Tetragrammaton.

Tetragrammaton.

The first time I sat to meditate, I was an 18-year-old between my freshman and sophomore year

year at the University of California at Berkeley in June 28, 1969, I remember it.

What were you studying?

I wanted to be United States Senator.

I wanted to change the world.

I'd worked for Bobby Kennedy, senior, when I was in high school, and I grew up in a very political family.

And so our thing was, you know, you have to change the world.

And I thought politics at that time was the way to do it because you could make sustainable change and

scalable change and so I got to Berkeley and it was crazy and I wasn't into drugs I

wasn't into I was just trying to figure a way to make it and a very good friend of

mine named Peter Stevens who I really trusted said he was

doing transcendental meditation and I said I'm sort of my dad's my dad was a doctor and a scientist

so a little bit of skepticism there I went maybe but he said give it a try and he held up a pen

and he dropped a pen in his hand he said you don't have to believe in gravity for the pen to fall.

You don't have to believe in this meditation.

So my first meditation was sitting in this little room with this Sylvia Schmidt, 18 years

old.

I said, well, I can't be hypnotized.

And first meditation,

and I just blew me away, because it was familiar

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