| | Beyond the Occult |  | Author: Colin Wilson
Publisher: Bantam Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1106888
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 300
ISBN: 0593011740
EAN: 9780593011744
ASIN: 0593011740
Publication Date: December 31, 1988
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Consciousness, cosmology and spirituality August 23, 2003
28 out of 28 found this review helpful
This book was published 20 years after the author’s bestseller The Occult and reveals the results of his further research in a grand treatise on the complete spectrum of the paranormal and the mystical, including ESP, clairvoyance, psychometry, precognition, psychokinesis, dowsing, poltergeists, spirit possession and reincarnation. He expertly links the latest scientific thinking in the fields of physics and cosmology with fascinating experiences and phenomena in the realm of the paranormal. To my mind, he succeeds in formulating a coherent general occult theory that holds water. He echoes the thoughts of other writers in the field of consciousness and cosmology, that we are evolving and are fast approaching the edge of a quantum leap into a vastly expanded human consciousness. I loved his discussion of mystics, writers and artists like Gurdjieff, Graham Greene and Sartre. In particular, I enjoyed his dissection of existentialist writers like Sartre and their negative view of the world, as a case of experiencing a reduced consciousness. The peak experience on the other hand, is the result of expanded consciousness and can be cultivated successfully. I was fascinated by many of his ideas, like the one that human beings are colonists in the world of matter, like a vanguard sent in to explore this reality. There are fascinating speculations on the nature of time, parallel universes or other dimension and the question of whether we are only dealing with aspects of the human psyche or whether conscious entities are real. The work of scientists like Niels Bohr, David Bohm and Kark Pribram is discussed, including theory of the hologramatic universe. His research is quite rigorous and sometimes the text may appear a bit repetitive as he returns again and again to earlier examples from literature of from real life experiences to make a point or a connection. Ultimately this is necessary for the book to work as well as it does. His conclusion is that the majority of mankind accepts mental stagnation as a norm (ordinary consciousness being stagnation) and makes no effort to build its insights into a pyramid. When this situation changes, humans will enter the next stage of evolution. The book concludes with a vast bibliography and a detailed index. Beyond The Occult remains a stimulating and mind expanding read and I recommend it to all people who are interested in cosmology, consciousness and spirituality.
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