![]() ![]() During his lifetime, he was viewed as a controversial new religious movement leader and mystic. You, the reader, is free to agree or disagree or sit on the fence. ![]() Each volume contains timeless and always-contemporary investigations and discussions into questions vital to our personal search for meaning and purpose. Rajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain, 11 December 1931 19 January 1990), also known as Acharya Rajneesh, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and later as Osho (/oo/), was an Indian godman, mystic, cult leader, and founder of the Rajneesh movement. Disclaimer: All views and options expressed on these pages are not that of the creator of this blog.They belong to Osho. The Journey of Being Human looks into how we might embrace and accept these apparent contradictions, rather than trying to choose between them, as the key to transforming each twist and turn of life's journey into a new discovery of who we are meant to be.The Osho Life Essentials series focuses on the most important questions in the life of the individual. It is also what makes us restless, full of conflict, so often at the crossroads of selfishness and generosity, of love and hate, frailty and strength, hope and despair. The integrated analysis of the pertinent corpus evidence, and its subsequent interpretation in light of the contexual evidence from the literature and studies into New Age and Osho‘s movement reveal the following.Man is a bridge, says Osho, between the animal and the divine - and our awareness of this dual aspect of our nature is what makes us human. Being in Love: How to Love with Awareness and Relate Without Fear. It aims at revealing the pragmatic function of Osho‘s rhetoric in a corpus of 133 talks (450.000 words) that appeared in two gender-related books in the early 2000s. This research exploits a novel methodology integrating corpus methodology (search and processing techniques of frequency words, collocational patterns, and concordances) with Kenneth Burke‘s critical methodology based on pragmatic approach to concordancing. It has been motivated by the apparent persuasive, and thus social impact of Osho‘s books (compilations of his talks), being the major source of disseminating his ideology to millions of international readers over the past decades. ![]() The present research, therefore, explores language and persuasion in a corpus of New Age talks by Osho, the founder of one of the most popular and radical New Age movements. Examination of the role of persuasive use of language in (re)construction of social realities, specifically, the relation of linguistic choices in media texts to their potential pragmatic effects on the audience has always been among the main concerns of critical language studies. ![]()
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