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Latest News The Paupers’ Press website has moved to this location Colin has kindly sent me Super Consciousness to read ahead of publication. It is a very powerful condensation of all his important ideas and is highly recommended, even as an introduction to his work. The opening sentence sums up the book: “I am now 75, and most of my life has been devoted to a search for what might be called the mechanisms of the Peak Experience', or ‘power-consciousness.’ This book might be regarded as a kind of DIY manual of how to achieve it.” He has also completed Will Shakespeare’s Hand and “version of Space Vampires 2” - a sequel to his 1976 novel. He comments: “I think it one of my most important novels as far as ideas are concerned.” Relevant materials to both books are on the “New Works” page.  Listed on Amazon U.K. but not out until next year, Super Consciousness: The Quest for the Peak Experience, The blurb for the book states: “Throughout history there have been references and examples in literature, art and philosophy of an increased awareness of life while under the influence of extreme emotions - these have become known as Peak Experiences. Soon after Colin Wilson became aware of this phenomena in the 1960s he wondered about its history and how its power could be harnessed, thus began a 40 year investigation. In "SUPER CONSCIOUSNESS" we see how such luminaries as Yeats, Blake, Satre, Nietzsche and Robert Graves were all effected by PE's and how on the opposite side it has long been noted that we are least insightful when we are at our lowest ebb. By looking in detail through the different areas where this phenomena has occurred and offering anecdotes and examples of how many people in history (as well as himself) were effected Wilson reveals a pattern of insight with emotions. He ends the book with an instructional section on achieving power consciousness for yourself.” • Paperback: 272 pages • Publisher: Watkins Publishing (15 Mar 2009) • ISBN-10: 1905857985 • ISBN-13: 978-1905857982 There’s some rare footage of C.W. at YouTube on the Links page. Unfortunately 99% of it is in either Japanese or Italian - beggars can’t be choosers, I guess.... Colin Stanley will be addressing the Lowdham Book Festival on the topic 'Colin Wilson: the Outsider and Beyond' at 4.15 on Saturday June 28th. The event is free. More info from: www.lowdhambookfestival.co.uk New Book! “The Death of God and other plays” is now published by Paupers: Colin Wilson Studies number 14. 475 pages, RRP £17.95. A very important archival tome, including introductions by Editor Colin Stanley on the genesis of the project and Mr. Wilson himself on his play-writing ambitions... Buy it here The Pauper’s blurb states: Eagerly awaited by Wilson scholars and fans, this is to be a collection of four previously unpublished plays with an introduction by the author. The plays are: •The Death of God •Necessary Doubt •Mysteries •The Metal Flower Blossom The Death of God and The Metal Flower Blossom were both written in the 1950’s, at the beginning of Wilson’s writing career; the former at the request of George Devine, then Director of The Royal Court Theatre. Necessary Doubt was written for television and then turned into a novel, of the same title, which was published in 1964. Mysteries was penned in 1979 and introduces Wilson’s Inspector Saltfleet (from The Schoolgirl Murder Case) to the stage. This play was later adapted into the 1984 novel The Janus Murder Case. ISBN: 9780946650934 Limited edition of 100 numbered copies. To reserve your copy write to: Colin Stanley, Paupers’ Press, 37 Quayside Close, Trent Bridge, Nottingham NG2 3BP, United Kingdom or email: stan2727uk@aol.com Colin Wilson podcasts now on ITunes New sections added: A C.W. Podcast - a first I think - of Colin speaking about Whitehead versus Derrida and Hume, the “billiard table of philosophy”, the bicameral mind, the bird’s eye view and the nature of inspiration, amongst other things. Also added is a text interview where Colin discusses Nietzsche, deconstruction, The Situationist Guy Debord, William Burroughs, the obscurer-than thou Juan Butler, media sage Marshall McLuhan, Lautreamont’s Maldoror, Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion and the troubled history of The Gates of Janus amongst other things. Drama From Paupers: The ever industrious Colin Stanley will be publishing Colin Wilson’s Strindberg (A play in two scenes) on May 14th, price £9.95. This has been O.O.P. for several decades, and includes a new intro by C.W. Abraxas Unbound New book of essays: Abraxas Unbound: “Colin Wilson and The Big Idea” is published by Paul Newman. It’s here Colin Stanley has updated his Colin Wilson bibliography: Colin Wilson, the first fifty years: an existential bibliography, 1956-2005 by Colin Stanley The long-awaited second edition of Colin Stanley's The Work of Colin Wilson: an annotated bibliography and guide, features: * Details of all 169 published books by the author. * 546 of his published articles. * 317 book reviews. * Over 300 books and articles about his work. * 1500 reviews of his books. * Lists of his television and radio appearances. * A comprehensive index and chronology. Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of The Outsider; there will be a numbered edition of just 100 copies. ISBN: 0-946650-89-6 ISSN: 0959-180X Paperback; 506 pages Price: £24.95 (including post to the UK). Note: Colin has sent me an essay on Whitehead and Existentialism which was originally published in a Japanese magazine. Here is a snippet: Where philosophy is concerned, Whitehead explains, he is a Realist. He does not believe that half the external world is somehow the creation of our own minds: ‘Thus the bodies are perceived as with qualities which in reality do not belong to them, qualities which in fact are purely the offspring of the mind.’ And he adds ironically: ‘Thus nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent: the nightingale for his song: and the sun for his radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves, and should turn them into odes of self-congratulation on the excellency of the human mind. Nature is a dull affair, soundless, scentless, colorless, merely the hurrying of material, endlessly, meaninglessly.’ Later, there’s a quotation from a C.S. Lewis novel, The Shoddy Lands: ‘I felt as if I had suddenly been banished from the real, bright, concrete and prodigally complex world into some sort of second-rate universe that had been put together on the cheap’. http://www.stormloader.com/users/pauper/http://www.amazon.co.uk/Super-Consiousness-Quest-Peak-Experience/dp/1905857985/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219769271&sr=1-7http://web.mac.com/philco1/iWeb/Colin%20Wilson/Links.htmlhttp://www.lowdhambookfestival.co.ukhttp://www.stormloader.com/users/pauper/mailto:stan2727uk@aol.comhttp://www.lulu.com/content/540604http://www3.sympatico.ca/rlubbock/ANW.htmlhttp://cslewis.drzeus.net/shapeimage_3_link_0shapeimage_3_link_1shapeimage_3_link_2shapeimage_3_link_3shapeimage_3_link_4shapeimage_3_link_5shapeimage_3_link_6shapeimage_3_link_7shapeimage_3_link_8
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