PR,

        You have this strange way of presenting the relationship between Rawat's critics, and Rawat and his followers as being two competing factions. It's as though you believe that there is something to be won.

All that EPO offers is a perspective - it happens that because of thirty five years of dissemblement by Rawat and his supporters (including those who are now exs) that the perspective offered by EPO is very powerful because it exposes that dissemblement. Were it not for this quality of exposure, EPO would be just a mildly interesting historic and social record.

Of course if you perceive Rawat's critics as the 'enemy' then that is what 'we' are, but you are mistaken if you believe that we all share your 'oppositional' perspective.

It would be foolish for anyone to consider that the Internet has unlimited reach and it would be highly unlikely that  the bulk of Rawat's adherents - who live in countries with only very limited Internet access and whose first languages are neither English nor French - will be EPO readers.

What EPO and other Internet sites critical of Rawat do, is add a 'critical perspective' - this isn't something that can be racked up on a score board - it is far more subtle and long lasting - it raises the level of questioning.  For Rawat the impact is not in the numbers he can claim - but in the 'quality' of support that he can attract.

It may well be that 99.99% of people who have heard of Rawat (99.99% of those seem to reject him at first site anyway) know nothing of EPO. But the people who could most potentially add to Rawat's operation - those with money and skills - are precisely the ones most likely to have contact with the critical perspective of EPO.

Promoting Rawat requires a direct interaction with the target audience, in contrast  promoting a critcal perspective of Rawat can be achieved in a far more fluid way - it is about a way of thinking, not about a specific subject. Any discussion that is critical of Guruism - is potentially critical of Rawat, any discussion that is critical of New Agism - is potentially critical of Rawat, any discussion that is critical of the operation of charities and non profits - is potentially critical of Rawat. So yes, EPO may directly only inform a small proportion of those who are exposed to Rawat, but criticsm of Rawat is open to the law of 'six degrees of separation' in a way that promoting Rawat is not.

'Six degrees of Separation, refers to the probabilty of every human being able to personally contact any other human via just six intermediaries. Humans may indeed promote gullibility within their immediate circle but criticism is far more readily communicated . We are far more likely to communicate a reported but not personally experienced danger to someone we do not know well, than we are to recommend a benefit that we have not personally invested in, to that same stranger.

Put simply Premie Response, if we do take your perspective of two warring factions - exs have to work a lot less harder than premies to gain a similer degree of influence No doubt you will put that down to the 'power of the dark side'

'the guy in the darth vader mask'