I've removed the references to age and misery. Rawat used the word misery and miserable 17 times in a speech at Hans Jayanti Festival, Kissimmee, Florida / November 5 and 14 times in Providence / July 3, 1976
"The music of One Foundation served as a proxy for my heart and it accurately reflected the teachings of Prem Rawat at the time. If Kim was a misery minstrel, it was only because she served as a clear conduit for those teachings and my condition as a premie: a basket case beggar who was nothing without the grace of Guru Maharaji. Prem Rawat's cult indoctrination dictated that the best position to be in was that of an empty-cup beggar desperate to be filled with Guru Maharaji's grace, love and protection."
You are making my point of the importance of O'Leary and a few others for me and that is why I am singling them out. Would I have been as impressed by my first times at satsang if there wasn't the early incarnation of One Foundation sitting on the floor singing At the Feet of the Master and God is Love written by Geoff Bridgford? And doing a pretty good job of Van Morrison's "If I Ever Needed Someone" with full female choir on the chorus.
Aren't I making it clear that her story is - well 'tragic' is a too strong - but it is a story of loss and regret, wasted years and wasted talent. I don't enjoy writing that stuff nor being criticised for it but I see that I got carried away and have now edited out the things you guys criticised me for but the importance remains.
Of course there were all the other people who made Rawat's career possible with their hard work and talents in less public ways including the un-named Indians who peopled the early DLM movies and the "mahatmas" without whom he would be nothing but they didn't leave behind a series of films and recordings.
