The Ending of Time: Where Philosophy and Physics Meet

The provocative and penetrating philosophical classic of science and spirituality—a discourse between the revered spiritual leader Krishnamurti and renowned physicist Dr. David Bohm, exploring the origin of human conflict and what we can do about the barriers that stand in the way of insight and consciousness, now revised and updated with a new introduction and added dialogues.The Ending of Time is a series of important and enlightening dialogues in which Jiddu Krishnamurti and Dr. David Bohm—men from vastly different backgrounds in philosophy and physics, respectively—debate profound existential questions that illuminate the fundamental nature of existence, probing topics such as insight, illusion, awakening, transcendence, renewal, morality, the temporal, and the spiritual. Along the way, Krishnamurti and Bohm explore a person’s relationship to society and offer new insights on human thought, death, awakening, self realization, and the problem of the fragmented mind.The Ending of Time also refers to the wrong turn humanity has taken—a state that they argue can be corrected. Though they insist that mankind can change fundamentally, they warn that transformation requires going from one’s narrow and particular interests toward the general, and ultimately moving still deeper into that purity of compassion, love and intelligence that originates beyond thought, time, and even emptiness.This updated edition, edited and revised in clear and engaging language, includes a new introduction and a conversation previously published separately which examines “The Future of Humanity.”Can humanity break from its destructive patterns by understanding the very nature of thought and time?The Limitations of Thought: Why all human problems—from personal anxiety to global wars—originate in the material process of thought, and why thought itself can never solve them.The Nature of Existence: A profound dialogue between a physicist and a spiritual teacher that questions the very structure of reality, the self, and the universe.Beyond Meditation: An exploration of a state of silence and emptiness that is not the product of practice or effort, but a total transformation of the human brain.Cosmic Order: An inquiry into an order that exists beyond man-made systems, and whether the human mind, by freeing itself, can become one with the order of the universe itself. Read more