First, to answer Prembio's question, I attended a KIT (Knowledge Information Training). It was a full Saturday/Sunday and we added a Monday evening public event. I collected the registration fees, which were the highest ever for a local community event at the time, in part because the covered the travel expenses of the specially trained facilitator.

As for Susan's comment, being up on the latest was more than very important. It was all about status and control within the community. Again, that's why I refer to the 2000's as the desert era. Maybe the best word to describe it - as Prembio keeps illuminating - is sterile, as in cold steel. It wasn't warm, loving and peaceful and it certainly wasn't any fun. Major donor types, many of whom leveraged their privileged insider information for local control, along with their local clique and newly minted part-time instructors dominated the scene. This reduced ordinary (for lack of a better word) premies to worker bee status and woe unto those who didn't fall in line.

Things deteriorated so much that it eventually caused Prem Rawat and his minions to develop the Team Trainings. As much as I've posted about them, I don't recall describing how they came about in the U.S. The first round was secretly held with major donors who were active in communities and the one person identified as the community contact in communities with no major donor. Those individuals were then asked to submit the names of the two or three most active premies in their community who were then invited to a second round. I know of three rounds that ensnared perhaps the five or six most active premies in each significant community.

Each round was top secret and required the signing of an ominous (but not legally enforceable) non-disclosure agreement. Confidentiality was so important that the trainings were held in secluded areas of hotels that were off-limits to hotel staff (negotiated as part of the rental agreement) and we were sternly instructed to not leave any notes in our hotel room because they might be seen by hotel staff.

All of this further divided communities between the in-the-know elites, the team training insiders and everyone else. I left in the middle of all that and I doubt that anything got better. My sense is that most communities limped along with the core group of diehards.

(What's worse is that after the Team Trainings, the focus shifted from communities to nationalized teams that were dominated by privileged in-the-know types on steroids - but I won't go into that because it was one of my many irritating last straws.)

My point is that after thirty years or more of practicing Knowledge, there was very little peace and happiness in Prem Rawat's premie communities.

PS, I never heard of a "One Door Policy."