1. What is the nature and structure of consciousness?

Sub-questions:

• What are the contents of consciousness?
• What is the relationship between the conscious, the sub-conscious and the unconscious?
• What are the cognitive processes through which it may be possible to entirely unravel/bring to surface the sub-conscious and the unconscious? Does that have any implications for human behaviour and evolution?
• Is consciousness a material dynamic?
• Is it meaningful to differentiate between consciousness and awareness?

2. What is the relationship between brain, mind and consciousness?

Sub-questions:

• Is consciousness a product of the brain?
• Is it meaningful to ask if the mind is within the brain or outside the brain?
• Are love, intelligence, and freedom within the brain or outside the brain?
• Can the constant recording process that is going on in the brain be stopped voluntarily?
• Can we create conscious machines?

3. Is there a psychological evolution or an unfolding of consciousness, as there is a biological evolution?

Sub-questions:

• Is biological evolution paralleled by an evolution in consciousness from single cells to plants to animals to human beings? Is further evolution a possibility?
• Is there a psychological evolution in human beings?
• Is it meaningful to ask if evolution has taken a wrong turn?
• Is it meaningful to think of a cosmic consciousness and if yes, what is its relationship to the process of evolution?
• Is there an unfoldment of consciousness and if there is, is it a unidirectional process? Is there a final state for the unfolding consciousness, or is it a never-ending unfoldment?

4. What is the role of thought and memory in perception and consciousness?

Sub-questions:

• What is memory? Is there a factual memory and a psychological memory?
• What is the role of memory in observation and perception?
• Is knowledge/psychological memory destructive in relationships, the source of all human problems?
• If machines take over the functions of thought and memory, what will be the role of the brain in human living?
• Are memory and thought material processes?

5. How is consciousness related to perception of time – chronological time, biological time and psychological time?

Sub-questions:

• Is psychological time as distinct from chronological time a fact?
• What is the relationship between thought and time?
• Is it meaningful to go beyond time?
• How is the perception of space and time related to changes in consciousness?

6. What is the relationship between consciousness and the sense of self?

Sub-questions:

• What is the distinction between consciousness and self-consciousness?
• How does self-consciousness come about?
• Is it possible to be conscious without a sense of self?
• Are conflicts, inner and outer, triggered by the sense of self?
• Is it possible that a transformation in the sense of self, of consciousness can involve a cessation of conflict and sorrow?

7. Is a radical transformation of consciousness possible?

Sub-questions:

• Is there a need for transformation of consciousness?
• What is the role of mentation and thought in transformation?
• What are the implications of altered states of consciousness for the brain and the body?
• Is an irreversible change in consciousness possible? Should we distinguish between change, transformation and mutation?
• What is creativity and how is it linked to alterations in consciousness?

8. Can meditation or any other cognitive process alter consciousness?

Sub-questions:

• What is meditation?
• Is meditation necessary for the transformation of consciousness?
• What are the distinctions between attention, concentration and meditation?
• What is insight? Does insight involve an altered state of consciousness?

9. Is there a collective consciousness?Are there several collective consciousnesses?

Sub-questions:

• What is its relationship to individual consciousness? Can one affect the other?
• Is there an actual separation or is it a made-out separation?
• Can change in the consciousness of one human being affect the collective consciousness? What are the implications for a new social order and the future of mankind?

10. Does Krishnamurti’s experience of the ‘process’ have any relevance to any model of consciousness?

Sub-questions:

• What is the ‘process’ that Krishnamurti underwent?
• What role did it play in his life? Did it transform his consciousness?
• Is it a necessary factor for the transformation of consciousness?
• Is Krishnamurti’s perspective the consequence of this ‘process’?
• Does the ‘process’ have any correspondence with any of the models of consciousness described by various religions, psychologists, schools of philosophy or medical and neurological sciences?

11. What is Krishnamurti’s approach to the problem of understanding consciousness?

Sub-questions:

• How is Krishnamurti’s approach related to the philosophical approaches to consciousness?

12. Is there scientific or other kind of validation for any aspect of Krishnamurti’s perspective on consciousness?

Sub-questions:

• What do the neurologists, psychologists and other medical sciences have to say about Krishnamurti’s perception of consciousness?
• What do the scientific findings reveal about thought, time, memory, self-consciousness, crisis in consciousness, and mutation of the brain?