Hi Susan.   Yes, I remember the 1976 period.  I actually was one of those who was disappointed that Rawat didn't give darshan during his Summer tour in 1976.  Then Rawat fired Mishler and became the dancing Krishna to satisfy his God complex and keep the cash coming in.  I mean, he had a family to support by then.

I remember Michael Dettmers saying that in the mid-80s he was trying to get Rawat to come down from the throne.  Unfortunately, one of the ways Rawat did that was starting to have sex with premies.  This was problematic, because while maybe Rawat's view of himself was changing (maybe only temporarily), the views of the premies did not.  So, we had the situation of the Lord of the Universe having sex with his devoted premies whom he was saying should surrender to him.  Blimey.  That's a problem

Dettmers said he was actually somewhat encouraged that Rawat wanted to have sex outside his marriage because he was lightening up and trying to be normal (if that's considered normal), but that Dettmers suggested prostitutes, and definitely not premies.  Apparently Rawat nixed the prostitute idea.  Maybe they wouldn't have been surrendered enough.

Disgusting, no?