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Private Consultations II

[This is part two of a two-part blog.] The year before Krishnamurti died, his three foundations (America, England, India) had agreed to hold an educational conference with representatives from all his schools worldwide.  The conference was held at his 300-acre campus in Rishi Valley, near Bangalore, in the southern portion of the subcontinent.  As director of Oak Grove School, I was invited to attend, and the KFA kindly paid for my wife, Vivienne, to accompany me.  We were...

Private Consultations I

Krishnamurti told me once that when he was younger, he used to see as many as seventy-five people a week for private interviews. Evidently, he was available, without charge, to anyone who wanted to see him about some personal problem or issue they wanted to discuss. ...

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Healing

Healing

Krishnamurti had a reputation for being able to heal people with his hands, but he didn't like it to be widely known.  He didn't advertise it in any way, and it was not the kind of thing that fell within the purview of his public talks.  If people in his immediate...

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Krishnamurti and Mental Telepathy II

Another incident bears upon the theme of Krishnamurti and mental telepathy.  This incident occurred in his final days when he was confined to his bed in Pine Cottage.  He had been conducting two or three meetings with trustees of his three foundations -- America,...

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Krishnamurti and Mental Telepathy I

The Theosophical Society that discovered and nurtured the young Krishnamurti had a philosophy that emphasized the reality and the significance of the occult.  They had and still have an exclusive "Esoteric Section" devoted in part to the study of occult phenomena....

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Lunch with Krishnamurti III

Krishnamurti's manner on the public platform and in meetings with teachers radiated a sense of deep and orderly seriousness, a quality not quite severe, but compellingly intense.  The first thirty or forty times I saw him were under these circumstances, and the...

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Lunch with Krishnamurti II

Krishnamurti had a certain place where he preferred to sit at lunch.  It was at the end of the table, in the position nearest the door to the kitchen.   Everyone knew his preference, so no one sat in that seat, even though he was one of the last to sit down.  The...

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