Hi Anth,
Yes, I am doing well. I saw a television documentary in which said that army recruiters are afraid to try to con kids into being cannon fodder for Iraq in the San Francisco public schools. They are met by counter-protestors, counter-counseling, and angry parents, which doesn't happen in Boise. And I know one thing for sure, if we ever have "the big one" out here, which I guess is about a 99% probability, I'm going to follow the rich, white people wherever they go. That will always be a safe bet in the USA.
Anyhow, David Smith's rationale for his ashram inquisition was a little different than "following orders," and in some ways worse, because he felt, although he had a general "order" from Malibu Prem to "clean up the ashrams," mostly, he believed that Prem Rawat manipulated his brain and perhaps other body parts so that he was just a kind of zombie-like robot in carrying out those activities. Hence, he had no responsibility for them. In that case, when strange and twisted demons in his Id told him to do nasty things to vulnerable ashram premies it was, like, just so perfect, and in synch. Oh, yeah, and it was such a gift, kind of like getting a blank check.
Regarding the organization shell game, I'm sure for PR purposes Rawat would love to get rid of Elan Vital (you know, Divine Light Mission with a name change), which is tax exempt as a church, but he is just so addicted to the tax-free donations and the convenient loopholes in the US Tax Law which permit EV to keep secret whatever happens to the money they get from the devotees, even from the devotees. Such a difficulty for Mr. Rawat. He isn't offering a religion, but the organization that runs his cult is a church with zero transparency. How inconvenient. But then, if he got rid of Elan Vital, he might have to let people know where all those donations to the church actually go, and that would never do.
Better just to set up a "foundation" and confuse the issue, all the while the church continues its operations.
Right, poor Rawat. As his cult sinks, he is reduced to painting new names on the Titanic. Good analogy, or mataphor, or something.
Hope you are feeling in synch, Anth. And when the big one hits, don't forget pack the porn. 
