Hello, I just joined the group. My wife got me "Dreaming To Some Purpose" for Christmas.This is a really entertaining book and I'm enjoying reading CW again...
... Welcome, and happy new year to you as well! ... I would be curious to hear more about what you think of this book as you read it. It hasn't been published...
As many of you here already know, I established the first Colin Wilson Web site ever, back in the spring of 1996. In fact, it's still up at the same address,...
Hi John and all, Well, IMO, this Forum "has it all" in terms of providing the public access to information and opinions about Colin Wilson's works and the...
Hi John I tried to have a look at colinwilsonworld.co.uk, but got a 403 error saying I didn't have permission, so I don't know what features that site has that...
John, Now that the holidays are over, I'm slowing trying to catch up with things. I've always thought your Colin Wilson site was excellent and found it very...
A happy new year to all!! A new year and I have been trying to remember in which of his non fiction books Colin Wilson told the story of the vinegar lady in...
Reply to your question, Basil: C.W. mentions the Old Woman in a Vinegar Bottle in his Introduction to Beyond The Outsider.[p18 Barker, 1965] The story was one...
... to ... Wilson tells this story in a few of his non-fiction books and I seem to recall a selection in The Essential Colin Wilson doing so as well. Its first...
... Vinegar ... Egads! You are right, Eric. I was looking at the 1991 reprinting of Beyond The Outsider where Colin gets rid of the earlier introduction for a...
... the ... given ... can ... seem ... well. ... the ... Indifference ... the ... A more interesting question than the origin if the indifference threshold, ...
... way ... discovered ... but ... frustration ... this ... I first came to CW at the age of 25, with "From Atlantis to the Sphinx". At the time I was...
... Dawkins view of Darwinism held by many biologists today. I find it a bit unnerving to consider this possibility; you know, that life and human life in...
[Sorry eric, i cut out your name and post date/time] ... the ... a bit ... human ... life ... the ... same ... [He's ... Wilber ... read ... as if ... ...
... Yikes! I just looked him up on Amazon and he seems almost as prolific as CW himself. Is there a title you (or anyone else?) would recommend to start with?...
... read ... Yes: His 'A Brief History of Everything' has it all! Strangely enough my local Waterstones didn't have a single book by him. He has a brilliant...
So the vinegar lady is out of the bottle and has stimulated introspective ,existenialist musings of paths taken or not taken ,how refreshing! Quo vadis indeed!...
Hi folx, Guess I'll put in my two cents worth about the "Vinegar Lady", the indifference threshhold, etc. The basic precept is age old, and mentioned several...
Bryan, Ericleo, Thanks, I've been enjoying your discussion. I've read my share of Ken Wilber, but I'm not sure I'd really recommend him. His biggest...
Hi Basil, I've never liked the "God is the computer, man is the printout analogy." At the very least, "God is the server, man a smaller computer hooked into...
One person who does seem to have broken through the Indifference Threshold is Ekhardt Tolle, who in "The Power of Now" tells of how he spent two years sitting...
I just checked my mail. And 12 messages from CW group were phenomenal! It seams that this is the kind of interaction that touches a cord in human psyche. A...
Having gone through a long vinegar lady process myself and finding that meditation helps to take the edge off dis-satisfaction I wonder how much the left...
I'd like to say I think this has been one of the best discussions for a while. Having now read "One Taste" by Ken Wilber, and found it interesting, I'd be...
Kyle, I wanted to respond to your comments about "unsatisfiable desires" and "indifference threshholds" because I think they have a great deal of importance...
Thanks Eric, Interesting. You write: " This impossible cannot be achieved through religion (even Buddhism, which in some ways is the perfect ideology of...
Hi Bryan I agree; it has been stimulating so far! I think the term is Neoplatonism for this theory. It diversifies into many esoteric traditions including ...
... Neoplatonism ... including ... their ... mind. ... saying ... can't be ... I have a feeling that the universe is set up in such a way as to prevent us...
John Horgan is writer whose book "Rational Mysticism" presents some interesting theories. There is also a chapter in the book that discusses Ken Wilber, about...
David, You asked me to explain why I thought Buddhism might play an ideological role. I'm certainly not the only one who makes this claim. Consider what Slavoj...
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