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Learn how to achieve ‘super consciousness’ and help trigger a leap forward in human evolution
A central achievement of the English existential philosopher, critic and novelist Colin Wilson was to empower us to gain understanding of our infinite potential and special place in the universe through an expansion of consciousness.
He also showed how human history has reached the stage at which we can actually choose the direction in which evolution will best take us.
What Wilson was searching for — reflected in a prolific writing career spanning more than half a century — was the means by which, through an elevated consciousness, we could meet our deeply rooted need for transcendence without the use of drugs or other stimulants or the aid of religious institutions, and how we could assist what he saw as an evolutionary momentum towards this goal.
Ever since his first book The Outsider (1956), which has never been out of print, he was sure that humanity was on the point of an evolutionary leap to a higher phase.
Wilson (1931–2013) established himself as a true pioneer in the field of consciousness studies long before the phrase entered…