Ian Wilson (writer)
Ian Wilson (born 1941) is the prolific author of religious and scientific books. He often mixes the two while examining such topics as the Shroud of Turin or life after death.
Life
He was born in Clapham, south London, during World War II and some of his earliest memories are of the Blitz. Neither of his parents was religious. His school was nominally Church of England, but during scripture classes he was always, as he put it, "the number one sceptic". He graduated in Modern History from Magdalen College, Oxford.[1]
He first came across the Shroud during the 1950s, when he was in his mid-teens, in an illustrated article by World War II hero Group Captain Leonard Cheshire. It was the famous image on the negative of the Shroud that dealt the first blow to his formerly complacent agnosticism. In 1972 he converted to Roman Catholicism.[1]
He has written and presented a three part Channel 4 TV series based on his book Jesus: The Evidence.
In his book The Columbus Myth: Did Men of Bristol Reach America Before Columbus? (1992) he claims that Bristol mariners had reached America before Columbus as early as the 1480s.[2]
He lived in Bristol, England for twenty-six years and now resides in Brisbane, Australia with his wife, Judith. They have two sons, Adrian and Noel.[1]
Publications
- The Turin Shroud: The Burial Cloth of Jesus Christ?, 1979 ISBN 0-385-15042-3
- Mind out of Time?: Reincarnation Claims Investigated, 1981 ISBN 0-575-02968-4 (Reprinted in 1982 under the title All In The Mind)
- Jesus: The Evidence, 1984
- The Exodus Enigma, 1985
- The Evidence of the Shroud, 1986
- Worlds Beyond: From the Files of the Society for Psychical Research, 1986 ISBN 0-297-78604-0
- Undiscovered: The Fascinating World of Undiscovered Places, Graves, Wrecks and Treasure, 1987 ISBN 0-688-07278-X
- The Bleeding Mind: An Investigation into the Mysterious Phenomenon of Stigmata, 1988 ISBN 0-297-79099-4
- The After Death Experience: The Physics of the Non-Physical, 1989 ISBN 0-688-08000-6
- Stigmata: An Investigation into the Mysterious Appearance of Christ's Wounds in Hundreds of People from Medieval Italy to Modern America, 1989 ISBN 0-062-50974-8
- Superself: The Hidden Powers Within Us, 1989 ISBN 0-283-99656-0
- Holy Faces, Secret Places: An Amazing Quest for the Face of Jesus, 1991 ISBN 0-385-26105-5
- The Columbus Myth: Did Men of Bristol Reach America before Columbus?, 1992 ISBN 0-671-71167-9
- Shakespeare: The Evidence: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Man and His Work, 1994 ISBN 0-312-11335-8
- In Search of Ghosts, 1996 ISBN 0-7472-4707-2
- The Blood and the Shroud: New Evidence That the World's Most Sacred Relic Is Real, 1998 ISBN 0-684-85529-1
- Jesus: The Evidence, 2000 ISBN 0-89526-239-8
- The Bible Is History, 2000 ISBN 0-89526-250-9
- The Turin Shroud: Unshrouding the Mystery, 2000 ISBN 1-85479-501-5
- Life after Death: The Evidence, 2001
- Past Lives: Unlocking the Secrets of Our Ancestors, 2001 ISBN 0-304-35474-0
- Before the Flood: The Biblical Flood as a Real Event and How It Changed the Course of Civilisation, 2001
- John Cabot and the Matthew, 2003 ISBN 9781550811315
- Nostradamus: The Man Behind the Prophecies, 2003 ISBN 0-312-31790-5
- Lost World of the Kimberley: Extraordinary New Glimpses of Australia's Ice Age Ancestors, 2006 ISBN 1-741-14391-8
- Murder at Golgotha: A Scientific Investigation into the Last Days of Jesus's Life, His Death, and His Resurrection (Griffin,U.S.; 2007) ISBN 0-312-36662-0
- The Shroud : the 2000-Year-Old Mystery Solved, 2010, ISBN 978-0-593-06359-0
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