HT-I agree, this thread should probably be brought up to the top, and re-started, allowing other people to add their recollections of the different phases we all went through with rawat.....

I think the "current psychology' of each phase would be very interesting to look at, as it coincided with rawat's "current psychology" of each time...dates, event etc are important too, but I think the psychology of the whole thing would be fascinating to chronicle...

One thing that stands out to me like a sore thumb now, after having left for 5 years, is that each time a "new phase', or "new direction' came, it was really all about rawat and his current mess, rather in response to real premie needs, which a so called "leader" would be responsive to...also, his ability to 'mask" that, and our inability to "see" it....it all was billed as his "new direction"....also, the amount of defensiveness he displays without being noticed by the premies....

For instance, he kept the ashrams open because he feared the revenue would dry up if he closed them, even though they were clearly not working....he worried about rising health care costs for premies as they got older, their retirment etc., and abandoned them after they gave their entire lives to him, supposedly forever...

The list goes on for each phase...

If you ask me, if rawat wanted to do something "humanitarian" right now, it would be in cleaning up the mess in the victims lives of the"spiritual tsunami" he unleashed back in the 70's....I think you should start with your own life and the problems you have created in it, rather than having premies contribute to some "window dressing" like disaster relief to bolster your PR, when it can be done far more efficiently by the pros who do it every day...