Since reading the details provided by Prem’s children
I’ve spent some time mulling over what I felt, what I wanted to say and whether
I should in fact post anything at all – the sense of intruding on private grief
is difficult to get to past and what I write below is not intended in anyway to
diminish the scale of that private grief.

In the end I decided there was a responsibility to
make some comment, I’ve broken it down into three sections:

Part 1. By way of intro and a bit of history.

I used to post on this forum and its forerunners quite
extensively – mostly numbing everyone with numbers, money, and waffle about
organisations and Charity Law; for new readers/posters who didn’t know me back
then, here’s a cult involvement bio https://ex-premie.org/pages/journs/nikw.htm  I would add the fact that as an outspoken ex
premie I attracted the cult's attention, was stalked and my family, including
at the time a child, doxxed. I can’t pretend these behaviours do not colour my
view of Prem and his followers.

My immediate response to the family disclosures
surprised me, I felt genuinely saddened – I’ve known about all the large scale
dissemblements, the fakes, the lies and the petty fraudulences surrounding Prem
for over two decades, but the failures we are now seeing presented seem
especially depressing.

I suppose my unexpressed wish for the end of Prem’s
career as a ‘charismatic’ was for a philosophical defeat, that at some point it
would be obvious to everyone that the fictions, the dishonesty and the unreason
would simply bring the circus to an unremarkable halt.

To have Prem’s career end– and whatever the WOPG/PRF
priesthood wants, this is emphatically has to be an end, - as a miserable loss
of all authority because of harm to children is an ignominy that will taint
everything and everyone associated with Prem.

In reality challenging the dishonesty of Prem’s
movement in the early 2000s required not so much a philosophical engagement,
but rather addressing the affront to the public interest of exploiting
charitable and tax exempt status that Prem’s backing organisations employed.

Prem’s abandonment of Church status in the US, and
replacing most of the Elan Vitals was a direct response to ex premie activity,
and which had more to do with consumer rights than the questioning of beliefs. Ironically
ex premie activity likely made Prem’s movement just a little bit more honest
than it would otherwise have been.

An unavoidable result of the family disclosures is that
once again the Prem supporting organisations are in the centre of focus; as
Maria 77 puts it a post below:

“Given
that Rawat has access to children all over the world and most and foremost to
his grand children, the abuse does not concern only the past but the
present. 
That makes
his strategy to make people not care about abuse even more dangerous because it
allows him not only to get away with his past crimes but continue them in the
present uncontrolled.”

I’ll
deal with what I think a the key issues for the organisations in Part 2 >