Truth is a Pathless Land

This event will take place April 16-18, 2010 at the Swanwick Centre in Metchosin, located in a spectacular 32 acre ocean-front setting on the outskirts of Victoria, B.C. on Vancouver Island. This dialogue/study weekend will focus on J. Krishnamurti’s historic speech of 1929 and will be hosted by Mark Lee, longterm Executive Director of the Krishnamurti Foundation of America (KFA), located in Ojai, California.

The year 2009 marks the 80th anniversary of the dissolution of the Order of the Star by J. Krishnamurti in Holland (www.jkrishnamurti.org). His momentous speech before thousands of members of the order of which he was the head has been called one of the great religious discourses in history. California author Henry Miller said, “No one since the Christ has given up as much as Krishnamurti.”

Krishnamurti’s declaration of independence is as relevant today as it was eighty years ago. Perhaps it is additionally relevant as religious fundamentalism, evangelical missions, and radical religious movements attract ever growing numbers of followers. The themes of ‘authority’ of all kinds, of ‘thinking for oneself’, and ‘perception of truth’ are perennial human issues. While Krishnamurti was setting himself free of psychological and religious authority at age thirty-four we today face our own similar challenges made more complex by a vastly more sophisticated psychological and religious cultural consciousness than eighty years ago.

For two days a small group of participants will penetrate together the speech of 1929 and look deeply into our own minds to unravel the hidden depths of ‘authority’ and ‘truth’. Study materials will be mailed out in advance of the event.

NOTE: This retreat has been postponed to September 24-26, 2010.