While I don't know them as well I concede there is a minority of premies who are less successful and have more problems but I remember them as being the same back in the 1970's. Their association with Rawat doesn't seem to have made a difference either way.

I would guess the opposite is true; that the majority of people who spent their youth following this religion which isn't a religion, found themselves on the margins of society when they drifted away from it; a lot of them, given the total secrecy surrounding the trip, & the difficulty in pre internet days of getting any rounded information about it, probably still believing in the back of their minds that they'd blown it with the Almighty.

I count myself as one of the lucky ones who 'got out' in the mid 80's, but that was only because I met a girl who I was prepared to put above maharaji, & because I was still just young enough, & more importantly intelligent & with connections, to drag back a little of the lost years.

Nonetheless I continued to believe, & attended events until '00, when courtesy of EPO I was finally able to piece together, & then instantly reject, the fantasy which I'd got caught up in, in 1972.

It is of course impossible at this distance in time, to weigh the scales between those that the DLM religion rescued from the excesses of the hippie/anarchy lifestyle, & those who it ground almost into oblivion.

This sort of speculation is a luxury available only to a minority.