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William Irwin Thompson Quotes
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William Irwin Thompson
American
Philosopher
Born:
Jul 16
,
1938
Control
Culture
Ideologies
Imagination
Science
Unconscious
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If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.
William Irwin Thompson
You
Fate
Will
Destiny
Inflicted
Create
Your
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
Failure
Imagination
Embodied
Emergence
Catastrophe
Feel
Felt
Stimulated
Domain
Often
Sensation
Experienced
Cannot
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.
William Irwin Thompson
Generation
Karma
Feeling
Thinking
Imagination
Alienated
Unconscious
Divorced
Reflected
Process
Actions
Expressed
Conscious
Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World.
William Irwin Thompson
World
Living
Complete
Ideologies
Processes
Map
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.
William Irwin Thompson
Mistake
Culture
Intelligence
National
Consequences
Located
Simply
Longer
Institution
Make
Within
Artificial
Now
The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
William Irwin Thompson
Nature
Science
Control
Chaos
Purpose
Unconscious
Effect
Conscious
Disruption
The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.
William Irwin Thompson
Science
Control
Chaos
Systems
More
Abstract
Holds
With 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
Change
Science
Universe
Hundreds
Way
Hundreds Of Thousands
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Emergence
Rate
Civilization
Knowing
Shifted
Years
Centuries
Millennia
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