PORTLAND, Ore. — It was standing room only at the Oregon Historical Society on a recent Sunday as Sarito Carroll pulled back the curtain on a long-buried piece of Oregon's colorful and controversial ...

This remote 4-year-old city may lose its Indian guru namesake, and there are indications it won`t survive without him. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, being held without bail in North Carolina, faces prison ...

A plan to house central Oregon's homeless in dozens of small A-frame cabins appears to be on indefinite hold, but the cabins themselves — bits of central Oregon history — are still out there. In ...

One of the most bizarre periods in Oregon history began over 40 years ago in a remote part of the state still populated by more cows than people. In 1981, devotees of a then little known religious ...

Not long ago, in the dusty deserts of Central Oregon, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh—an Indian philosophy professor turned entrepreneurial spiritual leader—bought all 64,000 acres of the Big Muddy Ranch. From ...

A scholar visited Rajneeshpuram and met the many highly accomplished men and women who became devotees of the controversial guru whose story is now the subject of the Netflix docu-series "Wild, Wild ...

“My commune will become hidden, underground. It will have a façade on the outside: the weavers and the carpenters and the potters...That will be the façade. People who will come as visitors, we will ...

“Someone will write a book about this, and I will guarantee you when that book comes out, people will say that it’s fiction.” So says an Oregon official in Netflix's Wild Wild Country, a six-part ...

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In the film Last Year at Marienbad by French writer Alain Robbe-Grillet, the characters enter and exit a stage play taking place in the auditorium of a baroque, nightmarish hotel in which they seem to ...