I’m wondering: in this world of today, where children are being raised over cell phones—they don’t have really any time to reflect on their lives—how are you planning on bringing Transcendental Meditation to our youth?

It’s a big question. Transcendental Meditation is a mental technique, very easy and effortless to do, yet supremely profound in that it allows any human being to dive within—all

Do you believe that once one has the ability to access this ocean of consciousness that one has the ability to manifest one’s own interactions with their surroundings? Meaning that, you know, this person is aware that they have tapped into this pool of consciousness, but it’s no longer limited to their own experience; it’s literally spilling out to the rest of their surroundings. It’s almost as

You’ve mentioned the benefit of Transcendental Meditation as being like a sort of consciousness expansion. My question is: Do you think there’s any other way to induce that consciousness expansion, like illicit substances or art, or any other suggestions you might have?

No. The thing is, there’s experience, there’s information, there’s intellectual knowledge. But consciousness isn’t an

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

I have a question about story. When you’re in meditation, the process of story—does it come to you visually? When I watch your films, they are like a meditation to me. And you use colors, and you use rhythm, and you use timing, and you also—your stories are surprising and always revealing. And I wonder how your meditation influences you in that way, and how you convey that on the set to the