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man’s godlike powers; Modern pessimism; Consciousness isintentional.Chapter Four: The Rediscovery of Magic.Jung and the collective unconscious; John Layard; Jung’s technique of “active imagination”; Symbolism; The phases of the moon and their corresponding character types; H.P.Blavatsky and “multiple personality”; Completing the “partial mind.”Chapter Five: Descent into the Unconscious.Hypnosis; The mind’s internal barriers; Techniques of “dream study”; Borderland between sleeping and waking; Swedenborg and dreams; Alexis Didier; George Russell and Aeons.Chapter Six: Revelations.Mysticism and reality; Drugs as a means of contacting the unconscious; The evolution of ideas; Retrocognition of the past: Miss Moberly and Miss Jourdain at Versailles; Jane O’Neill in Fotheringhay Church; How does perception work?Chapter Seven: Worlds Beyond.Lucid dreams; Out-of-body experiences; “Odic force”; Psychometry; Kirlian photography; Acupuncture; The Kabbala as a psychological system.Chapter Eight: Ancient Mysteries.Alchemy; Mary Ann South’s Suggestive Inquiry ; Jung and alchemy; The mandala symbol; The philosopher’s stone as a search for integration.Chapter Nine: The Great Secret.Israel Regardie and Albert Riedel; The “vital essence” of minerals; Armand Barbault; Thomas Vaughan; Gurdjieff on alchemy; The transcendence of the personal; Matthew Manning and Uri Geller; The secret of the alchemists.Chapter Ten: Powers of Evil?Has evil an objective existence?; Unlucky ships, jinxed cars, aircraft, etc.; Ghosts and poltergeists; Frustrated adolescents and poltergeist phenomena; Connection with ley lines; Powers of the mind:Thomas Castellan, Franz Walter, Crowley, Rasputin, Gurdjieff; Our hidden powers.
    PART THREE.Chapter One: Evolution.Man: the god who has forgotten his own identity; What is wrong with Darwinism; Stan Gooch’s theory of evolution; Charlotte Bach’s sexual theory; The sleeping areas of the brain; The “robot”; The need for inner freedom; The Outsider as an evolutionary force.Chapter Two: Messages from Space and Time.Ted Owens, the PK man; Space intelligences; UFO sightings; Men in black; Andrija Puharich and Uri Geller; Phyllis Schlemmer and Tommy Wadkins; UFO contacts; Theories concerning UFO sightings; Spiritualism.Chapter Three: The mechanisms of enlightenment.The structure of the ladder of selves; Moving up and down the ladder; Mystical experiences; The right and left hemispheres of the brain; Raynor C.Johnson; The great reservoir of energy; Rodney Collin’s The Theory of Celestial Influence ; Karl Ernst Krafft and Michel Gauquelin; Gustav Fechner; Control of the robot: alertness.Chapter Four: Other Dimensions.The fifth dimension: human freedom?; Charles Fort’s investigations; Arthur Young’s Reflexive Universe ; Science and the paranormal; Death and dying; The problem of time; The trick of inducing “inner expansion”; The importance of “focusing”; The concept of the “feedback point”; The need for more consciousness; The “recycling” of evolutionary energy.Appendix: Electromagnetic induction of psi states , by Peter Maddock.Bibliography.Index.
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    A sequel to The Occult which attempts “to place the world of the ‘unseen’ in a scientific framework,” and to point a way towards “a new stage in the history of the planet earth.”Wilson begins with an account of his experiences when he came close to a nervous breakdown; his subsequent self-examination led to the discovery of a higher self which could take control in an internal emergency.But should we be able to call upon these higher selvesat will, and if so, how?Wilson’s answer, as always, is positive and encouraging.A refreshing antidote to the popular school of thought which sees little or no future for the human race.
    The 2006 Watkins reprint (‘f’ above) contains a new Introduction between pages xxiii-xxvi.The pagination of the book is confusing, however: the preliminaries have roman numerals