The Franklin Merrell-Wolff Fellowship

Robert A. Johnson (1921-2018) was a well-known Jungian psychotherapist, author, and lecturer. An early student of Jiddu Krishnamurti, Mr. Johnson first became interested in Jungian psychology through his own therapy: “I went to Fritz Künkel, a Jungian analyst in Los Angeles . . .

Ken Wilber is an American writer on transpersonal psychology who has developed his own “integral theory,” a systematic philosophy that attempts to explain how well-established methodologies, and the experiences based on these methodologies, fit together in a coherent fashion. Wilber explains the need for such a theory as follows:

Wesak (also spelled Vesak) is the most important of the Theravada Buddhist festivals, commemorating the birth, enlightenment, and death of the Buddha. The event is observed on the full-moon day of the lunar month Vesakha, which falls in April or May. Observed as a public holiday in many Southeast Asian countries, Wesak is marked by special devotional services and various deeds considered to be meritorious, such as the presentation of food or alms to monks or the release of captive birds.

John White is one of the founding directors of the Institute for Noetic Science, a California-based research organization started by Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell to study human potential for personal and planetary transformation.

This file contains several letters from James Warnack of the Los Angeles Times. Mr. Warnack writes in regard to Pathways Through to Space, and he discusses the possibility of a review of this work by his newspaper. He also states that he was acquainted with “M. W. over a quarter of a century ago,” but he does not state how he came to know Wolff (who did not use the pen name ‘Merrell-Wolff’ at that time); perhaps it was in the army or at Halcyon. Included here is Mr. Warnack’s two-page essay, “Pathways Through to Space: An Appreciation.” (6 pages)

Tarthang Tulku is one of the last remaining Tibetan lamas (teachers) to have received a complete education in Tibet prior to the 1959 Chinese invasion of that country. He was born in 1934 at Archung in the Golok region of Amdo, and educated at Tarthang, a branch monastery of Palyul. At the age of seventeen, he traveled to Shechen Monastery to study with Shechen Kongtrul Rinpoche. In 1953, he began two years of training at the Dzongsar Monastery with his principal guru, Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö.

William Stow is a longtime student of Franklin Wolff; this file contains a number of his letters to Wolff and as well as a note from Gertrude to Mr. Stow. (32 pages)

This file contains what is surely just a portion of the correspondence between Franklin Wolff and Eugene Sedwick, who was one of Wolff’s most enduring students. Gene and his wife Alma were from Chicago, but the couple also built a home on a parcel of Wolff’s ranch in Lone Pine, Calif.

A former musician, here is an introduction by Wolff for a presentation that Mr. Sedwick made on the “Power of Music”:

This is a series of letters with a reader of Pathways Through to Space, who was moved to meet Franklin Wolff. (5 pages)

This is a personal note to Franklin Wolff from a Chicago student who maintained a small house trailer on Wolff’s property. (2 pages)