Colin Wilson Atlantis to the Sphinx 

RIP Colin, your books have meant more to me than any other single writer. Thanks

Colin Wilson passed away December 5th 2013, after a long, fruitful life. May your work continue to inspire.

Man, I was already hooked, but then around 26 minutes he brought up John Anthony West. I actually had shivers down my back. RIP West and Wilson. And for that matter, RA Wilson, Fuller, Watts, Leary, Lilly, Jung, Tolkien, Nietzsche...

Found in my collection: Poetry and mysticism after decades on dusted shelves, and enjoyed every line. Great mind. We'll remember you...writer, philosopher..

I love you Colin. Long live the king

For all intents and purposes this video should have millions of views. Hmmm.....

I have just discovered your work, thank you very much...R.I.P

Thank you for wisdom shared.

Colin could have mentioned the noise on the background at 7.50 where someone doesn't have a peak expirience. I agree that a beautiful mind will be missed.

Just discovered this gem. I bought 5 of his books... Looking forward.

Thanks so much. Its a great talk.

Great to find this.

I saw 'Mysteries' at my local book store and didn't buy it because I never heard of Colin Wilson before. I thought he was another hack author that added random crap into a book without doing research just to make money. Several months later I started to read 'Alien Dawn' and was so impressed by how the author was describing everything they had done and all the research materials they got their information from. I read 'Alien Dawn' almost over night because it got straight to the point without crazy nonsense which is what I like. Little did I remember that Colin Wilson was also the same author of the 'Mysteries' book I saw at the store and felt ashamed I judged the book without giving it a chance. Since then, I have bought literally every Colin WIlson book and read four of those books so far. It truly blows my mind that his name is not brought up more in current 'new age' or 'mystery' podcasts/tv shows/lectures/etc. because I feel like his books are more like textbooks to these subjects and laid the foundation going forward for a lot of people in those fields.

What were those last two books he quoted at the very end?

"Voyage To A Beginning" is the book to understand Wilson.

the imagination and articulation of the will is the 'technique' to achieve peak experience, or anything actually.

A tremendous mind. Brilliant writer. A great loss to our world. Who is his peer nowadays???

Why they didn't ask him if the story of "The Man from Taured" was a fiction or not in his book “ The directory of possibilities” ?

Sheldrake's idea of morphic resonance probably was adopted from Wilson

As above so below

Anybody catch the word he uses at 1:22:35-1:22:45?

he would have appreciated morphic resonance,Rupert Sheldrake

This was an excellent lecture, and Colin Wilson is a treasure. It's disappointing that it isn't about Atlantis or the Sphinx at all. Just saying.

ping pong lecture

regarding Jung..check out Alan Watts on gurus as charlatans, selling water by the river .

This is where Wilson goes off the rails - believing first-hand accounts of paranormal experiences and extending an otherwise interesting worldview to cover it. Crazy, and a pity for his legacy.