With clocks set back an hour, I'm up early reflecting on 1) my stress-filled premie days during the mid-2000s (the days epitomized by the Knowledge Session Manual Prembio just posted above); 2) Lesley's wonderful comment that she never sold-out her hippy heart; and 3) my desparate attempt to remind myself that it was supposedly all about love during the Team Trainings. 

Then I re-read your post:

This time it struck me as profoundly true and all-encompassing.

I'll go so far as to say that trying to live and (to take back a word Prem Rawat thoroughly bastardized) appreciate a real, sincere, down-to-earth and genuine life epitomizes life in recovery from that cult. If it's true, and I'm sure it is, that former/ex-premies fall back on whatever core they developed before they were derailed, then everyone here had everything right before they crossed paths with Prem Rawat.

Thank you for saying that.

PS, This morning, I'm playing golf with precisely the same people we were plotting to do propagation outreach programs for back in 1979 when an ashram I lived in was forty-five minutes away. Knowing (and respecting) this crowd the way I do, imagining how THAT would've gone over really makes me laugh!)