In this interesting interview the late, great Colin Wilson reveals a perfect example of developing his intentional self to manage a disintegration of his physical, emotional and intellectual dimensions.
Colin Wilson describes how, after becoming stressed and over worked early in his writing career, he began to experience anxiety and panic attacks. From the description of his experience it seems as if his physical and emotional selves had been put under pressure and exhausted while his intellectual self tried to over ride them. This seems to have created an inner conflict which manifested in the middle of the night when his fragile intentional self was offline. It's interesting to hear how he developed a more robust choosing faculty (his intentional self which he desrcibes as a 'higher Colin and school mistress' ) to manage his personal crisis and eventually integrate the other three selves.
The good life is...
Body, heart, mind and soul
Functioning as an integrated whole
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