The Invited Philosopher Alain This was the 17th dinner and we met in person in my house. Menu Main course: Cuban traditional food with white rice, black beans, kidney beans, and grilled churrasco (Alain’s favorite) Wine: French Red Wine “Cabernet – Syrah, Maison Barboulot - 2021”. The Philosophy In the introduction of the website that summarizes the philosophy of Franklin Merrell-Wolff, it is written that Wolff’s philosophy “is based upon a series of mystical insights—or ‘realizations’—that Wolff had over a period of fourteen years, and which culminated in ‘fundamental’ realizations

in 1936” . He then wrote “The Philosophy of Consciousness Without an Object” and refined it into the “Three Fundamentals” of his philosophy, which I will summarize here in my own words: Consciousness is the true reality and in it, there are no objects and there is no “I”, no spatial space, no time. It is Nirvana, and from it, the world is created. Our ordinary experience involves a subject that is aware of objects (e.g. “I see a tree”) and includes thoughts (e.g. “I had this thought”) but in…