New revised and expanded edition

This book reproduces the passionate and profound dialogue between a great spiritual master and an eminent physicist. A range of essential questions runs through the dialogues. Has humanity taken a wrong turn, leading to an endless series of conflicts and destruction? Does not the origin of human conflict lie in the inability of the individual to face what he really is? Does not this inability have its roots in the divisions that "thought" introduces into the "psyche"?

Both sages agree on the poor adequacy between technological thought and deeper reality. It is necessary to achieve freedom from egocentric attitudes; freedom that implies a special kind of "discernment." It is this discernment that makes one perceive that beyond thought there is only energy and form, without "I" and without time, a background empty of all content, and that beyond this "nothingness" lies something much more intense. Such is the "base" of all that exists, the beginning and end of all things.

Science has identified this “base” with matter, but this leads to forgetting what is “inner”. Krishnamurti teaches that contact with the “base” is only achieved when the mind is silent, empty of all thought. Then the “center of darkness” that is the “I” dissipates and a fundamental mutation takes place.