Publication
Imprint: Lone Pine, California : Phoenix Philosophical Press, 1981. Context: Recorded December 17th, 1981. Responsibility: Franklin Merrell-Wolff. Physical: 1 sound disc (29 min.) : CD, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Call number
CD / Front Desk
Original publication date
1981
Collections
CSS Library Notes
Description: Franklin Merrell-Wolff briefly discusses the notion of “voidness” as found in The Tibetan Book of the Dead, and his dissatisfaction with this term; he then suggests that his own conception of “consciousness-with-an-object-and-without-a-subject” is an equivalent notion. He notes that philosophical and psychological approaches to consciousness generally treat it as a relation between a knower and the known, and that the question then becomes which of these terms is given primacy over the other. Wolff changes this picture, and regards consciousness itself as primary—that is, more fundamental then either the knower or the known. He states that this view is based on a “luminous” state of consciousness, but suggests that others entertain it as a hypothesis and consider how one’s orientation to the world changes. - from Franklin Merrill Wolff Fellowship
Online availability: In addition to the CD in our library, the complete 433 recordings of Franklin can be streamed/downloaded (many with transcripts) directly curtesy of the Franklin Merrell-Wolff Fellowship website at the links below.: Complete Catalogue: https://www.merrell-wolff.org/archive/audio_recordings/intro
This recording from “On Yoga” section: https://www.merrell-wolff.org/audio/audio-recordings/M341.mp3
FY2013 /
Online availability: In addition to the CD in our library, the complete 433 recordings of Franklin can be streamed/downloaded (many with transcripts) directly curtesy of the Franklin Merrell-Wolff Fellowship website at the links below.: Complete Catalogue: https://www.merrell-wolff.org/archive/audio_recordings/intro
This recording from “On Yoga” section: https://www.merrell-wolff.org/audio/audio-recordings/M341.mp3
FY2013 /
Physical description
4.75 inches
Language
Original language
English