Blue Jade from the Morning Star

Blue Jade from the Morning Star
Author: William Irwin Thompson
Publisher: SteinerBooks
Total Pages: 84
Release: 1983
Genre: 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.

2012

2012
Author: Daniel Pinchbeck
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2007
Genre: 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.

Transforming History

Transforming History
Author: Aron Thompson
Publisher: SteinerBooks
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2009-04
Genre: 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

Worlds Interpenetrating and Apart

Worlds Interpenetrating and Apart
Author: William Irwin Thompson
Publisher: SteinerBooks
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1997-10
Genre: 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.

Alexandria 4

Alexandria 4
Author: David Fideler
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Total Pages: 444
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: 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.

Coming Into Being

Coming Into Being
Author: William Irwin Thompson
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1998-06-15
Genre: 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

Legend of the Rainbow Warriors

Legend of the Rainbow Warriors
Author: Steven McFadden
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2005-07-13
Genre: 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.

Contact II.

Contact II.
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1988
Genre: American poetry
ISBN: