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An essential guide to Colin Wilson's major writings on the occult. The 'Occult Trilogy' is the collective label applied to Colin Wilson's three major works on the occult: The Occult (1971); Mysteries: an Investigation into the Occult, the Paranormal and the Supernatural (1978) and Beyond the Occult (1988). They amounted to a monumental 1600 pages and have spawned many other lesser works.
The Occult: The Ultimate Book for Those Who Would Walk with The Gods
Colin Wilson’s classic work is an essential guide to the mind-expanding experiences and discoveries of the occult in the 20th century. He produces a wonderfully skillful synthesis of the available material—one that sees 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 journey of enlightenment. Primitive man believed the world was full of unseen forces: the orenda (spirit force) of the American Indians, the Imaca of the ancient Peruvians. The Age of Reason said that these forces had only ever existed in mans imagination only reason could show man the truth about the universe. The trouble was that man became a thinking pygmy, and the world of the rationalists was a daylight place in which boredom, trivialitv and ordinariness were ultimate truths. But the main trouble with human beings is their tendency to become trapped in the triviality of everydayness (to borrow Heideggers phrase), in the suffocating world of their personal preoccupations. And every time they do this, they forget the immense world of broader significance that stretches around them. And since man needs a sense of meaning to release his hidden energies, this forgetfulness pushes him deeper into depression and boredom, the sense that nothing is worth the effort.
Mysteries: An Investigation into the Occult, the Paranormal, and the Supernatural
The powerful sequel to the bestselling THE OCCULT "A major work...An extraordinary tour de force, [this book] will materially help to bring both sides (science and paranormal studies) together in a way which could lead to real and important advances in our view of the universe..." —New Scientist MYSTERIES is the powerful and enlightening sequel to Wilson’s bestselling masterwork, THE OCCULT, continuing the investigation, through Wilson's extraordinary first-hand experiences, into the paranormal, the occult, and the supernatural. Through personal experience, Colin Wilson discovered that human beings consist of a ladder—or hierarchy—of selves, whose upper members may be called upon at will for personal transformation and deep knowledge. His new-found knowledge spurred him to write MYSTERIES, an attempt to apply his theory to all paranormal phenomena, from precognition to Uri Geller's spoon bending. He presents detailed studies of hauntings, possession and demonic hypnosis, as well as magic, the Kabbalah, and astrology. At the heart of his work is a fascinating discussion of the Great Secret of the alchemists, which he sees as the key to the mystery of the ladder of selves. Colin Wilson came to realize, through his own cathartic experiences, that each of us are in fact multi-personalities, that we consist of a ladder or hierarchy of selves, and that the upper members may be called upon at will. "Man's being is like a vast mansion, yet he seems to live in a single room in the basement." Mysteries is an attempt to explain all paranormal phenomena, from dowsing to demonic possession, from precognition to Uri Geller's spoon bending, in terms of this theory of man's multiple personality. There are detailed studies of hauntings, possession and 'demonic hypnosis', and also of magic, the Kabbala and astrology. The most personal of all Colin Wilson's books, Mysteries sets out, with daring originality, to place the world of the 'unseen' in a scientific framework.
Beyond the Occult: Twenty Years' Research into the Paranormal
In 'Beyond the Occult' Colin Wilson collates 20 years of research into the paranormal and presents hundreds of fascinating glimpses into the reality beyond that which consensus science agrees upon. Twenty years after writing "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. 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. 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.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. 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.
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The Occult: The Ultimate Book for Those Who Would Walk with The Gods
Colin Wilson’s classic work is an essential guide to the mind-expanding experiences and discoveries of the occult in the 20th century. He produces a wonderfully skillful synthesis of the available material—one that sees 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 journey of enlightenment. Primitive man believed the world was full of unseen forces: the orenda (spirit force) of the American Indians, the Imaca of the ancient Peruvians. The Age of Reason said that these forces had only ever existed in mans imagination only reason could show man the truth about the universe. The trouble was that man became a thinking pygmy, and the world of the rationalists was a daylight place in which boredom, trivialitv and ordinariness were ultimate truths. But the main trouble with human beings is their tendency to become trapped in the triviality of everydayness (to borrow Heideggers phrase), in the suffocating world of their personal preoccupations. And every time they do this, they forget the immense world of broader significance that stretches around them. And since man needs a sense of meaning to release his hidden energies, this forgetfulness pushes him deeper into depression and boredom, the sense that nothing is worth the effort.
Mysteries: An Investigation into the Occult, the Paranormal, and the Supernatural
The powerful sequel to the bestselling THE OCCULT "A major work...An extraordinary tour de force, [this book] will materially help to bring both sides (science and paranormal studies) together in a way which could lead to real and important advances in our view of the universe..." —New Scientist MYSTERIES is the powerful and enlightening sequel to Wilson’s bestselling masterwork, THE OCCULT, continuing the investigation, through Wilson's extraordinary first-hand experiences, into the paranormal, the occult, and the supernatural. Through personal experience, Colin Wilson discovered that human beings consist of a ladder—or hierarchy—of selves, whose upper members may be called upon at will for personal transformation and deep knowledge. His new-found knowledge spurred him to write MYSTERIES, an attempt to apply his theory to all paranormal phenomena, from precognition to Uri Geller's spoon bending. He presents detailed studies of hauntings, possession and demonic hypnosis, as well as magic, the Kabbalah, and astrology. At the heart of his work is a fascinating discussion of the Great Secret of the alchemists, which he sees as the key to the mystery of the ladder of selves. Colin Wilson came to realize, through his own cathartic experiences, that each of us are in fact multi-personalities, that we consist of a ladder or hierarchy of selves, and that the upper members may be called upon at will. "Man's being is like a vast mansion, yet he seems to live in a single room in the basement." Mysteries is an attempt to explain all paranormal phenomena, from dowsing to demonic possession, from precognition to Uri Geller's spoon bending, in terms of this theory of man's multiple personality. There are detailed studies of hauntings, possession and 'demonic hypnosis', and also of magic, the Kabbala and astrology. The most personal of all Colin Wilson's books, Mysteries sets out, with daring originality, to place the world of the 'unseen' in a scientific framework.
Beyond the Occult: Twenty Years' Research into the Paranormal
In 'Beyond the Occult' Colin Wilson collates 20 years of research into the paranormal and presents hundreds of fascinating glimpses into the reality beyond that which consensus science agrees upon. Twenty years after writing "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. 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. 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.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. 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.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12dL7jfe...-n4nF/view
https://drive.google.com/file/d/18mgcY93...p5NRZ/view
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RtXmpk1...lTugr/view
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