Over a 40-year period Ingram Smith, a media host with the Australian Broadcasting Commission, traveled with J. Krishnamurti. Smith recorded Krishnamurt's lectures and dialogues that took place throughout India, Sri Lanka, Europe, Australia, and America.

Equal parts historical memoir and personal reflection, this is a book about philosophy, both traditional and personal, and about one man's search to come to terms with his humanity and spirituality. This is a candid disclosure of how in the course of a lifetime one man was radically changed by a great teacher who said,

"You are the teacher and the student...understand your own mind and you understand the world."

Smith's inward journey to discover his own mind and his place in the world spanned four continents and decades.