Irwin Thompson Quotes

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.

That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.

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.

the poet William Irwin Thompson wrote: “When we come to an edge we come to a frontier that tells us that we are now about to become more than we have been before.” For

Among these, one stood out, the cultural historian William Irwin Thompson who explored a Pythagorean vision of the universe in his many books. To deepen his research, he created the Lindisfarne Association, housed in Manhattan’s Church of the Holy Communion, which

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