Colin Wilson

About the Author

COLIN WILSON (1931-2013) burst upon the literary scene in 1956 at the age of 25 with his bestselling book The Outsider. In the course of a remarkable career as an explorer of the human psyche, he wrote on a wide range of subjects – archaeology, astronomy, cosmology, Egyptology, crime and the paranormal – and his books continue to be translated into many different languages.

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Primal Vision & ‘Active Seeing’

By Colin Wilson

From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 9 No 3 (June 2015) It is almost impossible for modern man to understand how he can be ‘blind’. We see what is in front of our noses, and we could not see more […]

Reconstruction of a Neanderthal (credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/erix/143447820)

A Hundred Thousand Year Old Civilisation?

By Colin Wilson

From New Dawn 98 (Sept-Oct 2006) In 1999, I was engaged in pursuing an intriguing little problem. Charles Hapgood, best known as the author of Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings, had died as the result of a car accident […]