Colin Wilson's 'Occult Trilogy': A Guide For Students - Plot & Excerpts
Putnam’s Sons in the US shortly afterwards. The Occult, a book of over 600 pages, Wilson’s first commissioned work, was so successful that the publishers requested a sequel. He responded with a book of even greater length which, like its predecessor, was divided into three parts preceded by an Introduction.This Introduction, ‘The Ladder of Selves’, contains some important insights and, indeed, was included by Wilson in The Essential Colin Wilson (London: Harrap, 1985) and also re-issued as an e-book The Ladder of Selves and The Search for Power Consciousness (Berkeley, CA: Maurice Bassett) in 2002. It commences with Wilson recounting a series of ‘panic attacks’ that he suffered in the mid-1970s and the steps he took to overcome them, providing yet another example of Wilson’s use of personal experience to elucidate his ideas:‘The panic …was caused by a lower level of my being, an incompetent and childish ‘me’. As long as I identified with this ‘me’, I was in danger.
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