Brad Jacobs

And you were either on the bus or off the bus.

And if you were not helping with that, you were off the bus.

But he was a very bright person, extremely intelligent, very charismatic.

He was able to charm thousands, actually millions of people to follow him.

I liked following him.

I liked being part of a group that was different, that was learning new things, that was experimenting with

He called it consciousness as a field of all possibilities.

I thought that was a really cool saying.

He knew a lot about meditation.

He had studied meditation deeply in India, had met many different gurus that he had met with, and he had formulated it that was something that was easy for Westerners to do.

So he was very brilliant with meditation techniques.

For me, it was education.

For me, I was lucky, I was privileged to be able to go to summer enrichment camps instead of normal camps like most kids go to.

My mother put us into geeky

nerdy camps that were for the sciences and for the arts and were educational, basically extensions of the school year.

And there was one at Moses Brown School in Providence.

And there was one that was called the Governor's School for the Gifted.

I participated in these summer programs that I learned that there's a lot of people who are a lot smarter and gifted than I am.

I learned it was really nice to be around.

It was very enlivening to be around people who are smarter than me, people more talented than I was.