{"id":1837,"date":"2010-05-27T17:38:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T17:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wilson-colin\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T09:21:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T09:21:00","slug":"wilson-colin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wilson-colin\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilson, Colin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colin<\/strong> W<\/strong>ilson (1931-2013)<\/strong> was born in Leicester, England.\u00a0<\/strong>He has been a most prolific author with around a hundred titles to his credit. The range of \"early<\/a>subjects that he has covered is breathtaking; from Jack the Ripper to Sex to Atlantis. A 2004 article in The Observer<\/em> described him as a self-declared genius and knicker fetishist!<\/p>\n

Initially, he was a supporter of the Minoan\u00a0Hypothesis<\/a>, then in 1996 he linked the controversial redating of the Sphinx<\/a> by Robert Schoch<\/a>, with the influence of earlier sophisticated Atlanteans. It is revealing to note that the original title of Wilson\u2019s book was B<\/em>efore<\/em> the<\/em> S<\/em>phinx <\/em>but this was altered at the insistence of his publishers(d)<\/span><\/sup> in order to include \u2018Atlantis\u2019 on the cover! [Reviews {3998P} {7073P}<\/span>]<\/p>\n

A few years later he was co-author with Rand Flem-Ath<\/a>,<\/strong> the promoter of the Atlantis in Antarctica theory, of T<\/em>he <\/em>A<\/em>tlantis <\/em>B<\/em>lueprint<\/em>[<\/sup>063<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup> again promoting the idea of the Atlantean civilisation\u00a0having spread to other parts of the world that is now visible in the remains of so many megalithic cultures around our planet. Wilson revealed later, in a 2007 edition of F<\/em>rom <\/em>A<\/em>tlantis to the <\/em>S<\/em>phinx<\/em> [<\/sup>335<\/sup><\/a>]+<\/sup><\/strong><\/span>, that he was unhappy with the final content of The Atlantis Blueprint <\/em>stating that \u201cit did not represent his views\u201d[p381]<\/sup> and wrote an account\u00a0in the\u00a0Fortean Times<\/em>(b)<\/sup>, of how that book evolved.<\/p>\n

Wilson joined the Sarmast<\/a> expedition in October 2004, as he had then shifted his preference(d<\/sup>)<\/sup> to the Cyprus<\/a>\u00a0region as the location of Atlantis. He eventually\"Colin<\/a> found the idea of Atlantis in the Antarctic waging war against Athens, a distance of\u00a0many thousands of miles, untenable. Unfortunately, this brief display of critical thinking was short-lived as he shifted his support to Cyprus as Atlantis’ location. I believe that he might have revised his position again if he had just given some consideration to Plato’s report of how the flooded Atlantis was still a hazard to shipping centuries later. Sarmast\u2019s Cyprus site is in water over a mile deep and could never have been a shipping hazard!<\/p>\n

In 2006 Wilson continued[<\/sup>336<\/sup>]<\/sup><\/a> his support for Sarmast but added a new dimension with the claim on the cover notes that \u2018the Neanderthals<\/a> had been the civilising force behind Atlantis\u2019. However, in his earlier book [<\/sup>335<\/sup><\/a>.390],<\/sup> he stated clearly that he was \u201cnot suggesting there was some connection between Atlantis and Neanderthal man\u201d. Perhaps the cover notes were just a concoction of Wilson\u2019s publisher.<\/p>\n

At best, Wilson’s book, Atlantis and the Kingdom of the Neanderthals <\/em>can be described as disappointing. Laura Knight-Jadczyk <\/a>goes further, classifying it as ’embarrassing’(c)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Stelios Pavlou<\/a> has noted(e)<\/sup> that in 2001,\u00a0Peter Jakubowski<\/a> published a paper\u00a0‘<\/em><\/strong>Atlantis of the<\/em> Neanderthals<\/em>‘<\/em>, in which he argues that\u00a0Atlantis\u00a0was a\u00a0Neanderthal\u00a0civilization that was destroyed in 4804 BC’.” In 2014, Jakubowski revised and expanded the paper into an ebook titled Atlantis of the Neanderthals<\/em> [1970<\/a>]<\/sup> with the subtitle of Colin Wilson Corrected, <\/em>which is offered as a review of Wilson’s book but is more of a promo for Jakubowski’s own ideas of unified physics (naturics)<\/p>\n

Pavlou also noted that “<\/em>Jakubowski<\/em>\u00a0formerly supported the notion of\u00a0<\/em>Atlantis\u00a0in\u00a0Sicily\u00a0and\u00a0Malta.\u00a0It is unclear if this is still the case as all mentions of\u00a0Sicily\u00a0and\u00a0Malta\u00a0were removed in the book’s<\/em> \u00a0<\/em>recent revision.”<\/em><\/p>\n

[335<\/a>]+<\/span><\/strong> Available online: http:\/\/www.vielewelten.at\/pdf_en\/colin%20wilson.pdf\u00a0 <\/a>
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(b)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.forteantimes.com\/features\/articles\/5167\/a_100000yearold_civilisation.html (offline November 2015)<\/p>\n

(c)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/review\/RZWH2PZ425PJW (link broken)
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(d) <\/sup>http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191017004028\/https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-2719\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(e) <\/sup>Peter Jakubowski \u2013 Atlantisforschung.de (atlantisforschung-de.translate.goog)\u00a0<\/a>
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