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1988).
    References:
Around the Outsider: essays presented to Colin Wilson on the occasion of his eightieth birthday (edited by Colin Stanley).Winchester: O-Books, 2011.
Dossor, Howard F.: Colin Wilson: the man and his mind .Shaftesbury: Element Books, 1989.
Gardner, Martin: On the Wild Side .Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1992.
Wilson, Colin (1): Beyond the Occult .London: Watkins Publishing, 2008.
Wilson, Colin (2): Beyond the Outsider .London: Arthur Barker Limited, 1965.
Wilson, Colin (3): Dreaming to Some Purpose .London: Century, 2004.
Wilson, Colin (4): The Mind Parasites .New York: Monkfish Book Publishing Company, 2005.(This edition contains a new Preface by Wilson-scholar Gary Lachman and a new Afterword by Wilson himself.)
    Bibliographical details:
    Beyond the Occult.
a.London, New York: Bantam Press, 1988, 381 p., cloth.
b.London: Guild Publishing, 1989, 381 p., cloth.
c.London: Corgi Books, 1989, 524 p., paper.
d.New York: Carroll & Graf, 1991, 381 p., paper.
e.[Japanese edition] Tokyo: Atelier Teyotl, 1993, 549 p., cloth.ISBN: 4-89342-189-1.
f.London: Caxton Editions, 2002, 381 p., cloth.
g.London: Watkins Publishing, 2008, [xxxvii, 505 p.], xxxvii, 524 p., paper.[Contains a new 21-page Introduction by Wilson]
h.[Russian edition].Kharkiv, Ukraine: nk, 2005, 478 p., cloth.[ISBN 966-343-116-4]
    ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS:
    Part 1: Hidden Powers.
    Introduction: Why man has lost his ‘occult faculties’.How to gain control of our ‘hidden powers’.Chapter 1: Mediums and Mystics.Lawrence Lesham studies Eileen Garrett.Mystical experiences.P.D.Ouspensky’s experiences.The mind’s inability to grasp reality.Anne Bancroft’s experience.Split-brain psychology.Mathematical prodigy.Chapter 2: The Other Self.Thomson Jay Hudson.The subjective and objective minds.The Laurel and Hardy theory of consciousness.The ‘Robot’ and negative feedback.Pessimistic philosophies.The importance of ‘attention’.Wilson’s own attempts to raise his consciousness.Chapter 3: Down the Rabbit Hole.Arnold Toynbee’s ‘visions’.‘Faculty X’and Proust.Sartre and ‘nausea’.‘Upside-downness’.Chapter 4: The Informative Universe.‘Time-slips’.The ‘tape-recording’ theory.Psychometry.Dowsing.Is reality ‘out-there’?The hologramatic universe.David Bohm’s theory of reality as ‘implicate order’.Chapter 5: Intrusions?Hypnagogic states.Rudolf Steiner, Carl Jung and ‘occult’ phenomena.Synchronicity.Can the human mind ‘make things happen’?Chapter 6: Memories of the Future.Precognitive dreams.Time.J.W.Dunne.J.B.Priestley’s theories of time.Is the future predetermined?Glimpses of the future.The paradoxes of quantum physics.Time-slips.Do human beings possess freedom?Chapter 7: Minds Without Bodies?Out-of-body experiences.
    Part 2: Powers of Good and Evil.
    Chapter 1: The Search for Evidence.Multiple personality.Spiritualism.Poltergeists.Chapter 2: The Truth about Magic.Allan Kardec.Spirit healers.Guy Playfair’s investigation.Witchcraft—Wilson’s assessment of Stan Gooch’s theories.Chapter 3: The World of Spirits.Ghosts.Spirit possession.Multiple personality.Chapter 4: Visions.Eileen Garrett.Daskalos.Chapter 5: Completing the Picture.The leakage of energy.Freedom and the ‘Peak Experience’.Sex and the ‘Peak Experience’.The problem of ‘upside-downness’.The concept of ‘completing’.Development of the ‘completing’ faculty.Chapter 6: Towards the Unknown Region.The ‘connectedness’ of everything.The 7 levels of consciousness.Psychic powers are evidence of man’s evolutionary potential.
    Bibliography.Index.
    COMMENTS:
    Although this book, designed to bring together all of Wilson’s twenty years of research into the paranormal, is largely repetitive, it does contain some of his most profound work to date.The final two chapters are particularly important.Wilson introduces us to the concept of ‘upside-downness’—the tendency toallow negative emotional judgments to usurp objective rational