The Occult by Colin Wilson6/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Wilson can be credited with putting together a clear/concise effort to try to. In this episode, JF and Phil discuss Wilson's concept of Faculty X as elaborated in his monumental 1971 work, The Occult. Philosophy of the occult Partially magic is the wonder of the uninformed viewer. For Wilson, magic isn't the living fossil the arch-rationalists would like it to be, but a "science of the future." Faculty X is an evolutionary power, innately positive, inseparable from the will to live and the unshakeable conviction that, somehow, this world has some real, ineffable meaning. International Bestseller: The essential guidebook to the history of magic and occultismthe most interesting, informative, and thought-provoking book on the occult (The Sunday Telegraph) Colin Wilson’s great classic work is a comprehensive history of mystery and magic. At its simplest, what Colin Wilson calls Faculty X is "simply that latent power in human beings possess to reach beyond the present." Yet its existence is evinced in all those phenomena that modernity files under "supernatural" or "occult." As difficult to explain as it is impossible to omit from any honest survey of human existence, the occult haunts the modern, not just as a vestige of the past but also, perhaps, as a promise from a time to come. Twenty years after writing The occult, Colin Wilson re-examines the whole spectrum of the mystical and paranormal, producing a general occult theory. ![]()
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