Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World. William Irwin Thompson More Quotes by William Irwin Thompson More Quotes From William Irwin Thompson That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth. William Irwin Thompson knowingseaislands 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. William Irwin Thompson domainimaginationfeels 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. William Irwin Thompson unityqualityunique 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. William Irwin Thompson generationsgrowthrace In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy. William Irwin Thompson copblackshadow Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life. William Irwin Thompson history-of-lifefairy-talenatural 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. William Irwin Thompson frontiershas-beensedges The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being. William Irwin Thompson teacherculturepast Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture. William Irwin Thompson institutionsmistakeculture 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 alienated artist, his own neurotic traits can become magnified as they tremble with the new energy pouring in from the universal source. William Irwin Thompson artistmeanreality With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries. William Irwin Thompson changecivilizationyears If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you. William Irwin Thompson willyoufatedestiny
