Super Consciousness

The Quest for the Peak Experience

Colin Wilson, Colin Stanley

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Watkins Publishing
10 December 2019

Fitness & diet; Self-help & personal development; Clairvoyance & precognition; Unexplained phenomena & the paranormal

Perhaps Colin Wilson's most important work, Super Consciousness combines his existential and occult thinking to explain how we can find profound meaning and joy in life by inducing states of Peak Experience.

Blending existential and occult thought, a highly acclaimed philosopher explains how we can find profound meaning and joy by inducing states of extreme awareness and emotion

Throughout history there have been references and examples in literature, art and philosophy of an increased awareness of life while under the influence of extreme emotions. These have become known as Peak Experiences. Soon after Colin Wilson became aware of this phenomenon in the 1960s, he wondered about its history and how its power could be harnessed, and began a forty-year investigation.

In Super Consciousness, we see how such luminaries as Yeats, Blake, Sartre, Nietzsche, and Robert Graves were affected by Peak Experiences, and how it has long been noted that we are least insightful when we are at our lowest ebb. By looking in detail through the different areas where this phenomenon has occurred-and by offering anecdotes and examples of how many people in history (as well as himself) were affected-Wilson reveals a pattern of insight with emotions. He ends the book with an instructional section on achieving power consciousness for yourself.

By: Colin Wilson
Foreword by: Colin Stanley
Imprint: Watkins Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd New edition
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 135mm,
Weight: 367g
ISBN: 9781786782885
ISBN 10: 178678288X
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 10 December 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Colin Wilson is a highly respected and erudite writer. He has written many books, both fiction and nonfiction on the occult and the paranormal, including The Occult, Mysteries, and Super Consciousness. Wilson passed away in December 2013, leaving behind an enduring legacy in the field of consciousness studies.