Colin Wilson | The Sun Magazine

Colin Wilson

Colin Wilson is the author of The Outsider and forty-five other books. His most recent book is The Criminal History of Mankind (Putnam).

— From November 1984
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Peak Experience

The problem has to do with our senses, and with the curiously impoverished view of reality that we hold. . . . Wine, mescalin, pot — all these chemical ways of solving the problem tend to let us down half the time

November 1984
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