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In this first of a three-part series, two conversations: the first, with John Daido Loori (1931-2009) founder and former abbott of Zen Mountain Monastery in upstate New York, died shortly after this interview was taped. Daido Roshi, as he was known to his students, was founder and former abbott of Zen Mountain Monastery in upstate New York and analysed our current global crisis for us from a Zen Buddhist perspective while Peter Russell, a writer and speaker in the second interview examined the tumult and crisis of our world in terms of our belief systems and the part that a developed consciousness can play in liberating our minds. (First broadcast on WPKN in 2009. Produced by Tony Ernst.)