Because the Western civilization is dominated by dualistic thinking, holistic scientists and philosophers don't get the recognition they deserve.

Multinational corporations and a market economy have transformed human beings into instruments of making money. Human beings should be the end. And money should be the means to an end.

That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.

Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world

The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning.

Before the scientific rationalism took hold of our minds and before we became succumbed to a materialistic worldview, the Western philosophy was holistic and relational, and even now there are many scientists in the West seeing things totally interconnected.

I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world.