The Impossible
Online in-depth program
Monday, November 3 - Friday, November 7, 2025
Program Fee: $100
https://krishnamurticenter.org/the-impossible/
It can seem as if we are endlessly moving in some sort of pattern which, no matter what we do or don’t do, never fundamentally changes. It can seem impossible to not be caught in inward turmoil and conflict. And we may have tried many ways to free ourselves, which easily becomes its own pattern. There seems no other possibility.
Krishnamurti pointed out that we never consider the impossible. What did he mean? We generally look from the vantage point of the possible, which we can formulate within what we seem to know, an identifiable direction to take, to do something. The impossible, then, is not within our experience, unknown to us, not that which we can conceive of as a direction or doing.
So what does the impossible actually refer to? Is it an identifiable thing or a defined approach? Or is it moving in the circumstances of our lives, in our very consciousness? Can we find out for ourselves?
The impossible might show up in our lives in several ways. Yet, these may all have the same nature or origin, revealing unrealized assumings operating in how we are looking at everything, which are implicitly our factual reality. Might this revealing affect our consciousness?
The impossible seems to be the unattainable, that which cannot be achieved or arrived at, the impossibility of moving from here to there. For example, what if no longer being separate from one another is unattainable, because our being separate never existed in the first place? How can that which was never lost possibly be found? Psychologically speaking, there might have never been a “here” or “there” at all.
A central message of Krishnamurti was that the observer is the observed. Perhaps this has something to do with the impossible. Can there be a subject without an object (“seen” or experienced), or an object without a subject? Is it impossible for either to exist in isolation? We tend to experience inner conflict, fear etc as being separate from ourselves, something we avoid. Are we actually separate from all this, even our avoiding? Perhaps it is impossible to avoid ourselves.
What might it be for the living quality of this impossibility to make itself apparent, not just intellectually, but in the midst of our very lives?
Daily online sessions: 10:00 am-12:00 pm PACIFIC TIME
These sessions will be recorded and made available to the participants only for further personal study for 2 weeks after the last session.
Facilitator Dan Kilpatrick is a retired Associate Professor of the Department of Microbiology and Physiological Systems, and the Program in Neuroscience, at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He has had a long-time interest in our shared, underlying nature and inquiry into how we perceive ourselves and the world around us. The insights of J. Krishnamurti and others have been an invaluable part of this journey, helping to reveal that the opportunity for self-discovery is present in each and every moment and does not depend on circumstance. Coming to see that our sense of self is something in which we all share, not as a conclusion, but as an immediate and living fact, is also perhaps our greatest challenge.
Dan received his undergraduate degree from the University of California at San Diego in chemistry and his doctorate degree in biochemistry from Duke University. His research focused on how self-organizing gene networks controlling development and its timing give rise to emergent properties of the nervous system.
https://krishnamurticenter.org/the-impossible/
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