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	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.
	www.wilderdom.com /wilson (1189 words)

	Colin Wilson: Biography, Bibliography, Filmography and links
		Grouped with the English version of the Beats, as one of the Angry Young Men was the general opinion among English intellectuals the The Outsider had been a craze that had died a natural death, and that I should now be returned to the obscurity from which I had accidentally emerged.
		Major philosophical statements to be found in the Outsider Series consisting of: The Outsider, Religion and the Rebel, The Stature of Man, The Strength to Dream, Origins of the Sexual Impulse, Beyond the Outsider and Essay On the New Existentialism.
		Colin Wilson: The Outsider and Beyond by Clifford P. Bendau.
	www.popsubculture.com /pop/bio_project/colin_wilson.html (1263 words)

	Grant Schuyler's essay "Colin Wilson"
		Colin Henry Wilson (1931-) is an eccentric English writer.
		Usually the Outsider is a sensitive with unusual intelligence alienated from bourgeois culture by his vision and sensitivity.
		This, according to the cover blurb, is a "celebration of the occult." It is a gathering, edited by Wilson, of nine essays on occult figures from Nostradamus to the egregious Uri Geller.
	home.ca.inter.net /~grantsky/colin.html (1039 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_Wilson.html (918 words)

	Pagan News - Pagan News & Information
		Wilson explicates a thesis - that much of great Western Literature is written by and concerns men who see and feel more deeply than their contemporaries.
		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.pagannews.com /bookresults.php?ASIN=0874772060 (524 words)

	COLIN WILSON
		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.
		As Wilson continued his reading into the occult it became clear to him that far from being a collection of old wives tales that amounted to just stuff and nonsense the occult was in fact a serious subject.
	www.psychicworld.net /cw2.htm (2358 words)

	The Outsider - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Outsider is the name of a 1984 novel by Howard Fast.
		It is also the title of a book by Colin Wilson.
		In addition, The Outsider is an alternate title for the movie, Gangster World.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Outsider (161 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)

	A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF COLIN WILSON'S WORK
		The first book in the "Outsider" cycle of books by Wilson, intended to outline his concept of the New Existentialism (the idea which underlies all of his work), and probably still his most famous work.
		According to his introduction to the 1980 edition, Wilson considers this book to be the pinnacle of his philosophy.
		Wilson and Maslow were acquainted, thus Wilson has a particularly interesting take on his work.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~jbmorgan/cwbib.html (1295 words)

	Article from PHILOSOPHY PATHWAYS Issue 18
		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)

	Philosopher of Optimism Endures Negative Deluge - New York Times
		Colin Wilson in 1956, the year his first book, "The Outsider," was published and he was declared a major existentialist thinker.
		Wilson was as optimistic as ever, even though his autobiography and his life's work have come under strong attack in some quarters.
		Wilson and John Osborne - another young working-class man, whose play "Look Back in Anger" opened about the same time "The Outsider" was published - "angry young men." That name was passed on to others of their generation, including Kingsley Amis, Alan Sillitoe and even Doris Lessing.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/08/17/books/17wils.html?ex=1281931200&en=787ae68f2b793da3&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (719 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)

	An Interview with Colin Wilson - R A I N T A X I o n l i n e
		Colin Wilson burst onto the literary scene in 1956 with the publication of The Outsider; since then he has written over 100 books in nearly every conceivable genre.
		Wilson: They were really written by chance, because I had written a large book on commission about the religious sites of the world for a publisher who specializes in doing books that are visually quite beautiful.
		Wilson: You can see from the piece on Van Gogh in The Outsider and the references to Cezanne and other painters in my work that there was a period in my teens when I was fascinated by the visual arts.
	www.raintaxi.com /online/1997winter/wilson.shtml (7829 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)

	Interview: Colin Wilson \| By genre \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Outsiders experience, in Wilson's phrase, "these moods of tremendous happiness that the Romantics felt, when they believed that life was absolutely glorious and couldn't imagine that anybody would want to die.
		Wilson, the son of a Leicester shoe factory worker, taught himself to write by keeping a journal.
		Wilson, who has written exten sively about the occult, believes the paranormal to be of tremendous importance in trying to assess what man is. "Even if you decide that it's all nonsense," he says, "you have to take it into account."
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,650679,00.html (940 words)

	The Birmingham Post (England): outsider's look at the idea of an alien world; Colin Wilson talks to Simon Evans about ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Birmingham Post (England): outsider's look at the idea of an alien world; Colin Wilson talks to Simon Evans about life, fame and alien abductions.
		outsider's look at the idea of an alien world; Colin Wilson talks to Simon Evans about life, fame and alien abductions.
		That's an assumption questioned by Colin Wilson who, ever since he first acquired world attention, albeit briefly, with the publication of his philosop hical tract The Outsider in 1956, has made it his life's work to discover how human beings can achieve their full potential and attain a...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:60776788&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (244 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Outsider (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Wilson has drawn in depth attention to an unfortunate problem: The isolation and persecution of the intellectual; those who see the world differently in response to the rampant barbarism,ignorance,and hazardous conformity that frequently plague our civilization.
		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.
		colin wilson's "the outsider" is a work of massive erudition and obvious personal passion, highlighting perfectly the problems that faced man philosophically in the 20th century and that still face us in the 21st.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0874772060 (1075 words)

	Joe Flatley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It is often a matter environment that determines how the "outsider" figure spends his life: as a criminal or an artist.
		Wilson asserts that a serial murderer is a heinous example of one who develops horrifying, and ultimately futile, strategy for satisfying one of his basic human needs.
		The theme of artist as outsider or someone operating on the fringes of society is consistent with Wilson's ideas in Assasssins.
	www.loudwire.net /users/mediafaction/11528.html (994 words)

	The Outsider (1956) - Colin Wilson
		Wilson illuminates the struggle of those who seek only the transformation of Self but also the transformation of society as a whole.
		Consisting of The Outsider, Religion and the Rebel, The Age of Defeat (Stature of Man, in America), The Origin of Sexual Impulse, The Strength to Dream, Beyond the Outsider and Introduction to the New Existentialism.
		Wilson first notes that this state of mind that refuses to feel at home in a dehumanised world is not a twentieth century phenomena, but has its founding in the poets, artists and writers of the European Romantic movement.
	www.jahsonic.com /TheOutsider.html (583 words)

	The Outsider Review - Colin Wilson
		Wilson, who never attended college but was an omnivorous reader, found himself drawn to the experience of certain key figures of the modern world: Vincent Van Gogh, Vaslav Nijinsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, and T. Lawrence.
		The suffering Outsider seeks an essentially religious answer to the crisis of value and the loss of individual worth in a secular society.
		The book is both a study of the Outsider’s predicament and an impassioned call for the creation of a healthy new existentialism which will produce a satisfactorily objective religious understanding of the nature of life.
	www.enotes.com /salem-lit/outsider-0089900325 (273 words)

	Colin Wilson (books by Leicester author Colin Wilson) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Wilson draws on so much information that I often want to read some of the sources he quotes, but these are not always listed in the text.
		The Outsider sold millions of copies around the world, and he was acclaimed as one of the leading intellectuals of the age.
		Colin Wilson adds to his narrative comparisons between the Wests and other serial killers but I have to confess that I found these inclusions distracting and of little real value.
	www.leicesterandleicestershire.com /Market_Place9.htm (5315 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Outsider, by Colin Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		...Wilson's characters, repudiates the dogmas of immortality and resurrection, what home can he possibly conceive man to have other than the natural world of which he is a part, to be sure a distinctive part, but as dependent upon other existing things as the animals and stones in the field...
		...Wilson, the "outsider" is the very model of the metaphysical man who has seen through -the appearances of everyday life and who scorns the humanist and rationalist because of their desire to make the world, if not a kinder place, a less evil one in which to live...
		...The "outsider" does not believe anyone is responsible for the nature of nature but he is nonetheless in revolt against it...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V22I5P93-1.htm (1885 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/The Outsider (Colin Wilson)
		The book is structured in such a way as to mirror the outsider's experience: a sense of dislocation, or of being at odds with society.
		Wilson then engages in some detailed case studies of artists who failed in this task and tries to understand their weakness - which is either intellectual, of the body or of the emotions.
		The final chapter is Wilson's attempt at a "great synthesis" which he justifies his belief that western philosophy is afflicted with a needless "pessimistic fallacy" - a narrative he continues throughout his oeuvre under various names (St. Neot Margin for example) and illustrated in several metaphors ("everyday is Christmas day").
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/The_Outsider_(Colin_Wilson) (443 words)

	Outside the Outsider (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		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)

	Colin Wilson eBooks Electronic Books Download in PDF
		Colin Wilson's novelization of the life and times of Father Grigory Rasputin: occultist, holy man, healer, satyr.
		Wilson provides a rare glimpse of Rasputin's childhood and young adulthood before turning to Rasputin's years of power and influence with the royal family.
		Maslow and Wilson were friends and correspondents during the 1960s, and Maslow worked closely with Wilson to assist in creating this detailed study of Maslovian Psychology.
	www.reinventingyourself.com /wilson.htm (1020 words)

	Colin Wilson - The Outsider
		Colin Wilson was hailed in the 1950s as one of the Angry Young Men and as England's answer to Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre and Existentialism.
		Barbusse has shown us that the Outsider is a mean who cannot live in the comfortable, insulated world of the bourgeois, accepting what he sees and touches as reality.
		For the bourgeois, the world is fundamentally an orderly place, with a disturbing element of the irrational, the terrifying, which his preoccupation with the present usually permits him to ignore.
	www.timlebon.com /colinwilson.html (582 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Outsider: Books: Colin Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Outsider was an instant literary sensation when it was first published in 1956, thrusting its youthful author into the front rank of contemporary writers and thinkers.
		Wilson rationalized the psychological dislocation so characteristic of Western creative thinking into a coherent theory of alienation, and defined those affected by it as a type: the Outsider.
		It is certainly remarkable that Colin Wilson wrote this with such confidence and eloquence at the tender age of twenty-five, but it adds very little to the unending grandiloquence that flows from the continent - and why bite your tongue when it's so pretty.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Outsider-Colin-Wilson/dp/0753814323 (2244 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Dreaming to Some Purpose: Books: Colin Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Colin Wilson is the bete-noir of the Oxbridge literary establishment.
		But even here, Wilson is self-aware enough to discuss this, and highlight moments in his life when he has had to come to terms with himself.
		Colin's early "Outsider" fame at just 24 years of age brings its own trials but his hard school integrity, his hard work and ceaselessly enquiring mind, his sense of humour and philosophy of life enable him to carry on successfully to date.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Dreaming-Some-Purpose-Colin-Wilson/dp/0099471477 (1364 words)

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