"Let me make my implications quite plain. In The Outsider I tried to show that the kind of man I call an 'Outsider' is a development of the 'ordinary man', for the truth is that there is no such thing as an ordinary man. It is like talking of 'the average healthy leper'. If he is a leper, then he is not average or healthy. Neither is a man average or healthy. The Outsider is a man who has realised with horror that all men are lepers - spiritually and morally. All are corrupt.
Now I have tried to make it apparent where the road from corruption leads. The Outsider develops, by immense spiritual effort, into the mystic. He does this by turning his life into a state of warfare, and living with the mental alertness that is necessary to warfare. The mystic's view of the world is a view that sees everything as beauty. This beauty is already beginning to be present in the Outsider's way of viewing the world. The world may torment him, and lead him to declare that it is a wasteland or a city of dreadful night (Keegan's view), but the very fact that his vision has intensified it with revulsion means that he sees the world as more vital. Terror is the beginning of beauty, for all crises leads to beauty. Terror is not the opposite of beauty; both beauty and terror stand at the opposite pole from boredom, and ultimately, death. When a man begins his unseen warfare against the world, he becomes an Outsider; if he fights long and hard enough, he develops into what men call a mystic."
-- Colin Wilson, Religion and the Rebel
Now ordinary people fall under suspicion for ordinary behaviour. In San Francisco, a retired phone company worker got into a fierce discussion at his gym about the failings of President Bush and the war on Iraq. He was woken several days later by federal agents calling at his apartment to interrogate him about his politics. Last February, a middle-aged defence lawyer in New Mexico was in an internet chatroom when he apparently suggested that "Bush is out of control". Within hours, he was surrounded by police, then handcuffed by Secret Service agents and questioned about whether he was a threat to the president. In North Carolina, a 19-year-old was visited by FBI agents who had been told she had "un-American material" in her apartment. It consisted of a poster opposing Bush's use of the death penalty. She was asked what she knew about the Taliban and questioned for 40 minutes. Her details have been placed on file.

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BLOGGAR
Adventures of an Occult Investigator
TREDJE VÄRLDSKRIGET
DIVERSE
Centre for Research on Globalisation
RELIGION & FILOSOFI
Islamic Research Foundation International
Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Ashé Journal of Experimental Spirituality
World Scripture -A Comparative Anthology Of Sacred Texts
DROGER
MAPS: Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
Deoxyribonucleic Autonomous Zone
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