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	An Introduction to Colin Wilson
		As a result, Wilson's pursuit of his ideas have led him, over the course of more than forty years of intensive labor, to critique and formulate new ideas in a broad range of subjects, ranging from the works of the Romantics, the existentialists and split-brain psychology to criminology, science fiction, mysticism and revolutionary archaeology.
		Wilson's contention, however, is the exact reverse: it is the peak experience which gives us a brief moment of clarity about the surrounding world, and the drabness of our everyday perceptions is the illusion.
		Wilson's readers are frequently those who have a sense that there is a possibility for something greater in the nature of our existence, but who also recognize that theorizing alone achieves nothing, particularly when theories ignore the realities known to those of us who must interrupt our questing with the facts of functioning within society.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~jbmorgan/cwintro.html (1906 words)

	Colin Wilson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wilson was labelled as an Angry Young Man, though he had little in common with other members of the group.
		Wilson's works include a substantial focus on positive aspects of human psychology such as peak experiences and the narrowness of consciousness.
		Wilson admired, and was in contact with, for example, humanistic psychologist, Abraham Maslow.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colin_Henry_Wilson (1025 words)

	Sound Photosynthesis: COLIN WILSON: videotapes audiotapes publications and more
		Colin Wilson is an English writer of over ninety books, lecturer and author of Rudolph Steiner: The Man and His Vision, Robert McDermott, President of CIIS and popular public lecturer, is the author of The Essential Steiner and lectures widely on Anthroposophy and Waldorf Education.
		Colin Wilson illustrates expanded consciousness through anecdotes taken from the lives of occult figures, literary artists, and from his own life experiences, conversations and prodigious research.
		Colin Wilson was hailed as a prodigy on publication of The Outsider in 1956.
	www.photosynthesis.com /COLIN_W.html (880 words)

	Colin Wilson: Psychological Ideas about Human Potential
		Colin Wilson (1922-) is a prolific English writer of non-fiction on human potential, psychology, existentialism, criminality, literary criticism, and the occult.
		Wilson's work belongs in several disciplines, but is unified by a focus on the human condition and how "it can be solved".
		Wilson became famous with his 1956 book, "The Outsider", published when he was 24, written in a library during a summer when he slept in the park.
	www.wilderdom.com /wilson (1189 words)

	the autobio of Colin Wilson
		Wilson believes what saved him was a sudden recognition that he possessed an "essential self", an identity deeper and stronger than his everyday persona, that enabled him to transcend such moments.
		Wilson is candid about the delights (and fiascoes) of his early sexual adventures in the fields of Leicestershire and evokes the sense of transgression that surrounded these encounters in pre-permissive England.
		Wilson's media supporters like Bill Hopkins also hyped up the Angry Young Men mythology (soon to include Kingsley Amis and John Wain) imposing the mantle of a movement on a very diverse clutch of writers, only united by their youth and their provincial antecedents.
	www.culturecourt.com /Br.Paul/lit/ColinWilson.htm (3550 words)

	COLIN WILSON
		Colin Wilson, the author of over a hundred books including many on the occult, has led an extraordinary life of literary success and public acclaim.
		In that moment of utter despair, as he prepared to end his miserable life, Colin Wilson was shown that there was purpose and meaning to his existence and that it would be foolish indeed to terminate his body as it was the host of an enlightened soul.
		Colin Wilson was reading the autobiography of Osbert Sitwell ‘Great Morning’ where he found a passage relating to a period just before the outbreak of WWI.
	www.psychicworld.net /cw2.htm (2358 words)

	Colin Wilson: Psychological Ideas about Human Potential
		Colin Wilson (1922-) is a prolific English writer of non-fiction on human potential, psychology, existentialism, criminality, literary criticism, and the occult.
		Wilson became famous with his 1956 book, "The Outsider", published when he was 24, written in a library during a summer when he slept in the park.
		Wilson identifies the main flaws that outsiders tend to suffer from.
	wilderdom.com /wilson (1189 words)

	Colin Wilson: Biography, Bibliography, Filmography and links
		Wilson was eventually banned from Bridge meetings because his Outsider beliefs were at odds with Reynolds' Anarchist beliefs.
		Colin Wilson: The Man and His Mind by Howard F. Dossor.
		Colin Wilson: The Outsider and Beyond by Clifford P. Bendau.
	www.popsubculture.com /pop/bio_project/colin_wilson.html (1263 words)

	Alibris: Colin Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Colin Wilson's great classic work is the essential guidebook to the mind-expanding experiences and discoveries of the 20th Century.
		When bestselling writer Colin Wilson met Harvard psychiatrist John Mack at a conference in 1995, he was propelled on a journey of discovery into one of the most daunting mysteries of our time--the UFO phenomenon.
		Colin Wilson utilizes a wide-ranging survey of paranormal experience to explain his own theory of the sixth sense, showing how it is at the center of all occult phenomenon and offering an insightful exploration of humanity's latent powers.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Wilson,Colin (854 words)

	THE HIGH AND THE LOW with COLIN WILSON
		WILSON: Yes, I suppose that first book, The Outsider, was almost an autobiography, and of course twenty-five years later, when I produced this book Mysteries, I suddenly had this horrifying series of panic attacks that made me feel I was going insane, due to overwork.
		WILSON: Yes, well, you see, the basic point about the philosophy of Gurdjieff, and I suppose about my own basic ideas, is this recognition that we have inside us what I call the robot -- a sort of robot valet or servant who does things for you.
		WILSON: Oh shit -- I realized that in fact these two were exactly the same as Laurel and Hardy in your movies, and that the person living in the other hemisphere is in fact Stan Laurel.
	www.intuition.org /txt/wilson.htm (3800 words)

	Colin Wilson
		To complete our list of thirteen occult philosophers with the name of Colin Wilson may seem to some a stretch, Colin Wilson is known more for quiet scholarship, a departure from the flamboyant tales of the ancient practitioners of the so-called fl and white magik already considered.
		However, Wilson is a prolific contemporary Englishman who has spent a lifetime in research and writing on all things occult, and whose work we owe a debt of gratitude.
		Wilson himself seeks to inform us that psychic powers are as normal to man's intelligence as learning the multiplication tables in grammar school.
	psychicinvestigator.com /Occult/Wilsn.htm (694 words)

	Colin Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Bart explained to Colin that the key lay in ancient metrology, which showed that prehistoric man was aware of the exact size of the earth and incorporated this knowledge into weights and measures that remained in use through to the present world age.
		Colin also presented the enigma of the mysterious prehistoric glass found in Libya, apparently fashioned by ancient hands, and told the audience how the discovery of Brown's Gas might provide an answer of how these prehistoric peoples were able to melt rock to produce glass at such an extraordinarily early age of mankind.
		Colin's entire lecture was an aural delight, and there is no question that he could have gone on for much longer.
	www.andrewcollins.com /page/conference/qc99/cwilson.htm (281 words)

	Outside the Outsider (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Colin Wilson was born in Leicester, England, in 1931, the son of a boot and shoe worker.
		I interviewed Colin, while Rebecca was abroad, outside the cafeteria at the Esalen Institute on the afternoon of September 16, 1990.
		Colin spoke eloquently about his interest in the paranormal, the relationship between sex and creativity, certainty and ambiguity, life after death, and the new emerging species that he believes is evolving out of humanity.
	users.lycaeum.org /~maverick/cwil-int.htm (313 words)

	Article from PHILOSOPHY PATHWAYS Issue 18 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In l956 Wilson's Outsider was an overnight success, and later went into twelve impressions, the youthful looking 26 year-old was hailed by the critics as a new Lord Byron.
		Later in the seventies Wilson's writing turned more towards mysticism and the occult which was a natural transition as many of his novels and works of philosophy foreshadowed its basic concepts, transforming him into one of the New Age prophets.
		While Colin Wilson had been transforming his ideas and philosophies I had travelled to Australia in 1965 where I worked variously as night watchman, roustabout in pubs and read all the philosophy I could lay my hands on in the elusive search for truth.
	www.philosophos.com /philosophy_article_7.html (1606 words)

	Celebrity at Work - Influencers of the Zeitgeist » Colin Wilson
		Colin Wilson is one of the most lionized authors in the world in fields as diverse as sci-fi, psychology, criminology, ancient civilizations, literature and history.
		Colin’s optimism here lies in his idea that if we can push ourselves up the “ladder of consciousness”, through the “seven levels of consciousness”, as he first described them in his Beyond the Occult (1988), then we will be able to live much longer.
		Colin revealed that for many years he had been keeping a diary on tape every morning, which now ran to hundreds of tapes containing a vast amount of material about his life and work.
	www.celebrityatwork.com /category/colin-wilson (2292 words)

	Inside the Outsider (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		With Wilson’s autobiography published recently, GARY LACHMAN met the prolific writer to discuss a prodigious output and an overdraft to match.
		Beginning with an account of his attempted suicide at the age of 16, the 73-year-old Wilson introduces us to the central obsession of his life: the search for a method of increasing the powers of consciousness at will, a theme that links the many, otherwise disparate, subjects in his considerable œuvre.
		Wilson is also refreshingly candid about the role of sex in his life, discussing in detail early exploits in the coffee bars of 1950s Soho, and later adventures when fame increased his opportunities to satisfy an already healthy appetite.
	www.forteantimes.com /articles/188_wilson1.shtml (394 words)

	Colin Wilson, genius, knicker fetishist, social misfit and author of 110 books that even his publisher didn't want \| ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Wilson is - in a sense - an awful lot like a Jim Lovelock who took a wrong turn somwhere and never focused in on any subject long enough to bring to fruition a deep understanding.
		But, whereas Wilson started by writing "The Outsider", Lovelock began his career in earnest with the invention of the Electron Capture Detector - a device which didn't really quite work for the purposes Lovelock originally designed it for but, instead, proved uncannily accurate at detecting pollution in extremely minute quantities, parts per billion.
		Wilson would have done well to take the cue, earlier in his career in terms of his interest in psychology, mysticism, spiritualism, and existentialism (lots of isms there, eh?), from Stan Grof or Charles Tart.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/33394 (1243 words)

	The Colin Wilson Page
		Colin Wilson is an English author who has written dozens of books and hundreds of articles on a variety of subjects, particularly (although not limited to) philosophy, crime, literary criticism, fiction, and the occult.
		A short introduction written by myself offering a personalized view of what Colin Wilson's work is all about.
		I've archived the old Colin Wilson discussion postings here, for those who are interested.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~jbmorgan/cwilson.html (764 words)

	Colin Wilson Interview
		COLIN: What I have said basically is that up to now, the twentieth century culture has tended to emphasize these other modes you mention.
		COLIN: If Tim Leary's claim was that you could, use the psychedelic experience to find your way into new realms of subjectivity, and then use it to find your way back there without the psychedelic, I would agree, it would be extremely valuable.
		I mentioned yesterday, one of the things that struck me a long time ago, is that if you look at writers, the ones who produced something interesting and significant have been, in fact, the writers who have been forced to struggle like mad from difficult beginnings.
	users.lycaeum.org /~maverick/colin.htm (3420 words)

	TC Lethbridge \| The Sons of TC-Lethbridge \| The Sons of TC-Lethbridge \| Colin Wilson
		Colin was struck by the thought, that many of his literary heroes in fiction had found themselves in similar positions to that of his own dilemma, alone and struggling to stay afloat at the edge of society, it was a sink or swim situation.
		Colin is also a respected international speaker who has lectured all around the world and can often be seen contributing to programmes on both television and radio.
		Colin regretted not having ‘discovered’ Lethbridge much earlier, for he believed that he was a key figure in the world of the paranormal, and his contribution to psychical research was enormous and therefore needed acknowledging.
	www.tc-lethbridge.com /sons_of_tc_lethbridge/colin_wilson (2221 words)

	Dial Publishing - Books and the Printed Word » Author Colin Wilson on Living to 300
		Colin Wilson (left) and Richard Perceval Graves at Glastonbury Tor.
		Colin wilson has long been one of my favourite authors.
		From The Outsider to Beyond the Occult, his work is never less than engrossing and highly intelligent.
	www.dialpublishing.com /2006/06/04/author-colin-wilson-on-living-to-300 (171 words)

	Amazon.com: The Outsider: Books: Colin Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I've read several Colin Wilson books and what keeps amazing is that each and every one i've read is like "progress" for me, a personal progress, he functions like a keymaster handing out keys to those interested, and the fact that his writting style is never inaccessible is an added plus.
		Central to Wilson's philosophy is the idea of training the mind to see beyond the "triviality of everydayness," to grasp higher states of consciousness and express boldness, originality, fearlessness and aesthetic which centered on efforts to become more "godlike".
		Wilson himself is an admirer of the charlatan Gurdjieff/ Ouspensky and has written a good introduction to Gurdjieff's work entitled "The war against sleep".
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0874772060?v=glance (1906 words)

	Colin Wilson Discussion
		As young man, Wilson was lionized by the British press in the 1950s when The Outsider was published but he rather rapidly fell into disrepute shortly after and is considered now to be a bogus talent.
		Wilson tended to stress the positive side of human consciousness as a counterweight to the morbid existentialism of writers like Beckett, Sartre etc, and I think he is to be commended for that.
		You always feels more enthusiasm for life when you read anything by Wilson as he endeavours to show that the popular trend for pessimism is really a failure to look at all the facts.
	www.gnooks.com /discussion/colin+wilson.html (278 words)

	Colin Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Colin Wilson, certainly no stranger to QuestCon, has been promoting the significance of Stan Gooch's fascinating work on Neanderthal man for years, since it provides good evidence that civilisation had its foundation tens of millennia before its accepted rise at the end of the last Ice Age.
		From the origins of mining in Africa to ancient evidence of the smelting of metals, maritime exploration and knowledge of the geodetic values of the earth and its relationship to the heavens, all argue the existence of advanced souls during what we know as the Palaeolithic age, between 100,000 and 10,000 years ago.
		Colin Wilson wants to share with the QuestCon audience his very latest findings, he will take the platform to deliver his own much-anticipated presentation.
	www.andrewcollins.com /page/conference/speakers/CW05.htm (320 words)

	eBay - colin wilson items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Colin Wilson - Ritual in the Dark - 1st PB
		Colin Wilson - The Philosopher's Stone - 1st PB
		THE UNEXPLAINED UFO AND ALIENS BY COLIN WILSON
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	Amazon.com: Mammoth Encyclopedia of the Unsolved: Books: Colin Wilson,Damon Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In it, Wilson shares his expert research and investigation into seventy-five of the world's most enduring mysteries, among them crop circles and crystal skulls, monsters and meteors, pyramids and poltergeists, the Hope Diamond and the Holy Shroud of Turin.
		The authors', Colin Wilson and Damon Wilson, pet theories become abundantly clear as certain themes and concepts are repeated throughout the book, such as their ideas concerning poltergeists which are shoe-horned into far too many of the entries outside of the one for poltergeists.
		If you`re a fan of Colin Wilson you`ll find this to be another excellent contribution of his to the "paranormal" field of research (or to be somewhat more precise: to the not so normal field of research).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786707933?v=glance (1513 words)

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