The task before me is something akin to my attempting to fill a bottomless hole with an elaborate and costly sieve. The hole is the totality of consciousness experiencing life directly, superseding cognition, beyond symbolization; an intuitively experienced consciousness that presently and ultimately unites all life in a fluid and timeless design of being. The sieve is ego immersed in the pursuit of explaining and changing; a phenomemally known consciousness formulated and determined by the epistemological tools of one's collective and individual heritage; for us in the West, theoretical conceptualization and empirical validation. The ego attempts to grasp all of consciousness, never realizing its inherent limitations, never being more than the sum of its own projections. No matter how hard one struggles, or how long one perseveres, the hole never gets filled. The amount of space remaining is always the difference between the word and the thing. Nevertheless, an attempt will be made to formally explore that frontier of consciousness bordered by words, and in so doing, introduce the thoughts of Krishnamurti for the purpose of formulating a radically different approach to psychotherapy. Nowhere in the literature does such an attempt appear, and I strongly suspect none ever will. Those familiar with Krishnamurti's work will immediately question the efficacy of its application to a therapeutic model. Even Krishnamurti himself adamantly rejects any systemization of his work and equally refuses to vest himself with the trappings of authority on any level: I have nothing to teach you - no new philosophy, no new system, no new path to reality; there is no path to reality any more than to truth. Despite these obstacles I remain with a deep and abiding need to formally explore the wisdom of a man who clearly sees life and living as few others do. His clarity of vision explodes from a center of a unique and exquisite intelligence, creating a message that is as disturbing in its dissonance as it is liberating in its lucidity. The man offers food for those of us still hungry for understanding and change. I was first introduced to the thoughts of Krishnamurti during the summer of 1974 in a small rural town in central India while recuperating from a bout of dysentery. One morning an old man dressed in a coat and tie arrived unexpectedly at my door carrying a rose and requesting the opportunity to speak with me. He introduced himself as Mr. Ogal and stated he was a retired judge, recently widowed, eager to discuss the meaning of life with a kindred soul. At first suspect of his exuberance, I soon became aware of certain radiance, a certain energy I had never encountered in another person before, and I invited him in. The following extract from my journal describes part of that first meeting: after all the graspings and clutchings at self expression after all the erratic and scattered dissipations of energy after all the searching and seeking for the end of illusion after all the bullshit answers never spoken in a language i could understand in my heart after all the emptiness of feeling weary and tired and wasted and alone after all the tender aches and bruises inflicted by a militant ego after all that is find myself one hot july morning in a second floor six rupee room filled with flies in the central hotel in jahnsi india sitting across from a very earnest very gentle young old man who hands me a rose touches my knee and talks of revolution is sit there and listen to this unusual man and i realize something tremendously important is happening a beginning is forming a beginning of something beyond thought how did he know i was ready ? Almost two years have passed since that July morning and I am now just beginning to find the words to share its impact. Jiddu Krishnamurti was born in 1895 in a large South Indian family of strict but poor Brahmins. At the age of twelve he was adopted by Mrs. Annie Besant who had an uncanny knack for 'discovering' and encouraging talented minds. Krishnamurti was taken to England where he studied privately in preparation for the role designed to fulfill the prophecy of the next World Teacher, in line with Krishna, Buddha, and Christ. An order of The Star Of The East was set up with Krishnamurti as its designated leader. He was groomed for almost twenty years so as to emerge as the incarnation of the next Messiah. When at last he did emerge at the age of thirty-three, he spoke with a voice that reverberated from the heart of the universe. Only what he said was the shocking part. To the dismay of those who had educated him and who were now ready to follow him blindly forever and anywhere, he said precisely what Lord Buddha had said thousands of years ago: You are free. He immediately dissolved The Star Of The East stating that truth cannot be organized or limited. His role as he saw it was not as a messhiah or a guru, but as an independent thinker, in which capacity he has been writing and talking ever since. Krishnamurti's words have little of the customary manner in which speakers generally address their audiences. They are exercises in self observation and analysis. In the process of thinking aloud he probes the depths of the human psyche and attempts to unravel its intricacies. It is important to understand from the beginning that Krishnamurti does not seek to expound a theory, formulate constructs, or prove a thesis; to do so would mean indulging in abstraction and propaganda, to any form of which he is totally opposed. Instead, he has undertaken the task of developing in his listener a new way of seeing. Content; PART ONE: TOTAL REVOLUTION CHAPTER ONE: POSSIBILITIES FOR CHANGE CHAPTER TWO: THE TYRANNY OF THOUGHT CHAPTER THREE: THE FALLACY OF PURSUIT CHAPTER FOUR: THE AWAKENING OF INTELLIGENCE PART TWO: JOURNEY TO THE EAST CHAPTER FIVE: THE POLITICS OF REALITY CHAPTER SIX: THE EAST WITHIN Valuable information you need to know. GET IT NOW! CHAPTER SEVEN: BEYOND EAST AND WEST 43

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