Transformations in Consciousness: The Metaphysics and Epistemology. Franklin Merrell-Wolff Containing His IntroceptualismThis book presents a philosophy that includes the enlightenment experience--that embraces the wider ranges opened by the door of realization--while not excluding the contents of the more common experience. A realization in consciousness that finds no place or adequate recognition in philosophical systems proves the inadequacy of those systems. The author first briefly surveys the principal schools of modern Western philosophy in order to show how they fall short. He then presents his philosophy grounded on the authority of direct realization resulting from a transformation in consciousness. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The New Realism | 22 |
Pragmatism | 34 |
Idealism | 79 |
Introceptual Idealism 97 16 | 97 |
Introception | 143 |
Transcendentalism | 173 |
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abstract affirm analytic psychology appears attained attitude awakening become Buddha Buddhist ception ceptual cognition conceived conception criticism definition derived determination Divinity doctrine empiric ence epistemological essential exclusively existence experience fact feeling Franklin Merrell-Wolff function fundamental Gnostic ground Hegel human consciousness humankind ical idealism idealist ideas identical Immanuel Kant immediacy immediate implies individual insight insofar intellectual interpretation introceptive Realization intuition Jung Kant kind knowledge latter Leuba logical mathematics meaning merely metaphysical moral mystical nature neorealism neorealist ness noetic notion objective orientation perceptual philosophy position possible pragmatism pragmatist present primary problem psychical psychological pure rational realist reality reason reference relation religious rience Samadhi Schopenhauer scientific sciousness sense Shankara Shunyata significance spiritual theory thesis thing thinker thinking thought tical tion tive trance transcendent transcendental transformation true truth ultimate uncon unconscious valid warranted assertibility whole Wolff