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William Irwin Thompson

Born

in Chicago, IL, The United States

January 01, 1938

Website

http://www.williamirwinthompson.org/

Genre

Philosophy, Poetry

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William Irwin Thompson is an American social philosopher, cultural critic, and poet. He received the Oslo International Poetry Festival Award in 1986. He describes his writing and speaking style as "mind-jazz on ancient texts". He is the founder of the Lindisfarne Association. ...more

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	The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture 4.33 avg rating — 183 ratings — published 1980 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Coming Into Being: Artifacts and Texts in the Evolution of Consciousness 4.08 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1996 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Imaginary Landscape: Making Worlds of Myth and Science 4.31 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1989 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	At the Edge of History 4.05 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1971 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The American Replacement of Nature: Everyday Acts and Outrageous Evolution of Economic Life 3.81 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1991 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Darkness and scattered light: Four talks on the future 4.37 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1977 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Passages about earth;: An exploration of the new planetary culture 4.23 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1974 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	At the Edge of History and Passages About Earth 4.33 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1989	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Imagination Of An Insurrection: Dublin, Easter 1916 3.43 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1967 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Islands Out of Time: A Memoir of the Last Days of Atlantis : A Novel 2.76 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1985 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.”
― William Irwin Thompson

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“The acid test is that all paranoids and fundamentalists lack a sense of humor, for humor is a chaos flux and flexibility, of ambiguity and multi-dimensionality, and that kind of erotic liveliness is precisely what the fundamentalist is trying to eliminate in holding rigidly to doctrine.”
― William Irwin Thompson

tags: fundamentalists, humor, intolerance, paranoia

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“It is not enough to raise consciousness. One must lower the spirit into the earth to embody a change in things as basic as food, shelter, and livelihood.”
― William Irwin Thompson

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