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FRANKLIN MERRELL-WOLFF CONFERENCE
Great Space Center, Lone Pine, California
(Sponsored by the Franklin Merrell-Wolff Fellowship, Inc.)
June 5–8, 2008
Thursday evening, following dinner, we shall gather to get (re)acquainted and share. Friday and Saturday mornings will begin with an optional dream or tarot circle, which seems to be well-received. The traditional Sunday morning will include a FMW tape, followed by discussion and a noon potluck. Study sessions reading and discussing the Commentary on the Aphorisms from The Philosophy of Consciousness without an Object will continue throughout the weekend. Please bring your book.
Thomas McFarlane (Eugene, OR)—A Peculiarly Beautiful Path to Yoga. Forty years before Fritjof Capra’s The Tao of Physics popularized the parallels between modern physics and Eastern philosophy, Franklin Merrell-Wolff proposed the following fundamental connection between physical and mystical forms of knowledge. “Once it is realized that he [the physicist] is unfolding the laws governing the obverse of the Real, his knowledge can be employed as a Way to the Recognition of that Reality. I can see how our present physical science is unfolding a peculiarly beautiful Path to Yoga” (PTS, Ch. 61).
Drawing from this passage and other aspects of Franklin’s philosophy, we will discuss common principles shared by scientific and mystical forms of enquiry and explore how these two paths to knowing Reality illuminate each other in our own experience.
Imants Barušs (London, Canada)—Dreaming to Wake Up—The Psychology of Liberation. “Here is a powerful logic,” said Franklin, “…when one realizes a given condition is an illusion, it not only ceases to be, but ceases ever to have been” (Mathematics, Philosophy and Yoga, Lecture 3). Thus, awakening from dreaming has been used as a metaphor for the transition to transcendence. But dreams can also be practical tools for self-transformation. I will discuss these intertwined roles that dreams can play in liberation with reference to my own dreams in the context of Franklin’s teaching.
Ron Leonard (Phoenix, AZ)—The Quest for Metaphysical Knowledge—A Prelude to Introceptualism. Franklin Merrell-Wolff considers his greatest contribution to Western Philosophy to be the successful response to Immanuel Kant’s question, “Is metaphysical knowledge possible?” I propose to trace the development of Modern Philosophy from Descartes to Kant that brought this question into focus, and how Franklin’s answers it by demonstrating Introception as a third way of knowledge.
Doroethy Leonard (Phoenix, AZ) will lead the traditional Saturday evening meeting with a reading from the chapter on Franklin’s Realizations from her biography of Franklin Merrell-Wolff.
In addition, each person attending will be asked to share a short quote that relates to the weekend. The evening will end with a candlelight ceremony and starlight walk.
Franklin Merrell-Wolff Fellowship Board Meeting is 2:00–4:00 p.m. Sunday, following the potluck.
Cost: $160. Please send $50 deposit to confirm your space, which is limited this year.
This includes room and board. We are grateful that Troy will do the cooking again this year, except for breakfasts by Doroethy and the Sunday potluck. There is a $10 reduction for camping and $20 reduction for staying in town. Detailed program and/or map available upon registration. Please send deposit to:
Doroethy Leonard After May 1:
5825 N. 12th Street, #10 PO Box 758
Phoenix, AZ 85014 Lone Pine, CA 93545