Gary Lachman is one of my favourite writers on the history and philosophies of esotericism (and we’re lucky enough to have him contribute here at the Grail periodically on his personal blog). So I really enjoyed sitting down and watching this recent talk Gary gave at Watkins Books in London about his latest book Beyond the Robot: The Life and Work of Colin Wilson. It’s got a lovely ‘up-close’ personal feel to it, as if I was sitting on a folding chair in the front row listening to Gary chat about things.
Gary Lachman, Wilson’s friend and biographer, discusses his new book, Beyond the Robot: The Life and Work of Colin Wilson, and take the audience on a tour of Wilson’s central ideas.
2016 marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of the existential classic The Outsider, the book that in 1956 threw its twenty-four year old author, Colin Wilson, into fame and achieved worldwide success. Between then and his death in 2013, Wilson wrote an enormous number of books exploring the edgier areas of human psychology – such as his groundbreaking history The Occult (1971) – with gripping analyses of sexuality, criminality, consciousness, the paranormal, and mystical experience, as well as novels like Ritual in the Dark, The Mind Parasites, and The Space Vampires.
You can grab a copy of Beyond the Robot: The Life and Work of Colin Wilson via Amazon US or Amazon UK.
Related: An Excerpt from Beyond the Robot: The Life and Work of Colin Wilson
