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A Secret History of Consciousness

A Secret History of Consciousness( )
Author: Lachman, Gary
Introduction by: Wilson, Colin
ISBN:978-1-58420-011-6
Publication Date:Jan 2003
Publisher:SteinerBooks, Incorporated
Imprint:Lindisfarne Books
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $19.95
Book Description:

An exciting contemporary thinker considers what consciousness is like and how it can be achieved. Traces the development of consciousness from the late nineteenth century onwards, including Ouspensky, Steiner, Bergson and Barfield.

Book Details
Pages:280
Detailed Subjects: Philosophy / Mind & Body
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.084 x 9.126 Inches
Book Weight:0.468 Pounds
Author Biography
Lachman, Gary (Author)
Colin Wilson was born on June 26, 1931 in Leicester, England. He attended a local technical school, where he did well in physics and chemistry, and left at 16 to work in a wool factory. Before becoming a writer, he worked as a laboratory assistant, tax clerk, laborer and hospital porter.

His first book, The Outsider, was published in 1956 when he was 24 years old. During his lifetime, he wrote more than 100 works on a wide variety of subjects including philosophy, religion, occult and supernatural phenomenea, music, sex, crime and critical theory. His other works include Religion and the Rebel, The Age of Defeat, Ritual in the Dark, The Strength to Dream, Origins of the Sexual Impulse, The Occult, Alien Dawn, Dreaming to Some Purpose, The Angry Years: The Rise and Fall of the Angry Young Men, and Super Consciousness. His biographies include works on Bernard Shaw, David Lindsay, Herman Hesse, Wilhelm Reich, Jorge Luis Borges, Ken Russell, Rudolph Steiner, Aleister Crowley, and P. D. Ouspensky. Wilson died on December 5, 2013 at the age of 82.

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