Publisher's Synopsis
"What the philosopher is, is hard to learn, because it cannot be taught: one has to 'know' it from experience." "A philosopher: that is a human being who constantly experiences, sees, hears ... dreams extraordinary things." Friedrich Nietzsche It is not often that an Oxford philosophy student spends his spare time flying over carefully tended college lawns. In this volume of selected memoirs, Peter Wilberg reveals himself as a philosopher in the Nietzschean spirit: one who has indeed experienced "extraordinary things." In it, he offers us a glimpse into the lifetime of 'metaphysical experiences' which lie behind his numerous philosophical books and writings. Though many of these experiences would be considered 'paranormal', Peter Wilberg shows us how through them, he came to his own unique metaphysical or 'paraphilosophical' insights - for example into the nature and relation of 'self' and 'soul', the body and 'out of body' states, dreaming and music, language and sound, 'mantra', 'yoga' and 'tantra'. He also presents a first-hand account of the origin and evolution of the original and extraordinary form of joint, face-to-face 'pair meditation' which became so central to his life and work as both philosopher and 'yogin', recounting some of the extraordinary dimensions of shared metaphysical knowledge and experiencing, both interpersonal and transpersonal, mystical and musical, esoteric and scientific, erotic and religious - into which they can lead.
