Note: Very little of this is direct quoted, and some of it is interpreted through my frame.

Robert Thurman:
The established order does not want people to think originally.  What did “they” give Socrates?  A hemlock milkshake.  Why?  The established order wants people to work not think. 

Secularism and the broad pretensions of science are not really believed on the planet anymore.  What people call fundamentalism is asserting itself very strongly due to disillusionment with the idea that modern technology trumps Spirit.  As the rise of fundamentalism peaks, there is great danger of pre-conventional mindsets using post-conventional weapons to annihilate humanity.  The solution is to take our ingenuity and our technology to project Buddha (Spirit) over the airways to bring about collective spiritual awareness and cooperation. Those of us that are post-conventional have a responsibility of saving the planet from fundamentalists that would destroy others, and in the process, themselves (think massive nuclear holocaust).

Deepak:

We must not allow the schism between science and religion to continue.

Contrary to original empirical science, we now know that subject and object are inextricably linked together.

Robert:
Heisenberg’s Uncertainty principle: The subjectivity is warping the objectivity in observing it.  The idea that the observer was outside of the observed manifested in the Enlightenment in the attempt to get away from the barbarism and oppression of the Church.

The ultimate scientific use of language is mantra.  This mantra is where word is co-created with form.

The enlightened individual takes responsibility for co-creating reality with God (as an aspect of God).

Deepak:

This idea of co-creation is very important.

There is an antagonism between materialists, who believe that everything out there determines what I experience.  Others say that it’s the other way around: Consciousness projects itself as the entire universe.  Buddhism says they are both wrong; we are inter-beings that arise in the inter-ISness, and we are constantly co-creating each other out of that.  Physics calls that a tangled hierarchy.  An example of a tangled hierarchy is “I am a liar.”  Am I truthful in that statement, or am I a liar? 

The subject of experience and the object of the experience co-arise simultaneously moment by moment from a transcendent domain that is beyond space and time.  And that’s who you are…you are not the subject nor the object nor the process of interaction between them, but the potential for the whole thing!  This is the essence of Vedanta.

Robert:

An enlightened being experiences intense bliss and a sense of merging with all that is arising around him or her.  When such a person experiences someone that is caught up in the theater of torment, creating hell for themselves through delusion, a frustration can arise.  The frustration is that you cannot just act to “bliss them out” because that person will not experience it as helping but as another pressure to be something other than what they are.  Compassion enters in here, exploding as Krishna with a thousand arms, reaching out to do something to cheer up those that are trapped in misery.  So, instead of trying to change or deny their experience, you distract them away from delusion towards their innate reality by a sort of Karmic wizardry (my words).

Robert:

The jewel net of Indra is hung over the city of Indra; looking through any one jewel shows a holographic image of all the jewels and the entire net.  It’s hung around the whole planet; we are inextricably linked to each other and all of existence.  We’ve been born and reborn and we’ve done each other in infinite number of times and we’re sick of it.  We have this angelic protection, this synchronicity that is creating the possibility of getting out of this cycle.  We are going to MAKE this new world happen, and there are nurturing beings around us that will help.

Deepak:

And remember, these nurturing beings are aspects of ourselves.  Quotes Rumi: When I die, I shall soar with angels.  And when I die as an angel, what I shall become you cannot imagine.

Robert:

Rumi inspired Roosevelt who said that there is nothing to fear but fear.  With fear, we will destroy ourselves, but with love…

Me:

With love, we will change the world.  Watch.