Quotes by William Irwin Thompson

“Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.”

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

“The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.”

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