The Philosophy of Consciousness Without an Object, Volume II. Franklin Merrell-Wolff (1887-1985) was an American philosopher and mystic. Educated at Harvard and Stanford in philosophy and mathematics, he devoted his life to expanding the limits of human consciousness.
Franklin Merrell-Wolff was an American mystic and esoteric philosopher. After formal education in philosophy and mathematics at Stanford and Harvard, Wolff devoted himself to the goal of transcending the normal limits of human consciousness. After exploring various mystical teachings and paths, he dedicated himself to the path of jnana yoga and the writings of Shankara, the expounder of the Advaita Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy.