Author : William Irwin Thompson
Publisher : SteinerBooks
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 35,41 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780940262034
This beautiful little book, like Carlos Castaneda's works, shines new light into the mythical and poetic content of the collective unconscious.
Author : Daniel Pinchbeck
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 19,27 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781585425921
Draws on cosmological phenomena of the modern world as well as the author's own research into shamanic and metaphysical belief systems to support the Mayan theory about an unprecedented global shift predicted for the year 2012.
Author : Aron Thompson
Publisher : SteinerBooks
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 43,94 MB
Release : 2009-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 1584204613
Education is currently a foremost concern for many Americans. Education, however, is about more than teaching children skills for earning a living and how to function in life. It is really a means of transmitting both a culture and a heritage. William Irwin Thompson, one of today's most innovative interdisciplinary thinkers, talks about how to transform a cultural legacy in the course of transmitting it. His visionary approach takes education far beyond the bland, watered-down curricula so many students face today in public and private schools. Thompson offers us a mind-rattling tour of our potential as human beings, from the Gilgamesh epic of 2000 B.C.E. to Disney, popular music, current politics and social crises, and beyond. He not only presents a far-reaching system of knowledge and teaching, but also suggests how we can stimulate the best and healthiest patterns of development in our children and teenagers. Transforming History will enlighten today's educators and anyone concerned with improving our legacy and our children's place in it. CONTENTS: Foreword One: Cultural History and Complex Dynamical Systems Two: Transforming History Notes Appendix: An Outline of the Curriculum Index
Author : William Irwin Thompson
Publisher : SteinerBooks
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,55 MB
Release : 1997-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1584202017
In this volume of poems written over thirty-five years, William Irwin Thompson presents a remarkable range of work--from the personal and lyrical, through the narrative and mythological, to the scientific and cosmological--that traces many of the major themes that have affected contemporary culture for the past half century. His book opens with a mythological sequence on Quetzalcoatl, "Blue Jade from the Morning Star," which john Bierhorst has called "a fresh reading." In the words of Kathleen Raine: "There is a great difference between merely academic translation and the imaginative participation which Dr. Thompson has brought to these 'versions' and verse commentaries on the great vision of Quetzalcoatl." Books Two and Three contain mostly lyrical work, while Book Four concludes with a vision of the evolution of life that extends the lyrical into the cosmological in a sequence built on and addressed to the work of his four scientific friends: Ralph Abraham, James Lovelock, Lynn Margulis, and Francisco Varela.
Author : David Fideler
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 10,27 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780933999398
Alexandria explores the relationships between philosophy, cosmology, myth and culture; the spiritual, philosophical, and intellectual heritage of the Western World; and what the humanities have to contribute to the world today.
Author : William Irwin Thompson
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,2 MB
Release : 1998-06-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0312176929
A stunning New Age tour through literature, sculpture, and science that looks at the archetype of the human ascent to the heavens
Author : William Irwin Thompson
Publisher : SteinerBooks
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 36,37 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 9780940262324
Seminal works of cultural history that changed the way we think about ourselves.
Author : Steven McFadden
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 21,70 MB
Release : 2005-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1469785854
Legend of the Rainbow Warriors is a journalist's account of one of the core myths of America, and an electrifying exploration of how that myth is playing out in real time. One dominant myth is formed by advertising images of vast, luxurious wealth-the myth of materialism. Another myth is conjured in the bloody, sorrowful images that pervade movies, music and computer games-the myth that the world is hate-filled and chaotic beyond redemption. The Legend of the Rainbow Warriors offers a spiritual alternative of hope and real possibility based upon respect, freedom and responsibility. As drawn from dozens of historical accounts, the Legend of the Rainbow Warriors relates that "when the Earth becomes desperately sick, people of all colors and faiths will unite, and rise to face the overwhelming challenges with insight, honesty, caring, sharing, and respect." Veteran writer Steven McFadden weaves the myths and the headlines together seamlessly in a rich work of literary journalism that is adroitly crafted, eye-opening, and soul-inspiring.
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Page : 308 pages
File Size : 19,17 MB
Release : 1988
Category : American poetry
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Page : 632 pages
File Size : 47,19 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic journals
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