Home
Buy Spiritual Books, Tapes, CDs & Sacred Art
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Franklin
Merrell-Wolff
(1897-1985, United States)
Biography Excerpt:
Franklin Merrell-Wolfe, a brilliant mathematician, gold miner, philosopher and mystic, awoke spontaneously in 1936. Born in Pasadena, California in 1887, the son of a Methodist minister, Merrell-Wolff studied mathematics, philosophy, and psychology as an undergraduate at Stanford University. He pursued graduate studies in philosophy at Harvard, but returned to teach mathematics at Stanford prior to receiving his degree. His philosophical studies, influenced by Kant, eventually caused him to entirely abandon academia in a successful twenty-year quest for self-realization.
Enlightenment Story Excerpt:
For some time I had spontaneously
looked to him (Shankara) as to a Guru (spiritual teacher) with
whom I was in complete sympathetic accord.
I had found him always clear and convincing, at least in all matters relative
to the analysis of consciousness, while with the other Sages I either found
obscurities or emphases with which I could not feel complete sympathy.
For some months I had resolved to delve more deeply into the thought of
Shankara, in so far as it was available in translated form. It was in pur-suance
of this purpose that I was slowly reading and meditating upon "The System
of the Vedanta."
I had been following this course while
completing a cross-cut in a gold-prospect near the small town of Michigan
Bluff. Much of this time I was completely alone and was more than usually
successful in penetrat-ing the meaning and following the logic of what
I was reading. One day, after the evening meal and while still sitting
at the table, I found that, by gradual transition, I had passed into a
very delightful state of contemplation.