Summary Of The Awakening Of Intelligence By Krishnamurti

Many prisoners in secure housing units are minorities, which has brought further scrutiny on the practice by advocates of reform. According to Western, & Wildeman, “Black men are eight times more likely to be incarcerated than whites, and large racial disparities can be seen for all age groups and at different levels of education” (Western, & Wildeman, 2009). Rubin is an example of a black man who was becoming successful, and he was targeted Della Pesca. Carter recognizes that no matter how hard he attempted to stay out of prison he was fighting against a system that did not favor him. He stated, “I served my time in a house of justice and there is no justice for me”. Lisa Guenther author of Solitary Confinement: Social Death and Its Afterlives states that “We cannot account of this …show more content…
Additionally, he stresses the importance of questioning everything, thinking critically, and discovering the answers on your own. Krishnamurti’s book speaks on the mind by saying “The content of my consciousness is my unhappiness, my misery, the images which I have collected through life…Can all that be completely emptied?… If it is not possible … There is neither hope, nor despair, I am in prison….The mind must find out how to empty its content. That is, have no image. The image means the past or the image which is taking place now” (Krishnamurti 2007). Meaning the mind is conditioned by the environment. The past is what keeps society bound together has the mind is conditioned by the patterns of thought. Thus control of the mind is absolutely necessary. This book facilitated Carter's rejection of the prison system and judicial systems. Carters inner battle with himself points to the discipline he has gained. Unlike many others, he does not allow the system to defeat him