Gurdjieff and an accessible introduction to the Greek-Armenian mystic in 1980. Wilson wrote The War Against Sleep: The Philosophy of Gurdjieff on the life, work and philosophy of G. He admired the humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow and corresponded with him. Wilson's works after The Outsider focused on positive aspects of human psychology, such as peak experiences and the narrowness of consciousness.
Critical praise though, was short-lived and Wilson was soon widely criticized. The book was a best seller and helped popularize existentialism in Britain. Lawrence, Vaslav Nijinsky and Vincent Van Gogh and Wilson discusses his perception of Social alienation in their work. These include Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, William James, T. When Wilson was 24, Gollancz published The Outsider (1956) which examines the role of the social 'outsider' in seminal works of various key literary and cultural figures. He left school at 16, worked in factories and various occupations, and read in his spare time. In Beyond the Occult Colin Wilson puts forward a powerful case that our so-called 'normal' experience may in fact be subnormal, and that evolution may have brought us near the edge of a quantum leap into a hugely expanded human consciousness.Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.Ĭolin Henry Wilson was born and raised in Leicester, England, U.K.
He then moves on to consider the more mysterious topics - poltergeists, spirit possession and reincarnation - that have convinced him of the reality of disembodied spirits. Linking fascinating glimpses into the realm of the paranormal with scientific thinking on the nature of 'physical' reality, he begins his study with the powers of the human mind: ESP, clairvoyance, psychometry, precognition, psychokinesis and dowsing. A huge amount of new material has come to light in the past two decades, revealing new perspectives on many aspects of this crucially important subject. Twenty years after writing the classic The Occult, Colin Wilson re-examines the whole spectrum of the mystical and paranormal, producing a general occult theory that is as convincing and powerful as the evidence for the existence of atomic particles.
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