• Colin Wilson (1931-2013)

    Today I (and others, of course) received from Colin Wilson’s friend and sometime publisher Colin Stanley, Managing Editor of the English publisher Paupers’ Press, an email that said, in part: “Dear All “It is with great sadness that I have to inform you all that Colin died last night at 11.45pm; in hospital, peacefully with…

  • Colin Wilson’s huge early influence on me

    News of Colin’s passing sends me back not to the friendship we began in 1995 but to the very early days, when he didn’t know I was on Earth, but changed my life. I wrote about it in my book Muddy Tracks:

  • Colin and Joy and friend, 1995

    My friend Sandra Martin, at the time a New York literary agent, knowing of my admiration for Colin Wilson, invited me to meet him and his wife Joy at a party. So I took the train up to New York (spending the time re-reading the Mind Parasites) and indeed we met and hit it off…

  • Damon Wilson: An End

    My friend Damon Wilson, Colin Wilson’s son, tells me that he is writing a book, to be titled An End to Murder, that incorporates his father’s last hundred pages of original writing. It looks at why humans are so violent — and why the violent crime rate has dropped so dramatically, worldwide, in the last…

  • The Times of London obit for Colin Wilson

    Colin Stanley kindly sent me a copy of the obituary for Colin Wilson published by The Times of London. No surprise, they provide only a superficial and condescending view of his life’s work. It says he was “at home to a trickle of visitors who had not forgotten who he was,” implying that he was…

  • Daydreaming and lasting memories

    From http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-athletes-way/201312/how-does-daydreaming-help-form-long-lasting-memories How Does Daydreaming Help Form Long Lasting Memories? Scientists discover why taking a smartphone break could improve your memory. Published on December 7, 2013 by Christopher Bergland in The Athlete’s Way 5 inShare Researchers in Germany have found that when the human brain is in a resting state—like daydreaming or mind wandering—that patterns…

  • Colin Wilson’s unforgivable sin

    I was sitting  just now, reading Colin’s much derided science-fiction novel The Space Vampires, admiring how he was weaving into the plot information (specifically, Lethbridge’s dowsing materials) that he had learned and written about. Suddenly I realized what it is about his work that divides people so. More than most authors, he had – has,…

  • Colin Wilson’s Foreword to Muddy Tracks

    When an author is as prolific of Forewords and Prefaces and Introductions as Colin Wilson was, you can bet that sooner or later at least some of them will be collected and republished together, because they often shine as much light on his own ideas as on the books they introduce. Certainly that’s true for…

  • Supersoul

      Very intelligent book. Christmas came early. In the mail from England I received a copy from the author of this brand new book called Supersoul, and what a treat it is. He reasons, he analyzes, he compares, and he brings his own experiences into the mix. A special treat for me, as it is…

  • New Dawn article on the year ahead

    For this year’s issue, as for last year’s, New Dawn asked a few people for a few hundred words on the year ahead.  My crystal ball is pretty cloudy, because the guys upstairs taught me a long time ago that we can’t reliably predict the future because there isn’t any “the” future, but a wilderness…