Entered into literary scene with the publication of The Outsider in 1956 when he was only 24 years old. It is as if, from the time he moved to Cornwall, his life disappeared into his work. The Mind Parasites , The Philosopher's Stone , The Occult , Frankenstein's Castle , Access to Inner Worlds and The Bicameral Critic , to name but a few. All values are ultimately mystical. Everyday consciousness is a liar.
Freedom is a quality of consciousness.
Human beings experience a range of mental states which is as narrow as the middle three keys of a piano. What we accept as everyday consciousness is thoroughly sub-normal. But these are relatively unimportant. Wittgenstein once said that traditional philosophy causes a form of mental cramp, and that the aim of his philosophy was to remove this mental cramp, or to 'show the fly the way out of the bottle'. Our misconceptions involve the passive fallacy and notion that consciousness is a plane mirror that cannot lie about the world it reflects.