The problem of death and the question of life after death are among the primary concerns of the world’s religions. These are also topics that Wolff addressed in an unpublished monograph titled “Death and After,” and a self-published book on reincarnation titled Re-embodiment or Human Incarnations, both written while Wolff was in his forties. At the time of most of the recordings found here, another forty years had passed, and Wolff now has a pressing interest in the process of dying. Thus, one finds recordings in which Wolff reflects on conscious dying, psychical disintegration, dissolution of the personality, the question of whether conceptuality survives death, and his own fast-approaching “crossing-over.”

Also listed here are a number of recordings that approach the topic of death in more objective manner, including a two-part “Seminar on Death:” and an important recording in which Wolff espouses his “Pseudopodal Theory of Reincarnation.”

A number of the recordings of Wolff’s dialogue with Brugh Joy also address these matters, and there can find this exchange:

Brugh: This material that you are working on right now and you’ve been working on for the last two years, on death . . . you’ve rewritten, without even fully consciously being aware of it, the whole Tibetan Book of the Dead and The Egyptian Book of the Dead. I think you’re working at a level way beyond that which is involved in what’s in those two books.

Franklin: . . . Swami Rama said they would publish everything that I have done. Well, what I purpose to do is have Jim take a copy of all the tapes, and send it to them, and let them do what they can with them.

Brugh: But particularly, somebody needs to take all of your tapes dealing with death because, when I first met you, you were working on death. Over two years ago, you were taking the group through a sequence of presentations then, and then you took them through again another level, and now you’re taking them, you’re leaving off all the information and study part, and you’re really taking them now into the direct experience, of as you’re experiencing all of these processes, which now takes it out of theory and puts it into practical experience. That’s really something.[1]

Given this appraisal, the Fellowship has deemed that this material—which at times is quite personal—should be made publicly available.

[1] Franklin Merrell-Wolff, “Dialogue with Brugh Joy,” part 3 (Lone Pine, Calif.: June 27, 1978), audio recording, 5-6.