I know, it's so perplexing. Elan Vital raises a question and then gives some meaningless anecdote or cute story that explains nothing, but implies...something. It's so damn dishonest, but fortunately, both EV and TPRF don't do it very well. It's just laughable. I wonder who is writing this stuff. I know Linda Pascotto and Willow Baker are mentioned, but otherwise it's just the nameless organization talking.
Will there ever be a day when some journalist or interviewer gets past that most banal question?
I think that won't happen as long as Rawat remains as obscure as he is, and likely to remain. He just isn't of interest to journalists because he's such a zero, just another new-agey, semi-spiritual, semi-religious, semi-self-help" type with an aging, dwindling following and some lame websites that claim he offers an experience of "peace" through some vague process called "the keys." Who would be interested in that?
Remember even Kurt Andersen couldn't get the "my sister Erika used to be in a cult that isn't a cult anymore" article in the New Yorker, despite having written the article and interviewing both you and me for it? There just wasn't enough interest. Personally, the New Yorker is my favorite magazine, so, it kind of raised my regard even higher because I suspect that article was going to imply that the Rawat cult used to be a cult, but isn't anymore.
So, Rawat is stuck with paying somebody like Bert Wolf, a cooking show host, to "interview" him, and do canned "interviews" for magazines that aren't really magazines, but just puff publications that the public doesn't even see, and getting his followers to put his videos on cable access TV, with the other spiritual con men, like Andrew what's his name and that fat Indian woman whose name I also do not recall.
But if by some bizarre chance that the current PR campaign were to be successful (chances between slim and none), then the interest will be there in the press, and fortunately, the ex-premies now have some excellent resources for them, and Rawat will probably have tantrums like he had at Millennium because he won't be able to completely control what gets said about him and he'll have a little tirade about how the press should get behind him an help him bring peace to the world. In other words, just surrender to him, like he told us to do for years.
