So, I watched that trailer again, and I think I agree with everyone who said this is just a guy who was hired to help in Rawat's PR campaign.  They couldn't get Barbara Streisand, or Richard Gere, so they are left with more lowly celebrities, willing to do this kind of thing for some cash.

Burt Wolf claims not to be a premie.  He was apparenly hired by Rawat and/or Rawat's PR firm to do an infomercial with Rawat.  That's what seems to be obviously going on.

I am sure, positive in fact, that there is a very strict contract involved, which says that in exchange for whatever huge amount of money is being paid to Burt Wolf to do this infomercial, he will not talk about Rawat, will not respond to Rawt's critics, and will other wise keep his mouth shut and do what he was hired to do.  I have no doubt that was carefully worked out.

What's interesting is that nobody would probably have even heard about who Burt Wolf is, unless you are a yuppie PBS cooking-show enthusiast , or read Wolf's columns on food in the Washington Post or on Salon.com.  It may be that it's a well-heeled group that Rawat is trying to appeal to, but I doubt that will be very successful.

And an infomercial, no matter how slick and with lots of new-age background music, is still an infomercial.  I think most people can see right through that.  It might bliss the premies out, though, as anything Rawat does appears to have that effect as some huge, new, innovation that is finally going to bring in the masses.

And it appears that Rawat is saying the same inane stuff with the same feigned whispering voice to convey that it's all oh so profound.  Like, for example, he says that people have fallen in love with freeway noise.  Huh?  The same condescending smugness still comes through.

Rawat is apparently changing his philosophy once again as well.

For a long time, he wouldn't say that knowledge would help bring world peace.  I mean, that was his spiel for the first 15 years or so, but then Rawat dropped for years and just said that said it was all a personal thing and a personal experience.

Well, now he is apparently saying that knowledge is a means to bring peace to the world by each person experiencing peace, which is a "feeling," and apparently not a state or a place (this is also a change).  You know, Rawat's the old story from the 70s that we all got into, to save the world and create the divine city because when everyone received knowledge, there would be not war. 

But have you ever notice Rawat's followers?  They aren't particularly peaceful, or non-violent are they?  Just take a look, people.  They are particularly not "peaceful" if you criticize Rawat or his cult.  Then the violent, nastiness can spill out all over the place, as we all know.  This does not bode well for bringing peace to the world, one person at a time, if Rawat's own followers are any kind of example.

How is Rawat going to explain that?

And is Rawat himself peaceful?  Is alcoholism, addiction to cigarettes, and what appears to be an inability to be satisfied without obscene wealth and possessions, evidence of "peace?"

Oh, yeah, I forgot, Maharaji is an "engima."  Ooo.