Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1983

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Pearce, Howard D.

Abstract

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.

Extent

62 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1983.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FADT14181

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