Relating the story now it strikes me how secretive he was with me about writing the article - maybe investigative journalism, ok - from my perspective he was just getting on with his life, helping his daughter, his family his friends, getting used to being an ex-premie, continuing to write his book and we were meeting regularly for coffees where mainly we talked through the whole exiting thing.

Then comes the call where he is heading off to Western Australia for the rest of his life and he is not listening to reason, he is in what I think of as a fugue state.

The why's and wherefores of how come he was in such a state are what they are - all I knew was I couldn't get through to him and it felt like he wasn't making good decisions.

A feeling which is borne out by the fact that he ended up a fugitive living in Asia.  Where he started helping village people, and I know he has continued doing that.  He also supported Julian Assange a lot.

The experience of being in Rawat's bad books really is like he says in that quote someone pasted recently, you don't want to meet him.  There's the psychological overload of believing he is God if you are a premie but wherever you stand on that, there's the very real experience of it.  

What JMac said and I believe him is that it was the article Blinded by the Light which put him in Rawat's bad books.