James Blish in The Spectator advised that ‘anyone wishing to begin reading in this field might well begin with this book (which also contains a good bibliography)’.
In the US, Joyce Carol Oates praised the work as a ‘book of wonders’, recommending it as: ‘one of those rich, strange, perplexing, infinitely surprising works that repay many readings. Though it contains a great deal of history it is really, like most of Colin Wilson’s books, about the future.’ And Clifford P. Bendau, in his book on Wilson’s work, wrote:
The Occult establishes that Wilson has the ability to research and interpret vast quantities of information. It is apparent that he is able to convey consistent and challenging ideas that prod those who are most comfortable with their established beliefs.
The book’s success inspired Wilson’s publishers to commission another, Mysteries: an investigation into the occult, the paranormal and the supernatural, an equally bulky tome, which appeared in 1978, and then a third, ten years later, Beyond the Occult, which summed up his twenty years of research into the subject. The three books amount to a monumental 1,600 pages and also spawned many ephemeral popular illustrated spin-offs – too numerous to mention here individually – but listed entirely in my guide to his ‘Occult Trilogy’ published by Axis Mundi in 2013.
According to Wilson, the reviews ‘had a serious and respectful tone that I hadn’t heard since The Outsider’ and in his 2003 Introduction to the Watkins reprint, he wrote:
But for me, The Occult did a great deal more than make me ‘respectable’, it also served as a kind of awakening. Before 1970, I had been inclined to dismiss ‘the occult’ as superstitious nonsense. Writing The Occult made me aware that the paranormal is as real as quantum physics (and, in fact, has a great deal in common with it), and that anyone who refuses to take it into account is simply shutting his eyes to half the universe.
Colin Stanley is author of The Colin Wilson Bibliography, 1956–2010; Colin Wilson’s ‘Outsider Cycle’: A guide for students; Colin Wilson’s ‘Occult Trilogy’: A guide for students; and Colin Wilson’s Existential Literary Criticism: A guide for students.
He has edited Around the Outsider: Essays presented to Colin Wilson on the occasion of his 80th birthday and Colin Wilson, a Celebration: Essays and recollections. He edits the series ‘Colin Wilson Studies’, which features essays on Wilson’s work by scholars worldwide.
He has written Introductions to new editions of four of Colin Wilson’s novels: Ritual in the Dark, The Man Without a Shadow, The Philosopher’s Stone and Necessary Doubt.
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この本はLondon のCamden Hall で３日間にわたって行なわれた講演をまとめた英文の書“The Meaning of Life from a Buddhist Perspective”の訳本です。原書にない翻訳者の詳細な注が、ダライラマ本人の話に勝るとも劣らない丁寧な解説で、仏教の初学者には理解の助けになります。また、日本人向けの内容として、翻訳者とのインタビューをもとにした章が新たに付け加えられています。この意味では、原書を超える内容になっています。ただし、原書と比較してみると、挿絵はすべて差し替えられおり、特に、カラーのものは原書の方が鮮明です。ダライラマが口語で話している部分が文語に書き換えられ、彼の喋ったジョークや講演が行なわれた日付けが省略されています。章の分け方も原文とことなります。また、残念ながら、質疑応答の部分がすべて削除されています。よって、原書の忠実な翻訳とはいえません。ダライラマの研究者には、英文原書をあたる必要があります。
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