J. Krishnamurti was ‘discovered’ as a young boy on a beach in India by members of the Theosophical Society who were convinced that they had found the new World Leader. By the 1920s he was attracting worldwide press attention, and idealists, spiritual adventurers, progressive politicians, intellectuals and romantics alike flocked to his talks in thousands, eager to embrace a new Christ from the Orient. But in a dramatic act of ...
