"My religiousness is nothing but the science of deprogramming." And remember, don’t get mixed up with the “deprogramming” that exists in California – they are re-programmers! Someone was escaping from Christianity; they bring him back to Christianity – and you call it deprogramming?

THE PEOPLE WHO are going to be powerful need to be prepared.

Your education should prepare you to be in power, in such a way that power cannot corrupt you, that you cannot misuse it.

Right now, up to now, for thousands of years you have never prepared anybody. If somebody is going to be a boxer you don’t just push him into the ring and say: “Start!” He has to learn. If somebody is going to be a swordsman, it will take him years. Otherwise he won’t even know how to hold the sword — using it and fighting with it will be impossible. First he will have to find out how to take it out from its sheath, how to hold it. It needs training. You don’t just give a guitar to somebody who has never seen the instrument before and expect him to be an Amadeus Mozart.

Now this is your fault.

These people who are in power, have you trained them? Has anybody ever thought that the people who will be holding so much power need certain qualities so that they don’t misuse power? It is not their fault.

And remember, don’t get mixed up with the “deprogramming” that exists in California – they are re-programmers! Someone was escaping from Christianity; they bring him back to Christianity – and you call it deprogramming?