I have always been interested in politics and what I intuit as “the machinations behind the scenes.” After all, I am a veteran from U.C. Berkeley in its Civil Rights, Free Speech Movement, and anti-Vietnam war days. I always participated intellectually, and quite often physically (“put your body on the line” and all that) to promote what I thought would be a better world. Later traveling to India and meeting my great teacher, whom I called “Father,” gave me a strong vision of what that better world would look…