He had an opportunity of creating something wonderful'
By that I assume the opportunity imagined was having a collection of young idealistic people willing to pour their energy wherever he directed it. I don't think anything wonderful could have sprung from this. Those young people had already pretty much switched off their nascent critical thinking. The whole thing was based on the delusions that there are altered states of perception that are superior to our normal ways of being and that there could be such a thing as a master of these altered states. That is a myth that was used to ensnare us, and the best that could be hoped for from such a situation was that people would somehow regain their independence and ability to think. The only opportunity he had was to use us for his own gain, and that's all he did.
