Franklin Merrell-Wolff, Dr. Brugh Joy and Carolyn Conger discuss the unexpected death of Gertrude Wolff. Dr. Joy reports on the after-death state of Gertrude, responds to some of Wolff’s questions, and expresses his feeling that Gertrude’s withdrawal affords Wolff the challenge to reach an even greater integration of his psyche.

This is the first part of a year-long series of recorded dialogues between Franklin F. Wolff and Brugh Joy that took place after the death of Wolff’s second wife, Gertrude. (There are a total of twenty-one conversations in this series.) The topic of the conversation chronicled here is the two major dreams that Wolff had prior to his 1936 Realizations, and it presupposes a familiarity with both of these dreams and with the interpretation that the well-known Jungian analyst Robert Johnson gave to them. This material can be found in the audio recording, “Report of Major Dreams” (16 June 1978). Dr. Joy emphasizes that these dreams are “precognitive” in the sense that they are pertinent to Wolff’s current situation; in particular, he agrees with Johnson’s conjecture that these dreams pertain to a decision that Wolff faces regarding the internalization of the feminine aspect of his psyche.

This is the second part of a year-long series of recorded dialogues between Franklin F. Wolff and Brugh Joy that took place after the death of Wolff’s second wife, Gertrude. Their discussion of Gertrude’s death and Wolff’s major dreams continues; in particular, Dr. Joy develops the idea that these dreams are relevant to Wolff’s internalization of the feminine aspect of his psyche. At the end of the recording, Dr. Joy expresses his desire to purchase Wolff’s ranch.

This is the third part of a year-long series of recorded dialogues between Franklin F. Wolff and Brugh Joy that took place after the death of Wolff’s second wife, Gertrude. Their discussion includes: their different psychological orientations; Shankara and tulku incarnation; John Lilly; Dr. Joy’s evaluation of the importance of Wolff’s recordings on death and dying; and, some circumstances of Wolff’s current life situation.

This is the fourth part of a year-long series of recorded dialogues between Franklin F. Wolff and Brugh Joy that took place after the death of Wolff’s second wife, Gertrude. In this dialogue Dr. Joy begins to read from the Chögyam Trungpa translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead and discusses how it may apply to Wolff's current situation.

This is the fifth part of a year-long series of recorded dialogues between Franklin F. Wolff and Brugh Joy that took place after the death of Wolff’s second wife, Gertrude. In this dialogue Dr. Joy touches on Wolff's death; the evolution of Wolff's group, the Assembly of Man; luminosity; Rudolf Steiner; and his own teacher.

This is the sixth part of a year-long series of recorded dialogues between Franklin F. Wolff and Brugh Joy that took place after the death of Wolff’s second wife, Gertrude. This dialogue Dr. Joy returns to the Chögyam Trungpa translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead and a discussion of how it relates to Wolff's current situation.

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Franklin Merrell-Wolff concludes this series of reflections by contrasting Dr. Joy’s Zen Buddhist orientation toward Liberation with that of his own, which is in accord with that of Sri Shankaracharya. He offers a critique of four points wherein their epistemological perspectives differ: Dr. Joy’s emphasis upon the authority of experience over conceptual statement; the pragmatic value of the conceptual; the depreciation of the function of judgment; and, the descriptive value of mathematics.

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