William Irwin Thompson

The planets are not hunks of stuff out there but nodes of vibration that resonate in multiple dimensions that enfold themselves into…

— William Irwin Thompson

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

— William Irwin Thompson

Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World.

— 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

What is at the higher levels of meaning consciousness is like a hyperspace in which each point is equidistant from the other…

— William Irwin Thompson

Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order…

— William Irwin Thompson

Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution…

— William Irwin Thompson

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in…

— William Irwin Thompson

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.

— 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…

— William Irwin Thompson

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the…

— 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…

— William Irwin Thompson

I don't think anyone now really understands the planetisation of mankind, really understands the new world order emerging through all this period…

— William Irwin Thompson

With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of…

— William Irwin Thompson

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

— 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…

— William Irwin Thompson

The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.

— William Irwin Thompson

Science is the storytelling of our time.

— William Irwin Thompson

Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an…

— William Irwin Thompson

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

— William Irwin Thompson

The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking…

— William Irwin Thompson

We are the climactic generation of human cultural evolution, and in the microcosm of our lives the macrocosm of the evolution of…

— William Irwin Thompson

In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the…

— William Irwin Thompson

Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.

— William Irwin Thompson

Some god or Weltgeist has been making a movie out of us for the past six thousand years, and now we have…

— William Irwin Thompson