Amazon.com description: Product Description: From the back cover: Colin Wilson's second book, successor to his acclaimed "The Outsider." In it, he answers the charge that the Outsider is just an intellectual fad, showing instead that he is a powerful figure of rebellion against a materialistic society and a product of the lack of spiritual tension, or vision, in all declining civilizations. In these examples we see the development of Colin Wilson's central concern: How can man extend his range of consciousness?