# Jiddu Krishnamurti **Domain:** Philosophy / Education / Contemplative Inquiry **Doc Type:** Person Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Overview **Jiddu Krishnamurti** (1895–1986) was an Indian philosopher and speaker whose work examined psychological conditioning, fear, authority, attention, relationship, and the division between observer and observed. Krishnamurti rejected the role of spiritual authority prepared for him by the Theosophical movement and repeatedly argued that truth could not be reached through dependence on an organization, teacher, ideology, or fixed method. ## Corpus Context In [[journal/2010-11-07 - Silence and Non-Observation|Silence and Non-Observation]], his inquiry provides a way to ask whether the apparently independent observer is itself composed of memory, desire, fear, and inherited judgment. ## See Also [[wiki/Observation|Observation]] · [[wiki/Consciousness|Consciousness]] · [[wiki/Cognitive Liberty|Cognitive Liberty]] · [[wiki/Silence|Silence]]