Colin Wilson

The Ideal Is Not The Real

The rational-purposeful mind is a ‘blocker’, not an opener (or facilitator). It shuts doors rather than opening them (which is what it implicitly claims to do). The rational-purposeful mind blocks everything that doesn’t fit into its format, anything that doesn’t agree with its taken-for-granted picture…

Melessness

If we were to ask what the key characteristic of the process (or flow) of life was, one answer would be “the lack of any me, the lack of any defined self or identity”. This is actually a tautological answer since we are really only…