Rosalind

After last year's observations on Radha Rajagopal Sloss' book, Lives in the Shadows with J. Krishnamurti, the book itself arrives, with the author Radha's mother, Rosalind, centre stage.
The story, heresy to many K fans, fills out some inconvenient details of a love triangle with Rosalind, her husband and Radha's father, plus the amorous though ostensibly celibate World Teacher, Krishnamurti ...

Beautifully written, it's far from a kiss and tell tale, and very fair to K, faithful to his core message, echoed by the Buddha and exploring the psychology of faithful followers, to this day in denial of the humanity of their Guru ... the Guru who consistently insisted he was not a Guru, whilst enjoying the life afforded by the wealthy aristocrats, from England, USA and other places where the Theosophists gathered, in search of salvation, fascinated by the esoteric and occult, missing Buddha's Middle Way, Lao Tse's Simplicity, Christ's Camels Eye of a Needle and other inconvenient Truths.

Students of Jung, meanwhile, will see the significance of Radha's title immediately as she lays bare the hypocrisy sensitively, whilst keeping her Mother, Rosalind, known variously by different players in her story as Rosie, Rozzie and Ros at the centre ... and it is her story,  notwithstanding the parts played by Raja, her often absent, geographically and psychologically, Father, loyal to K for years, unaware K was meeting Rosalind's physical and emotional needs and Radha's basic childhood need for a present Father ... secrecy deemed essential to maintain the loyalty of the many women in love with the the handsome young chaste Teacher ...

Theosophy continues to this day, including locally in Durham, though not resonating at Wear & Dao on the one research visit ... to be honest K's persona not appealing either, though the Power of his core message is ... his other, later, relationship ... with David Bohm, scientist and mystic, drawn to K by their mutual grasp of the Truth: The Observer is the Observed ... their dialogues examining The Limits of Thought, The Ending of Time and other topics forensically ... finds Bohm more appealing as a messenger, though not a Guru ... and perhaps the only interlocutor K treated as an equal. .. for quite a while at least.

All above my head in the detail of course, but instinct serves the pseudo-intellectual would-be polymath well enough thank you ... not self-satisfied, and ever seeking Truth, noting synchronicities, embracing magical thinking ... all held lightly ... to take one's self seriously a categorical error, of course!

Bohm meanwhile, who died unrecognised by fellow physicists, most following Nils Bohr's mainstream advice, frustrated by the philosophical implications of the Observer Effect and limited by their insistence on the old paradigm denying the role of insight, instinct, inner exploration, advised: Shut up and calculate! since probability produced significant results ... is star of a recent film, Infinite Potential, free to view online and highly recommended ...

Dull weather enlightened by both Bohm and Sloss ... K too, now rounded out as fully human ... plus new information on the current existential challenge, which dragged the blogger from excessive solitude, a beautiful state, though not the reason to be landed here on Earth in human form ... to be fully Human, whether playing Light or Dark, is to engage with other humans ... Left hemisphere upgrade download completed and pieces of this dark phase of the multi-dimensional drama fall into place, revealing information hiding in plain sight from the World Economic Forum, three copies on order due Wednesday ... let's see ...

And my own human frailty, in the game policed by us, through Fear, fed by flabby thinking, excess wealth, unhealthy thinking, eating, lack of exercise and Sun? A tendency to paranoia, maybe fed by caution in the overlong communist youth, trained to suspect state surveillance ... not without reason, since our mission was to overthrow State Power ... mostly eradicated on Pilgrimage, especially in the simple years, without house or car or reserves of cash ... not large by some reckoning, but more than enough ...

Time to post, dear reader(s) ... thanks for your attention ... more to come for sure, though the Ultimate well out of reach, and best left there, as advised by the Dao, or Tao, and Lao Tse ...