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...grounds are 13 houses and cabins, one a guesthouse named "Runcible" after a Logan cat. and another a onetime roadhouse near the highway. In these live indigent poets, artists, thinkers, mostly obscure folk. Last week, on his annual visit to the Logans, arrived a more famed guest, Hindu Jiddu Krishnamurti, who had just returned from Europe...
Once hailed by Annie Besant as a "World Teacher" who had in him the same "Christ Force" as did Jesus, Krishnamurti has renounced Theosophy and in fact all systems, dogmas, labels, ties, organizations. Wandering continually about the world, he holds meetings for people who are interested in learning his mystic way of life and thought, as some 3,000 were this summer at the annual camp meeting he holds at Ommen, Holland, on property given him by a Dutch nobleman. His friends-he dislikes the word "disciple" because "one who is a disciple is already bound"-call him "Krishnaji...
What the world can learn from Krishnamurti if it cares to (his attitude now is take-it-or-leave-it), he stated as simply as he could last week: "Most people today are committed either to science or religion, but I want to strike a balance between...
...months' rest was Hindu Jiddu Krishnamurti, onetime leader of the Theosophists. Said he, "In Europe men are acting like a pack of lunatics; talking peace and making ready for war. I just go on talking to people, trying to persuade them to break down the little walls they build around themselves...
Rechecking its facts on the rarefied subjects of Krishnamurti and Theosophy, TIME finds: 1) As to the arcane matter of his divinity. World Teacher Krishnamurti was recently reported saying: "I may or may not be the second Christ-I don't know. . . . Most people are dumb anyway. I don't try to convert them. I only try to wake them up so they can find out what life is really all about." 2) Jiddu Krishnamurti has yet to make a clean break with the fluid tenets of the Theosophical Society which, founded in Manhattan...