Franklin Merrell-Wolff discusses the importance of tulku or avesa for the purposes of communication, life extension, and special incarnations. He goes on to relate the experience of an incarnation of a living Buddha witnessed by H.P. Blavatsky, and discusses the consequences that follow from this manifestation. He points out that such a manifestation implies that the premise of behavioristic psychology is false, for here we have a state of consciousness and knowledge not determined by external conditioning; and if the premise here is false, it implies a serious indictment of our educational processes. Wolff then reports his personal experience regarding a tulku line of communication between himself and the one known as the “Atlantean Sage.” He provides other examples of this form of communication quoting from H.P. Blavatsky and Henry Olcott; he concludes with the suggestion that the incarnation of Shankara is an example of a tulku combination of Shankara as the junior partner and the Buddha as the senior partner.