Anti Anti-Guru Guru

"The attempt to reduce the phenomena of mental existence to a purely physical history has been attempted before, and has so far always failed. But, after so many years of unremitting labor, and so many enormous books making wildly implausible claims, Dennett can at least be praised for having failed on an altogether majestic scale."

The Illusionist David Bentley Hart on Daniel Dennett’s mindless materialism

A Critique of U.G. Krishnamurti

by David Quinn

"But unfortunately, UG does not live in the "natural" state, as he often likes to claim. To my eyes, he is merely an actor, albeit a very ingenious one. He conforms to a role, that of the anti-guru, and as such is no different to any of the other thousands of run-of-the-mill gurus which litter this sorry planet."

Miscellaneous thought stimulating bits and pieces

U.G. Krishnamurti -- intriguing, irritating, inspirational I don't know what to make of U.G. Krishnamurti. That would have pleased him, I'm sure. (He died in 2007.) U.G. liked to say, "I have no teaching...I have no claims." Yet he was one of those un-teachers who somehow...