Mercury Retro Memories...
As I wrote often, I personally never met K although I had an opportunity in Saanen Gstaad when I was 24 in the year before he died. I have to live with what I call his "Teachings", his over 70 books and hundreds of talks, which I view more than I read them. But I work together with someone who was educated by him for many years in England.
The reader has at least had an opportunity to delve back into the past memories with this Christmas Mercury retrograde, and maybe the reader remembers now the great things that I am told happened around this exceptional man. It is amazing to see how people talk about a man by describing his entourage, when he seemed aloof or inaccessible. But from what I understand he was neither elitist, nor was he wealthy. In fact he had no means of his own.
The means he received he gave to his foundation, and the perceived elitism is something I have come to understand myself. It has to do with trying to help mankind. One could ponder if it was better to let things slide and not speak the TRUTH so as not to be labelled 'elitist'. I understand the reader's comments about the theosophists, my encounters with them in Switzerland sound similar, they are indeed an odd bunch, but as we established beyond any doubt, K was anything else but a theosophist, because he was strictly against organizing anything.
The 'cloistered' life issue is difficult to answer to. K travelled the world for 60 years and kept talking to tens of thousands of people, and probably impacted the lives of millions positively albeit unknown; until his last year of life beyond 90, he was still on the road, and in between his talks, he kept to himself to advise others who came to see him for counsel. His whole life was in service to others, what more does anyone want. But as a human being he had a right to a private life, and I can understand why he would keep it private.
To mention Lucis Trust in the same breath as discussing Krishnamurti would be like talking about my astrological works and lumping them together with Al Crowley. One thing has really nothing to do with the other. Alice Bailey had absolutely nothing in common with Krishnamurti. I doubt she actually had studied his work, and I am certain he would have smiled about the mention of Byron Week's heavy list...
I have often wondered how people talk and write about someone who they have not really known, and how at times the 'non access' seems to be a motivating factor to later write an opinion. I am told K was very selective that is true about who he would let come close to him. And that part of the story I understand today only too well, and I am barely 45 years old. So if that is elitist to enforce one's privacy in order to be able to do one's work, then I applaud it. This is the type of work most people cannot even fathom. Yet it is thanks to that work that some wars were avoided, and that some advanced people were educated and were able to make a small difference in this extremely violent world we live in, but then, this is only my opinion.
Many readers and newsletter subscribers and passing acquaintances - people I barely met once for a few minutes - write to me always this weird line made of the same 5 words as if it was some mantra: "Keep up the good work." Well, I could simply also retire and pretend I don't know any better. Why do people like K, BillyM and myself and some of my friends have to 'keep up the work'? You tell me one good reason, why we should bother? So that later those who did not know us really can write we were elitist and cloistered? Makes one think on this Christmas day if is all worth it. As Faisal asked Lawrence of Arabia after the war: "Well, was it all worth it?"
Now you understand maybe why I left the USA and the place I was well known in, and why I secluded on top of a mountain, thinking about whether I should keep posting my opinions, because I don't even like to talk to people any more, it is what some mystics call the renunciation factor...
Having said all that on Christmas, well here is a tiny tribute written by my friend 'EarthStar' for Krishnamurti's last birthday, it would have been his 108th. EarthStar lived around him, and has done what Krishnamurti asked of her:
To Go Beyond his Teachings and to live it and to make it happen...
