In Search of Free Will: Colin Wilson’s Power Consciousness & Vasily Nalimov’s Spontaneity of Consciousness
- Eugene Pustoshkin
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“In Search of Free Will: The Intentionality in Colin Wilson’s Phenomenological Optimism as the Key to Vasily Nalimov’s Category of Spontaneity of Consciousness”
In this video, integral scholar-practitioner and psychologist Eugene Pustoshkin explores the phenomenological parallels in the works and life discoveries of two outstanding thinkers of the 20th century — the Russian mathematician and philosopher Vasily Nalimov and the British existentialist Colin Wilson.
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The paper is presented as part of the XI Interregional Scientific Conference “Nalimov Readings” (March 18, 2026).
Eugene Pustoshkin is a clinical psychologist, graduate of the Medical Psychology and Psychophysiology Branch of the Faculty of Psychology at St. Petersburg University; integral scholar-practitioner; editor-in-chief of the philosophical-psychological journal Eros & Kosmos; Russian translator of books and articles by Ken Wilber and other authors on integral metatheory and practice. Member of the Presidium of the Russian Association of Transpersonal Psychology and Psychotherapy (ATPP) and full member of the All-Russian Professional Therapeutic League (OPPL).
The video was pre-recorded on March 12, 2026.