I think it's difficult for people who were at opposite poles in the hierarchy of devotion & proximity to das lordy, to get their respective pov's across about how they felt at the time of the cult heyday. There's another thing too: Rawat's western followers were mainly British & American, & he spent so much time in England that we were completely unaware of what he was doing in the US with DECA etc, & more or less thought he was just in America on his holidays when he wasn't here. That was resented by a lot of premies: the feeling was that you Yanks had hijacked the source of the Golden Fix we needed sooooo much.

It would be interesting to know how the non Anglo American devotees saw their relationship with the cult & its high profile representatives.