From the Introduction:

At the onset of this essay, I am obliged to say something about what I am trying to say, what I am “essaying” to describe. The message I wish most to convey is that, at this point in our history, there are some exciting “dialogues” which have begun between certain heretofore heterogeneous and disparate elements in our society and our world. These “dialogues” are now beginning between the physicists and the mystics, the scientists and the theologians and, in short, between the “Western” and the “Eastern” schools of thought.

Specifically, I intend to focus on certain discoveries in the “New Physics” and compare them to the: discoveries, or-”Realizations” of one particular mystic and philosopher, Dr. Franklin Merrell-Wo1ff.

This work, which is subtitled “A Day-To-Day Recollection of the Philosophy and Experience of Franklin Merrell-Wolff. A Daily Guide to Ponder on the Ideas and Themes that Raise One’s Awareness,” is a twelve-stage program of daily study, meant to be completed over the course of one year. The material in this file is for the month of January; it is not known whether Mr. Hoover completed this work for the remaining months of the year. (87 pages)

Prof. Baruss’s strategy in this paper is “to talk about transitions to transcendent states of consciousness as though they existed and as though we knew what they were, thereby perhaps uncovering ways in which their existence and characteristics may become apparent.” He concludes that Franklin Merrell-Wolff’s mathematical yoga may be a “course of action for seeking the transcendent . . . more appropriate for a scientist than other possible strategies.” (10 pages)

A very important characteristic of the pioneering nature of Merrell-Wolff’s work is his discovery of the profound relevance of certain ideas from pure mathematics as symbols of the relation between ordinary consciousness and transcendental consciousness. There have been other mystics who have attempted to rediscover the original dimension of mathematics as a language of the Mysteries, but few if any of these have combined this desire with a thorough training in modern mathematics, especially the mathematics of the last 150 years. It would appear that Merrell-Wolff is virtually alone among modern mystics in this, and to one who can appreciate the technical aspects of these mathematical references (the last one hundred years turn out to be especially important here), the connections are extremely beautiful and significant. It is hoped that this supplement will at least put some readers on the road to sharing this experience, and thereby reclaim some of the essence of their wonderful Western heritage, regardless of the culture of origin—this heritage of Pythagoras is, in a vital sense, open to all, not just to specialists. (33 pages)

Swami Satyananda Giri (1947-2015) was a sannyasin belonging to Sri Gnanananda Tapovanam, an ashram located on the northern bank of the river South Pennar, three kilometers from Tirukoilur, South India. He wrote extensively on Indian history and philosophy, and authored numerous books, including Shyambala (1999), In the Twirling of a Lotus (2004), Akbar (2009), Kant (2010) and Naropa (2011). His last work, Men of Straw, details a troubled period in India’s history—the crucial two years of India’s independence and partition. In the essay here, Giri discusses Wolff’s political philosophy, and in particular, the program that Wolff outlined in the monograph, “The Vertical Thought Movement.” (13 pages)

In this essay, MT discusses an important impetus behind Wolff's political agenda. (6 pages)