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In this never-before-released episode recorded in 2019, Phil and JF travel to rural Oregon through the Netflix docu-series, Wild Wild Country. The series, which details the establishment of a spiritual community founded by Bhagwan Rajneesh (later called Osho) and its religious and political conflicts with its Christian neighbors, provides a starting point for a wide-ranging conversation on the nature of spirituality and religion. What emerges are surprising ties between the \u201cspiritual, not religious\u201d attitude and class, cultural commodification, and the culture of control that pervades modern society. But they also uncover the true \u201cwild\u201d card at the heart of existence that spiritual movements like that of Rajneesh can never fully control, no matter how hard they try.

REFERENCES

Chapman and Maclain Way (dirs), Wild Wild Country
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\nPierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
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\nWeird Studies, Episode 47, Machines of Loving Grace
\nSlavoj \u017di\u017eek, On Western appropriation of Eastern religions
\nWilliam Burroughs, American writer
\nGilles Deleuze, \u201cPostscript on the Societies of Control\u201d
\nBhagwan Rajneesh/Osho, Speech on friendship
\nDaniel Ingram, Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha
\nPaul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith
\nJames Carse, The Finite and Infinite Games