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William Irwin Thompson Quotes

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The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.  (William Irwin Thompson Quotes) 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 Quotes) The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos  (William Irwin Thompson Quotes) Science is the storytelling of our time  (William Irwin Thompson Quotes) If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you  (William Irwin Thompson Quotes) Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life  (William Irwin Thompson Quotes) The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief  (William Irwin Thompson Quotes) If you do not create your destiny,you will have your fate inflicted upon you  (William Irwin Thompson Quotes) Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change  (William Irwin Thompson Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 begins to branch off  (William Irwin Thompson Quotes) The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling  (William Irwin Thompson Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture  (William Irwin Thompson Quotes) I don’t think anyone now really understands the planetisation of mankind, really understands the new world order emerging through all this period of strain and pain and contradiction, so more than ever, we need to have an internal sense of navigation  (William Irwin Thompson Quotes) 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 information and hears a music inside the noise  (William Irwin Thompson Quotes) 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 Quotes) In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy  (William Irwin Thompson Quotes) 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 place the naked body in the earth and plant a tree above the silent heart  (William Irwin Thompson Quotes) 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 Quotes) That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth  (William Irwin Thompson Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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. When we have learned to recycle pollution into potent information, we will have passed over completely into the new cultural ecology  (William Irwin Thompson Quotes) 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  (William Irwin Thompson Quotes) 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 Quotes) The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered  (William Irwin Thompson Quotes)