![]() He also wrote a markedly unsympathetic biography of Crowley, Aleister Crowley: The Nature of the Beast, and has written biographies on other spiritual and psychological visionaries, including Gurdjieff, Carl Jung, Wilhelm Reich, Rudolf Steiner, and P. In 1971, he published The Occult: A History, featuring interpretations on Aleister Crowley, George Gurdjieff, Helena Blavatsky, Kabbalah, primitive magic, Franz Mesmer, Grigori Rasputin, Daniel Dunglas Home, and Paracelsus (among others). By the late 1960s Wilson had become increasingly interested in metaphysical and occult themes. ![]() ![]() Time magazine published a review, headlined "Scrambled Egghead", that pilloried the book. Critics on the left swiftly labeled them as fascist commentator Kenneth Allsop called them "the law givers".Īfter the initial success of Wilson's first work, critics universally panned Religion and the Rebel (1957). Some viewed Wilson and his friends Bill Hopkins and Stuart Holroyd as a sub-group of the "Angries", more concerned with "religious values" than with liberal or socialist politics. ![]() ![]() He contributed to Declaration, an anthology of manifestos by writers associated with the movement, and wrote a popular paperback sampler, Protest: The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men. Wilson became associated with the "Angry Young Men" of British literature. ![]()
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