A significant spiritual figure of the 20th century, Jiddu Krishnamurti, and the renowned physicist Dr. David Bohm engage in a discussion starting with the question: "Has humanity taken a wrong turn at some point along its path, leading to endless divisions, conflicts, and destructions?"

They explore the nature of man and each individual's relationship with society; they examine a new approach to human thought and death. They delve deeply into questions such as: "Is the source of the conflict that people have within themselves their inability to confront the fact of what they truly are, resulting in the imposition of a fictitious image of what they should become? Has the inherently limited nature of thought been allowed to enter realms with much subtler functions for which it is unsuitable?"

In the end, they conclude that humanity can change radically, but this requires moving from narrow personal interests to broader ones, to delve even deeper, into the purity of compassion and intelligence that spring from a source beyond thought, beyond time, even beyond emptiness.

This means that one must give all their mind, all their heart, all their existence to an inquiry like the one that takes place throughout the discussions in this book.