krishnamurti and waking life

[amestoy]

have any of you read krishnamurti?...i ran across him many years ago at which point he had no significance to me....then i got stuck with "to be human" and felt a complexity/simplicity and life force in his writing that i had not sensed before...at some level what's fascinating about krishnamurti is his allegiance to a "philosophy"/spirituality of negation--the constant leave-taking of Truth,, God etc...a permanent Via Negativa...will go on later in some other post...

i have yet to read daniel's book...but should be done with it by the end of the week...am curious about how using consciousness-expanding drugs has impacted the potentiality in people's lives on this forum...besides creating more intellectualized head knowledge do any of you feel that drug use or expirementation has created a more vivd and empathic life-force within your life?

amestoy

[daniel]

I read krishnamurti a long time ago. My memory of his thought is that it is very commonsensical spiritual wisdom, but not the kind of wildernesses of thought that I gravitate towards, such as Rudolf Steiner's mad-seeming cosmology and reads of the Akashic Record, or Crowley's book on his Thoth Tarot.

[amestoy]

i've not read any rudolph steiner but would like to do so....what would you suggest as an intro book?...how did you move into "esoteric" philosophy?...did you start in more conventional philosophy find it inadequate then moved on or did you always gravitate to the more occult versions?...