Jean Klein was a French

France

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 author, spiritual teacher and philosopher of Advaita (Nondualism

Nondualism

Nondualism is a term used to denote affinity, or unity, rather than duality or separateness or multiplicity. In reference to the universe it may be used to denote the idea that things appear distinct while not being separate. The term "nondual" can refer to a belief, condition, theory, practice,...

). Several of his disciples went on to become spiritual teachers themselves, including Eric Baret, Francis Lucille, Jean-Marc Mantel, Joan Ruvinsky, Richard Miller

Richard Miller (psychologist)

Richard C. Miller, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, author, researcher and yogic scholar. He is the founding president of the Integrative Restoration Institute , co-founder of The International Association of Yoga Therapists and founding editor of the professional Journal of IAYT...

 and David Ciussi. According to Jean Klein, it is only in a "spontaneous state of interior silence that we can open ourselves to our true nature: the 'I Am' of pure consciousness."

Biography

Klein was born in Brno

Brno

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. He studied musicology and medicine in Vienna

Vienna

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 and Berlin

Berlin

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. He arrived in France in 1933, and during WWII worked for the French Resistance

French Resistance

The French Resistance is the name used to denote the collection of French resistance movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy régime during World War II...

. He left for India around 1950 to study yoga for three years. During those three years he met a spiritual teacher of Advaita and returned to the West to become a spiritual teacher himself. He died in Santa Barbara, California

Santa Barbara, California

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Books

• Be Who You Are, 1978, ISBN 0-7224-0167-1; 2006, ISBN 0-9551762-5-5
• Ease of Being, 1986, ISBN 0-89386-015-8
• Who Am I? The Sacred Quest, 1988, ISBN 1-85230-029-9; 2006, ISBN 0-9551762-6-3
• I Am, 1989, ISBN 1-877769-19-3; 2006, ISBN 0-9551762-7-1
• Transmission of the Flame, 1990, ISBN 1-877769-22-3; ISBN 1-877769-20-7
• Open to the Unknown: Dialogues in Delphi, 1993, ISBN 1-877769-18-5
• Beyond Knowledge, 1994, ISBN 1-877769-23-1; 2006, 0-9551762-8-X
• Living Truth: Where Time and Timelessness Meet, 1995, ISBN 1-877769-24-X; 2007, ISBN 0-9553999-1-2
• The Book of Listening, 2008, ISBN 0-9553999-4-7