Colin Wilson Dies

Colin Wilson

26th June 1931 - 5th December 2013

This has been a month of multiple bereavements; in fact this is the fourth obituary I've written since early November.

Here are the three others: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/nelson-mandela-dies.html,

And: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/sylvia-browne-dies.html.

And: http://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/brian-branche-tribute-special.html.

Now I'm sad to relate that yet another person has died, this time it's the prolific author and insightful philosopher Colin Wilson, see: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/10504201/Colin-Wilson-obituary.html. He was aged eighty-two. Born in Leicester in 1931 he was a deep thinker from an early age. He wrote his first book at the age of twenty-four and it became a international cult bestseller, since then he has written over a hundred others and became associated with the "Angry Young Men" literary school (See here for background: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/ive-got-banned-book.html). His writings were not only fiction, but philosophical, scientific and mystical works on crime, human nature and the paranormal. What makes him special for me is that I got hold of my first Colin Wilson book by borrowing it from my mother; this is highly unusual because she and I normally had such different interests. The only other example of this rare interaction is Lyall Watson, see: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/lyall-watson.html. The world has lost a brilliant mind and enthralling writer. Rest in Peace.