1
8 min read “A person who needs to be superior to feel good is a person who is carrying a volcano within him. A person who has to be superior to feel happy is suffering deep down from an inferiority complex. Only an inferior person thinks in terms of superiority. A real person, an authentic person, is neither superior nor inferior. He simply is – unique; nobody is lower than him and nobody is higher than him.”
Black Lives Matter More – Part 2
9 min read “So, in the lifetime of each of you, the decisive moment is going to come. Either man commits suicide or seeing that this is an absolute absurdity, man changes his consciousness. It often happens that under pressure people change, and there will never again be a greater pressure than is present today." Osho
Osho’s Shadow over Covid-19
9 min read Anyone familiar with Osho’s views on what is crippling the contemporary world of humans, and the beliefs they share, will see his early warnings everywhere in this coronavirus pandemic.
A Way to End the Coronavirus Catastrophe
8 min read It is clear that if the world were managed by intelligent people with expertise, instead of the current domination of society by priests and politicians, the outcome of today's COVID 19 pandemic would be very different.
A radical proposal to manage the pandemic more consciously.