The Mind Parasites [Paperback]

Colin Wilson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1990

Wilson has blended H.P. Lovecraft’s dark vision with his own revolutionary philosophy and unique narrative powers to produce a stunning, high-tension story of vaulting imagination. A professor makes a horrifying discovery while excavating a sinister archeological site. For over 200 years, mind parasites have been lurking in the deepest layers of human consciousness, feeding on human life force and steadily gaining a foothold on the planet. Now they threaten humanity’s extinction. They can be fought with one weapon only: the mind, pushed to—and beyond—its limits. Pushed so far that humans can read each other’s thoughts, that the moon can be shifted from its orbit by thought alone. Pushed so that man can at last join battle with the loathsome parasites on equal terms.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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About the Author

British author of THE OUTSIDER and many other books British author of A SECRET HISTORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS and IN SEARCH OF PD OUSPENSKY

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 222 pages
• Publisher: Oneiric Pr (September 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 091472827X
• ISBN-13: 978-0914728276
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,652,082 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent reading, December 23, 2001

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"salexru2000" (Ottawa, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Mind Parasites (Paperback)

Imagination works in strange ways. This book helped me to open some new doors in my mind. And I think it changed also my view on the world.
I've read it several times (at least 3) after some years in between. Even if story loses its novelty, some ideas and thoughts are quite remarkable till this very moment. I would recommend this to any person, which is more or less seriously interested in SF and related imaginative reading.
Currently I have 2 writers on my "top of the pyramid" - polish one Stanislaw Lem and Colin Wilson. Whatever you might think about their literary styles, ideas and stories are remarkable and mind provoking and well worth time spent to read them - even if you will do this several times.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A novel that will change the perspective of the reader, September 2, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: The Mind Parasites (Textbook Binding)

To say 'mind altering' is an honest warning to the reader. A premise that could be a reality to a gripping story, or to a new outlook at Life

17 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Robert Heinlein Without the Sex, March 11, 2002

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Bruce Rux (Aurora, CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Mind Parasites (Paperback)

Wilson almost never writes anything that doesn't revolve around his "Faculty X" theories, and this is no exception. He is a philosopher far more than he is a storyteller, though his novels are generally well worth the read anyway. At his worst, Wilson comes off sounding like a pitch-man for EST - his heroes miraculously become supermen of Herculean mental abilities seemingly by nothing but an act of will, and resort to trickery and ruthlessness to control the masses, lessening their impact as sympathetic characters - but at his best, Wilson sounds a genuine note of hope for human self-improvement.

This was Wilson's first sci-fi effort, and was written more than a third of a century ago, so it has to be cut a certain amount of slack. The basic plot is simple Lovecraft: evil aliens are keeping the human race down, and it's up to the Supermen to save Earth. You've probably read better, but The Mind Parasites is still worth rummaging around the used books bin to find.