Occupation: Critic Birth: July 16, 1938
For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is ….
I don't think anyone now really understands the planetisation of mankind, really understands the new world order emerging through all this period of ….
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 aw….
That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth..
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 an….
The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos..
Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature's answer to culture. Wh….
If a person is open to a new world view, it can often mean that he is not firmly rooted in the reality of the old world view; as a lunatic or alienat….
Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration o….
The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinkin….
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….
The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered..
In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the man who plays with all that in….
When we come to an edge we come to a frontier that tells us that we are now about to become more than we have been before..
But the time has come; the revelation has already occurred, and the guardian seers have seen the lightning strike the darkness we call reality. And n….
Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their….
One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development….
Some god or Weltgeist has been making a movie out of us for the past six thousand years, and now we have turned a corner on the movie set of reality ….
If humans died in a healthy culture, they would not lock out the earth in metal coffins and carve their names on stone monuments, but would instead p….
The planets are not hunks of stuff out there but nodes of vibration that resonate in multiple dimensions that enfold themselves into one another in p….
If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you..