What is at the higher levels of meaning consciousness is like a hyperspace in which each point is equidistant from the other and where 'the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere'? The mythologies of the occult seem like baroque music: there is an overall similar quality of sound and movement, but, upon examination, each piece of music is unique; Vivaldi and Scarlatti are similar and different.
William Irwin ThompsonThat shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.
William Irwin ThompsonThe conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
William Irwin ThompsonWith the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.
William Irwin Thompson