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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 best-selling psychic investigator. 15,000 first printing. Tour.
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Colin Wilson became a literary phenomenon at the age of twenty-five when his novel The Outsider became a worldwide bestseller. He has since written over eighty books on a wide variety of subjects. He lives in Cornwall, England.
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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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- PublisherFromm Intl
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0880642599
- ISBN 13 9780880642590
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages352
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