One Long Peak Experience & Designing Our Hereinafter Poem by Margaret Alice

Peak Experience

Colin Wilson says “We apply our sense of
long-term purpose only to our physical life,
not to mental life at all – we became Lord of
Civilization while mentally still caught

in the world of Ecclesiastes; we climb the highest
mountains and explore all wilderness; but in
consciousness we have not ventured beyond
our own backyard; when change of consciousness

is required, we pour some vodka - or watch the
Rugby Cup Final, accepting peak experiences
as some kind of pleasantry - instead of realizing
its implication: All of life could be one, long

peak experience – yet when we reach the top of
a hill, we admire the view, then turn around and
descend again, instead of scaling the mountain
beyond; we accept mental stagnation as the norm

of ordinary consciousness – and never attempt
to build our insights into a pyramid of wisdom
for reaching utter and complete happiness! ”


Designing Our Own Hereinafter

We are free to invent and
design our own purpose and
meaning in life; Buddhist,
Roman Catholic, Jew and
Christian; all designing our
own Hereinafter - each one
as valid as the other; I study
all so as to choose the most
beautiful, the most noble and
enchanting (according to my
own definition) , the most
honourable, the highest
integrity and most wonderful
realisation of Hope and Love;
combining the best of everything
in my own super-system; we
are free to design what we
wish for; I strive for more
knowledge to create the best
I can think of!


(Colin Wilson “Beyond the Occult” p.362)