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
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 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… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
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
