‘Has humanity taken a wrong turn which has brought about endless division, conflict, and destruction?’ This is one of the fundamental questions posed in this series of dialogues between J. Krishnamurti and Dr. David Bohm—men from the vastly different backgrounds of philosophy and physics. They debate profound existential questions such as insight, illusion, death, transcendence, self-realization, the temporal, and the spiritual. Though man can change radically, they say, transformation requires going from one’s narrow and particular interests towards the general, and ultimately moving deeper into that purity of compassion, love, and intelligence that originates beyond thought, time, and even emptiness. This revised and enlarged edition includes a new introduction and a previously published conversation, ‘The Future of Humanity’.
J. Krishnamurti (1895—1986) is regarded as one of the greatest philosophers and religious teachers of all time. For more than sixty years he travelled the world over, giving talks and holding dialogues, not as a guru but as a friend. His teachings are not based on book knowledge and theories, and therefore they communicate directly to anyone seeking answers to the present world crisis as well as to the eternal problems of human existence.