Facts do not mean anything in and of themselves. A fact is only a fact, a ‘nothing’.

Trials are but lessons that you failed to learn presented once again, so where you made a faulty choice before you now can make a better one, and thus escape all pain that what you chose before has brought to you. In every difficulty, all distress, and each perplexity Christ calls to you and gently says, “My brother, choose again” (T-31.VIII. 3:1‑2).

 

You have one test, as sure as God, by which to recognize if what you learned is true.  [1 ] If you are wholly free of fear of any kind, and [2] if all those who meet or even think of you share in your perfect peace, then you can be sure that you have learned God's lesson, and not your own (T-14.XI.5:1-2).

 

The Only Thing We Have To Handle

Finding the "I"-ness in you.

The harder we try to not create what we do not want, the stronger we’re holding on to the idea; thus, the more likely we are to create it in our reality.

How can we distinguish between what we can and cannot change?

To injure another is to injure yourself.

Guided Meditations from or based on A Course in Miracles and given by Yasuko Kasaki before a live audience at CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing). http://crsny.podbean.com/2013/05/20/acim-guided-meditation-april-30-2013/

Positive Negative News consists of facts and communications that are true but human beings don’t want them to be true. It may be a negative fact that you are weak and burden other people, but your knowledge of that negative fact is positive. When you are no longer a burden to anyone else, no one else can be a burden to you. VLH

PauseForInspiration http://pauseforinspiration.org/    The 4 Decisions

Know Thyself

Krishnamurti stressed the need to discover the truth within each of us, in other words "Know Thyself," without relying on any spiritual authority, including his own.

Mass Hypnosis? 2012? Delusion?

From SuperWisdom Foundation or @ http://timeoutfortruth.com/

 Money and the Meaning of Life - A Liberating Discussion on a Sensitive Subject
Enjoy references and insights about money from Vernon Linwood Howard, J. Krishnamurti, George Gurdjieff, the New Testament and Jacob Needleman.
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See Through Fear and Vernon Howard's Classic "Walk Yourself Awake" Spiritual Exercise

ONE: A look at mass hypnosis and how fear gets generated over future events, for example, the 2012 Mayan Calendar "end of the world" drama or Y2K.

Is What We See Real?

Gods in Exile

by J. J. Van Der Leeuw

1926

THE following pages are based on an awakening of Ego-consciousness which came to me some little time ago. It brought with it knowledge which, though it came in but a single moment, has taken many days to realize and many pages to describe.

I do not claim any credit for the teachings. I received them as we receive all things on the Path, and pass them on to others in the hope that they may help them as they have helped me.

J. .J. VAN DER LEEUW

The Conquest of Illusion:
Is What We See Real?

JJ van der Leeuw published "The Conquest of Illusion" in 1928, with a dedication to J. Krishnamurti and in memory of Krishnamurti's brother Nityananda.

Every image that we see in our consciousness we project outside ourselves and pretend that we're seeing that image outside.

Freedom Through Right Thinking

Strang, Lewis C[linton] (1869–1935), critic and author. Born in Westfield, Massachusetts, and educated at Boston University, he took work at the Boston Journal, where he eventually became its drama critic. Later he held a similar position on the Washington Times. At the turn of the century he churned out a spate of books that still hold interest for theatrical historians: Famous Actresses of the Day (1899 and 1902), Famous Actors of the Day (1899 and 1901), Prima Donnas and Soubrettes of Light Opera and Musical Comedy in America (1900), Celebrated Comedians of Light Opera and Musical Comedy in America (1901), and Players and Plays of the Last Quarter Century (1902).

Freedom Through Right Thinking - 1924.

One of the purposes of this book on the practice and potency of right thinking is to express and explain in a manner free from religious and sentimental emotionalism, and without any background of personal or organized authority, prepositions in connection with the whole subject of mental healing, which have been formulated after a broad experience in both practice and teaching.

'At The End Of Sorrow Is Passion'

Jiddu Krishnamurti: At The End Of Sorrow Is Passion
Washington D.C. 2nd Public Talk 21st April 1985

May we continue where we left off yesterday. We were talking about fear and the ending of fear. And also we were talking about the responsibility of each one of us facing what is happening in the world, the appalling, frightening mess we are in. And for that we are all responsible, individually, collectively, nationally, religiously, and all the affairs of the world we have made after millennia upon millennia, long evolution, we have still remained barbarians, hurting each other, killing each other, destroying each other. We have had freedom to do exactly what we liked and that has created havoc in the world. Freedom is not to do what one likes, but rather to be free from all the travail of life, from the problems, which we went into yesterday morning, from our anxieties, from our psychological wounds, from all the conflict that we have put up with for many many many millennia. And also to be free from fear. We talked about all these things yesterday afternoon. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgd1GY2OABc&feature=related The video is 1:25:47

The Good Life

Scott Nearing (1883 - 1983) was an American radical economist, educator, writer, political activist, and advocate of simple living [1].







Helen Knothe Nearing (1904-1995) and Scott Nearing (1883-1983) were well known American back-to-the-landers who wrote extensively about their experience living what they termed "the good life".




The Nearings began their simple life on an old farm on the foot of Stratton Mountain near Jamaica, Vermont in 1932, in the pit of the Great Depression. In 1952 they moved to Maine, ultimately settling on their "Forest Farm" at Cape Rosier (in the village of Harborside [2], within the town of Brooksville), where they lived until their deaths. Scott remained a thinker, writer, and lecturer on economics and social issues for many years. Their best known books (those which they wrote together) are Living the Good Life (published 1954) and Continuing the Good Life (1979). The first of these is often credited with being a major spur to the U.S. Back-to-the-land movement that began in the late 1960s.
Scott was a trained economist and former college professor (he had lost his position due to his socialist and pacifist beliefs, and his anti-war activism during World War I). He continued to tread the path of a social and political theorist. Helen had grown up in an economically comfortable family of Theosophists, and as a young woman had a romantic relationship with J. Krishnamurti. She was trained as a musician, and also had some brief experience in the factory work world before moving into the agrarian life with Scott.

[1]Simple living encompasses a number of different voluntary practices to simplify one's lifestyle. These may include reducing one's possessions or increasing self-sufficiency, for example. Simple living may be characterized by individuals being satisfied with what they need rather than want. Although asceticism generally promotes living simply and refraining from luxury and indulgence, not all proponents of simple living are ascetics. Simple living is distinct from those living in forced poverty, as it is a voluntary lifestyle choice.

Adherents may choose simple living for a variety of personal reasons, such as spirituality, health, increase in 'quality time' for family and friends, reducing personal ecological footprint, stress, personal taste or frugality. Simple living can also be a reaction to materialism and conspicuous consumption. Others cite socio-political goals aligned with the anti-consumerist movement, including conservation, degrowth, social justice, ethnic diversity and sustainable development.


[2] The Good Life Center is located at the last hand-built home of Helen and Scott Nearing, located in Harborside (Brooksville), Maine on five acres of forested land overlooking Spirit Cove.

Charles Webster Leadbeater

C(harles) W(ebster) Leadbeater (1854 –1934) was an influential member of the Theosophical Society, author on occult subjects and co-initiator with J. I. Wedgwood of the Liberal Catholic Church. Originally a clergyman of the Church of England, his interest in spiritualism caused him to end his affiliation with the Church of England in favour of the Theosophical Society, where he became an associate of Annie Besant.
He became a high ranking officer of the Society, but resigned during 1906, after accusations that he had been engaging in mutual masturbation with teenage boys in his care. With Besant's assistance he was readmitted a few years later, and although similar rumours occurred throughout his career, Leadbeater's talents as a prolific author on occultism kept him an important presence in Theosophy until his death in 1934.

Annie Besant

Annie Besant (1847 – 1933) was a prominent Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator and supporter of Irish and Indian self rule.

In 1889, she was asked to write a review for the Pall Mall Gazette on The Secret Doctrine, a book by H.P. Blavatsky. After reading it, she sought an interview with its author, meeting Blavatsky in Paris. In this way she was converted to Theosophy.


In 1890 Besant met Helena Blavatsky and over the next few years her interest in Theosophy grew while her interest in secular matters waned. She became a member of the Society and a highly successful lecturer in Theosophy.

Besant met fellow Theosophist C(harles) W(ebster) Leadbeater in London in April 1894. They became close co-workers in the Theosophical Movement and would remain so for the rest of their lives. Leadbeater claimed clairvoyance and reputedly helped Besant become clairvoyant herself in the following year.

Annie Besant with Henry Olcott (left) [1] and Charles Leadbeater (right) in Adyar in December 1905

Besant came to believe in the imminent appearance of an "emissary", who was identified by Theosophists as the so-called World Teacher.

In 1909, soon after Besant's assumption of the presidency, Leadbeater "discovered" fourteen-year-old Jiddu Krishnamurti. [ http://pvrguymale.blogspot.com/2009/02/krishnamurti.html ]
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Besant soon became the boys' legal guardian with the consent of their father, who was very poor and could not take care of them. However, his father later changed his mind and began a legal battle to regain the guardianship, against the will of the boys. Early in their relationship, Krishnamurti and Besant had developed a very close bond and he considered her a surrogate mother – a role she happily accepted.

Krishnamurti in England in 1911 with his brother Nitya and the Theosophists Annie Besant and George Arundale[2].

His love for Besant never waned, as also was the case with Besant's feelings towards him; concerned for his well being after he declared his independence from the , the Theosophical Society she had purchased 6 acres of land near the Theosophical Society estate which later became the headquarters of the Krishnamurti Foundation India.

[1] Colonel Henry Steel Olcott (1832 –1907) was an American military officer, journalist, lawyer and the co-founder and first President of the Theosophical Society.


[2] Dr. George Sidney Arundale (1878 —1945) was a theosophist, freemason, president of the Theosophical Society Adyar and bishop of the Liberal Catholic Church.