For its content, interesting as it is, I have to dock a full 2 stars. It was put together very well, aesthetically. I would have given this 5 stars on account of its excellent usage of source footage and photography and present-day filming and a wide array of interview subjects.
In the end I felt like I got a summary of the events, but not a lot of the who, how, and why. I would have liked to hear more from the people of Antelope. It needed a lot of the other horrid details about the cult. Hopefully we all learn something from this. And given this was the foundation of theirs, it was only a matter of time before what happened. We are all products of the society we live in. In reality, her accusations are only accurate in the upper echelons of the American democratic system the same way their corruption was all top heavy as well. They chose her well, because she did a pretty good job of sounding fresh in a society that truly does fit a lot of the descriptions she accused them of being. It appeared to be a clear example of xenophobia mixed with a media leader who was charismatic and strangely appealingly vulgar in their "struggle" to simply be allowed to live in peace. Now, incidentally, the utopian followers, or at least the upper echelons, did have malicious motivations, but none the less the actions of the people of Antelope, and surrounding areas, were every bit as egregious as the cult themselves. Depending on your own level of disenfranchised beliefs, you may see the appeal of this community shrouded by some pompous religious overtone, and sympathize with the general plight of having a basic constitutional right blatantly obstructed. In a promotional video, she promises - much like a certain guru who inspired her - that plunking down your hard-earned cash will lead directly to “healing and transformation.A decently informative, and entertaining docu-series that highlights quite a bit along the spectrum of willful ignorance and corruption on both sides. Now retired as a practicing psychologist (and apparently on “sabbatical” from her life in Hawaii, per her online bio), Sunny spends her time running dual entrepreneurial ventures: her patented UnTherapy mode of wellness and the self-actualization program Women’s Leadership Institute for Conscious Coaching. There, she began a second career (under her given name) counseling others in meditation and self-hypnosis, which led to speaking engagements and publishing opportunities. But by the early 2010s, as revealed in this correspondence shared on Osho News, Sunny took what she learned delivering her master’s thesis in “Osho’s Psychology of the Buddhas” and moved on to the lush environs of Honolulu. At the time of Bhagwan’s death in 1990, Sunny was living in a giant Pune mansion and reveling in all the dollars that new recruits were bringing in. The onetime Rajneeshpuram spokesperson and loyal sannyasin was living fairly high on the hog after the commune moved back to India. Then again, Knapp would have been lucky to survive at all, given that there was allegedly at least one plot to kill him while he was incarcerated. And per FBI records (which also divulge all those beans Knapp spilled on his fellow commune members), Knapp graduated from high school in 1967, which about adds up. And public records show that there is a 69-year-old David Berry Knapp who lives in El Segundo today and was born in 1948. Attorneys office toward immunity) called Trust Capital. It’s no easy task to track his current residence, but curiously, there was a David Knapp who founded an El Segundo, California-based mortgage-brokerage firm in 1985 (right around the time he was working with the U.S. And though Wild Wild Country implies that he was swept off into witness protection, Knapp actually served two years in federal prison for his role in the group’s sophisticated immigration fraud. The once-hubristic mayor of Rajneeshpuram fell hard from grace after flipping on Bhagwan and the commune to cut a deal with law enforcement.