I only want to say that your broad-based generalizations are extremely insensitive and offensive, yes even "hurtful" to use your own words, to the thousands of people who don't fit into your neat paradigms.

I can speak for myself as someone who was constantly indoctrinated with lord and devotee stories to create the perfect master mythos in my brain which definitely was the reason I moved into the ashram and no other. The ashram was never a spiritual place for me. I spent my entire time there raising money for M and his various projects. I am personally resonsible for enriching him with at least $50000 in the few years I spent there. I had very little time to meditate and the environment was more like a lunatic asylum rather than a spiritual center.

Neither I nor any of the people whom I asociated with were "haunted and depressed". Many people I know dropped out of college or left their careers cut short. I was fortunate to be able to get my degree afterwards.

I felt VERY threatened about the prospect of leaving the ashram, and this fear prevented me from leaving for some time, although I wanted to. This fear was promoted directly by things M said as well as from his chosen representatives. The sentence you recite is comparatively innocuous.