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COLIN WILSON AND THE SEXUAL MYSTIQUE

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1983
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Sexuality, for Colin Wilson, is a means for man to reexperience his godliness. Wilson's personal development went from a naive study of science, to nihilistic literature, and emerged as mystical wonder at the world itself. His view of sexuality paralleled his intellectual growth, as the alienated adolescent sought transcendent meaning in the disturbing pangs of puberty. The Bhagavad Gita was a major influence on Wilson, introducing sexuality in the East as a religious and scientific symbol of masculine and feminine universal principles striving to reunite. He was then able to resolve the inconsistencies between science, mysticism, and sexuality. Quantum theory of wave; particle duality, and the silent rhythms of the DNA code, are both reflected in the sexual act committed with transcendent consciousness. The one is simultaneously the many, in a cosmic dance in which it meets itself.
Title: COLIN WILSON AND THE SEXUAL MYSTIQUE.
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Name(s): LEWIN, DOROTHY MAY.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Pearce, Howard D., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1983
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 62 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Sexuality, for Colin Wilson, is a means for man to reexperience his godliness. Wilson's personal development went from a naive study of science, to nihilistic literature, and emerged as mystical wonder at the world itself. His view of sexuality paralleled his intellectual growth, as the alienated adolescent sought transcendent meaning in the disturbing pangs of puberty. The Bhagavad Gita was a major influence on Wilson, introducing sexuality in the East as a religious and scientific symbol of masculine and feminine universal principles striving to reunite. He was then able to resolve the inconsistencies between science, mysticism, and sexuality. Quantum theory of wave; particle duality, and the silent rhythms of the DNA code, are both reflected in the sexual act committed with transcendent consciousness. The one is simultaneously the many, in a cosmic dance in which it meets itself.
Identifier: 14181 (digitool), FADT14181 (IID), fau:10993 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1983.
Subject(s): Wilson, Colin,--1931---Criticism and interpretation
Sex in literature
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