William Irwin Thompson
William Irwin Thompson
William Irwin Thompsonis known primarily as a social philosopher and cultural critic, but he has also been writing and publishing poetry throughout his career and received the Oslo International Poetry Festival Award in 1986. He describes his writing and speaking style as "mind-jazz on ancient texts". He is the founder of the Lindisfarne Association...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth16 July 1938
CountryUnited States of America
genius movement patterns
It should be possible to say that there really is such as thing as "genius" and that what it is, is precisely a surprising and unexpected movement away from collective patterns of behavior and received wisdom.
moving-on fate destiny
If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.
maps world process
Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World.
purpose chaos conscious
The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
imagination domain feels
Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.
chaos abstract
The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.
race growth generations
We are the climactic generation of human cultural evolution, and in the microcosm of our lives the macrocosm of the evolution of the human race is playing itself out.
unique unity quality
What is at the higher levels of meaning consciousness is like a hyperspace in which each point is equidistant from the other and where 'the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere'? The mythologies of the occult seem like baroque music: there is an overall similar quality of sound and movement, but, upon examination, each piece of music is unique; Vivaldi and Scarlatti are similar and different.
history-of-life fairy-tale natural
Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.