The Books of William Irwin Thompson

The Books of William Irwin Thompson
Tables of Contents

The Imagination of an Insurrection: Dublin, Easter 1916	At the Edge of History: Speculations on the Transformation of Culture	Passages About Earth: An Exploration of the New Planetary Culture
Evil and World Order	Darkness and Scattered Light	The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light: Mythology, Sexuality & the Origin of Culture
Blue Jade from the Morning Star	Islands Out of Time	Pacific Shift
Imaginary Landscape: Making Worlds of Myth and Science	Reimagination of the World : A Critique of the New Age, Science, and Popular Culture with David Spangler (1991)	The American Replacement of Nature
Coming into Being: Artifacts and Texts in the Evolution of Consciousness	Worlds Interpenetrating and Apart: Collected Poems 1959-1996

The Imagination of an Insurrection: Dublin, Easter 1916 (1967) Part One: The Movement Toward the Event Chapter One. The Past Recaptured Chapter Two. The Interpretation of the Past Chapter Three. The Realization of the Past Part Two: The Poets in the Event Chapter Four. The Myth of the Self in the Poetry of the Rebels Part Three: Three Images of the Event Chapter Five. The Tragic Image: Yeats Chapter Six. The Mystic Image: A.E. Chapter Seven. The Naturalistic Image: O’Casey Conclusion: Imagination and History	At the Edge of History: Speculations on the Transformation of Culture (1971) Preface 1. Looking for History in L.A. 2. Going Beyond It at Big Sur 3. Getting Back to Things at M.I.T. 4. Values and Conflict Through History: the view from a Canadian retreat 5. A. D. 2000: The Millennium Under New Management 6. The Revisioning of History
Passages About Earth: An Exploration of the New Planetary Culture (1973) One. The Lift-off Limits Two. Walking Out on the University Three: The Individual asInstitution Four. The World State and the Shadow of H. G. Wells Five. Of Physics and Tantra Yoga Six. Planetary Mythologies Seven. To Findhorn and Lindisfarne	Evil and World Order (1976) I. Meditation on the Dark Ages, Past and Present II. We Become What We Hate III. Three Wise Men of Gotham IV. Occulture: Out of Sight, Out of Mind V. Introductions to Findhorn VI. Freedom, Evil, and Comedy VII. The Ends of Art VIII. Evil and World Order
Darkness and Scattered Light (1977) One. Beyond Civilization or Savagery Two. The Metaindustrial Village Three. The Return of the Past Four. The Future of Knowledge Afterword	The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light: Mythology, Sexuality & the Origin of Culture (1981) Part One. The Myth Before History Prologue: The Time Falling Bodies Took to Fall Part Two. The Transformations of Prehistory 1. Homonization 2. Symbolization 3. Agriculturalization Part Three. Western Civilization and the Displacement of the Feminine 4. Civilization and Alienation in Ancient Sumer 5. Civilization and Initiation in Ancient Egypt Part Four. The Myth Beyond History Epilogue: The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light
Blue Jade from the Morning Star (1983)	Islands Out of Time (1985)
Pacific Shift (1986)	Imaginary Landscape: Making Worlds of Myth and Science (1985) Prologue. Imaginary Landscape with Four Friends Thinking Apart Chapter One. Cosmology Chapter Two. Gaia: Cosmology Regained Chapter Three. Intellectual Dominions and Cognitive Domains Chapter Four. A Cultural History of Consciousness Epilogue. Gaian Cosmologies
Reimagination of the World : A Critique of the New Age, Science, and Popular Culture, with David Spangler (1991) Acknowledgments Prologue by David Spangler Seminar I Sixteen Years of the New Age (William Irwin Thompson) Images of the New Age (David Spangler) Discussion I: Entry into the new Age, Illusion, Delusion, and Paranoia Imagination and the New Age (David Spangler) Discussion 2: Definition and Content of the New Age The Big Picture and the Messianic Delusion (William Irwin Thompson) New Age Science and the Challenge of Discernment (William Irwin Thompson) Science and Storytelling (David Spangler) Discussion 3: Paranoia, Morphogenic Fields, Success and Fame The Self and the Other (William Irwin Thompson) Discussion 4: Secularization, the End of Nature, the Subtle Bodies, Enlightenment Formative Forces and the Higher Dimension of Spirit (David Spangler) Discussion 5: New Age Spirituality, Channelling, Esoteric Cosmology Seminar II The Cosmic Christ (David Spangler) Discussion 6: Limitlessness, God, the Initiatic Path, Incarnation Imagination and the Bringing Forth of Worlds (William Irwin Thompson) Discussion 7: Religion, Humor, Tibert, Love and Compassion, Electronic Culture, Good and Evil, Social Action Conclusions Looking Ahead (David Spangler) Scary Stuff (William Irwin Thompson) Epilogue The Fall of the Wall (David Spangler) The War in the Gulf (William Irwin Thompson)	The American Replacement of Nature: The Everyday Acts and Outrageous Evolution of Economic Life (1991) Fast Forward. The American Replacement of Nature Play. Disney’s World: The American Replacement of Culture Record. CNN: The American Replacement of Historical Reality Erase. Gnostic Technologies: The Amrican Replacement of Incarnation Reverse. The Channels of Nw Mexico
Coming into Being: Artifacts and Texts in the Evolution of Consciousness (1996) 1. Our Contemporary Predicament and Our Present Evolution of Consciousness 2. The Past Evolution of Consciousness: From Spirochete to Spinal Chord 3. Science and the Construction of Mythic Narratives about Human Origins 4. Weird Myths about Human Origins as Expressive of the Evolution of Consciousness from the Territorial Nation-State to Global Noetic Polities: The Strange Cases of Zecharia Sitchin and Rudolf Steiner 5. Prehistoric Sculptures: The Body as the Story of Time 6. From Prehistoric Sculpture to Folktale to Civilized Literature 7. The Hero versus the Initiate in the Masculine Encounter with Death: A Comparison of Osiris and Gilgamesh 8. The Patriarchal Construction of Culture and the Reimagination of the Female Body: A Comparison of the Enuma Elish and the Rig Veda 9. The Shift from the Arithmetic to the Geometric Mentality: Another Look at the Biblical Story of Samson and Delilah 10. The Alliance of the Animal and the Human in the Expulsion of the Demonic from the Physical World: A Consideration of the Ramayana 11. The Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita: The Emergence and Articulation of the Higher Self 12.The Road Not Taken: Chaos Dynamics and the Cosmic Feminine in the Tao Te Ching	Worlds Interpenetrating and Apart: Collected Poems 1959-1996 (1997) BOOK ONE: Blue Jade from the Morning Star, 1981-1872 Introduction: The Flight of the Serpent Part 1 The Ancient Texts I. The Age of the Gods: Tamoanchan II. The Age of Heroes: Teotihuacan III The Age of Men: Tula Part 2 The Theme in Variation I Topiltzin's Address at Xochiacalo II. Meditation on Mount Nonohualaca III. Morning in Tula IV. Quezalpetlatl BOOK TWO: POEMS 1959-1967 Chaconne Janice in the Windowsill Hart Crane and William Yeats Varianation on a Poem by Jiminez Ode to Marsyas Nightwatch Living with Gail Pillow Talk Childbirth Frost at Midnight In a Graduate Seminar on Poetry Cornell Seasons Before Surgery Sunset at Point Lobos I Dreamt Before Creation Elementary Particles Window to the Dublin Mountains What Is the Matter with Space Above Pomona BOOK THREE: POEMS 1981-1996 For Zentatsu Baker-roshi Full Moon over the Sangre Epitaph for Crestone The Quest for the Holy Grail Haiku for Hilary To Findhorn, April 28, 1986 New Age Lecturer in New York A Review of James Merrill Winter Walk above the Nydeggbrucke After You and before Georgia O'Keefe's Dark Iris Swiss Tits The Pearl of Great Price Autumn in New York Feminage to Emily Dickinson At the Grave of James Joyce Manhattan Morning 2011 A.D. Lindisfarne 793 A.D. Spring in the Haight-Ashbury Proem The Strange Attractors of East Hampton Springs, East Hampton Street Fair in Spanish Harlem Witikonerstrasse, Zurich Das Alpengluehen Paradeplatz Passacaglias Limatquai, Zurich Death: A Political History in Memory of Jamie Mendlovitz and Tadea Bamford BOOK FOUR: GAIAN COSMOLOGIES 1987-1995 I. Interceptions of S tarlight II. Fastnacht. Bern, March 77, 1987 III. World Interpenetrating and Apart IV. A Little Lecture on Food Chains V. Origins of Life VI. The Shape of the World VII. The Ends of Worlds VIII. The Lessons of History