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The Nature of the Mind

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These tapes are particularly suited to mental health professionals who find themselves challenged by the fragmentation produced by the various schools of psychotherapeutic theory. It is too bad that the sole reviewer so far for this wonderful set chose to write a one star review based only one the lack of a description.

The DVDs are poor quality by production entertainment standard. The picture and sound quality is good but this is men talking in the living room. There is so much important interesting information that they can be viewed over and over again and with more learning each time.

This DVD, with Krishnamurti, quantum physicist David Bohm, psychiatrist John Hidley, and biologist Rupert Sheldrake, takes the viewer to places in psychology and philosophy that are fundamentally different than what we are used to. The main thesis is easy to say in words, difficult to realize, but, if realized, it would transform our lives and society. That thesis is that the ego, the self, has no reality. So psychotherapy, which aims at alleviating particular problems, like depression or anxiety, misses the mark in that it is too shallow. It could use the process of insight to make a client see that it is the entire ego that is the problem, not just the part one does not like. Krishnamurti obviously had realized something that put him in another dimension, but through awareness and attention to our own mind, anyone can realize it too. So it is five worthwhile hours if you are interested in psychology or personal transformation or meditation.