Wondering if this is a benign organisation or something more cultish like the Rajneesh / Osho Communes?

Like Osho in the past and still today Zegg apppears to promotes free and uncommited love between random partners.

Zegg also has a Mankind Project-like 'carpeting ritual' for resolving people's issues called the Zegg Forum. It appears that like MKP the Zegg facilitators also have no qualifications in psycotherapy.

Here are some links:

Living Awareness Institute

[lebendig.org]
[lebendig.org]
[lebendig.org]

Zegg Forum

[www.zegg-forum.org]
[www.zegg.de]
[gen.ecovillage.org]

ST

[www.newagefraud.org]

The Belzig premises were bought by a project called ZEGG = Centre for Experimental Shaping of Society. Belzig is in what was East Germany. The premise were an ex-Stasi HQ.

[www.zegg.de]

Apart from the premises in Belzig, ZEGG maintains several smaller projects and houses throughout Germany, with Belzig being their German centre. These premises were bought with about DM 2.1 million, further DM 2.2 million were spent on repair work. A substantial part of these sums was raised by ZEGG membership.

ZEGG is no sect or political cult, but resembles both as its members also tend to eventually drop all outside contacts and even live in ZEGG run projects or houses. ZEGG means to create a free society and includes the theories of Wilhelm Reich in their ideological framework. The main way to achieve a free society for ZEGG is free sex, and the topmost characteristic of a liberated individual to them is uninhibited sex.

The ideology is sexist in several respects: they claim that a free woman wants even more sex than men, and that a really liberated woman of course never denies sex to any man. To this end, they even draw up so-called "f*ck lists", during the early years in handwriting, nowadays computerized, to achieve at a situation where everybody does it with everybody. Or almost: homosexuality for them is a mark of an oppressed personality, and e.g. male homosexuals are subjected to healing processes during which they are made to have sex with women.

Sickness of any kind, by the way, is no reason at all to deny sex, and if you do, you aren't liberated enough.

ZEGG has its roots in a predecessing organisation called AAO = Action Analytic Org. founded in 1972/73 by Vienna artist Otto Muehl. This
existed until 91, when Muehl was sent to prison for raping minors who were in his custody. The story behind this is that Muehl "reserved" the sexual initiation (read: rape) of girls aged 13 or 14 to himself. These girls were daughters of members of his organisation. Teens refusing to be raped by Muehl were put under constant group pressure until they gave up resistance.

Although ZEGG claims they haven't got anything to do with AAO, ZEGG leadership were either members of AAO or (frequent) visitors at AAO
premises. ZEGG leader Dieter Duhm even admits that the framework of ZEGG was written in 1977 at the AAO premises. ZEGG definitely takes care
of keeping in a safe distance from crimes like chicken hawking, but they have links to projects advertising 'consenting' sex between adults
and minors and also cooperate with them, although not quite openly. One example is the socalled "Stamm Fuessen" (Stamm means tribe, and Fuessen is the town where they're located).



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/21/2009 08:17PM by SeekingTruth.

There's a common factor in these polyamory communities - be they Rajneesh / Osho or Zegg or whatever - that is coercion of sex with (read: rape of) women, including sex with minors otherwise known as paedophilia. And they get away with it because no-one can be bothered to do anything about it. The authorities turn a blind eye to these communities. Why?