Govert Schüller (born 1959) is a

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author who writes about Jiddu Krishnamurti and

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. He studied philosophy at the

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and the

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.Luis S R Vas, ''J. Krishnamurti: Great Liberator Or Failed Messiah?'' p 144 Delhi:

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, 2004 He has also studied under the

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scholar

Theodore Kisiel Theodore J. Kisiel (October 30, 1930 – December 25, 2021),VIAF"Kisiel, Theodore J."/ref> Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of philosophy at Northern Illinois University, was a well-known translator of and commentator on the works of Mart ...

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. He has received a Master of Research degree from

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. Schüller's study of Krishnamurti has been called "perhaps the most comprehensive assessment of Krishnamurti from the theosophical point of view." Schüller maintains Alpheus.org, a website "dedicated to esoteric and other alternative interpretations of history", shifting its direction, according to an announcement in October 2013, "towards a more philosophical, skeptical and scientific view".About Alpheus
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Works

*"Krishnamurti and the World Teacher Project: Some Theosophical Perceptions" ''Theosophical History: Occasional Papers'' 5. ( Fullerton, California: Theosophical History Foundation). ISSN 1068-2597 *"The Masters and Their Emissaries: From H.P.B. to Guru Ma and Beyond" (2nd ed.). (1999). Alpheus.

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: Govert W. Schuller. Retrieved 2010-10-22.
Krishnamurti
. alpheus.org. Govert W. Schuller. 2001. Retrieved 2011-04-16. *''Theosophy and Krishnamurti : Harmonies and Tensions''

Theosophical Society in America The Theosophical Society in America (TSA) is a member-based nonprofit organization dedicated to the teaching of Theosophy and affiliated with the international Theosophical Society based in Adyar, Chennai, India. The name "Theosophical Society in ...

. Audiobook on CD Theosophical Society in America, 2004 *"Jean Overton Fuller, Master Narayan, and the Krishnamurti-Scott-Anrias Issue", ''Theosophical History'' ed. James Santucci XIV/1-2 (January–April 2008)

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, Fullerton, CA *"The State of the TS (Adyar) in 2008: A Psycho-esoteric Interpretation (draft)". 2008. Alpheus. Carol Stream, Illinois: Govert W. Schuller. Retrieved 2010-10-13

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Schuller, Govert 1959 births Living people American Theosophists Dutch Theosophists Dutch emigrants to the United States People from Dordrecht University of Amsterdam alumni