![]() ![]() peculiar to our age, a person with a pressing hunger for meaning and spiritual purpose in a world seemingly bent on denying him these,” as Lachman puts it. His early success came with his first book, The Outsider, in 1956, a study of “a character. He wrote over 100 books, including both nonfiction and fiction. Reading Gary Lachman’s biography, I am now more able to place Wilson and his contribution. ![]() ![]() Yet I still left the meeting feeling that he was an enigma-not exactly a teacher, a scientist, or a mystic. I was puzzled by the choice: wasn’t this man a writer of lurid occult novels? But as I quickly learnt, he was also a serious investigator of the mysteries of consciousness and esoteric spiritual teachings. I saw Colin Wilson just once, in the 1980s, as the invited guest speaker at an annual astrology gathering. ![]()
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