The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light


The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light
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The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light


The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light
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Author : William Irwin Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 1996-04-15

The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light written by William Irwin Thompson and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-04-15 with Social Science categories.


In the opening passages of his classic book, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light, William Irwin Thompson asks the question, "But what is myth that it returns to mind even when we would most escape it?" Acknowledging the pervasive power of myth to create and inform culture, Thompson answers this question by weaving descriptions of the human abilities to create life and to communicate through symbolic myths based on male and female forms of 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. This is a beautiful and fascinating book now being reissued for a new generation of readers, as well as for those it inspired originally.



The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light


The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light
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Author : William Irwin Thompson
language : en
Publisher: St Martins Press
Release Date : 1981

The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light written by William Irwin Thompson and has been published by St Martins Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Philosophy categories.


Investigates the intersection of science, history, art, and religion in myth as a way of illuminating human nature and providing a new understanding



Worlds Interpenetrating And Apart


Worlds Interpenetrating And Apart
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Author : William Irwin Thompson
language : en
Publisher: SteinerBooks
Release Date : 1997-10

Worlds Interpenetrating And Apart written by William Irwin Thompson and has been published by SteinerBooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-10 with Poetry categories.


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 of the major themes that have affected contemporary culture for the past half century. His book opens with a mythological sequence on Quetzalcoatl, "Blue Jade from the Morning Star," which john Bierhorst has called "a fresh reading." In the words of Kathleen Raine: "There is a great difference between merely academic translation and the imaginative participation which Dr. Thompson has brought to these 'versions' and verse commentaries on the great vision of Quetzalcoatl." Books Two and Three contain mostly lyrical work, while Book Four concludes with a vision of the evolution of life that extends the lyrical into the cosmological in a sequence built on and addressed to the work of his four scientific friends: Ralph Abraham, James Lovelock, Lynn Margulis, and Francisco Varela.



Imagination Of An Insurrection Dublin Easter 1916


Imagination Of An Insurrection Dublin Easter 1916
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Author : William Irwin Thompson
language : en
Publisher: SteinerBooks
Release Date : 2007

Imagination Of An Insurrection Dublin Easter 1916 written by William Irwin Thompson and has been published by SteinerBooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.


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 there is now a Republic of Ireland because of a nationalistic movement that, militarily, began with the insurrection of Easter Week, 1916. But what do these two movements have to do with one another?... Because I came to history with literary eyes, I could not help seeing history in terms and shapes of imaginative experience. Thus Movement, Myth, and Image came to be the way in which the nature of the insurrection appeared to me. This method of analyzing historical event as if it were a work of art is not altogether as inappropriate as it might seem when the historical event happens to be a revolution. The Irish revolutionaries lived as if they were in a work of art, and this inability to tell the difference between sober reality and the realm of imagination is perhaps one very important characteristic of a revolutionary. The tragedy of actuality comes from the fact that when, in a revolution, history is made momentarily into a work of art, human beings become the material that must be ordered, molded, or twisted into shape. (from the preface)



Coming Into Being


Coming Into Being
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Author : William Irwin Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 1998-06-15

Coming Into Being written by William Irwin Thompson and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-06-15 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.


A stunning New Age tour through literature, sculpture, and science that looks at the archetype of the human ascent to the heavens



Blue Jade From The Morning Star


Blue Jade From The Morning Star
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Author : William Irwin Thompson
language : en
Publisher: SteinerBooks
Release Date : 1983

Blue Jade From The Morning Star written by William Irwin Thompson and has been published by SteinerBooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Literary Collections categories.


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



Coming Into Being


Coming Into Being
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Author : William Irwin Thompson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996

Coming Into Being written by William Irwin Thompson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Consciousness categories.


In his best-selling The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light, William Irwin Thompson intrigued readers with his thoughts on mythology and sexuality. In his newest book, Coming into Being: Artifacts and Texts in the Evolution of Consciousness, he takes the reader on a journey from the preverbal communications of early stone carvings to the writings of Marcel Proust and around the monumental wrappings of Christo to the rebirth of interest in the Taoist philosophy of Lao Tsu. Owing as much to the rhythmic constructions of jazz as to established methods of scholarship, Thompson riffs on biology and culture, seeing the birth of the mind in Proust's madeleine, the displacement of humanity in Christo's wrappings of the Reichstag, and the path forward into a new planetary culture in the Tao Te Ching. 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.



Transforming History


Transforming History
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Author : Aron Thompson
language : en
Publisher: SteinerBooks
Release Date : 2009-04

Transforming History written by Aron Thompson and has been published by SteinerBooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04 with Education categories.


Education is currently a foremost concern for many Americans. Education, however, is about more than teaching children skills for earning a living and how to function in life. It is really a means of transmitting both a culture and a heritage. William Irwin Thompson, one of today's most innovative interdisciplinary thinkers, talks about how to transform a cultural legacy in the course of transmitting it. His visionary approach takes education far beyond the bland, watered-down curricula so many students face today in public and private schools. Thompson offers us a mind-rattling tour of our potential as human beings, from the Gilgamesh epic of 2000 B.C.E. to Disney, popular music, current politics and social crises, and beyond. He not only presents a far-reaching system of knowledge and teaching, but also suggests how we can stimulate the best and healthiest patterns of development in our children and teenagers. Transforming History will enlighten today's educators and anyone concerned with improving our legacy and our children's place in it. CONTENTS: Foreword One: Cultural History and Complex Dynamical Systems Two: Transforming History Notes Appendix: An Outline of the Curriculum Index



Imaginary Landscape


Imaginary Landscape
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Author : William Irwin Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Release Date : 1990-10-15

Imaginary Landscape written by William Irwin Thompson and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan Trade this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-10-15 with Fiction categories.


In a demythologized world, William Thompson finds that the power of myth is ironically being restored at the leading edge of science. This book surveys the present, from Post-Modern theory to a science encompassing Chaos theory and the Gaia hypothesis, and finds in it the threads out of which a future conceptual landscape might be woven.



Worlds Interpenetrating And Apart


Worlds Interpenetrating And Apart
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Author : William Irwin Thompson
language : en
Publisher: SteinerBooks
Release Date : 1997

Worlds Interpenetrating And Apart written by William Irwin Thompson and has been published by SteinerBooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Poetry categories.


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 of the major themes that have affected contemporary culture for the past half century. His book opens with a mythological sequence on Quetzalcoatl, "Blue Jade from the Morning Star," which john Bierhorst has called "a fresh reading." In the words of Kathleen Raine: "There is a great difference between merely academic translation and the imaginative participation which Dr. Thompson has brought to these 'versions' and verse commentaries on the great vision of Quetzalcoatl." Books Two and Three contain mostly lyrical work, while Book Four concludes with a vision of the evolution of life that extends the lyrical into the cosmological in a sequence built on and addressed to the work of his four scientific friends: Ralph Abraham, James Lovelock, Lynn Margulis, and Francisco Varela. Worlds Interpenetrating and Apart (For Francisco Varela) The inexplicable beginning of worlds Required gods in the air, germs in the sea, Or else there was nothing held to explain, Alone among causes, the greatest of old. Albrecht Dürer and Hieronymus Bosch, I think I am beginning to understand. Worlds interpenetratingly apart I remark, and mark here again in ink. Angels I observe Greek and Hebraic Were messengers of old, unseen by all Save the most artistic, imaginative Women and men whose souls wore out holes In their shod bodies until they were eyes. Tied to the stake with martyr's eyes buried Alive in their darkening flesh, they could see Infinitesimal crystalline forms, Now thought to be viruses, better known As plagues, marks of the apocalypse, aids To understanding the deadly sifting Of sudden unbecoming worlds torn apart Like Dürer's paper sky of martyrdom. I confess to angels as viruses, Elementals and gnomes, bacteria, And plagues the final judgment for ending The adaptive habits of the settled world. But angels are not viruses only, These the merest tip of penetration In our world of bodies that know others And while remaining a part of each, Equally, elsewhere also take their life.