Pathways Through To Space: A Personal Record Of Transformation In Consciousness PDF
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Pathways \ Through To Space AN EXPERIENTIAL JOURNAL FRAN Vikan, MERRELL-WOLFF “Pury INTROS JOHN C. Pathways Through to Space Pathways through to Space A Pervonal Record of Transformation in Consciousness FRANKLIN MERRELL- WOLFF With tir JOHN GL Introduction wo Second Edition By conscience, I was loaned a copy of the Sst edition of this Book by Patria Olds, the librarian of the Intate of Hltronc and lec Engineers, at one of my workshops in New York City in the Fall of 1971. She saw the deep basic interlock between tis bok sod my own work. I sead it ia the one weeken! available and be ‘ame excited coough to start (2) looking for my own copy (found ‘vith the hep of Sire Weiser, Inc): (3) looking forthe author td (6) looking fr the publics and/oc the coprightowvaer. The Suthor wrote of his transformation of consiouanee in 1936 at an ‘seimated age of 4: aout 35 years ad psd Iwas not ton sure Ihe wat sill alive and loaned my copy to Arthve Ceppos of The Julian Prev, Inc, who had jst published my The Center of she ‘Clone. He shared my enthsiae and helped iat the hut fr the author. We bath drew blak A yest patie. By this tne I was back at Biles losin, Big Sur, California, giving a workshop. Unexpecelly + couple ap proached me and sf," We undentand you ae looking for Mecel ‘Wot A bt surprised, sud, "Yes, that tre” They fad and he was alive and would send bis addres. A weak later Ton and recived is addrem, and drove down the East side of California Sera Nevada mountains to Lone Pine in the shadow of one of the hughest of the US mountains, Mt. Whitney. Dr Wolff was ot listed ia the phone book The postintress said he had post bor. but she was oot allowed to tll us hi addres. I weote Des Wolf 3 Card and gave 9 her mal 1 bi, ‘ist then 4 man came int the pos offce and the psec said, "You know where Dr. Wolt lve, and you can tell De Lilly where to go. cant.” The a drew ws 4 map. "We drove out of town (3700 fe) to about 6000 fp dhe an ‘of Whitney. The soad became very aartow and just a8 we gave up, 1 house appeared atthe end ofthe road. 1 went and kaocked A Speighly eecy man with « Van Dyke and 2 winkle in is eve opened the dior sai, "De, Wl” He sid, "Yes" 1 sai“ hve read Putbwys Throngh Space and would ke w talk with ou about it. Can we aang a tie?” He sud, ‘Come in. Anyone tro fds this doe finds open” Tn the ensuing dscunion of fur hows with De. Wolf his wife “Toni and mf, and ne of De. Wolf's dil, we covered quite sst of proud, ranging fom the Bodhisatva vow w one's hold the vehicle and why one bothers to remain on ths planet. We die ‘ssl the posible repelication of Parhusys "At cox point De. Wold accepted copy of The Center of the ysone i exchange foe another copy of Pathways, He noted that (Cote bad been recommended t9 him by one of his students who romied to bring him a copy. With atwikle ia his eye e sid to hs wife, “Please tell sound that I now have the Book he ream meted the ator delivered x copy personaly De. Wel peesated me with his later book, The Philosophy of Comconsnes Without an Obyct mimeograped ia 1970 foe bis stadt 1 very strongly felt chat the tine fo the republication of Pat seo had artved presente the point of view that Iieraly un reds of thoatands of young adults were now ready For the Meas experiences ad pllosophy expres therein, and emplasied the tae the ehere are thovands of peuple where there were nly few Indie i 1944 who aren need confrmation of thet own eX petiene and in ned ofa showing of «pathway basally “jana, ‘oc the head tip cote to higher states. De. Woll's own experiences in is teasformation and recpsitio are written simply and have tn awesome power to tanec thoe who ae ready for his deeply moving help. ln my own reading ofthis book, | found Iwas precipitated ito sates, spaces, uniness of very high ones so frequently that the reading of took several week. Each ime V read it wow the exper ‘aces begin ance, and I ave found the same phenomenon when reading his Philosophy of Comconses wthoat an Objet. Opening, ‘ether back paccally 2 random ad reading awhile ales my ate ‘of conciousness into highly regarded and delightful regions. (ter than Coter there are aly two other books with this ower one me: Olaf Sapledon's The Siamaker [Dover] and G. Spencer Brown's Laser of Form (Jalian Pres}) “As I lectore and give workshops, 1 find increasing munbers of people with mental popertics similar 10 mine and Dr. Wolf's [Peron who can be programmed ito higher sates of cmcouess by the right reading muterial. These are the cew, icresingly merous, audience for these books. Tar grateful that these persons will now be able to sha in De. Wolf's truly great work and in bis profound experiences Jobe € Lily, MD. Los Angeles, Califia January, 1973
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