I think one of the reasons that many ex-premies don't say much (at least publicly) about how they have come to reject Rawat and his "knowledge" as a bunch of nonsense  -- or worse, as destructive --  is not because they don't want people to know they are ex-premies, but because they don't want people to know that they ever WERE premies in the first place.  

When you get out of a cult, if you do any "work" on trying to figure out what happened, you can't help feeling some level of anger and embarrassment about it all.  It's also difficult because once people get out of the cult they also recognize and remember that they actually had a lot of doubts about the cult and Rawat when they were still in, but because they were well-trained in cult mind control, they tried to ignore what they were feeling -- to their own detriment.  That, I found, to be not only embarrassing, but also humiliating to my self-esteem and to my image of myself as a rational person.

So, when you get out, it can be hard to talk about ever having been in something you are now kind of ashamed of.

I recently had an experience of this myself.  Last Fall, fanatical premies sent a letter to my employer, with allegations that I was a criminal, a "cyberstalker," and a disgusting human being because I was saying critical things about Rawat on the Internet.

Mind you, the letter was anonymous, and so derranged-looking, that someone who saw it said it looked like it had been "written by the Unibomber," or by "David Koresh," and not worth paying attention to, but it had  Prem Rawat's name all over it,  so I was kind of obliged to explain who Prem Rawat is -- something I would rather not do, because, basically, I was admitting that I was once a follower of the guy who apparently has insane followers who would produce something as psychotic and nutty as that letter.

So, a little red-faced, I went on to ask if they remembered the "13-year-old perfect master," who had an event at the Astrodome when he was supposed to reveal his plan for world peace, and, you know, the kid who rode around in a Rolls Royce and married an airline stewardess who was a lot older than he was, etc.  Being around my age, they remembered, vaguely.  I chalked it up to the ignorant idealism of my youth, but I was surprised when a couple of people opened up to me and talked about their own involvement in cults back in the 70s, or they knew someone who was involved.  Everyone I talked to said they couldn't imagine I was ever in something like premiedom, but they were all very supportive of me, and kind of admired the fact that I had gotten out, and that I was willing to try to help others get out as well, or perhaps not make the same mistake I made and not get involved in the first place, and being willing to take cult abuse for doing so.  They admired that.

But I think you raise a good point.  Many ex-premies, perhaps especially including people high up in the organization, are reticent to tll people they were ever premies, mostly out of embarrassment.