Colin Wilson | Gary Lachman

Sep 113 min read

Have We Been Here Before?

Belief in reincarnation is one of the oldest and most durable of human traits, so old and persistent in fact, that the psychologist C. G....

Aug 115 min read

The Evolution of Consciousness

One of the themes I write about in many of my books is the evolution of consciousness. Although the idea of an evolution of consciousness...

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Jan 215 min read

If Consciousness is Evolving, Why Aren't Things Getter Better?

When people ask me what I write about I have a few standard replies, depending on the circumstances and the person asking. But one answer...

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Dec 4, 202315 min read

The Outsider and Others: Lovecraft, Wilson and Phenomenological Science Fiction

(Tomorrow marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Colin Wilson, who passed away on December 5, 2013. I'm posting this article,...

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Jul 4, 202316 min read

I Dream the Future - And So Do You

Some years ago I discovered a remarkable fact: I dream the future, or at least some of my future experience turns up ahead of time in my...

Jun 8, 202316 min read

The Outsider in the Twenty-First Century

In his debut book, The Outsider, the twenty-four year old British existentialist Colin Wilson made his first attempt at analysing a...

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May 19, 202315 min read

H. G. Wells and the Open Conspiracy

In 1946, H.G. Wells, author of The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man and other classics of science fiction,...

Feb 3, 202315 min read

Superhuman, Transhuman, or Fully Human?

A question that will become more and more dominant as the century goes on is the question of what it means to be human. We are already...

Sep 16, 202213 min read

Sex and Imagination: An Essay in Sexistentialism

In a book I’ve recently finished, a biography of "the forgotten teacher of the Fourth Way," Maurice Nicoll, now with the editors, sex has...

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