The Ending of Time (Dialogue) by J. Krishnamurti, David Bohm
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Book Reviews of The Ending of Time (Dialogue)
Book Review: Lucid, intelligent & punctures mankind's invisible bell jar
Summary: 5 Stars
I was introduced to Krishnamurti in 1975 by a friend and contemporary of his. I wasn't, yet, ready for such a revelation as Krishnamurti represented. "The Ending Of Time" is perhaps the most significant book I've read in my almost fifty years on this planet. He punctures the bell jar of that Garden of Delusion and Deception humankind has created. This is the first perspective not to insult me intellectually. As I read the series of dialogues between Krishnamurti and Dr. Bohm in 1980 I found myself correctly anticipating where the conversation was going. For the past twenty-five years I've been heading in this direction. I'm not one for romantic notions, mythical excapades and fantasy or in need of an emotional fix to save my soul. I was looking for something that was both intellegent and spoke to me directly. I had recently finished "The Tao Of Physics" by Fritjof Capra for the third time. Capra's book serves as an excellent practical guide and springboard into the likes of a Krishnamurti; in fact, I think it was reading "The Tao Of Physics" that allowed me to have the type of foundation and understanding to make the quantum leap into the realm of Krishnamurti. I am currently reading "Star In The East". I'm interesting in understanding Krishnamurti's personal history. The one thing that strikes me most is, his "enlightenment" is because and, more importantly, inspite of his involvement with the Theosophical Society. The contrast that emerges between one like Krishnamurti and those who have obviously not punctured that invisible bell share of delusion and deception is glaring, and serves to make Krishnamurti even more poignant and relevant.
Anyone with a similar appreciation for Krishnamurti please contact me. I would very much like to learn and have a dialogue on both this lovely man and his state of mind.
Book Review: take their hand into the unknown
Summary: 5 Stars
Having read many books by Krishnmaurti and 'Wholeness and the Implicate Order' by Bohm, I was still not prepared for the deep insight explosion this wonderful book caused in myself. I recommend wholeheartitly for the Krishnamurti reader who finds him or herself pouring over similar and reoccuring themes in Krishnamurti books and not quite grasping the subject matter. This book owes a lot to the penetrating dissection by Bohm of Krishnamurti's dialogue. As I read along I found myself questioning what Krishnamurti was talking about and wishing I could have it clarified, only to have Bohm ask the question I was asking myself, and consequently, answering the question. How wonderful. Although Krishnamurti has been in dialogue with many sharp minds nothing that I have read comes close to the genius of Bohm at uncovering in plain language these difficult discussions. This book is fantastic. Excuse my expression but the book is truly 'mindblowing'. All this is obtained through what is easily percieved as the non-egotistical approach of two humble and caring people. 6 stars!Book Review: Proceed with extreme caution!
Summary: 5 Stars
By far the most uncomfortable and penetrating message I have come across through the printed medium, this book will - hopefully - cut through the ingrained detritus of philosophy and 'psychology of the self' which has built up in the human psyche over countless aeons. To read this with hope of aquiring some esoteric knowledge of oneself or the world is to miss the point. If it's engaged with directly, personally, then Krishnamurti's message - digested by the very core of your being - may just be the extraordinarily deep and powerful catalyst it was for me. To really listen to what is being discussed here, instead of approaching as another philosophical text to be analysed and processed by the habitual and distorted logic of ego, is to open up to the possibility that things just might never be the same again. Suffice to say that on many occasions I had to put the book in a dark cupboard, make myself a strong cup of tea and have a lie down. What a lovely man.Book Review: K, if you understand him a little, you understand youself.
Summary: 5 Stars
I think I've read nearly every book that K wrote and yet this has nothing to with any of the books really. TEOT is a phenomenal book for anyone that is open to the physics and the mechanisms of human endeavour. Beyond that, this book summed it up for me. I've read it so many times the spine has fallen apart and I need another copy.K was (is) for me the opportunity for each and every one of us to change ourselves, and the world. If you read any of K's books and feel nothing more than "that was interesting" then you have missed the point completely.
I believe, and I know how much he hated that word (I don't have a better one) that he was exactly what he said he was.
If you were confused by TEOT then read "The Krisnamurti Reader"
This world needs another K, or someone who is prepared to
do what he demanded of us, and what we have so patently failed
to deliver. (including myself) What are YOU going to do about it??
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Book Review: Incendiary
Summary: 5 Stars
The other reviews of this book tend to be of a "love it or hate it" variety. I can totally understand why.
I found this book to be fascinating, frustrating, inspiring, depressing, liberating, and frightening all at once. It's certainly not a light, easy read by any means. In order to really get everything I could out of it, I had to read it just a little at a time.
I've read several other books by Krishnamurti, but this is probably the most incendiary one I've read yet. There's no way I can sum up, in a review, the revolutionary concepts introduced and discussed in this book. All I can say is ... if you're willing to have every bit of "truth" that's been fed to you during your whole life challenged, pick it up and give it a read.