William Irwin Thompson

Philosopher

1938-07-16

Books by William Irwin Thompson

The time falling bodies take to light

mythology, sexuality, and the origins of culture
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At the edge of history
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Coming into being

artifacts and texts in the evolution of consciousness
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For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.
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A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes.
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Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.
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