John Thomas Jack Allanach
John Thomas ‘Jack’ Allanach
Parents
- Father – Thomas Allanach
- Mother – Ida Love
Birth
John Thomas Jack Allanach was born in October 1938 in New Brunswick, Canada, to Ida Love, age 27, and Thomas MacPherson Allanach, age 27.
Siblings
It is thought Jack had one sister.
Marriage
Jack married whilst in India
Children
It is not known whether Jack had any children
Death
John Thomas Jack Allanach died on 15 September 2008 in New South Wales when he was 69 years old.
Life Story
1969
According to the Edmonton Journal in 1969, Jack is an ‘impeccably dressed PR man’ working in Canada.
1973
According to his book ‘Osho, India, and Me’, Jack travels to Bombay in India and meets the Indian mystic Osho. Whilst there, he assumes the name Swami Krishna Prem.
1978
Whicker’s World was a British television documentary series that ran variously on BBC and ITV from 1958 to 1994, presented by journalist and broadcaster Alan Whicker.
Whicker and his crew visited the Pune One ashram in early June 1978, producing in the end about 18 minutes of coverage of Osho and sannyasins. It was aired on Nov 7, 1978 at 22:30, as part of a larger concept of a “four-part” series on the Bombay area. Thus the ashram’s 18 min was about 1/3 of the whole program of 53:34 min, which ran as “parts three and four” of the Bombay series, shortly after “parts one and two”, which ran from 21:00 to 22:00.
There is a four minute interview recorded with Jack at around the 20 minute mark but I have not been able to source a copy of the video (yet!).
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Whilst I have yet to find a copy of the video from Whicker’s World to share on here, I have added a couple of stills from the show above that I did manage to source. I have also managed to find a Youtube video below with footage taken from Pune in 1979 at the time Jack was living there.
1978
The interview sees Jack appear in further newspaper articles.
1997
Jack publishes ‘Colour Me Healing‘ for the first time. “In Colour Me Healing Jack Allanach tells the story of Mandel’s discovery and subsequent evolution of this radical new system, one which could well be the medicine of the future – a medicine of light and colour, rather than drugs. As well as describing the development of Colourpuncture, this unique book offers new insights on the nature of illness and disease and their non-physical origins.”
2010
Jack has his memoirs published posthumously of his time with Osho in a 357 page book entitled ‘ Osho, India, and Me, A Tale of Sexual and Spiritual Transformation‘. (ISBN 978-1-4457-3346-3)
2013
An expanded 444 page version of Jack’s book is published (ISBN 978-93-81523-58-2)
