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Reflections on the Work of Colin Wilson

Author : Colin Stanley
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527528448
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Reflections on the Work of Colin Wilson written by Colin Stanley and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the archive of the English philosopher and polymath Colin Wilson (1931-2013) was officially opened at the University of Nottingham, UK, in the summer of 2011, it was agreed among those present that a conference should be held there to discuss his work. In July 2016, the First International Colin Wilson Conference was staged with the Proceedings being published a year later. The success of that conference inevitably meant that a second was arranged and held two years later in July 2018. This volume—which will be of interest to scholars and fans of Wilson’s work, in addition to students of philosophy and consciousness studies—contains the transcripts of the papers presented on July 6, 2018: day one of that second conference. Experts, scholars and fans, from around the globe, gathered to hear and present papers on a variety of Wilson-related topics ranging from Existentialism to the Occult; from Robert Musil to classical music; and from Transpersonal Psychology to Transcendental Evolution.

Beyond the Robot

Author : Gary Lachman
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0399173080
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Robot written by Gary Lachman and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Gary Lachman delivers a fascinating, rollicking biography of literary and cultural rebel Colin Wilson, one of the most adventurous, hopeful, and least understood intellects of the past century. You will embark on the intellectual ride of a lifetime in this rediscovery of the life and work of writer, rebel, and social experimenter Colin Wilson (1931-2013). Author of the classic The Outsider, Wilson, across his 118 books, purveyed a philosophy of mind power and human potential that made him one of the least understood and most important voices of the twentieth century. Wilson helped usher in the cultural revolution of the 1960s with his landmark work, The Outsider, published in 1956. The Outsider was an intelligent, meticulous, and unprecedented study of nonconformity in all facets of life. Wilson, finally, became a prolific and unparalleled historian of the occult, providing a generation of readers with a responsible and scholarly entry point to a world of mysteries. Now, acclaimed historian Gary Lachman, a friend of Wilson and a scholar of his work, provides an extraordinary and delightful biography that delves into the life, thought, and evolution of one of the greatest intellectual rebels and underrated visionaries of the twentieth century.

The Mind Parasites

Author : Colin Wilson
Publisher : Monkfish Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1939681081
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book The Mind Parasites written by Colin Wilson and published by Monkfish Book Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilson has blended H.P. Lovecraft's dark vision with his own revolutionary philosophy and unique narrative powers to produce a stunning, high-tension story of vaulting imagination. A professor makes a horrifying discovery while excavating a sinister archaeological site. For over 200 years, mind parasites have been lurking in the deepest layers of human consciousness, feeding on human life force and steadily gaining a foothold on the planet. Now they threaten humanity's extinction. They can be fought with one weapon only: the mind, pushed to--and beyond--its limits. Pushed so far that humans can read each other's thoughts, that the moon can be shifted from its orbit by thought alone. Pushed so that man can at last join battle with the loathsome parasites on equal terms.

Architectural Reflections

Author : Colin St. John Wilson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719057045
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Architectural Reflections written by Colin St. John Wilson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louise Erdrich is one of the most critically and commercially successful Native American writers. This book is the first fully comprehensive treatment of Erdrich's writing, analysing the textual complexities and diverse contexts of her work to date. Drawing on the critical archive relating to Erdrich's work and Native American literature, Stirrup explores the full depth and range of her authorship. Breaking Erdrich's oeuvre into several groupings - poetry, early and late fiction, memoir and children's writing - Stirrup develops individual readings of both the critical arguments and the texts themselves. He argues that Erdrich's work has developed an increasing political acuity to the relationship between ethics and aesthetics in Native American literatures. Erdrich's insistence on being read as an American writer is shown to be in constant and mutually-inflecting dialogue with her Ojibwe heritage.This sophisticated analysis is of use to students and readers at all levels of engagement with Erdrich's writing.

Autobiographical Reflections

Author : Colin Wilson
Publisher : Borgo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809567539
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book Autobiographical Reflections written by Colin Wilson and published by Borgo Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Super Consciousness

Author : Colin Stanley
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 178678310X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Super Consciousness written by Colin Stanley and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blending existential and occult thought, a highly acclaimed philosopher explains how we can find profound meaning and joy by inducing states of extreme awareness and emotion Throughout history there have been references and examples in literature, art and philosophy of an increased awareness of life while under the influence of extreme emotions. These have become known as Peak Experiences. Soon after Colin Wilson became aware of this phenomenon in the 1960s, he wondered about its history and how its power could be harnessed, and began a forty-year investigation. In Super Consciousness, we see how such luminaries as Yeats, Blake, Sartre, Nietzsche, and Robert Graves were affected by Peak Experiences, and how it has long been noted that we are least insightful when we are at our lowest ebb. By looking in detail through the different areas where this phenomenon has occurred—and by offering anecdotes and examples of how many people in history (as well as himself) were affected—Wilson reveals a pattern of insight with emotions. He ends the book with an instructional section on achieving power consciousness for yourself.

The Outsider

Author : Colin Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book The Outsider written by Colin Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Individet på den forkerte hylde søger at hævde sig gennem overkreativitet

Collected Essays on Philosophers

Author : Colin Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781443889018
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Collected Essays on Philosophers written by Colin Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colin Wilsonâ (TM)s first book The Outsider was published to great critical acclaim in May 1956. It was the first of six philosophical books, known collectively as â ~The Outsider Cycleâ (TM), compiled by Wilson during the following decade. A summary volume, Introduction to the New Existentialism, appeared in 1966. During the 1970s, however, Wilsonâ (TM)s interests became, on the surface, more varied, publishing books on criminology, psychology and the occult. But he always maintained a philosophical stance, irrespective of subject matter, and continued to write purely philosophical essays for journals, magazines, and symposia. This volume brings together, for the first time, his essays on seventeen philosophers, including some of those he met personally to discuss their ideas. In his essay on Spinoza he wrote: â oePhilosophers are never so entertaining â " or so instructive â " as when they are beating one another over the head.â It is that statement, applied to this particular volume, that makes these essays, from Englandâ (TM)s only home-grown existential philosopher, so eminently readable, entertaining, instructive and, sometimes, controversial.

Written in Blood

Author : Colin Wilson
Publisher : Diversion Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 1626818681
Total Pages : 997 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Written in Blood written by Colin Wilson and published by Diversion Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 997 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extraordinary accounts of forensic crime detection—from poisoners in ancient Rome to modern day serial killers—by the bestselling author of The Outsider. In 44 BC, a Roman doctor named Antistius performed the first autopsy recorded in history—on the corpse of murder victim Julius Caesar. However, not until the nineteenth century did the systematic application of scientific knowledge to crime detection seriously begin, so that the tiniest scrap of evidence might yield astonishing results—like the single horsehair that betrayed the murderer in New York’s 1936 puzzling and sensational Nancy Titterton case. Many such dramatic tales appear in this updated edition of the most gripping catalog of crimes by acclaimed criminologist Colin Wilson. The book follows the progress of forensic science from the first cases of suspected arsenic poisoning right up to investigations using an impressive armory of high-tech methods: ballistic analysis, blood typing, voice printing, textile analysis, psychological profiling and genetic fingerprinting. “Colin Wilson has made himself the Philosopher-King of forensic speculation, the Diderot of the path labs.” —The Times Literary Supplement “Will enthrall connoisseurs of violent crime.” —The Glasgow Herald

The Occult

Author : Colin Wilson
Publisher : Diversion Books
ISBN 13 : 1626818703
Total Pages : 855 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book The Occult written by Colin Wilson and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2015-05-17 with total page 855 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of The Outsider explores occult ideas, practices and figures from Kabbalah to Aleister Crowley in this “fascinating history of magic" (The Washington Post). Colin Wilson is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost experts on occultism. His classic historical study on the subject is an essential guide to the mind-expanding experiences and discoveries made by occultists through the centuries—from Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa to Giacomo Casanova, Helena Blavatsky, Grigori Rasputin, and many others. More than a chronicle of people and events, however, Wilson has produced a synthesis of the available material, presenting the occult in the light of reason—and reason in the light of the mystical and paranormal. The result is a wide-ranging survey of the subject that provides a comprehensive history of magic, an insightful exploration of our latent powers, and a revelatory journey of enlightenment. "This most interesting, informative and thought-provoking book on the subject I have read." —Arthur Calder-Marshall, The Sunday Telegraph

MORE THAN THE EXISTENTIALIST OUTSIDER

Author : VAUGHAN. RAPATAHANA
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780995597839
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book MORE THAN THE EXISTENTIALIST OUTSIDER written by VAUGHAN. RAPATAHANA and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

After Life

Author : Colin Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781567188172
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book After Life written by Colin Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colin Wilson, renowned authority on the paranormal, has written more than 50 books on crime, philosophy, and the occult, including the bestsellers The Outsider and The Occult. Now he turns his talents to answer a simple question: Is there life after death? The result is the book After Life. Wilson writes, "It is not my purpose to try to convince anyone of the reality of life after death: only to draw attention to the impressive inner consistency of the evidence . . . " In other words, he doesn't tell you what to believe, he presents the facts and lets you make up your mind. Explore case studies documenting evidence for the validity of near-death experiences, reincarnation, and the survival of the soul: ·The soldier who found himself outside his earthly body ·What happens during a sŽance in a Parisian drawing room ·An apparition that delivers an amazing warning ·The psychic powers of primitive peoples ·The truth about the strange case of Bridey Murphy ·The girl who was "possessed" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning ·The psychic double that went to church These are just a few of the many amazing cases that indicate something is happening. After Life also includes discoveries of paranormal activity, spirit sightings, and spirit communications. When Colin Wilson began researching this fascinating work, he was far from sure of the evidence for the survival of human consciousness after death. After examining these cases, he believes that it points unmistakably to survival. Read After Life and discover for yourself the answer to the most enduring mystery of humanity.

Autobiographical Reflections

Author : Colin Wilson
Publisher : Millefleurs
ISBN 13 : 9780946650200
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Autobiographical Reflections written by Colin Wilson and published by Millefleurs. This book was released on 1990 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beyond the Occult

Author : Colin Wilson
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1780286945
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Occult written by Colin Wilson and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colin Wilson has explored the paranormal universe ever since he researched his first highly successful work, The Occult: "the most interesting, informative and thought-provoking book on the subject."* Now, 20 years later, he offers an even wider examination of the mystical and paranormal. And what he has produced is amazing—a thoroughly convincing general theory of the occult. Wilson powerfully posits that our so-called "normal" experience may in fact besubnormal, and that evolution has brought us near the edge of a quantum leap into a hugely expanded human consciousness. Combining fascinating glimpses into the paranormal world with the latest scientific thinking on the nature of "physical reality," he reveals the usually unseen powers of the human mind and discusses why he has become convinced that disembodied spirits do exist.

Colin Wilson

Author : Brad Spurgeon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780955267208
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (672 download)

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Download or read book Colin Wilson written by Brad Spurgeon and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic study of existential despair, The Outsider brought Wilson instant fame, followed by revilement by those same critics who had previously hailed him. Now in his seventy-fourth year the writer and philosopher sums up his thinking. He brings new thoughts to bear on his work, and clearly illustrates the discoveries he has made, showing how these can provide an antidote to the pessimism of 20th Century thought. At the core of his philosophy are the concepts of 'intentionality' and the 'peak experience'. Wilson shows us that if we will only open our eyes and direct perception properly we can use our minds in the most positive sense, to change ourselves and the world around us. Wilson also talks about his writings on philosophy, criminology and the occult. Sometimes controversial, often challenging and always interesting, this interview by writer and journalist Brad Spurgeon, conducted at the author's home in Gorran Haven, in Cornwall,

The Craft of the Novel

Author : Colin Wilson
Publisher : Ashgrove Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781853980060
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Craft of the Novel written by Colin Wilson and published by Ashgrove Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Links the development of the form to the evolution of human consciousness and explores the creative process.

A Secret History of Consciousness

Author : Gary Lachman
Publisher : SteinerBooks
ISBN 13 : 1584204931
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book A Secret History of Consciousness written by Gary Lachman and published by SteinerBooks. This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the last four centuries, science has tried to account for everything in terms of atoms and molecules and the physical laws they adhere to. Recently, this effort was extended to try to include the inner world of human beings. Gary Lachman argues that this view of consciousness is misguided and unfounded. He points to another approach to the study and exploration of consciousness that erupted into public awareness in the late 1800s. In this "secret history of consciousness," consciousness is seen not as a result of neurons and molecules, but as responsible for them; meaning is not imported from the outer world, but rather creates it. In this view, consciousness is a living, evolving presence whose development can be traced through different historical periods, and which evolves along a path to a broader, more expansive state. What that consciousness may be like and how it may be achieved is a major concern of this book. Lachman concentrates on the period since the late 1800s, when Madame Blavatsky first brought the secret history out into the open. As this history unfolds, we encounter the ideas of many modern thinkers, from esotericists like P. D. Ouspensky, Rudolf Steiner, and Colin Wilson to more mainstream philosophers like Henri Bergson, William James, Owen Barfield and the psychologist Andreas Mavromatis. Two little known but important thinkers play a major role in his synthesis --Jurij Moskvitin, who showed how our consciousness relates to the mechanisms of perception and to the external world, and Jean Gebser, who presented perhaps the most impressive case for the evolution of consciousness. An important contribution to the study of consciousness ... a must-read.