Comments on: Mind Parasites by Colin Wilson

By: john

john — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:35:46 +0000

i agree with you, chris… no way for him to dramatize this…

By: chris

chris — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 10:09:13 +0000

A useful thought for those who have read this book and understood the underlying intent –

The Wilson hypothesis is functionally correct, albeit that a physical relocation to space by the parasite-aware combatant is neither of use nor importance.

The technique for mastery lies in the constant practice of objectivity, with the intention of bringing the practitioner into synchronisation with the present moment, where the parasites cannot survive.

I suspect Colin Wilson knew this, but it would never have made as good a read as his very clever denouement.

By: Oleg

Oleg — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 08:45:26 +0000

I also read this book about 20 years ago and was deeply impressed. Great book. It’s very likely seems this book is based on real events, but fictional names. Really amazing book, which fascinating me much.

By: John Darling

John Darling — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:27:11 +0000

This amazing book was recommended to me strongly by Ken Kesey, who was a guest at my house in 1974. It changed my life. It registered in my mind as mythically true, if not actually true. It explained the obvious, that our reach falls far short of our grasp and, sheeplike,we meander off from our godlike potential. But why? What a mystery! Oh, and ‘they’ do watch and notice when we get too energized and hope-fulled by the genius and power in us, and they shower us with what we call depression, self-criticism, self-pity and we get back in the herd. Note what happened with the surge of optimism and vision of the 60s. Why did it crumple?

By: Alice P.

Alice P. — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:47:13 +0000

I’m almost finished reading it,and it is frightening.Well,it was at first.It’s not that I completely got sucked in to it,but I felt mentally and spiritually sucked dry afterwards.A great book,and I will definitely read it again,in some period of time.(I’m 18 now)
And this is one of the rare books that is translated in Latvian surprisingly well !

By: Dahaka

Dahaka — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:57:21 +0000

I read this book about 20 years ago. I took the book store 3 months or so to find and then order the book. It was first published by a little known publisher, which mad it hard to find.

This book scared me so badly, that I thought I had really been taken over (I still ain’t too sure). I tried to read it 15 years later, just to see if it was as real as I remembered. No, I found it was a very different book indeed. Don’t read it twice , I think the truth only needs to be told once SOMETIMES. Besides, THEY don’t want you to really GET IT, because even if you could wrap your mind around it, you would tell others, and then the others may come to understand that
“S–T” DOESN’T ALWAYS JUST HAPPEN. Yea, it was DEEP.

By: Yamii

Yamii — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:31:38 +0000

mmm, I like the way this guy thinks. Theses are the thoughts that contstantly go through my head. I love to see that someone can understand it, where I thought It made no sense to anyone but me.

By: Jeff Lane

Jeff Lane — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 04:25:57 +0000

I read this book in 8th grade and it made such an impact that i have always remembered it. I am 46 now and this is the first mention of the book that I have found since then. I confess I haven`t really been looking allthat hard but it is gratifying to see that my feelings for it are at least somewhat mirrored by others.