The Beloved

Commune or cult This epic documentary illuminates the Rajneesh sannyasin movement in 1980s Fremantle as told by those who lived through it If you lived in the Fremantle of the early 1980s it was not uncommon to see the socalled Orange People members of the Rajneesh sannyasin commune Surrendering themselves to the spiritual guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh adherents were promised enlightenment and revolution but required to live by significantly modified social structures and identities Like so many living experiments dedicated to a higher consciousness the movement seemed to have all the trappings of a cult and its notoriety has lingered in the city in the four decades since