Children of the Cult

As someone who was involved with this group, and who has long since left it (and has no bias in favor of it), I felt this documentary was misleading. It is true that there were instances of pedophilia, and it is true that the teacher behind the group made all sorts of quite stupid, ignorant, and dangerous remarks about how to raise children. But I was very put off by the early statement in this film that "everyone knew." Everyone did not know. That is generally how these things go. In addition, the film maker seems to have belonged to a particularly toxic sort of sub-group -- a commune in Holland where children were sent sexy notes by adult men. She seems to extrapolate from this that all men were doing this to all children, which is patently not the case. There were very many deeply decent men and women in the community who would have been appalled to know such things were going on. The woman at the end, who underwent sexual abuse from Rajneesh seems to have rehearsed her outrage a bit too carefully. On the other hand, I thought they did an excellent job of getting Ma Anand Sheela on the record saying that children being sexually abused was their own choice.