The teacher Bob cites in dialogue 24 for the maxim that "the path to truth is individual or pathless" — that there is no one path. Cameron endorses it and gives it his own reason: "every path is a representation that comes from the rearview mirror." Krishnamurti appears for a single beat, but a load-bearing one — he underwrites the dialogue's insistence that the third position cannot be reached by any prescribed technique, only by falling through the nothing that every method conceals.
Across the dialogues
Enters as a one-beat corroboration — his "pathless" truth confirms that no method can carry you into the nothing, since every path is a rearview-mirror representation
Krishnamurti's "pathless" truth is enlisted as authority for the dialogue's anti-method — since "there's no one path," no technique can deliver the third position, and Cameron's rearview-mirror gloss explains why every path is already a representation.
"do you agree with Krishnamurti that the path to truth is individual or pathless?"
Given his historical place — the tail of the Theosophical line that starts with Bulwer, the Theosophists' repudiated "chosen son," the chemical-body process-teacher McLuhan is said to have gone "further than"
Krishnamurti's place in the occult genealogy — the Theosophists' groomed "chosen son" who repudiated the role, the endpoint of a line Cameron traces back to Bulwer.
"was the sort of chosen son of the Theosophists and then rejected that."
The measure of McLuhan against Krishnamurti, traced to its root — McLuhan outreaches Krishnamurti, yet he and Innis both descend from Bulwer, with McLuhan alone carrying the occult interest that Innis, aware of Bulwer only for media reasons, never took up.
"if McLuhan went further than Krishnamurti, he and Innis go back to Bulwer. And that's... the interest in the occult that McLuhan had."
Krishnamurti's method as Bob heard it — refusing to prescribe while holding himself up as an example of the process to enter, the same "be the medium" move Bob reads in the artists and in McLuhan.
"I ain't suggesting anything to anybody,"
Connections
Cameron endorses Krishnamurti's "pathless" truth — every path is a representation from the rearview mirror.
Cameron places Krishnamurti at the tail of the Theosophical line that begins with Bulwer.
McLuhan is said to have gone "further than Krishnamurti," carrying the same process-discipline past the chemical body into the electric anti-environments.