Re: Greatest hits?
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tommo ®

10/22/2023, 15:49:43
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Yes that's it - that was the spur to classification.  Nonsense of course.  Classification would be like trying to stick labels on different parts of a blancmange.  The titles are arbitrary too.  Rawat's greatest skill was to endlessly verbally extemporise off into a maze of non-sequitur cul de sacs in a way that sounded as if it were all about to culminate in some important insight.  The thus semi-hypnotised premies could then never remember anything much of anything he said - let alone analyse, extract themes and classify it.

I was in a 'sub' community - probably no more than half a dozen semi-regulars - but to organise (or attend) bigger 'events' - e.g listening to some satellite broadcast we'd all travel off (or invite folk to) to one of the bigger nearby hubs -maybe go 20 miles or so - and then there would be maybe 15 -20 premies.  Beyond that there there were premies that probably showed up only to Rawat events - as evidenced by a list of names of addresses on the 'circulation list'.  I also helped with the process of getting people registered for Rawat events in the UK sometimes and so became aware of these.

The whole idea of 'premie community' was false anyway.  Aside from a couple of dear friends - who were and remain such (and who are also expremies) - most folk didn't really know each other.  We might combine as volunteers to do servicey things --organising an Elan Vital trailer at some venue or another  -- or all sit silently in some Friends Meeting House watching a satellite broadcast or whatever -- but tbh I barely spoke with anyone outside of this  -- and then mostly 'on topic'.  It was a pretty dysfunctional 'community' - typical I am sure -and certainly not an environment conducive to open discussion about for example why aspirants were as rare as hen's teeth or why whenever we 'introduced' anyone they never came back.  Looking back I can see that active premie numbers went down over the early noughties  -- and recall for example ending about the only person available or willing to ferry initiators around when Rawat held some conference closeby.  I later understood that folk were dropping out and becoming expremies -- not visible on this forum however -- bear in mind that while maybe there have been a few hundred of us that have posted on the PRT forum (communicative souls) I think that the majority of people just 'stopped' with it all.






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