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.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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… - William Irwin Thompson
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…
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