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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The planets are not hunks of stuff out there but nodes of vibration that resonate in multiple dimensions that enfold themselves into one another… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy. — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World. — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth. — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
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… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share
Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
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… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
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… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered. — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
But the time has come; the revelation has already occurred, and the guardian seers have seen the lightning strike the darkness we call reality.… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
