Auto-Suggestion

Questioner: can it be a case of collective auto-suggestion?

So it is easy to establish contact with a soul that is bodiless and is hungering for a new body. It is not a matter of mental projection on the part of one who wishes to come in contact with such a soul who has everything except the gross body. Very simple devices are available with which you can connect with such a spirit if you want to. For instance, so many of us are sitting here discussing Krishna and his philosophy. Do you think there are only as many persons here as are visible to our eyes? No, there are many more who are invisibly present here, and they can be contacted right now, if you wish. What you need is a willingness on your part to come in contact with them and certain receptivity toward it. You can make an experiment as I suggest. Three of you can…

Question: Osho, we are returning to Sri Aurobindo’s vision of Krishna. You said it could be his self-projection. But you once said that even today, according to the Lamaic tradition, there comes a day when certain authorized lamas establish contact with Buddha. And once, while you were speaking on Gandhi, someone asked how you could say such a thing about Gandhi—did Gandhi himself say it? You replied that you were saying it after asking Gandhi himself. A third point: I have also read that in the Lamaic tradition, even until some years ago in Tibet, there were lamas who, while still alive, would travel in their subtle bodies to another place, appear there in gross, physical form, and then return to their own place. I want to know something from you about all three of these. In this connection, understand two or three things.

Osho, in your new method of meditation, isn’t there still the possibility of hypnosis and delusion? Many people say nothing is happening to them—does that mean they are not on the true path? And for those in whom many processes are happening, are they surely on the true path? Or could some of them be doing it deliberately, pretending?

Do not decide without doing Our mind makes very strange arrangements. It says, “All this is nonsense; nothing will happen to me. I am not weak; I am strong.” But had you been strong, it would have happened; had you been intelligent, it would have happened. The first mark of an intelligent person is that until he has done it himself he does not make a judgment. He will not even say that the other is faking. Who am I to decide that? And to judge another as false is a very degrading thing. Who are we to decide that the other is pretending? It is this kind of false judgment that has caused so much trouble. People did not accept that something had happened to Jesus—otherwise they would not have crucified him. They thought he was a confused man, saying anything. They would not have thrown stones at Mahavira.…

Beloved Osho, I understood from past discourses when you have talked on hypnosis, that one becomes, to all intents and purposes, totally unconscious, aware only of the hypnotist's voice. I have not experienced this state, but something more akin to what I feel in discourse, except more so: I feel mentally and physically transfixed, without any volition to move, talk or think; but I am definitely present and aware of everything going on around me. Have I not got the hang of hypnosis yet, or are there different levels of trance?

The authentic master... and the East has known so many authentic masters that it was very difficult for anyone to compete with the authentic ones. It was impossible because of the sheer fact that the one who was not authentic had no hypnotic presence. He had no fragrance of the real flower, he was just plastic. You cannot deceive people with a plastic flower. People try.... I used to live in a place in Raipur -- not many days, just six months and the university got rid of me. The professor living next door had a beautiful flowerpot in his window and every day... I was surprised, because I could see that the flowerpot was not true: the flowers in it were not authentic, they were plastic, because I never saw them disappearing, their petals falling. And he used to water them to deceive me -- I was the only…