The book is the compilation of the talks given by JK in Saanen, Switzerland and Amsterdam. Here he says that the human mind is like a computer that has been "programmed". Each human being thinks according to his particular programme which dominates him; each one is caught in his particular "
Network of
Thought". What we regard as the personality, the ego or the 'I' is no more than a programmed network of thinking. It is around the images that are reactions involved. When we go to church and kneel down and pray, you are really worshipping or praying to something which thought has created ( an idea or an image a beautiful and a powerful one). One has to be free from this conditioning which demands pure
observation of the nature of ons's thinking; observing without thought - a paradox which is resolved by the fact tha twhen there is pure observation, there is no thought to observe. THE OBSERVER IS THE OBSERVED. When one understands and observes this endless cycle of knowledge, action and
division - a consciousness which has been sustained for millenia - and breaks away from t; you affect the whole consciousness of mankind. The human consciousness is our consciousness (one whole), not your or mine but ours. What we have in our relationships is the relationship among the images that we have formed about the individuals involved. If the individuals are not performing according to our expectations (or image) it is likely that the relationship is going to get bad. These images separate us from one another, and wherever there is separation, division, there must be
conflict, as there is conflict going on all over the world, the Arab against the Israeli, the Muslim against the Hindu and one Christian church against the other and so on.