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 and have discovered the boards propping up the two-dimensional monuments of human history. The movement of humanism has reached its limit, and now at that limit it is breaking apart into the opposites of mechanism and mysticism and moving along the circumference of a vast new sphere of posthuman thought.
The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos. - William Irwin Thompson
The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
- William Irwin Thompson
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… - William Irwin Thompson
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…
For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is … - William Irwin Thompson
For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is …
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… - William Irwin Thompson
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…
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… - William Irwin Thompson
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…
That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth. - William Irwin Thompson
That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.
I don't think anyone now really understands the planetisation of mankind, really understands the new world order emerging through all this period of … - William Irwin Thompson
I don't think anyone now really understands the planetisation of mankind, really understands the new world order emerging through all this period of …
The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief. - William Irwin Thompson
The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.
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… - William Irwin Thompson
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…
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