Complexes Quote by 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 and where…

— 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 amidst their…

— 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 is nature's…

— 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 which we…

— 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 structure of…

— 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 imagination is…

— 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 call reality.…

— 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 of strain…

— William Irwin Thompson