Stork had also become a member of one of Ma Sheela's inner circle. "I just dismissed it as 'these people out there, they're just against us and trying to mess us up'," she says. At the time Stork believed the allegations were lies perpetrated by the enemies of the Bhagwan. Things began to unravel in 1985 when Kylie was sexually abused on the commune. "I don't think they noticed, 'oh today he's driving a red Rolls-Royce and tomorrow it's white'." When a transport came in with two or three Rolls-Royces it was a covered transport. "Mostly (his followers) didn't even notice. He became a star, a showman," Stork says. "When he went to America, I feel as though he absorbed the American way of life: consume, showiness. He amassed huge wealth, which he squandered on gold watches, jewellery and a collection of more than 90 Rolls-Royces.
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It was in Oregon that the Bhagwan's excesses came to full bloom as he funnelled money from Rajneeshee communes around the world into Oregon. At its peak it had 4000 residents, putting it on a collision course with the local community and authorities. In 1981 the Bhagwan left Pune for the US, where he put his followers, including Stork, to work building a massive Rajneeshee city in Oregon. There were no children born in the ashram." "He used to speak so lovingly about children, yet behind the scenes everybody's getting sterilised. what should I do?' He would always say 'abort and sterilise'," she says. "Women would write (to the Bhagwan) saying 'I'm pregnant. She and her teenage daughter were both sterilised. Stork felt uncomfortable with many aspects of life there, including the group sex and partner swapping, as well as deliberate moves to fragment families and drive a wedge between husbands and wives, parents and children.Ībout 87 per cent of residents had a sexually transmitted disease and women who became pregnant were told by the Bhagwan to abort and sterilise, Stork says.
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Stork says she was attracted to the Bhagwan as a reaction to the guilt of her Catholic upbringing and because of the lack of rules and regulations in his teachings.īut she soon found that the ashram was not all it was cracked up to be. She was later joined by her husband and children, Peter, 10, and Kylie, 8.
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He became her mentor, and in 1978 Stork followed his footsteps, and those of many other Australians, to Pune. "I didn't even notice that (the psychologist) was wearing a long orange robe and had a string of beads around his neck," she writes. The psychologist worked in the public health system but had just returned from Pune, India, where the Bhagwan had established an ashram, a place of religious retreat. Stork was introduced to the Bhagwan's teachings through a psychologist she was seeing because of personal and marital problems.