I have a question regarding world peace: What do you think about war sometimes being a necessity for social mobility?

This thing about world peace: I’ve heard that Maharishi had a technology to amplify, enliven, so much unity through a peace-creating group that it could bring harmony and coherence—real peace—to the world. And real peace is not just the absence of war. Real peace is the absence of those seeds of war—negativity. And in a human being, when you ramp up that consciousness—you ramp up that light of unity—the side effect, as I said, is: negative things start to recede.

So if this can happen in a human being, each individual: you get more and more and more intelligence, more and more creativity, more and more bliss, and negativity goes. And Maharishi has said that negativity is just like darkness. And so you think: “What is darkness?” And you look at darkness, and you see that it’s really nothing: it’s the absence of something. You turn on the light, and darkness goes. But sunlight, for instance, doesn’t get rid of negativity. It gets rid of darkness, but it doesn’t get rid of negativity. So what light can you turn on that removes negativity like sunlight removes darkness? And that’s that light of unity.

So it seems to me, based on experiences of meditation—this bliss, this feeling of appreciation of life, appreciation of other people, seeing friends instead of enemies—this thing rising up and growing—it seems to me that a peace-creating group, not only doing Transcendental Meditation but these advanced techniques that really, powerfully enliven this—like a broadcast station, or like a factory of peace—could enliven this Unified Field so powerfully it would bring harmony, coherence, to world consciousness.

And that’s why I thought that this would be something that somebody, somewhere, would say, “Okay: look at the way the world is now. What’s our peace plan? Our peace plan is to go and kill people in the name of peace.” That’s a peace plan! That doesn’t make peace. That makes people really angry or really sorrowful. And it doesn’t make peace. And it’s common sense, but that’s been the way, the only way, people know.

Now—like Dr. John Hagelin says—it’s a Unified Field-based world. It’s not a test-tube world anymore. Throw those things out, get real, and realize that there is a field of unity. It’s always been there. It’s unbounded, infinite, and eternal. It’s that level of life that never had a beginning. It is, and it will be, forever. And it can be enlivened. In the human being, the enlivening of that leads to enlightenment—the full potential of the human being. In the world, the result of that activity of enlivening unity could be real peace on earth.

So it’s worth thinking about. And if you want to get involved with this, just let me know. And we’re trying to raise enough money—I’d like to raise seven billion dollars—to get this thing started. The strange thing about seven billion dollars is that we’ve—I was told once that a B-1 bomber costs two billion. So it would be three and half B-1 bombers. And a B-1 bomber—I have not ever seen one, but I would imagine they’re quite beautiful airplanes—and they shoot rockets, and they drop bombs. And they’re meant to protect us. And then comes 9-11. And not one B-1 bomber could save—not ten could save that. There they sat: seven billion dollars for three and a half of them. And they weren’t there. And it makes you wonder. Let’s try this peace-creating group to enliven this field of unity, and just see if it works. There’s nothing to lose.

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