Friday
3pm Retreat guest check-in at Pepper Tree
4pm Orientation and Introduction
5pm First video excerpt from “Ending of Time”
6pm Dinner
Saturday
8:30am Breakfast
Morning: Summary description of content and background of An Uncommon Collaboration:
David Bohm and J. Krishnamurti
Group discussion
Second video excerpt from “Ending of Time”
1pm Lunch
Afternoon: Unanswered questions and unresolved issues from Bohm/Krishnamurti
collaboration
Group discussion
Video excerpt from “Wholeness of Life”: David Shainberg and David Bohm in
dialogue with Krishnamurti
6pm Dinner
Sunday
8:30am Breakfast
Morning: New directions for inquiry following Bohm/Krishnamurti collaboration
Group discussion
Third video excerpt from “Ending of Time”
1pm Lunch
2pm Closing discussion
In this program, David Moody will present and explore the collaboration between Krishnamurti and David Bohm. Some of the dialogues between these two men have been published in books such as The Ending of Time, The Limits of Thought and The Future of Humanity
For more than two decades, renowned theoretical physicist David Bohm engaged in a close collaboration with psychological philosopher J. Krishnamurti. The two men participated together in 144 recorded dialogues and many unrecorded conversations, and the transcripts of their discussions appear in several published volumes. Their mutual interests encompassed the whole of human consciousness, its nature and structure, and the sources of illusion and conflict in the individual and in society. An Uncommon Collaboration: David Bohm and J. Krishnamurti describes the course of their relationship from beginning to end, including the substance of their dialogues as well as the uneven quality of their personal interactions. Author David Edmund Moody worked with both men for more than a decade, and his observations of them inform and supplement his description of their relationship.
Bohm’s background as a physicist was characterized by his close associations with Oppenheimer and Einstein, his revolutionary contributions to the foundations of quantum mechanics, and his clash with the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities, an event which ultimately deprived him of his American citizenship. Krishnamurti’s background was notable for his break with the Theosophical Society, which had nurtured him as a youth and hailed him as the World Teacher. He developed his own independent philosophy, one which offered penetrating insights into the human condition and emphasized freedom from all authority in psychological and religious matters.
An Uncommon Collaboration: David Bohm and J. Krishnamurti describes the life stories of the two men individually as well as the nature and quality of their relationship. The book concludes with a critical assessment of each man’s contribution to the work they were engaged in, their mutual accomplishments, and the issues that remain unresolved. Moody’s work with Bohm featured several recorded dialogues that examined Bohm’s views on Krishnamurti’s philosophy and his personality. Complete transcripts of these conversations provide a rich, illuminating supplement to the text.
Program Fee: $165 (includes lunch and dinner)
Room Fees (two nights):
David Edmund Moody was the first teacher hired at the newly opened Oak Grove School in Ojai, Calif., in 1975. He subsequently served as Educational Director (1980-1984), and as Director of the school (1984-1987), the position he held at the time of the death of the school’s founder, J. Krishnamurti.
Moody was born and raised in southern California, and attended undergraduate school at UC Berkeley during the 1960s. He took his Master’s Degree in Political Science at UCLA in 1970 and completed much of the coursework for a doctoral degree in Political Theory.
After he left Oak Grove, Moody returned to graduate study at UCLA. He took his Ph.D. in Education in 1991. His dissertation research focused upon cognitive obstacles students encounter in their efforts to understand the theory of evolution. Portions of Moody’s research were published in the journal Science Education and in a book he co-authored, Mapping Biology Knowledge (Kluwer, 2000).
Moody’s observations of Krishnamurti and his experiences at Oak Grove are described in his book The Unconditioned Mind: J. Krishnamurti and the Oak Grove School (Quest, 2011). He continues to pursue research in science education and related subjects, including the Gaia hypothesis. He remains vitally interested in the teachings of J. Krishnamurti.
Books by David Moody:
An Uncommon Collaboration: David Bohm and J. Krishnamurti describes the life stories of the two men individually as well as the nature and quality of their relationship. The book concludes with a critical assessment of each man’s contribution to the work they were engaged in, their mutual accomplishments, and the issues that remain unresolved. Moody’s work with Bohm featured several recorded dialogues that examined Bohm’s views on Krishnamurti’s philosophy and his personality.
The Unconditioned Mind: “Like an iridescent diamond,” is how David Moody describes revered philosopher J. Krishnamurti in this intimate portrait of him at the Oak Grove School in California. Krishnamurti 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.
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