William Irwin Thompson Quotes & Sayings

“One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.”

“A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes.”

“The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.”

“If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.”

“Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.”

“Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.”

“For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.”

“Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World.”

“The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.”

“The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.”