Its paradoxical that most of the young people who became followers of Prem Rawat, then known as Guru Maharaj Ji, were associated to a greater or lesser degree to the much hyped counter-culture of the 1960s and yet his most vociferous critics were the elite members of that very movement. The overwhelming counter-culture response to HIS arrival in the Westt was identical to that of conservatives, i was ridicule as these cartoons so clearly demonstrate.