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	William Irwin Thompson at AllExperts
		William Irwin Thompson (born 1938) is known primarily as a social philosopher and cultural critic.
		Thompson is influenced by the Vedantin philosopher Sri Aurobindo, British philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, Swiss cultural historian Jean Gebser, and media ecologist Marshall McLuhan.
		Thompson engages a diverse set of traditions, including esoteric Christianity of Rudolf Steiner, the autopoetic epistemology of Francisco Varela, the endosymbiotic theory of evolution of Lynn Margulis, the Gaia Theory of James Lovelock, the complex systems thought of Stuart Kauffman, the novels of Thomas Pynchon, and mystic David Spangler.
	en.allexperts.com /e/w/wi/william_irwin_thompson.htm (1401 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/William Irwin Thompson
		William Irwin Thompson (born July 16, 1938) is known primarily as a social philosopher and cultural critic, but has recently been writing mostly poetry.
		Thompson refers to the concepts of kundalini yoga throughout these analyses, and this seems to be the spiritual tradition with which he is most comfortable.
		Thompson considers fellow Irishman James Joyce's stylistically experimental novel Finnegans Wake to be "the ultimate novel, indeed, the ultimate book," and also to be the climactic artistic work of the modern period and of the rational mentality.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/William_Irwin_Thompson (2063 words)

	William Irwin Thompson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Irwin Thompson (born July 16, 1938) is known primarily as a social philosopher and cultural critic.
		Thompson engages a diverse set of traditions, including esoteric Christianity of Rudolf Steiner, the autopoetic epistemology of Francisco Varela, the endosymbiotic theory of evolution of Lynn Margulis, the Gaia Theory of James Lovelock, the complex systems thought of Stuart Kauffman, the novels of Thomas Pynchon, and mystic David Spangler.
		Thompson refers to the concepts of kundalini yoga throughout these analyses, and this seems to be the spiritual tradition with which he is most comfortable.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Irwin_Thompson (2029 words)

	William Irwin Thompson Web Site
		William Irwin Thompson is a poet and cultural philosopher based in Santa Fe, New Mexico and serving as Lindisfarne Scholar-in-Residence at the Upaya Zen Cennter (www.upaya.org.)
		Thompson's political essays have been appearing regularly in the Green journal, Annals of Earth (http://www.oceanarks.org/.) and will be published in book form by Onteros Press of Santa Fe in the late spring of 2007 as Beyond the Entranced and the Intransigent: Catastrophist Governance for a Planetary Culture.
		Thompson's essays on the philosophy of science and the evolution of consciousness have also been appearing regularly in the Journal of Consciousness Studies http://www.imprint.co.uk/jcs.html and have been subsequently published in book form as Self and Society: studies in the evolution of consciousness by Imprint Academic in England in 2004.
	www.williamirwinthompson.org (752 words)

	Grant Schuyler's essay "William Irwin Thompson"
		The shadow side of this will be the danger of political collectivization in the colossal institutions of a desperate and dying industrial system; the positive aspect is the cultural evolution to a metaindustrial society and a higher level of spiritual consciousness.
		Thompson had come to believe that a new planetary civilization was being born.
		Thompson felt that industrial society around him was passing away, and with it its characteristic institutions, such as the universities in which he taught.
	home.ca.inter.net /~grantsky/thompson.html (1055 words)

	Amherst College News Releases:
		Sponsored by the Transdisciplinary Fund, Thompson's talk is free and open to the public.
		Thompson's lecture will treat the evolution of consciousness from the perspective put forward in his book, Coming Into Being: Artifacts And Texts In The Evolution Of Consciousness.
		Thompson is a prolific author with 17 books in the areas of cultural history, education and poetry.
	www.amherst.edu /~pubaff/news/news_releases/03/thompson03.html (151 words)

	Sound Photosynthesis: WILLIAM IRWIN THOMPSON: videotapes audiotapes publications and more
		William Irwin Thompson is the Lindisfarne Scholar of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City.
		An on going series of dialogues between WIT and other Lindisfarne Fellows composed of the general format of WIT making an introduction and then the featured speaker relating to whatever the relevence of their work is to the cultural expansive ideas that the Lindisfarne Fellows are celebrating in association.
		For the past thirty years William Thompson has been working on a project in cultural history that attempts to understand the contemporary transformation of consciousness and culture that we are living through by reaching out for models and myths taken from a study of the dynamics of cultural change in the past.
	sound.photosynthesis.com /WILLIAM_I.html (1393 words)

	The Gaian Politics of Lindisfarne’s William Irwin Thompson
		Thompson’s critically acclaimed book became an unexpected bestseller and shortly thereafter his dazzling ideas became the subject of a lavish three-page interview published in the August 21, 1972 issue of Time.
		Thompson’s subsequent destiny, like the wandering Irish monks long before him, was to follow his questing Celtic spirit on a twenty-five year search for nature-friendly, mind-enriching and spiritually-enlivening cultural alternatives outside the ivory towers of the academy and apart from the military-industrial juggernaut that in his view American society had so pervasively and ominously become.
		Thompson claimed that this so-called planetary culture was energetically emerging in numerous marginal places in our midst in salient contrast to the powerful-appearing but actually declining urban-industrial civilization of militarized nation-states.
	www.earthlight.org /2002/essay47_peters.html (3180 words)

	David Isaacson's Book Reviews - WMU Libraries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		William Irwin Thompson is a former history professor at MIT who recently dropped out of university life to travel around the world seeking a more "authentic form of consciousness." His criticism of modern culture is the same as his criticism of universities: they are overly rational, too bureaucratic, materialistic, technocratic, and anti-humanistic.
		Thompson has a defendable thesis but I wish he had resorted more often to arguing it, less often to name-calling, over-generalization, and undeveloped analogizing.
		Thompson discusses biological evolution according to this model, but soon leaves it for unrelated matters.
	www.wmich.edu /library/bookreviews/1999/thompson-passages.php (528 words)

	Amazon.com: At the edge of history: Books: William Irwin Thompson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Thompson, riding on the shoulders of such as Jean Gebser and Marshall McLuhan, illuminates the transitional period we are undergoing, as we move out of the modern era into...
		Thompson sees signs of one possible future in the emerging planetary consciousness where thinking globally while acting locally is more than a pop phrase but a new way of perceiving our oneness with a sacred world.
		Thompson looks at signposts all over the planet which, taken individually might seems interesting, but taken together begin to form a picture that inspires either hope or dread, depending on your attachment to the prevailing consciousness.
	www.amazon.com /edge-history-William-Irwin-Thompson/dp/0060143169 (1115 words)

	William Thompson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Thompson (naturalist) (1805–1852), Irish ornithologist and botanist
		William Thompson (leveller) (died 1649), leader of the Banbury mutiny of the New Model Army in 1649
		William A. Thompson (1854–1925), figure in the United States Army Corps of Engineers whose name is used for the USACE's dredge for the upper Mississippi River
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Thompson (358 words)

	The Science of Myth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		William Irwin Thompson received his doctorate from Cornell and has taught at Cornell, MIT, New York University, and the University of Toronto.
		Thompson is known for his staggering trapeze acts of thought.
		Performing without the safety net of empiricism, he spans the subjects of sexuality, cultural origins, science, and mythology in giant sweeps, grasping them in metatheories of poetic grandeur He is completely at home at the hearth of his intuition, where his rational intellect can sit and warm its hands.
	www.levity.com /mavericks/tho-int.htm (451 words)

	Coming Into Being by William Irwin Thompson
		Thompson quotes Steiner in several places, but one gets the impression that his reading of Steiner was spotty, and that his understanding of Steiner is deeply superficial.
		In truth Thompson is a deep thinker and his improvisations on the themes of the Rig Veda, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Gilgamish, Oresteia, and many even-more-obscure mythological texts are awe-inspiring and at times confounding.
		Thus unprepared one must ride the whirlwind with Thompson, holding on for dear life as he escorts us back and forth over ten millennia, integrating the warp and woof of myths into the tapestry of our flying-carpet time-machine as we go.
	www.doyletics.com /arj/cibrvw.htm (582 words)

	Amazon.com: The American Replacement of Nature: Books: William Irwin Thompson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Thompson interprets the Great Depression as a shift from hierarchy to "chaos dynamics." He explains why he was "unable to be a dove" in the war against Saddam Hussein, he defines America's esoteric destiny as breaking down all the world's cultures in preparation for a new global culture.
		Thompson seems to imply in his fourth essay that the U.S. gadget culture will get its comeuppance when cyborgs become the successors to the human race.
		The truth is, Thompson is a brilliant cultural critic/mythopoeic sociologist/poet observer but he is not superior to Chomsky if what you desire is a clearheaded and real world analysis of the forces and powers that are shaping our world.
	www.amazon.com /American-Replacement-Nature-William-Thompson/dp/0385420250 (1476 words)

	WIT – William Irwin Thompson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Is what I have been struggling for these three decades, starting with the slips of paper composing of Mission 2000 to my next project to update that on my new website, the catalyst for the emergence of this nu DOMINANT TEXT – the semiotic scaffolding for EaseMen to NU.
		WIT sees the formative texts for the Biospheric cultural ecology exemplified by Borges and Lem.
		He makes the standard error of not distinguishing deterministic chaos theory from the more mystical that may hint of “true origination”.
	home.comcast.net /~nucoms/NU_CURRICULUM/WIT.htm (761 words)

	Thompson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		William Irwin Thompson, a cultural historian has taught in various fields of the humanities and social sciences at Cornell, MIT, York, Syracuse, and the Universities of Toronto and Hawaii.
		Thompson currently teaches an autumn seminar at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City (where he serves as Lindisfarne Scholar in Residence); works summers with David Spangle's Morningtown project in Redmond, Washington; and "hides out" in Switzerland in the winter and spring.
		The Mavericks of the Mind website has an article, an interview and a bibliography about William Irwin Thompson in its Voices from the Edge section.
	www.rain.org /~da5e/thompson.html (209 words)

	William Irwin Thompson - Integral Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		William Irwin Thompson (born July 16, 1938) is known primarily as a social philosopher and cultural critic.
		He attempted to determine the unconscious assumptions and prejudices of the various anthropologists and historians who have written on the subject, and to paint a more balanced picture.
		The Evolution of William Irwin Thompson Cultural Historian a 2006 essay by Joy E. Stocke
	integralwiki.net /index.php?title=William_Irwin_Thompson (1972 words)

	William Irwin Thompson Information
		Thompson defines Wissenkunst as "the play of knowledge in a world of serious data-processors"
		The concept of performance is central to Thompson's work.
		So the neoconservatives of the Bush administration are the mirror-image of al Qaeda; they are also a noetic polity that seeks to deconstruct the modern middle class democratic nation-state and replace it with a metanational corporate cartel – a capitalist al Qaeda.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/William_Irwin_Thompson (1516 words)

	The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light : Mythology, Sexuality, and the Origins of Culture by William Irwin Thompson - ...
		For Thompson, myth is the history of the human soul, the creation of symbols that express the primal form of male and female power.
		Taking us from the earliest periods of prehistory through the time of female goddess worship to the rise of the male-dominated warrior state, Thompson shows the passage of humankind's relationship to nature from initial awe to persistent conquest.
		At the end of his journey, Thompson finds an answer to his original question: myth is the history of the soul; its creation is ongoing and its power is never-ending.
	www.allbookstores.com /book/0312160623 (206 words)

	Future Hi: William Irwin Thompson: Visions of a Holistic Future
		According to William Irwin Thompson, the founder of the Lindisfarne Association and author of many books on the future, humanity is passing through a collective spiritual initiation.
		According to Thompson, these stages and changes will affect different sections of society at different times.
		According to Thompson, there are different cultural forces at work to reshape the planet.
	www.futurehi.net /archives/000559.html (876 words)

	SteinerBooks - Worlds Interpenetrating and Apart
		This collection makes a wonderful addition to the library of anyone familiar with Thompson's writing, and an excellent introduction for those who are not.
		William Irwin Thompson was nominated for the National Book Award in 1972 for his essays on contemporary culture in At the Edge of History.
		For his novels, Islands Out of Time and Blue Jade from the Morning Star, he received the Oslo International Poetry Festival Award in 1986.
	www.steinerbooks.org /detail.html?id=094026272x (99 words)

	William Thompson at AllExperts
		* William Thompson (naturalist) (1805â"1852), Irish ornithologist and botanist
		* William Thompson (leveller) (died 1649), leader of the Banbury mutiny of the New Model Army in 1649
		* William A. Thompson (1854â"1925), figure in the United States Army Corps of Engineers whose name is used for the USACE's dredge for the upper Mississippi River
	en.allexperts.com /e/w/wi/william_thompson.htm (400 words)

	Thompson, William Irwin: Coming Into Being: Artifacts and Texts in the Evolution of Consciousness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Thompson, William Irwin: Coming Into Being: Artifacts and Texts in the Evolution of Consciousness
		In his best-selling "The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light, William Irwin Thompson intrigued readers with his thoughts on mythology and sexuality.
		In "Coming Into Being, William Irwin Thompson presents a fascinating vision of our past, our present, and our future that no one will want to miss.
	www.forbesbookclub.com /bookpage.asp?prod_cd=IGFEV (81 words)

	TRS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		by Ralph Herman Abraham and William Irwin Thompson
		Being an introduction to the coordinates of the Spiral Curriculum
		Extracted from the document by William Irwin Thompson dated April 21, 1999: "Memo on Cultural History Threads in the Spiral Curriculum"
	www.ralph-abraham.org /ross (128 words)

	William Irwin Thompson Quotes
		Quotes By author - Starting with W - 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 answer to culture.
		No part of this publication may be reproduced without the written permission and prior consent of QuotesandPoem.com
	www.quotesandpoem.com /quotes/listquotes/author/william_irwin_thompson (205 words)

	Table of Contents, williamirwinthompson.com
		Mavericks of the Mind William Irwin Thompson Page
		"The Other Side is Myth": William Irwin Thompson as Cultural Historian of the Fin de Siècle (By David Lavery)
		Table of Contents for William Irwin Thompson's Books
	www.williamirwinthompson.nstemp.com /witindex.html (65 words)

	William Irwin Thompson, Self and Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Reflections on 9/11 for planetary culture and the global war against terrorism
		William Irwin Thompson is a poet and cultural historian and the author of sixteen books, most recently, Coming into Being: Artifacts and Texts in the Evolution of Consciousness.
		He took his doctorate at Cornell University in 1966, and has taught at Cornell, MIT, and York University in Toronto.
	www.imprint.co.uk /books/bill_thompson.html (127 words)

	William Irwin Thompson - It's Already Begun
		One of the articles in The New Story (IC#12)
		William Irwin Thompson is a cultural historian, futurist, founder of the Lindisfarne Association, and one of the more brilliant minds of our times.
		His latest book, Pacific Shift, proposes that a major historical change now underway is a global shift from the traditional Atlantic mentality associated with New York, Paris, and London to a consciousness drawing on the cultures that surround the Pacific.
	www.context.org /ICLIB/IC12/Thompson.htm (4526 words)

	The Cultural Phenomenology of Literature by William Irwin Thompson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Click here for the complete conference document (with acknowledgments and introductions)
		William Irwin Thompson The Cultural Phenomenology of Literature
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	www.nald.ca /fulltext/ltonword/part4/thompson/cover.htm (99 words)

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