Buy this book on-line WILSON**, COLIN: : MYSTERIES - An investigation into the occult,the paranormal and the supernaturalLONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,1978. ISBN 0340161612
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Wilson found himself in the autumn of 1973, on the edge of a nervous breakdown, from overwork.During the "panic attacks" which lasted for several months (and usually occurred during the night) he discovered he could fore-stall trouble by a deliberate attempt to evoke a "higher level" of his personality, which he nick-named "the schoolmistress".These experiences strengthened a developing conviction,since writing THE OCCULT in late 60's,that we possess not merely one "self" but a whole heirarchy of "selves", arranged in the form of a ladder,and that all so-called "paranormal powers" emanate from these higher levels of human consciousness.He found confirmation of the lower levels of the "ladder" in many case histories of "multiple personality",in which disturbed patients have split into several apparently independent human beings.
MYSTERIES is an attempt to write the PRINCIPIA of psychic science,to explain all paranormal phenomena from dowsing to demonic possession,from precognition to Uri Geller's metal bending,in terms of this theory of man's "multiple personality".A long section devoted to the extraordinary discoveries of TOM LETHBRIDGE,the Cambridge don who came to believe that the dowser's pendulum could reveal the mysteries of life after death and the secrets of the great stone megaliths.
There are detailed studies of hauntings, possession and "demonic hypnosis",and also of magic,the KABBALA and astrology.A fascinating section on the "Great Secret" of the alchemists,which WILSON sees as the key to the mystery of the "ladder of selves".This startling and long awaited sequel to THE OCCULT shows the author at his provocative,wide-ranging best.
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