The Unconditioned Mind J. Krishnamurti and the Oak Grove School

by Moody, David Edmund

• ISBN13: 9780835608947
• ISBN10: 0835608948
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-29
• Publisher: Quest Books

Summary

“Like an iridescent diamond,” is how David Moody describes revered philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti in this intimate portrait of him at the Oak Grove School in California. Krishnamurti, once groomed by Theosophists to become the next World Teacher, founded the school in 1975 and personally oversaw it for the last decade of his life. Moody, Oak Grove’s first teacher and later director, recounts their close work together and explains Krishnamurti’s ideas with splendid clarity. He also recounts how those ideas sparked competition among the staff, producing a complex force-field that challenged Moody to the utmost. The resulting drama, and Krishnamurti’s involvement in it, forms the core of this rare, behind-the-scenes view.

Author Biography

David Moody, Ph.D., was the first teacher hired at the Oak Grove School in Ojai, California, in 1975. He later served as educational director and as director of the school, a position he held at the time of the death of the school's founder, J. Krishnamurti. Coauthor of Mapping Biology Knowledge, Moody is currendy director of the private tutorial service Mind over Math.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Ojai	p. 1
Observation	p. 15
Cause and Effect	p. 27
Identity	p. 43
Common Ground	p. 57
Conviviality	p. 69
Flowering	p. 81
Resignation	p. 97
Names	p. 117
Meltdown	p. 129
Mortality	p. 143
India	p. 153
Winter, 1986	p. 169
Endgame	p. 179
David Bohm	p. 187
The Insight Curriculum	p. 197
Images and Reflections	p. 207
Epilogue	p. 219
Acknowledgments	p. 225
The Intent of the Oak Grove School	p. 229
Thelntentof the Oak Grove School (Revised)	p. 233
Responsibility and the Common Ground at the Oak Grove School	p. 237
Statement to the Trustees of the Krishnamurti Foundation of America	p. 241
Toward a Comprehensive, Coherent Curriculum	p. 245
The Approach to Education at Oak Grove	p. 253
Sources and References	p. 257
Bibliographic Essay	p. 259
Photo Credits	p. 265
Index	p. 269
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