While I can respect the overall goal of world peace for your Foundation, I’m wondering: Do you think that this emphasis on the individual and individual consciousness takes away from important discussions about the structural, economic, cultural, historical, and ideological causes of war and violence?

In my mind, yes. But I’m interested in enlivening this field of unity with a peace-creating group. But many, many people are out there doing what they feel is good for many, many parts of society. Very, very good. I’m interested in getting a peace-creating group, which I think will—Maharishi said, “Water the root and enjoy the fruit.”

This is the root, the very root, most fundamental level. If we can enliven that, all these discussions can kind of come to an end. You know, so many talkings, talkings, talkings, talkings have been going on for thousands of years, and there are a lot of problems. We’re at a point right now, maybe,  enlivening this field of unity—the technology’s there—let’s give it a go. And then we’ve got, you know, a different kind of thing to talk about.

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