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Паразиты сознания. Философский камень. Возвращение ллойгор
Доктор психологии Вайсман погибает в результате трагического несчастного случая.
Его давний знакомый археолог Остин неожиданно для себя получает в наследство результаты научных работ Вайсмана. Остин в недоумении, однако позже выясняется, что раскопки цивилизации хеттов, которыми занимается Остин в Турции, каким-то образом связаны с работами Вайсмана. Вскоре он начинает подозревать, что смерть Вайсмана не была такой уж случайной. Однако чем и кому могли помешать исследования безобидного психолога?
Его давний знакомый археолог Остин неожиданно для себя получает в наследство результаты научных работ Вайсмана. Остин в недоумении, однако позже выясняется, что раскопки цивилизации хеттов, которыми занимается Остин в Турции, каким-то образом связаны с работами Вайсмана. Вскоре он начинает подозревать, что смерть Вайсмана не была такой уж случайной. Однако чем и кому могли помешать исследования безобидного психолога?
640 pages, Hardcover
Published December 1, 2022
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Colin Wilson
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Colin Henry Wilson was born and raised in Leicester, England, U.K. He left school at 16, worked in factories and various occupations, and read in his spare time. When Wilson was 24, Gollancz published The Outsider (1956) which examines the role of the social 'outsider' in seminal works of various key literary and cultural figures. These include Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, William James, T. E. Lawrence, Vaslav Nijinsky and Vincent Van Gogh and Wilson discusses his perception of Social alienation in their work. The book was a best seller and helped popularize existentialism in Britain. Critical praise though, was short-lived and Wilson was soon widely criticized.
Wilson's works after The Outsider focused on positive aspects of human psychology, such as peak experiences and the narrowness of consciousness. He admired the humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow and corresponded with him. Wilson wrote The War Against Sleep: The Philosophy of Gurdjieff on the life, work and philosophy of G. I. Gurdjieff and an accessible introduction to the Greek-Armenian mystic in 1980. He argues throughout his work that the existentialist focus on defeat or nausea is only a partial representation of reality and that there is no particular reason for accepting it. Wilson views normal, everyday consciousness buffeted by the moment, as "blinkered" and argues that it should not be accepted as showing us the truth about reality. This blinkering has some evolutionary advantages in that it stops us from being completely immersed in wonder, or in the huge stream of events, and hence unable to act. However, to live properly we need to access more than this everyday consciousness. Wilson believes that our peak experiences of joy and meaningfulness are as real as our experiences of angst and, since we are more fully alive at these moments, they are more real. These experiences can be cultivated through concentration, paying attention, relaxation and certain types of work.
Colin Henry Wilson was born and raised in Leicester, England, U.K. He left school at 16, worked in factories and various occupations, and read in his spare time. When Wilson was 24, Gollancz published The Outsider (1956) which examines the role of the social 'outsider' in seminal works of various key literary and cultural figures. These include Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, William James, T. E. Lawrence, Vaslav Nijinsky and Vincent Van Gogh and Wilson discusses his perception of Social alienation in their work. The book was a best seller and helped popularize existentialism in Britain. Critical praise though, was short-lived and Wilson was soon widely criticized.
Wilson's works after The Outsider focused on positive aspects of human psychology, such as peak experiences and the narrowness of consciousness. He admired the humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow and corresponded with him. Wilson wrote The War Against Sleep: The Philosophy of Gurdjieff on the life, work and philosophy of G. I. Gurdjieff and an accessible introduction to the Greek-Armenian mystic in 1980. He argues throughout his work that the existentialist focus on defeat or nausea is only a partial representation of reality and that there is no particular reason for accepting it. Wilson views normal, everyday consciousness buffeted by the moment, as "blinkered" and argues that it should not be accepted as showing us the truth about reality. This blinkering has some evolutionary advantages in that it stops us from being completely immersed in wonder, or in the huge stream of events, and hence unable to act. However, to live properly we need to access more than this everyday consciousness. Wilson believes that our peak experiences of joy and meaningfulness are as real as our experiences of angst and, since we are more fully alive at these moments, they are more real. These experiences can be cultivated through concentration, paying attention, relaxation and certain types of work.
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September 28, 2024
It would be better if Mr. Wilson wasn't so full of himself. The other Wilson's books I've read at least had some humor to them, and Robert Anton at least doesn't proselytise so heavy-handedly (as far as I remember, at least). The book might've been twice as short, had someone edited all the preaching out.
- Return of the Lloigor: short and to the point, quite decent Lovecraftian short story (until you learn that the author quite honestly believed in all that)
- Parasites of the Mind: it starts a very good horror, then turns into new age mumbojumbo where the opposition isn't strong at all and totally beatable, you just have to believe in yourself and devote your total attention to the infinite expanse of your mind or something like that. It ends on a happy note of our protagonists defeating the bad guys and flying away in a mind-controlled spaceship towards Pluto. My headcanon is that's where they get eaten (or worse) by the Mi-Go, the book being lovecraftian horror.
- Philosopher's Stone: the better of two. It feels as if some editor went over it, or someone told Mr. Wilson about plot structure. At times still too-positive, but someone (or something?) spun these parts around as *the entities* controlling the protagonist. In all, way more enjoyable (but still too much babble for my liking). I might reread some time later, with the notion of unreliable narrator in mind.
- Return of the Lloigor: short and to the point, quite decent Lovecraftian short story (until you learn that the author quite honestly believed in all that)
- Parasites of the Mind: it starts a very good horror, then turns into new age mumbojumbo where the opposition isn't strong at all and totally beatable, you just have to believe in yourself and devote your total attention to the infinite expanse of your mind or something like that. It ends on a happy note of our protagonists defeating the bad guys and flying away in a mind-controlled spaceship towards Pluto. My headcanon is that's where they get eaten (or worse) by the Mi-Go, the book being lovecraftian horror.
- Philosopher's Stone: the better of two. It feels as if some editor went over it, or someone told Mr. Wilson about plot structure. At times still too-positive, but someone (or something?) spun these parts around as *the entities* controlling the protagonist. In all, way more enjoyable (but still too much babble for my liking). I might reread some time later, with the notion of unreliable narrator in mind.
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