{"chapters":[{"chapter":1,"title":"The pattern","part":"I","summary":"Krishnamurti's life follows one pattern:"},{"chapter":2,"title":"The start: a boy on the beach at Adyar (1895–1911)","part":"I","summary":"Krishnamurti was born on 11 May 1895 in Madanapalle, in the south of India. Some sources give 12 May. In January 1909 his father moved with his sons to Adyar, near Madras, where the Theosophical Society had its world headquarters.","period":{"from":1891,"to":1912}},{"chapter":3,"title":"Step 1: The split in the movement (1912–1913)","part":"I","summary":"Not everyone in the Theosophical Society accepted the World Teacher. Rudolf Steiner, head of the German section since 1902, rejected the idea that Christ would return in a Hindu boy. His section refused to admit members of the Order of the Star. Annie Besant then withdrew the section's membership. Steiner founded the Anthroposophical Society on 28 December 1912 and was formally expelled from the Theosophical Society on 7 March 1913.","period":{"from":1902,"to":1913}},{"chapter":4,"title":"Step 2: The inner turn (1922–1925)","part":"I","summary":"In July 1922 Krishnamurti and Nitya came to Ojai, in California, because the dry climate was thought good for Nitya's tuberculosis. On 17 August 1922 Krishnamurti began to have intense physical and spiritual experiences, which went on for a long time. He and the people around him called it \"the process\". One of these experiences took place under a pepper tree in Ojai.","period":{"from":1922,"to":1925}},{"chapter":5,"title":"Step 3: \"Truth is a pathless land\" (1929)","part":"I","summary":"On 3 August 1929, at the Star Camp in Ommen in the Netherlands, Krishnamurti dissolved the Order of the Star, the organisation built for him. He said:","period":{"from":1929,"to":1930}},{"chapter":6,"title":"Step 4: Seeing without a method (1930–1986)","part":"I","summary":"For the rest of his life Krishnamurti travelled between India, Europe and the United States and gave public talks. He gave no method and no technique. He asked his listeners to observe their own thoughts and feelings directly, without judging and without choosing. He called this \"choiceless awareness\".","period":{"from":1928,"to":1986}},{"chapter":7,"title":"Step 5: The scientist who listened (1961–1986)","part":"II","summary":"In 1961 the physicist David Bohm read The First and Last Freedom. Bohm attended nearly all of Krishnamurti's talks in Europe and California from then on. The two held dialogues for almost twenty years. In 1980 they held thirteen conversations in Ojai and at Brockwood Park, published in 1985 as The Ending of Time.","period":{"from":1980,"to":1985}},{"chapter":8,"title":"The question behind the pattern","part":"III","summary":""},{"chapter":9,"title":"The thread to the other stories","part":"III","summary":"Not every link is a direct influence. The series uses two kinds:","period":{"from":1875,"to":1974}},{"chapter":10,"title":"The expectations that failed","part":"III","summary":"The golden thread in Krishnamurti's life is direct seeing: the claim that truth is not handed on through an office, a method or a person, but is seen by each person for himself. He was given the highest office of his movement and gave it back. That is what makes him a freethinker."}],"places":[{"id":"madanapalle","name":"Madanapalle","lat":13.551,"lon":78.503,"role":"born 11 May 1895 (some sources: 12 May)","chapters":[2]},{"id":"adyar","name":"Adyar (Madras)","lat":13.006,"lon":80.257,"role":"world headquarters of the Theosophical Society; from January 1909; Leadbeater, April 1909","chapters":[2]},{"id":"new_york","name":"New York","lat":40.713,"lon":-74.006,"role":"Theosophical Society founded 17 November 1875","chapters":[2,9]},{"id":"ojai","name":"Ojai","lat":34.448,"lon":-119.243,"role":"from July 1922; \"the process\" and the pepper tree; Nitya died here 1925; dialogues 1980; died here 17 February 1986","chapters":[4,6,7]},{"id":"ommen","name":"Ommen (Star Camp)","lat":52.521,"lon":6.421,"role":"3 August 1929: dissolution of the Order of the Star, \"truth is a pathless land\"","chapters":[5]},{"id":"rishi_valley","name":"Rishi Valley","lat":13.633,"lon":78.454,"role":"Rishi Valley School, founded 1928 (one source: 1929)","chapters":[6]},{"id":"brockwood_park","name":"Brockwood Park","lat":51.035,"lon":-1.11,"role":"Brockwood Park School, 1969 (one source: 1968); dialogues with Bohm 1980","chapters":[6,7]},{"id":"bellagio","name":"Bellagio","lat":45.987,"lon":9.261,"role":"Whitehead conference, 1974, where Bohm spoke","chapters":[9]}],"persons":[{"id":"krishnamurti","name":"Jiddu Krishnamurti","born":1895,"died":1986,"role":"Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986)","chapters":[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]},{"id":"blavatsky","name":"Helena Blavatsky","born":null,"died":1891,"role":"Co-founded the Theosophical Society (1875), the movement that chose him; died 1891, before he was found","chapters":[2,9]},{"id":"leadbeater","name":"Charles Webster Leadbeater","born":null,"died":null,"role":"Named him vehicle of the World Teacher, Adyar 1909","chapters":[2,9]},{"id":"besant","name":"Annie Besant","born":null,"died":null,"role":"President of the Society from 1907; guardian; Order of the Star 1911","chapters":[2,3,9]},{"id":"nitya","name":"Jiddu Nityananda (Nitya)","born":null,"died":1925,"role":"his younger brother; with him in Adyar, England and Ojai; died in Ojai 13 November 1925, aged twenty-seven","chapters":[2,4,8]},{"id":"olcott","name":"Henry Steel Olcott","born":null,"died":null,"role":"co-founder of the Theosophical Society, 1875","chapters":[2]},{"id":"judge","name":"William Quan Judge","born":null,"died":null,"role":"co-founder of the Theosophical Society, 1875","chapters":[2]},{"id":"steiner","name":"Rudolf Steiner","born":null,"died":null,"role":"Rejected the World Teacher; split 1912-13","chapters":[3,9]},{"id":"goethe","name":"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe","born":null,"died":null,"role":"Steiner edited Goethe's scientific writings 1884-1897; line of form","chapters":[3,9]},{"id":"huxley","name":"Aldous Huxley","born":null,"died":null,"role":"Friend from 1938; foreword to The First and Last Freedom (1954)","chapters":[6,9]},{"id":"bohm","name":"David Bohm","born":null,"died":null,"role":"Read him 1961; dialogues almost twenty years; The Ending of Time 1985","chapters":[7,8,9]},{"id":"whitehead","name":"Alfred North Whitehead","born":null,"died":null,"role":"Through Bohm, who spoke at the Whitehead conference in Bellagio 1974","chapters":[9]},{"id":"tony_smith","name":"Frank D. (Tony) Smith Jr.","born":null,"died":null,"role":"Through Bohm's quantum potential in Smith's model","chapters":[9]},{"id":"spinoza","name":"Baruch Spinoza","born":null,"died":null,"role":"Freedom through understanding, not obedience","chapters":[9]},{"id":"turing","name":"Alan Turing","born":1912,"died":1954,"role":"the line of form (The Golden Thread, part 2)","chapters":[9]},{"id":"thompson","name":"D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson","born":null,"died":null,"role":"the line of form: Goethe, D'Arcy Thompson, Turing and Rosen","chapters":[9]},{"id":"rosen","name":"Robert Rosen","born":1934,"died":1998,"role":"the line of form (The Golden Thread, part 1)","chapters":[9]}],"events":[{"year":1875,"label":"Theosophical Society founded by Blavatsky, Olcott, Judge and others (1875-11-17) — Wikipedia, Theosophical Society; Wikipedia, Helena Blavatsky","place":"new_york","chapter":9},{"year":1891,"label":"Death of Helena Blavatsky — Wikipedia, Helena Blavatsky; Epsilon","chapter":2},{"year":1895,"label":"Born (1895-05-11) — Wikipedia; Encyclopedia.com","place":"madanapalle","chapter":2},{"year":1902,"label":"Rudolf Steiner head of the German section of the Theosophical Society — Wikipedia, Rudolf Steiner; Wikipedia, Steiner and the TS","chapter":3},{"year":1907,"label":"Annie Besant president of the Theosophical Society — Wikipedia, Theosophical Society; Encyclopedia.com","chapter":2},{"year":1909,"label":"Moves with his father to the Theosophical headquarters (1909-01) — Encyclopedia.com; Wikipedia","place":"adyar","chapter":2},{"year":1909,"label":"Leadbeater names him the vehicle of the World Teacher (1909-04) — Wikipedia; Wikipedia, Theosophical Society","place":"adyar","chapter":2},{"year":1911,"label":"Order of the Star in the East founded with him as head; taken to England — Wikipedia; Encyclopedia.com; EBSCO","chapter":2},{"year":1912,"label":"Father sues Besant for custody; Besant keeps the boys — Wikipedia; Encyclopedia.com","chapter":2},{"year":1912,"label":"Steiner founds the Anthroposophical Society after rejecting the World Teacher (1912-12-28) — Wikipedia, Steiner and the TS; 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