Alien Dawn: An Investigation into the Contact Experience - Hardcover

Wilson, Colin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0880642262 ISBN 13: 9780880642262

Publisher: Fromm Intl, 1998

Synopsis

An overview of unexplained phenomena, from UFO abductions and poltergeists to legendary monsters and the insights of mysticism, offers scientifically rigorous research on the subject, from a psychic investigator

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About the Author

Colin Wilson burst upon the scene when he was twenty-five, when his first book, The Outsider, became a worldwide bestseller. He has written on a wide range of subjects, including archaeology, astronomy, and cosmology. He lives in Cornwall, England.

From Publishers Weekly

In over 80 books, Wilson (From Atlantis to the Sphinx) has reported on a wide variety of alternate realities involving crime, sex and the occult, all based on the underlying premise that our everyday consciousness is meager compared with powers potentially available to us. This attempt at a synthesis of the alien/UFO phenomenon shows Wilson's encyclopedic strength to be also his weakness. In his zeal for inclusiveness, he reports not only on the history of UFOs from mythology through Kenneth Arnold to Philip Corso (The Day After Roswell), but also writes about Uri Geller, LSD research, crop circles, ley lines, the Loch Ness monster, remote viewing, Jung, hypnotism, poltergeists, Ouspensky, out-of-body experiences, quantum physics and a great deal more. There is little new here: much of the book is composed of unfootnoted second- and third-hand accounts of UFOs, alien encounters and (perhaps) related phenomena drawn from other sources, resulting in an unfocused catalogue of anecdotes, the larger import of which is rarely assessed. Periodically Wilson asks, as if talking to himself: "What, then, are we to make of it all?" At times he finds unbelievability a plus: after all, if someone were simply fabricating a story, wouldn't they make it more plausible? By the time readers reach the chapter titled "Oh no, not again!" the phrase has an unintended inflection. In the end, Wilson seems to regard aliensAwhatever they areAas agents in the transformation of human consciousness, but he provides little solid support for, or elucidation of, such a hypothesis. Eight pages of photos.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Fromm Intl
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0880642262
• ISBN 13: 9780880642262
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 322