Re: TPRF Documentary on PBS
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09/09/2017, 11:21:27
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Hi NIK, it's been a long time!

Although my initial reaction to your post was that PBS certainly dropped the ball by not digging deep enough, I was immediately reminded of a lingering apprehension I have about the cult: I don't underestimate the inroads it is capable of making (a last vestige of negative respect I have for it).  There are/were many competent, motivated, intelligent premies with resources -- now with a lifetime of professional careers behind them.  

Take "I want to make a million bucks for Maharaji" Chuck Nathan for example. 

"Don't you want to be impeccable!?", shouted Valerio.  The level of care ("consciousness" as the cult likes to say) that sometimes goes into service, participation... doing things for Rawat... far exceeds many standards, to say the least.

That's what those premies do when they go about their insidious little infiltrations (and milk all the publicity they can get out of it) -- present a superficially impeccable, polished façade (as evidenced by the high production quality -- glossy -- introductory video clip on the Peace Education Program (PEP) website that I just skimmed through).

All the right words and all the right faces from all the right places, a direct result of the social status filtration system that was an invisible hallmark of that cult.  I can see how easy it might be for some good organizations to let their guard down.

Clearly, PBS dropped the ball by its own standards unless it fell for premies' polished, impeccable, "conscious," well rehearsed revisionist lines if/when it questioned them about "who is this PR in TPRF?"








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