Description
This discussion between a leading religious teacher and a leading physicist asks the question: 'Has humanity taken a wrong turn which has brought about endless division. conflict and destruction?" Krishnamurti suggests that the wrong turn lies in our inability to face what we actually are and our need to impose instead an illusory goal of what we must become. The heart of the discussions therefore rests in our ideas about ourselves, a consciousness made up of all sorts of misconceptions about the 'me'. Krishnamurti sees the nature of Man's thought as self-centred, confused and ultimately destructive and maintains that the only way to free ourselves is through insight that goes beyond normal perceptions. Such insight is achieved only by a mind that is silent, empty of thought and capable of moment-by- moment awareness.
He also suggests that the brain can be physically damaged by working in self-created darkness but that true insight can heal the effects of years of malfunction.
Despite our current state of conflict, the dialogues insist, Mankind is capable of fundamental change. But this requires moving from one's narrow and particular interests toward the general, ultimately moving to that purity of compassion, love and intelligence which originates beyond thought and beyond time.
ISBN:ENDINGOFTIME0
