Maharishi was much richer and more successful than PR but after the Beatles couldn't get a lot of publicity no matter how bizarre his ideas were because there was no branding, drinking Kool-Aid etc, there was no overt scandal.

There has to be scandal for the media to become interested.

Prem never stopped revisioning and re-educating his premies into pwks but it was of no interest to outsiders. He might be the most successful brain washer on the planet. For 50 years he's bludgeoned His premies with bullshit and it has become more delicious to them. He's been herding them like cattle down the Bullshit Trail to Bullshit Gulch and every now and then a steer will grow balls and say "God I can't stand the smell and the sound of his bullshit anymore" and drop out. From Bullshit Gulch its not a long trek to the end of the trail where the herd will finish up, one by one leaving the greatest cowboy of them all alone in the dust standing on tiptoes keeping a stiff upper lip and his chin up to keep his mouth up out of the merde. He will sing his swansong, "La merde ...