Super coscienza. Alla ricerca delle esperienze di picco

In my twenties I read about every book I could find of this author. I was especially thrilled about his ideas about psychology, philosophy and criminology. "Superconsciousness" is about higher states of consciousness, how people usually take their states of minds for granted because they don't reali Leggi tutto

Interesting but slightly repetitive after The Occult.

I wish I could give half stars. 2.5 would be closer to my actual opinion. I feel like Mr. Wilson spent this entire book talking about how he is eventually going to talk about his subject. He is certainly knowledgeable about a great many topics, and he is obviously widely read. He draws on many intere Leggi tutto

I've been a devoted reader of Wilson since my teen years, and recently sought his most recent book to see where his explorations into the nature of consciousness had brought him after all these decades. Recommended as an easily digestible summation of his thought and researches.

Colin Wilson is an amazing intellect. He has the ability to pull together sources from across disciplines and centuries and put them together in novel ways.

Reading Colin Wilson's books like this one are always an interesting experience. They're thought provoking and uplifting, but at the same time I find myself laughing over imagining serious, academically-minded philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists face-palming after reading his opinions.

O3,5 “A mensagem a reter é que, antes de tentarmos ver no escuro, devemos assegurar-nos de que as pilhas da lanterna estão carregadas” A Experiência Culminante, de paz e união é uma ilusão fisiológica? Isso importa? O que é real é o que sentimos como real, o calor que sentimos naquilo que chamamos de Leggi tutto

This book is an interesting look at the capabilities of the human mind. According to Wilson, the mind is capable of far more than what our five senses tell us. In fact, these senses work against us by severely limiting our perspective of the true world. The book concludes with a sort of how-to manua Leggi tutto