ABOUT THE BOOK:This book has been prepared from dialogues between a great
religious teacher and a leading physicist ask the question: 'Has humanity taken
a wrong turn which has brought about endless division, conflict and destruction
?' J. 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. 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. This insight
is achieved only by a mind that