Hello, My name is Barbara and I am an admirer of Dr. Wolff's books. Thanks, Ron, for starting this group. I am wondering did anyone attend the gathering a...
... Interesting, that on page 50 of "Pathways..." he references "One who has given me much..." and capitalizes the word "One." The individual referred is...
Thanks for admitting me in the group. I am interested in vedant philosophy and particularly RAMAN MAHARSHI is my favorite,now i may be able to get chance to...
Clarence, Thanks for the update! The group isn't really that old. I'm surprised at how quickly membership has grown in the last few weeks. ~Ron~ ... I...
James, I'm no authority on M-W, so I can't speak authoritatively. Was it a "spirit-guide", "guardian angel" or a higher part of the subconscious mind? Anybody...
<moan, grr> See, you went and made this all interesting, now I'm going to have to actually hunt down one of his books....and READ it!....: ) Oddly, I've been...
k> <moan, grr> See, you went and made this all interesting, now I'm going k> to have to actually hunt down one of his books....and READ it!....: ) k> Oddly,...
... Yes, looking around the planet through history, most communities seem to describe something of this nature and even describe a hierarchy of sorts whether...
... Dear Barbara, I attended the convention this year at the Great Space Center, as I have several times in past years as well. It is a beautiful, remote,...
I found this lecture very eye- and heart-opening so I wanted to share it with you all. I could not find it anywhere on the Web so I've sent it along here in...
Hello friends, Hello friends, In chapter 2 of "The Philosophy of Consciousness Without An Argument," on pages 261-262 of the SUNY reprint (Experience and...
Hello friends, In chapter 12 of Pathways To Space, Merrell-Wolff mentions very briefly a "certain Sage in Southern India" whose words he read with "profound...
I share your question. I have struggled for a while trying to really understand Wolff's "method." As to the question of whether or not the approach is purely...
As I understand Wolff's position, where the relative consciousness "sees" substance or substantiality (that is, what we unawakened ones call ponderable matter...
Hi Brandon, It's great to hear from you . We seem to be looking at things in pretty much the same way. Nice to know! ... I think it must be, because...
I will post the passage after lunch - I work/live at a boarding school, and will swing by my apartment to get the book. The passage you cite is a huge one. It...
... From: Rob Sacks To: Merrell-Wolff@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 8:06 PM Subject: [Merrell-Wolff] Substantiality inverse to ponderability ...
Dear Brandon, I think you described this very well. My understanding is the same as yours on this point. What I don't understand is the train of thought that...
Here's the passage from "Transformations in Consciousness" to which I alluded earlier: The problem of method, whereby the latent introceptive function may be ...
... The task to be accomplished, for intellectuals like us, is to move the matter that we are knowing from intellectual knowledge to realized knowledge. We...
Hi Brandon, Thanks for typing the passage about the impossibility of describing the method exactly. Well, that answers that -- the missing details aren't an...
That we are ultimately on our own beyond a certain point is the conclusion toward which everything has been pointing, so I'm not surprised, but, lazy person...
Bword, "Perhaps my question reduces, then, to this: Is it possible to explain how one moves the matter we are knowing from intellectual knowledge to realized...
Dear Steve: Thank you for your last two posts; I enjoyed reading them tremendously. They are very inspiring. To verbalize some of my thoughts along with...
At Steve Beckow's suggestion, I'm offering this post on the topic of Wolff's aphorism "Substantiality is inversely proportional to ponderability." Below is an...
Hi, Tom, I thought I'd have a chance to jot something down earlier for the group, inspired by what you wrote, but I simply can't find the time. I enjoyed your...
"The bird has its nest, and the dog has its den, but the son of man has no place to rest." Hello my name is Jeff Brooks and I am relatively new to your list....
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