Whether exs feel hurt by the attacks from premies, what is certainly the case is that the attacks are designed to hurt - which says a great deal about Rawat's present day followers.

Although of course many exs who have written on the forums have been the target of personal insults and a number have been the focus of more elaborate and sustained attacks, it is possible to discern a certain pathology about the premie motivation.

There is for instance a inordinate concern, one might even say anxiety with mental illness - the attacks around which Cynthia has particularly borne the brunt. In addition there's particular attention on 'lawyers' and 'journalists'. If the attacks on exs were coming from a single individual - that individual would have a profile of someone with obsessions about mental health, legal issues and journalism.

While it must surely be unlikely that one obsessed individual could be orchestrating the attacks on exs, or even setting the tone for the attacks, it is perhaps wrong to see premie attacks on exs as being based on any rational intent - more that those who get attacked are seen by the attackers as 'deserving' punishment for their public prominence - but also necessary targets for the anxieties of the individual attacker(s) concerned.

Nik