The Process Begins
Krishnamurti to Paris to learn French
League of Nations created
19th Amendment:
American women can vote
Joan of Arc canonized by
Pope Benedict XV
The Jazz Age:
Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith,
Duke Ellington
Edith Wharton:
The Age of Innocence
Finland gains independence
Ireland granted home rule
Gandhi – independence movement
Palestine becomes British mandate
Syria becomes French mandate
U.S. Prohibition begins
Rorschach devises “inkblot” test
Sacco and Vanzetti indicted for
murder in Massachusetts
Nitya has hemorrhage
Krishnamurti to Castle Eerde for the first time
Dempsey knocks out Carpentier;
4th round, 90,000 present
Mondrian:
“Composition in Red, Yellow
and Blue”
Birth of Irish free state
Wittgenstein:
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Ku Klux Klan exposed
Rudolph Valentino films
“The Sheik”
F.W. Murnau: “Nosferatu”
Modern Turkey founded
Charlie Chaplin: The Kid
Krishnamurti and Nitya to Adyar, meet their father
Krishnamurti and Nitya arrive in Ojai for the first time: Nitya ill
Ojai: Krishnamurti and the Pepper Tree Experience
Soviet Union formed
564 radio stations in USA
Gandhi arrested
on sedition charges
Marcel Proust dies;
Remembrance of Things Past
Abies Irish Rose opens
Scientists view
“smashing” of atoms
James Joyce writes Ulysses
Mussolini seizes power in Italy
Egypt gains independence
Marie Steps advocates birth control
at Queens Hall, London
Krishnamurti writes monthly message in Self Preparation magazine – his first poem published
Krishnamurti travels and speaks in the USA
Krishnamurti to Vienna for Theosophical Society Convention and Order of the Star Congress
Harold Lloyd films “Safety Last”
Time magazine begins
Martin Buber writes I and Thou
France occupies the Ruhr district
of Germany
Munich Beer Hall Putsch
Treaty of Lausanne
Earthquake hits Tokyo
Jordan gains national status
Teapot Dome scandal
Bix Beiderbecke starts jazz
band in Chicago
Krishnamurti, Nitya and Annie Besant – first airplane trip to Paris
Krishnamurti to Bombay
First Star Camp at Ommen, Holland
Lenin dies
Thomas Mann:
The Magic Mountain
Stanislavsky: My Life in Art
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlansky,
Kandinsky and Klee
Franz Kafka dies
Hitler writes Mein Kampf in jail
Gandhi fasts for 21 days
to protest Hindu/Muslim feuds
Historical Film Rolls from 1920s | Part 3
At the age of twenty-eight, Krishnamurti underwent a spiritual experience that changed his life and which was followed by years of acute and almost continuous pain in his head and spine. The manuscript shows that “the process”, as he called this mysterious pain, was still going on nearly forty years later, though in a much milder form. “The process” was a physical phenomenon, not to be confused with the state of consciousness that Krishnamurti variously refers to in the notebooks as the “benediction”, the “otherness”, “immensity”.
At no time did he take any pain-killing drugs for “the process”. He has never taken alcohol or any kind of drug. He has never smoked, and for the last thirty years or so he has not so much as drunk tea or coffee. Although a lifelong vegetarian, he has always been at great pains to ensure a plentiful and well-balanced diet. Asceticism is, to his way of thinking, as destructive of a religious life as over-indulgence. Indeed he looks after “the body” (he has always differentiated between the body and the ego) as a cavalry officer would have looked after his horse. He has never suffered from epilepsy or any of the other physical conditions that are said to give rise to visions and other spiritual phenomena; nor does he practice any “system” of meditation. All this is stated so that no reader should imagine that Krishnamurti’s states of consciousness are, or ever have been, induced by drugs or fasting.
Excerpt from Krishnamurti’s Notebook Foreword, by Mary Lutyens
While traveling Nitya’s illness required that he return to Switzerland for medical care.
The brothers were invited to Ojai, 80 miles from Los Angeles. The dry weather was said to be healthy for consumptives. They arrived in Ojai on July 6th, 1922.
Krishnamurti meets young Helen Knothe, and for the first time falls in love.
“Meditation is never the further experiencing; it is not only the ending of experience, which is the response to challenge, great or small, but it is the opening of the door to essence, opening the door of a furnace whose fire utterly destroys, without leaving any ashes; there are no remains. We are the remains, the yes-sayers of many thousand yesterdays, a continuous series of endless memories, of choice and despair. The Big Self and the little self are the pattern of existence and existence is thought, and thought is existence, with never ending sorrow. In the flame of meditation thought ends and with it feeling, for neither is love. Without love, there is no essence; without it there are only ashes on which is based our existence. Out of the emptiness love is.”
At the age of twenty-eight, Krishnamurti underwent a spiritual experience that changed his life and which was followed by years of acute and almost continuous pain in his head and spine. The manuscript shows that “the process”, as he called this mysterious pain, was still going on nearly forty years later, though in a much milder form. “The process” was a physical phenomenon, not to be confused with the state of consciousness that Krishnamurti variously refers to in the notebooks as the “benediction”, the “otherness”, “immensity”.
At no time did he take any pain-killing drugs for “the process”. He has never taken alcohol or any kind of drug. He has never smoked, and for the last thirty years or so he has not so much as drunk tea or coffee. Although a lifelong vegetarian, he has always been at great pains to ensure a plentiful and well-balanced diet. Asceticism is, to his way of thinking, as destructive of a religious life as over-indulgence. Indeed he looks after “the body” (he has always differentiated between the body and the ego) as a cavalry officer would have looked after his horse. He has never suffered from epilepsy or any of the other physical conditions that are said to give rise to visions and other spiritual phenomena; nor does he practice any “system” of meditation. All this is stated so that no reader should imagine that Krishnamurti’s states of consciousness are, or ever have been, induced by drugs or fasting.
Excerpt from Krishnamurti’s Notebook Foreword, by Mary Lutyens
Krishnamurti to Paris to learn French
League of Nations created
19th Amendment:
American women can vote
Joan of Arc canonized by
Pope Benedict XV
The Jazz Age:
Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith,
Duke Ellington
Edith Wharton:
The Age of Innocence
Finland gains independence
Ireland granted home rule
Gandhi – independence movement
Palestine becomes British mandate
Syria becomes French mandate
U.S. Prohibition begins
Rorschach devises “inkblot” test
Sacco and Vanzetti indicted for
murder in Massachusetts
Nitya has hemorrhage
Krishnamurti to Castle Eerde for the first time
Dempsey knocks out Carpentier;
4th round, 90,000 present
Mondrian:
“Composition in Red, Yellow
and Blue”
Birth of Irish free state
Wittgenstein:
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Ku Klux Klan exposed
Rudolph Valentino films
“The Sheik”
F.W. Murnau: “Nosferatu”
Modern Turkey founded
Charlie Chaplin: The Kid
Krishnamurti and Nitya to Adyar, meet their father
Krishnamurti and Nitya arrive in Ojai for the first time: Nitya ill
Ojai: Krishnamurti and the Pepper Tree Experience
Soviet Union formed
564 radio stations in USA
Gandhi arrested
on sedition charges
Marcel Proust dies;
Remembrance of Things Past
Abies Irish Rose opens
Scientists view
“smashing” of atoms
James Joyce writes Ulysses
Mussolini seizes power in Italy
Egypt gains independence
Marie Steps advocates birth control
at Queens Hall, London
While traveling Nitya’s illness required that he return to Switzerland for medical care.
The brothers were invited to Ojai, 80 miles from Los Angeles. The dry weather was said to be healthy for consumptives. They arrived in Ojai on July 6th, 1922.
Krishnamurti meets young Helen Knothe, and for the first time falls in love.
Krishnamurti writes monthly message in Self Preparation magazine – his first poem published
Krishnamurti travels and speaks in the USA
Krishnamurti to Vienna for Theosophical Society Convention and Order of the Star Congress
Harold Lloyd films “Safety Last”
Time magazine begins
Martin Buber writes I and Thou
France occupies the Ruhr district
of Germany
Munich Beer Hall Putsch
Treaty of Lausanne
Earthquake hits Tokyo
Jordan gains national status
Teapot Dome scandal
Bix Beiderbecke starts jazz
band in Chicago
Krishnamurti, Nitya and Annie Besant – first airplane trip to Paris
Krishnamurti to Bombay
First Star Camp at Ommen, Holland
Lenin dies
Thomas Mann:
The Magic Mountain
Stanislavsky: My Life in Art
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlansky,
Kandinsky and Klee
Franz Kafka dies
Hitler writes Mein Kampf in jail
Gandhi fasts for 21 days
to protest Hindu/Muslim feuds
Historical Film Rolls from 1920s | Part 3
“Meditation is never the further experiencing; it is not only the ending of experience, which is the response to challenge, great or small, but it is the opening of the door to essence, opening the door of a furnace whose fire utterly destroys, without leaving any ashes; there are no remains. We are the remains, the yes-sayers of many thousand yesterdays, a continuous series of endless memories, of choice and despair. The Big Self and the little self are the pattern of existence and existence is thought, and thought is existence, with never ending sorrow. In the flame of meditation thought ends and with it feeling, for neither is love. Without love, there is no essence; without it there are only ashes on which is based our existence. Out of the emptiness love is.”