The Becoming God

Thursday, February 09, 2017

Neville Goddard and Krishnamurti's Mistake

We have two profoundly spiritual teachers in Neville Goddard and Jiddu Krishnamurti. Jeff Roth mentioned in Jewish Meditation Practices for Everyday Life (2009. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Publishing, p. 58) that Krishnamurti renounced his association with the Theosophical Society. That was not Krishnamurti's mistake. His mistake, in my opinion, was saying that "all images and manifestations, however profound, were projections of the mind" (see his full renouncement: http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/about-krishnamurti/dissolution-speech.php). I AGREE with his statement, but what is "wrong" in it is his limitation of said projections to one's OWN mind. Images and manifestations also come from mind beyond our own.

I will not argue Krishnamurti's philosophy or wisdom, nor Goddard's. The only question is whether thought has effect. Neville taught the art of believing, of faith. Does it WORK? I do not think that Krishnamurti ever looked to see if it did. If he had implemented Abdullah's technique of believing, he might have been surprised to find that it does work. And if it does work, then there is mind beyond our own and power by which it works. I am grateful that Krishnamurti renounced the institutionalizing of "Truth" and the Theosophical Society's pursuits, but I wish he had found results from believing, that IT WORKS! I wonder what he would have taught all those years if he had.

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