Jiddu Krishnamurti was one of the most well-known spiritual teachers of the 20th Century. Though he himself refused to be considered anyone's guru (and he had followers administering his schools and foundations, supporting his material life, reading his books, and attending his talks), he was nonetheless embraced as guru by many. Krishnamurti also denied being Hindu or Indian or a philosopher, but his teachings assumed much of the traditional Indian religious worldview--even as they warned against following one's cultural and psychological conditioning. J. Krishnamurti's life work is still...

This book is a major critique of civilization's traditional worldview--with concrete suggestions for exploring a new one. Up until recent times this has not been possible, but now Patrick Foster has articulated and organized the semantic and logical tools to show how our old worldview is not only dysfunctional but illogical, a 5,000-year-old mistake. On top of his deep critique, he shows where we must go to begin fashioning a new world. (The Appendices contain the solution to the mind-body problem, a new language semantic, a critique of post-modernism, a more coherent materialism, and ideas...

Living in The Material World is a novel of historical fiction, set in both ancient India and in modern America. Part I is the story of an Indian carpenter in the Buddha's time who becomes one of the world's first secular teachers. His philosophy of life is shaped by meeting various yogis and monks, including the Buddha, a Jain monk, and a famous materialist. The complex religious cauldron of ancient India surrounds the life of this member of a carpenters' village outside one of the Buddha's favorite towns. Part II is the fictional journal of a Baby Boomer, set in India and America. It mirrors...

The first evolution is our biological heritage. The second evolution is human technological development that has come to protect us from natural selection and allows us to defy ecological constraints. Living outside natural harmony is a form of alienation that has made the planet physically sick and humans psychologically unfit. This alienation manifests in the greed, fear, violence, and loss of meaning that have plagued humans for thousands of years. Now we are at the major crossroads: one road leads along our existing path of unguided technological free-for-all and eventual self- and...

The Muslim/Christian, East/West, traditional/secular clashes are not clashes of civilization. They are culture wars. The real clash of civilizations is between the traditional hierarchical worldview of the civilization that has ruled for the last 6,000 years--since the beginning of "civilization"--and a new worldview, a new civilization, that has been trying to emerge and replace the old for some time now. The depressing events that are happening worldwide today (insecurity, violence, elite-controlled societies, war, corruption, etc.) have been happening for thousands of years, and they will...