Colin Wilson's 'Occult Trilogy': A Guide for Students by Colin Stanley Read Free Book Online

incredible treatise has to offer regarding human potential and its manifestations.”(Krippner, 171)
    *All quotes taken from the 1979 Panther [London: Granada Publishing] paperback edition of Mysteries .
    References:
Dossor, Howard F. Colin Wilson: the man and his mind .Shaftesbury, Dorset: Element Books, 1990.
Krippner, Stanley, ‘A Retrospective look at Mysteries from the perspective of parapsychology’ in Stanley, Colin (ed.) Around the Outsider .Winchester: O-Books, 2011, p.160-173.
Merchant, Norris, ‘Insider’ in The Christian Century 96 (July 4-11, 1979): 712-713.
Walton, Alan Hull, ‘Colin Wilson’s Magnum Opus’ in Books and Bookmen , (March 1979): 41-43 (reprinted in Stanley, Colin (ed.): Colin Wilson, a Celebration .London: Cecil Woolf, 1988, p.130-136).
Wilson, Colin (1) The Occult .London: Mayflower Books, 1973.
    Bibliographical details:
    Mysteries: An Investigation into the Occult, the Paranormal, and the Supernatural.
a.London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1978, 667 p., cloth.
b.New York: G.P.Putnam’s Sons, 1978, 667 p., cloth, [no sub title].
c.New York: A Paragon Book, G.P.Putnam’s Sons, 1980, 688 p., paper, [no subtitle].
d.London, New York: Granada, Panther Books, 1980, 667 p., paper.
e.[Japanese edition] Tokyo: Kousakusha Workshop, nd., 676 p., cloth.Translated by Kazuhisa Takahashi, Akimasa Minamitani and Makoto Takahashi.
f.as: “The Ladder of Selves (Mysteries) ,” in The Essential Colin Wilson .London: Harrap, 1985, cloth, p.130-149.A reprint of a section from this volume.
g.London: Watkins Publishing, 2006, [xxvi, 644p] xxvi, 667 p., paper.[Contains a new 4-page Introduction by Wilson]
h.as: The Ladder of Selves and The Search for Power Consciousness .Berkeley, CA: Maurice Bassett, 2002, e-book reprint of two chapters from this volume
    Dedication: “For Eddie Campbell, with affection.”
    ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS:
    Introduction: The Ladder of Selves.Wilson and “panic attacks”; The “schoolmistress effect”; Gurdjieff’s power to transfer energy; The ladder of selves and paranormal phenomena; “All is well” feeling; Attempt at a comprehensive theory of the occult.
    PART ONE.Chapter One: Ghosts, Ghouls, and Pendulums.Tom Lethbridge and dowsing; How to use the pendulum; Ghouls; Lethbridge’s “field” theory of ghosts and ghouls; Sir Oliver Lodge’s “tape recording” theory; Electrical theory of the paranormal; The pendulum and the afterlife; Summary of Lethbridge’s work.Chapter Two: Giants and Witches.Lethbridge and the Wandlebury Camp giant; Margaret Murray; Silbury Hill: Michael Dames’ theory; The “old religion” in Cornwall; Are the stone megaliths storage batteries?Chapter Three: The path of the dragon.Lethbridge and Erich von Däniken; The latter’s inaccuracies; Stonehenge; Robert Temple’s Sirius Mystery ; Alfred Watkins and ley lines; Guy Underwood; John Michell; The earth as a living being; Poltergeists and ley lines; More about Stonehenge: the theories of Alexander Thorn and Gerald Hawkins.Chapter Four: The Timeless Zone.Dreams of the future; Lethbridge and J.W.Dunne; Levels of sleep; Rapid eye movements; Robert Monroe’s out-of-body experiences and precognitive dreams; Can electrical fields aid telepathy?; W.E.Boyd and Peter Maddock.
    PART TWO.Chapter One: The Curious History of Human Stupidity.Van Vogt’s “right man” theory; Science versus occultism and theology; Persecution of Giordano Bruno, Galileo, etc.; The evolution controversy: Cuvier, Lamarck, Darwin, etc.; Charles Fort and his ideas.Chapter Two: How Many Me’s areThere?Dual personality; Jung’s first case; His poltergeistexperiences; Multiple personality: Mary Reynolds, Doris Fischer, etc.; Wilder Penfield’s discovery of “memory playback”; Pierre Janet and the nine levels of consciousness; The inhibition of personality.Chapter Three: In Search of Faculty X.Levitation; The control of psi-power; Magic; Importance of will and imagination; Visualization; What is imagination?; Bruno on