Yes, Will, here's how it works. (Maybe it's something Richard Cooper works on when he isn't busy being a real estate agent in Miami):

THE PREM RAWAT PR PLAN ON THE CHEAP

1. Get a bunch of meaningless "proclamations"  from any politician who will give one, the more uninformed about Rawat the better.

2.  Get PR firms to get articles in magazines you cannot purchase and then pretend they happened because the supposedly legitimate magazines heard about, and wanted to "interview" Prem Rawat.   Also, pretend it was an actual "interview" and not the reality, which was a canned piece written by the PR firm under the complete editorial control of the cult.  (This is probably not all that cheap, BTW)

3.  Rent halls in supposedly "prestigious" locations like a building owned by the UN in Thailand, or at Harvard.  Then pretend that Rawat actually spoke before distinguised people in either place, was invited by the institutions, or that it was anything other than just a hall rental.

4.  I have no idea what went on in connection with the Italian parliament, but you can be sure it is infinitely less than meets the eye.

5.  Oh, yeah, take a page out of Scientology and persecute any ex-follower who has the audacity to talk about their "experience" with Prem Rawat and his cult, and avoid, like the Black Death, any legitimate interview or news article about Prem Rawat, and especially his past.  Try to shut down the websites of ex-followers with bogus copyright infringement complaints, and set up campaigns to attack former followers who provide inconvenient information on a side of Prem Rawat Richard Cooper and Linda Pascotto do not want you to see.

That about sums it up.