Books written by William Irwin Thompson

At the Edge of History and Passages about Earth: A Double Book

Clearly , the baker , Edward Taylor , was a Zen master of a craft that becomes an art because of the religious consciousness in which it is performed . With the death of the last male Shaker , America had lost that reverence for the ...

The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture

In the center of the picture is a staff with a bird on the top, and this seems related to the fact that the man is shown with a bird's head. The staff with a bird on top, whether as totem pole or caduceus, is an ancient and universal ...

Islands Out of Time: A Memoir of the Last Days of Atlantis : a Novel

Someone was walking on wooden shoes , punctuating the rhythm of his slow gait with a heavy metallic staff that struck the floor and set the tiny bell on top of the staff to ringing . Viracocha was hearing the approach of the High Priest ...

Self and Society: Studies in the Evolution of Cutlture, Second Enlarged Edition

earliest Ice Age art—such as the Lionman of Englehard, the Bearman of Chauvet Cave, or the Sorcerer from Trois Freres—shows us how archaic humanity envisioned this ability of the shaman to enter into a trance-state in order to project ...

Imagination of an Insurrection: Dublin, Easter 1916

17 Peter McBrien, “Poets of the Insurrection III, Joseph Plunkett,” Studies, V (December1916), 53649. 18 Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens (New York, 1955), p.10. PART THREE THREE IMAGES OF THE EVENT CHAPTER FIVE THE.

Coming Into Being: Artifacts and Texts in the Evolution of Consciousness

See William W. Hallo and J. A. Van Dijk, The Exaltation of Inanna (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1968). See Lyn Hatherly Wilson, Sappho a Sweetbitter Songa (London: Routledge, 1996). Ibid., p. 7. Here I am referring to material ...

Evil and World Order

Lilly's The Mind of the Dolphin : A Non - Human Intelligence . Perhaps as interesting as the mind of the dolphin is the mind of John Lilly , M.D. The kind of man who works outside the paradigms of normal science , Lilly , like R.

Transforming History: A New Curriculum for a Planetary Culture

Education, argues William Thompson, is about more than teaching skills and knowledge.

The Imagination of an Insurrection, Dublin, Easter 1916: A Study of an Ideological Movement

We know from our literary histories that there was a movement called the Irish Literary Renaissance, and that Yeats was at its head. We know from our political histories that...

The Imagination of an Insurrection: Dublin, Easter, 1916

Blue Jade from the Morning Star: An Essay and a Cycle of Poems on Quetzalcoatl

This beautiful little book, like Carlos Castaneda's works, shines new light into the mythical and poetic content of the collective unconscious.

Worlds Interpenetrating and Apart

In this volume of poems written over thirty-five years, William Irwin Thompson presents a remarkable range of work--from the personal and lyrical, through the narrative and mythological, to the scientific and cosmological--that traces many ...

Gaia, a Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New Biology

Thompson brings together a collection of essays on the Gaia hypothesis by such authors as atmospheric scientist James Lovelock, biologist Lynn Margulis, cybernetic biologist Henry Atlan, and others. The suggestion...

At the Edge of History

Excerpts from the Stanford Symposium on the Prevention of Nuclear War emphasizing the bases for a mutual and verifiable nuclear arms treaty and techniques for reducing international tensions. Twelve distinguished...

Passages about Earth: An Exploration of the New Planetary Culture

Selected Poems, 1959-1989

... earth's evolving fire . William Irwin Thompson is the well - known cultural historian and author of , amongst others , At the Edge of History , Passages About Earth , Evil and World Order , Darkness and Scattered Light , The Time ...

Islands Out of Time: A Memoir of the Last Days of Atlantis : a Metafiction

Reimagination of the World: A Critique of the New Age, Science, and Popular Culture

Transforming History: A Curriculum for Cultural Evolution

Education is now at the fore of many Americans' concerns. But education is about more than teaching children how to function in life. It is a means of transmitting both...

Self and Society: Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness

The studies in this volume concern cultural history.