4 Quotes & Sayings By William Irwin Thompson

William Irwin Thompson is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in anthropology in 1965 from Columbia University. His books include The Mythic Image (1980), Dark Continent (1981), The Human Career (1989), Artifacts and Artistry (1992), The Human Mind (1995), and An Anthropologist Among the Greeks (1997) Read more

He has written numerous articles on both prehistoric and classical subjects, especially in the areas of art, culture, and religion.

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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. William Irwin Thompson
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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. William Irwin Thompson
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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. William Irwin Thompson