There were a couple of points in Don Johnson's article that might be overlooked amongst the more horrific accusation.

Hans Rawat: For the record, My father first gave me alcohol and cannabis when we lived in Miami Beach; there were several premies who saw this. I was seven. ... Also (He) drank cognac daily starting in the late afternoon and would regularly throw uncontrolled fits of rage directed at followers or family members, including his young children.

I turned 15 in 1965 living in a beautiful beach suburb of Sydney and basically living at the beach. It wasn't long after, that booze and then dope and LSD became a large part of the lives of our group. By the time I was 21 I was looking for a more spiritual life and left it behind but I've certainly seen a lot of dope and booze casualties and some deaths then and since.

I really hoped that my children would avoid or escape those possibilities.

Booze, dope, Rawat DNA and John Miller as Hans' live-in child minder! It's a miracle the kid turned out alright. 

We know Rawat started drinking in relative secret at least as early as late 1973 while his public life was all about "spreading Knowledge." I'm becoming more convinced that he never believed any of those "Indian ideas" - many of which are worthwhile that he was explaining so badly. Not another Sugar Ant and Salt Ant, not another Necklace in the Stream, not another Thief and the Traveller, not another Ocean Frog and Well Frog, not another Taste the Mango, not another Drink the Water, aaagh ...