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"...and yet here we are and it's just revving up for a new golden age."
Re: Peace Education and the Children of God-
Posted by:
lakeshore
Date:
08/31/2023, 10:43:20
Original URL:
Click here (However, the link may be stale.)
That's what I've been thinking. The cult dusted itself off and "cleaned-up perty good" as they say. It's polished image, effective use of social media, younger organizers, broadening name recognition and legitimate sheen surely adds up to something. If ex-premies could predict extinctiion, then certainly the cult masterminds could as well and they're smart enough to know they need to adapt in order to survive.I mocked PEP for taking advantage of captive audiences when it first appeard in prisons. Then I heard that it's spreading through police forces. More recently I heard that it's available in all the correctional facilities in Massachusetts and Susan posted clips of PEP in a school and a court system. I'm sure there's much more.True to its self-promoting nature and just like the glossy press releases after every TPRF donation to a worthy cause (often piggybacking on a well-known organization), PEP interviews and testimonials by both attendees and representatives of sponsoring organizations are leveraged into promotional material. Given the new breed of premies upright citizens who received the techniques of Knowledge and their imperative to perform their duties impeccably, they seem to be spreading PEP with relative ease. It all adds up to positive name recognition for Prem Rawat regardless of how many people take the next step of receiving Knowledge. (It doesn't have to be big to be viable.)I believe that positive name recognition through promoting Prem as a humanitarian and advocate for individual peace of mind - through the use of modern tools and vehicles such as PEP - is the primary objective. I believe positive name recognition is the cult's basis of adaptation and survival and its masterminds are smart enough to find ways of monetizing it. Moreover, it's the basis of redemption and rehabilitation from any residual stains from the LOTU era.In short, I believe the cult is well on its way towards reinventing itself. For the first time, I'm seeing public and private institutional and non-premie testimonials promoting Prem Rawat.When I watched the Peace Education at St Savior's & St Olave's School in London clip that Susan posted, it irritated me that students were likely predisposed to trust the source because it was sanctioned by their school and teachers. They probably considered PEP to be just as vetted and reliable as their textbooks and everything else the school offers.* The same likely holds true in other institutions; the mere fact of sponsorship lends credibility.I believe a lot of this is being orchestrated by the cult's upper echelon whose livelihoods depend on finding new ways to monetize Knowledge and maintain the revenue stream, even if it changes Prem's image and the context for the techniques of Knowledge, i.e., how it's presented.Lastly, I suspect there's internal tension between the old and the new. Prem can't afford to lose the LOTU era premies even as the "clearer" and more "concious" new regime strives to keep their devotional behavior under wraps. It gets even more twisted, however, because the new regime probably secretly worships him as well. After all, it is a cult!* Never to miss an opportunity for promotion, then the cult had the audacity to exploit those young adult students by filming and publishing their comments!
