Who is Vishrant?

Vishrant was born Vincent William Cooper in 1954 and grew up in challenging circumstances. He came from a dysfunctional family and suffered abuse during his childhood and schooling.

Despite the hardship, Vishrant maintained a rebellious spirit and an awareness of energy from a young age. He became angry and turned to street fighting and petty crime as a teenager.

However, Vishrant believes these difficulties shaped his orientation toward higher consciousness. Eventually, he came to understand that true rebellion meant going beyond the mind and finding one’s real nature.

Vishrant came across Osho Rajneesh by accident in 1983. After attending an Osho group, he felt a calling and his search for higher consciousness and enlightenment began.

Vishrant became an Osho sannyasin and spent time with Osho in both Pune and Oregon. He even had the opportunity to interview Osho.

Vishrant also travelled the world to attend different mystery schools and actively sought out teachers to help him remove the obstacles in the way of enlightenment.

Following Osho’s death in 1990, Vishrant studied the teachings of all the old masters, investigating many teachings & philosophies including Buddhism, Taoism, Sufism, Hinduism, Advaita Vedanta and others.

In the late 1990s, in the presence of various travelling Satsang teachers (Isaac Shapiro, Gangaji and Vartman) Vishrant started to experience multiple awakenings, or satoris.

In May 1999, after a retreat with one of his teachers, his awakening stabilised and he has since been living as beingness, our true nature.

Vishrant became what Osho Rajneesh wanted his sannyasins to become: Zorba the Buddha. A new man, an awakened man, who celebrates life; someone who is in the world, but not of the world.

Vishrant continually demonstrates how it is possible to live from the highest truth of our being and be active in the world through his many adventures, some of which you can find on his Facebook page.

Vishrant offers a pragmatic path to higher consciousness. He teaches from his own direct experience as a seeker and draws inspiration from masters such as Osho and Ramana Maharshi.

Vishrant is living proof that anyone can wake up without needing to retreat to a monastery or ashram. The only requirement is a willingness to do the work.