3/10/2023 0 Comments Ma prem isabel![]() ![]() ![]() “That’s a real chilling part of the story: seeing how this love for a person and a community was then used to do harm.” Were the hedonists simply following their religious bliss, or were they part of something more sinister? “You start to see how devotion to one man can be used and manipulated by leadership to have people commit acts that shouldn’t be committed,” says Chapman. (Readers who have yet to make their way fully into obsession, be forewarned: spoilers ahead.) Since the series landed on the streaming service in mid-March, it’s become something of a pop culture phenomenon, the latest opportunity for voyeurs to absorb an improbable, shocking, and sprawling true crime tale. Via archival news footage and contemporary eyewitness accounts, the siblings’ true-crime tale lays out the labyrinthine story that unfolded when silent, Rolls-Royce-loving mystic Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and thousands of his maroon-clad, enlightenment-seeking disciples descended on sleepy Antelope, Oregon, in the 1980s. “I don’t think the Rajneeshees’ intentions were to come to Oregon and be a cult and poison 750 people,” says Maclain Way, enumerating just two of the illicit actions detailed in the much-buzzed about Wild Wild Country, the Netflix documentary series he directed with his brother, Chapman.
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