Franklin Merrell Wolff S Experience And Philosophy

Author : Franklin Merrell-Wolff
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995-07-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438412894

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Transformations in Consciousness by Franklin Merrell-Wolff Pdf

This book presents a philosophy that includes the enlightenment experience--that embraces the wider ranges opened by the door of realization--while not excluding the contents of the more common experience. A realization in consciousness that finds no place or adequate recognition in philosophical systems proves the inadequacy of those systems. The author first briefly surveys the principal schools of modern Western philosophy in order to show how they fall short. He then presents his philosophy grounded on the authority of direct realization resulting from a transformation in consciousness.

Author : Ron Leonard
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999-07-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438410548

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The Transcendental Philosophy of Franklin Merrell-Wolff by Ron Leonard Pdf

This book provides a critical exposition of the philosophy of Franklin Merrell-Wolff, a twentieth-century mystic and philosopher—an exceedingly rare and fruitful combination. Wolff's training in philosophy and science convinced him that it was important to ground his thought in immediate awareness to avoid the pitfalls of mere intellectual speculation. As a mystic, he included firsthand accounts of his experiences and transformations, the sort of invaluable primary data that is most often lacking in a mystic's writings. Ron Leonard discusses Wolff's influences and realizations and uses phenomenological and analytic methods to explore the implications of his work within the contemporary philosophical context. In particular, Leonard focuses on Wolff's two primary claims: (1) that Consciousness, transcending the subject-object structure, is primary, and (2) that there is in mystical experience a means of knowing other than sensation and conception. This book explores the accounts of Wolff's grounding in the immediacy of his Realizations, and the nature and philosophical significance of mysticism for our understanding of knowledge, reality, and ourselves.

Author : Doroethy B. Leonard
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781524563882

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Franklin Merrell-Wolff: an American Philosopher and Mystic by Doroethy B. Leonard Pdf

This is a memoir of the life of Franklin Fowler Wolff, whose pen name was Franklin Merrell-Wolff. It is about his inner and outer journey through his life of ninety-eight years. His time at Stanford and Harvard developed his keen intellect in philosophy and mathematics, which in turn led him to seek a deeper meaning. This book follows Wolffs participation and then abandonment of available spiritual groups of the early 1900s. He considered his marriage to Sarah Merrell a spiritual partnership, between the two of them developed a relationship with several students and associates who were also spiritually oriented.

Author : Franklin Merrell-Wolff
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994-01-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438412887

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Franklin Merrell-Wolff's Experience and Philosophy by Franklin Merrell-Wolff Pdf

Here is an account of the enlightenment experience and its consequences written by a trained philosopher and mathematician who is also a master of English prose. Merrell-Wolff experienced enlightenment, became established in the state, and wrote clearly about the value and nature of the knowledge he attained. This is a record of transformation in consciousness written during the actual process itself, supplying an unusually intimate view. The author faces the epistemological problem directly—the problem of demonstrating the reality and value of knowledge springing from mystical roots. He gives serious attention to the philosophical and psychological criticism, writing with an eye to the pitfalls indicated by such criticism. He did not write only for those who believe easily.

Author : Franklin Merrell-Wolff
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791419630

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Franklin Merrell-Wolff's Experience and Philosophy by Franklin Merrell-Wolff Pdf

Here is an account of the enlightenment experience and its consequences written by a trained philosopher and mathematician who is also a master of English prose. Merrell-Wolff experienced enlightenment, became established in the state, and wrote clearly about the value and nature of the knowledge he attained. This is a record of transformation in consciousness written during the actual process itself, supplying an unusually intimate view. The author faces the epistemological problem directly--the problem of demonstrating the reality and value of knowledge springing from mystical roots. He gives serious attention to the philosophical and psychological criticism, writing with an eye to the pitfalls indicated by such criticism. He did not write only for those who believe easily.

Author : Franklin Merrell-Wolff
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Altered states of consciousness
ISBN : 0517527774

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Pathways Through to Space by Franklin Merrell-Wolff Pdf

Pathways Through to Space is the first coherent, practical guide to achieving higher levels of consciousness. An outstanding contribution to mystic literature, this personal experiential journal offers an intimate view of one man's search for the truth. With the insight and sensitivity of Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, Lilly, Castaneda, and Laing, the words of this highly developed scientist-thinker will serve as an inspiration for greater and more expansive experiences, leading the way toward a new synthesis of perception and understanding.

Author : Franklin Merrell-Wolff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Altered states of consciousness
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036046477

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The Philosophy of Consciousness Without an Object by Franklin Merrell-Wolff Pdf

Author : Dave Vliegenthart
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004361256

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The Secular Religion of Franklin Merrell-Wolff by Dave Vliegenthart Pdf

In The Secular Religion of Franklin Merrell-Wolff, Dave Vliegenthart investigates the life and teachings of a twentieth-century American mystic, with implications for the socio-historical background of the ongoing grand narrative that asserts a widespread anti-intellectualism in modern American culture.

Author : Richard Dewey Mann
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0873959051

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The Light of Consciousness by Richard Dewey Mann Pdf

Author : Tat Foundation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0979963001

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Beyond Mind, Beyond Death by Tat Foundation Pdf

This collection contains some of the best spiritual essays, poems, photographs and humor from seven years of the TAT Forum online magazine. These are practical, inspiring and challenging works of spiritual insight for anyone drawn to the silent spaces of life. With selections from over thirty contributors, including: William Samuel, Bob Fergeson, Douglas Harding, Franklin Merrell-Wolff, Art Ticknor, Bart Marshall, Coleman Barks, Bob Cergol and Bernadette Roberts; this book will be a valuable companion in that space where the questions of meaning, identity, ultimate reality and truth arise. Where, as Shakespeare said, "I have immortal longings in me."

Author : Imants Barušs
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781845406387

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Science as a Spiritual Practice by Imants Barušs Pdf

Science as a Spiritual Practice is in three parts. In the first part the author argues that there are problems with materialism and that self-transformation could lead individual scientists to more comprehensive ways of understanding reality. In the second part he takes on the contentious notion of inner knowledge and shows how access to inner knowledge could be possible in some altered states of consciousness. The third part is an analysis of the philosophy of Franklin Wolff, who claimed that the transcendent states of consciousness which occurred for him resulted from his mathematical approach to spirituality.

Author : Marvin Farber
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1959-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438402307

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Naturalism and Subjectivism by Marvin Farber Pdf

This book will assist readers of philosophical literature to understand and to appraise a large section of the controversial philosophical thought of our time. The central theme is the conflict between naturalism and idealism. The idealist philosophy is considered in its historical outcome of subjectivism, as developed in the phenomenological movement. The use of phenomenology is discussed as a general philosophy, as well as with respect to representative philosophies of human existence. The naturalistic view of experience as represented by Dewey is contrasted with the subjectivistic treatment of "pure" experience which is taken to be somehow "prior" to nature.

Author : Kenneth F. Barber,Jorge J. E. Gracia
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1994-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791495735

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Individuation and Identity in Early Modern Philosophy by Kenneth F. Barber,Jorge J. E. Gracia Pdf

Philosophy in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries has traditionally been characterized as being primarily concerned with epistemological issues. This book is not intended to overturn this characterization but rather to balance it through an examination of equally important metaphysical, or ontological, positions held, explicitly or implicitly, by philosophers in this period. Major philosophers whose views are discussed in this book include Descartes, Malebranche, Spinoza, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Leibniz, Wolff, and Kant. In addition, the contributors of minor Cartesians, especially Regis and Desgabets, are analyzed in a separate chapter. Although the views of early modern philosophers on individuation and identity have been discussed before, these discussions have usually been treated as asides in a larger context. This book is the first to concentrate on the problems of individuation and identity in early modern philosophy and to trace their philosophical development through the period in a coherent way.

Author : B. Alan Wallace
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231519700

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Mind in the Balance by B. Alan Wallace Pdf

By establishing a dialogue in which the meditative practices of Buddhism and Christianity speak to the theories of modern philosophy and science, B. Alan Wallace reveals the theoretical similarities underlying these disparate disciplines and their unified approach to making sense of the objective world. Wallace begins by exploring the relationship between Christian and Buddhist meditative practices. He outlines a sequence of meditations the reader can undertake, showing that, though Buddhism and Christianity differ in their belief systems, their methods of cognitive inquiry provide similar insight into the nature and origins of consciousness. From this convergence Wallace then connects the approaches of contemporary cognitive science, quantum mechanics, and the philosophy of the mind. He links Buddhist and Christian views to the provocative philosophical theories of Hilary Putnam, Charles Taylor, and Bas van Fraassen, and he seamlessly incorporates the work of such physicists as Anton Zeilinger, John Wheeler, and Stephen Hawking. Combining a concrete analysis of conceptions of consciousness with a guide to cultivating mindfulness and profound contemplative practice, Wallace takes the scientific and intellectual mapping of the mind in exciting new directions.

Author : Tom Bethell
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780817914165

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Eric Hoffer by Tom Bethell Pdf

Drawn from Eric Hoffer's private papers as well as interviews with those who knew him, this detailed biography paints a picture of a truly original American thinker and writer. Author Tom Bethell interviewed Hoffer in the years just before his death, and his meticulous accounts of those meetings offer new insights into the man known as the "Longshoreman Philosopher."