4 Books You’ll LOVE If You’ve Read Super Consciousness, by Colin Wilson
Life is like a museum full of beautiful artwork, but our ordinary state of consciousness is like trying to view the museum in the dark
“What I learned from mystics and poets was that ‘everyday consciousness’ is only one of many possible states, and that we become trapped in it by assuming that it is the only kind.”
-Colin Wilson, Super Consciousness
When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Individuals tend to have much greater control over their internal and external circumstances than they believe and, within reason, you can change your moment-by-moment perception of reality by working to strengthen your consciousness.
The way Colin Wilson conceptualizes it in his book, Super Consciousness, is that life is like a vast museum just full of beautiful artwork that we could perceive, but it’s as if we’re trying to see in the dark.
We don’t bring our full mental faculties to the task, and although the brilliant artwork is still there in the dark, we have to “turn on the lights,” so to speak, to be able to see how beautiful life really is or can be.
Every once in a while, however, we are reminded of the literally stunning beauty and wonder of…
