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[19] Who is Franklin Merrell-Wolff, you may ask? He was born in 1887. His father was a Methodist minister. He graduated in 1911 from Stanford University Phi Beta Kappa with a BA, majoring in Mathematics and minoring in Philosophy and Psychology. He began the doctorate program in Philosophy program at Harvard University. Merrell-Wolff is a modern academic western mystic, and it is this reason that I find his writing so insightful. Merrell-Wolff�s mystic communion occurred in 1936. His mystic union came after a time of intense study of the Hindu � Vedic teachings of Shankara through the writing of Paul Deussen�s book �The System of the Vedanta.�
[20] Franklin Merrell-Wolff, Experience and Philosophy: A personal record of transformation and a discussion of Transcendental Consciousness, pg. 325 , 1938 and 1944, reprinted together 1994.
[21] Merrell-Wolff, pg. 325
[22] Merrell-Wolff, pg. 353.
[23] Merrell-Wolff, pg. 325
[24] Merrell-Wolff, pg. 318
[25] Arthur Koestler, Act of Creation, pg. 176
[26] Sidney Hook, �Consciousness in Japan�, Commentary, New York, Jan. 1959, pg. 33.
[27] Arthur Koestler, Act of Creation, pg. 176
[28] Merrell-Wolff, pg. 329.