William Irwin Thompson

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Bio

William Irwin Thompson, a cultural historian has taught in various fields of the humanities and social sciences at Cornell, MIT, York, Syracuse, and the Universities of Toronto and Hawaii. Since 1973 hismajor effort has been in the founding and directing of the Lindisfarne Association as an alternative for the humanities in a technological society. Over the years Lindisfarne has been a moveable feast, with activities in Long Island, Manhattan, California, and Colorado. Thompson currently teaches an autumn seminar at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City (where he serves as Lindisfarne Scholar in Residence); works summers with David Spangle's Morningtown project in Redmond, Washington; and "hides out" in Switzerland in the winter and spring. --from bookjacket of Imaginary Landscape.

Quotes

"The imagination is an ancient faculty, perhaps so ancient that it even antedates the origins of language and comes out of a lost time when sight could hear space shudder and smell could sense the interpenetration of each in all."

"The fundamentalist, unfortunately, cannot follow the symbolic utterance of the mystic..."

Credits

The Imagination of an Insurrection

At the Edge of History

Passages About Earth

Evil and World Order

Darkness and Scattered Light

The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light

Blue Jade From the Morning Star (Poetry)

Islands Out of Time (Fiction)

Pacific Shift

Pointers

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