{"id":6158,"date":"2013-12-07T20:58:38","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T03:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6158"},"modified":"2013-12-07T20:59:25","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T03:59:25","slug":"colin-wilson-1951-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6158","title":{"rendered":"Colin Wilson 1951\u20132013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PowXhSHysR8\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A prolific writer on mysticism and the paranormal, among other things, the English author <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colin_Wilson\">Colin Wilson<\/a> has passed on. In the video (audio recording, really) he discusses some of his work and personal experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prolific writer on mysticism and the paranormal, among other things, the English author Colin Wilson has passed on. In the video (audio recording, really) he discusses some of his work and personal experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,226,227,12],"class_list":["post-6158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-england","tag-mysticism","tag-paranormal","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1Bk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13740,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=13740","url_meta":{"origin":6158,"position":0},"title":"&#8216;The Super Natural,&#8217; or How to Write about &#8216;Woo&#8217;","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"September 5, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"I blogged here before about things disappearing in my house \u2014\u00a0kitchen utensils, corkscrews, keys, etc. (See \"Pixie Problems, or Working Things Out with the 'Cousins' (1)\" and Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.) Things have been better since then. There is a pentagram pendant that has disappeared and re-appeared\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"academia\"","block_context":{"text":"academia","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=academia"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/communion.webp?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":873,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=873","url_meta":{"origin":6158,"position":1},"title":"Wicca and Christianity","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"May 10, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I have not yet seen it, but English scholar Jo Pearson has a new book, Wicca and the Christian Heritage. Amazon-UK link here.From the publisher's catalog:What is Wicca? Is it witchcraft, Paganism, occultism, esotericism, magic, spirituality, mysticism, nature religion, secrecy, gnosis, the exotic or 'other'? Wicca has been defined by\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Christianity\"","block_context":{"text":"Christianity","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=christianity"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1215,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1215","url_meta":{"origin":6158,"position":2},"title":"Gallimaufry with Bison","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"October 6, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"\u2022 I have been traveling--and writing about it at the other blog. So for now, some links.\u2022 Raw food and Linux: Interview with two Pagans. 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Here is the last, apparently, on Wicca without the \"woo\": It\u2019s probably not possible for Wicca to renounce the culture of woo.\u00a0 But an atheistic nature-religion in the United States\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"American religion\"","block_context":{"text":"American religion","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=american-religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13414,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=13414","url_meta":{"origin":6158,"position":5},"title":"Bigfoot on the High Wire?","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"June 13, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Everything is paranormal these days. Even Stormy Daniels, the porn actress whom Donald Trump made famous, also bills herself as a paranomal investigator and medium. (\"How to arouse a ghost\"?) Driving past a shopping mall parking lot last week, I saw an assortment of new-looking trailers and motorhomes and circus\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"North America\"","block_context":{"text":"North America","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=north-america"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/paranormal-girl-240x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6159,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158\/revisions\/6159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}