The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.
William Irwin ThompsonThe 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.
William Irwin ThompsonIn the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.
William Irwin ThompsonThe planets are not hunks of stuff out there but nodes of vibration that resonate in multiple dimensions that enfold themselves into one another in patterns of complex recursiveness in which Sun, Moon, and Saturn are also modalities of Earth.
William Irwin ThompsonThe conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
William Irwin ThompsonIf a person is open to a new world view, it can often mean that he is not firmly rooted in the reality of the old world view; as a lunatic or alienated artist, his own neurotic traits can become magnified as they tremble with the new energy pouring in from the universal source.
William Irwin Thompson