the wisest people on the planet have no dogma to peddle, no commandments to issue, no ideology to impose. They neither demand obedience nor recruit followers. They suggest, insttead, that we look for ourselves, within ourselves, and test our intuitions against observable reality. Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) said more in just five words – “Truth is a pathless land” – than I found in the foundational texts of our Abrahamic religions (and Mark Twain was nearly as concise in the quote which serves as my book’s epigraph). Compare and contrast Krishnamurti’s clear-eyed observation with Jesus’s pronouncement, in John 14:6, one of the Bible’s most quotable verses, that “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father exce through me”. The only way to the truth? What are the odds that the truth is to be 'found only in orthodox Christianity, or any one of those 40,000 dissenting denominations, or any one of the other major religions in the wordl
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