Jiddu Krishnamurti: The Chosen One Who Walked Away

A 14-year-old boy on a beach is declared the ultimate spiritual savior of humanity, groomed by a wealthy global organization with castles and thousands of followers. At the peak of his power he walks to a microphone, dissolves the organization, returns the wealth, and tells everyone to follow no one. This episode explores the mind of Jiddu Krishnamurti.We trace his impoverished Brahmin childhood, his discovery by the Theosophical Society, the intense grooming to become the world teacher, and the bond with his brother Nitya. We examine the painful mystical crisis he called the process, Nitya's death that shattered his faith in the hierarchy, his 1929 renunciation, his philosophy of choiceless awareness, and the contradictions of his later personal life.How he described his young self as a vessel with a hole in the bottomThe Order of the Star in the East built around his messiahhoodPhysiological theories for the process, from malaria to temporal lobe epilepsyHis dialogues with physicist David Bohm on the observer and the observedThe Edison analogy he used to reject worship and place enlightenment on the individual