Hi, and thanks for your posts, past, present and maybe.
I think there is evidence that I only became aware of over the past 20 years from his own reminiscences about his childhood that show that the young Rawat was often unhappy, fearful of his father, hated his education and was deeply resentful of his mother and her control of him and that he had no belief in the reality of the claims being made about him.
So I believe your sentence should read:
In concert these two actions set up a determined adolescent who knew exactly what he wanted, who chose unquestioning enablers and self interested grifters with whom to surround himself, to have access to wealth, power, opportunities and temptations that he was desperate to have and for whom there was no supervising adult to step in and say no.
I haven't yet collected this evidence into a coherent story but it has another claim to be true, it fits the Ockham's Razor test better than any others. It makes the young guru's actions, sometimes difficult to understand, comprehensible and also fits Dettmer's evaluation of his character.
