Jack Allanach

Jack Allanach was born in 1938 in New Brunswick, Canada. After university he spent fifteen years in television and public relations, culminating in his own successful PR company in Montreal. In 1973 he travelled to India and met the Indian mystic Osho in Bombay. He became his disciple and was named Swami Krishna Prem. Subsequently he spent eleven years in Osho's spiritual community, primarily in India and a brief period in America. Initially, his work in the commune was editing rewriting Osho books that had been translated into English by Indian editors and as a result, were often difficult for Westerners to read and understand. The titles he rewrote include From Sex to Superconsciousness, The Perfect Way, Pointing the Way and The Long and the Short and the All. Following this period of editing, he worked as press officer for Osho in India and was his spokesman for Indian and Western press visitors. This included considerable public speaking as well as television appearances for BBC programs and the UK's Whickers World. In 1980 Osho gave him the task to write a book about his time in the commune, which he named Osho, India and Me: A Tale of Sexual and Spiritual Transformation. Jack or Krishna Prem eventually settled in Australia where he lived with his wife. Here he wrote professionally for twelve years.