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Product Description: In an age of religious fundamentalist violence around the world, it is heartening to read poet and cultural historian William Irwin’s Thompson’s contention that a new form of post-religious spirituality is emerging in our planetary civilization, one that is more appropriate to our new electronic and globally interconnected noetic polities...read more

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9781584201519 | Lindisfarne Pr, July 1, 2013, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: In an age of religious fundamentalist violence around the world, it is heartening to read poet and cultural historian William Irwin’s Thompson’s contention that a new form of post-religious spirituality is emerging in our planetary civilization, one that is more appropriate to our new electronic and globally interconnected noetic polities.

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Comprises of a series of essays on the evolution of culture, dealing with topics including the city and consciousness, evolution of the afterlife, literary and mathematical archetypes, machine consciousness and the implications of 9/11, and the invasion of Iraq for the development of planetary culture.

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9780907845829 | Imprint Academic, March 1, 2004, cover price $17.90 | About this edition: Comprises of a series of essays on the evolution of culture, dealing with topics including the city and consciousness, evolution of the afterlife, literary and mathematical archetypes, machine consciousness and the implications of 9/11, and the invasion of Iraq for the development of planetary culture.

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The author of this book takes the reader on a journey through the evolution of consciousness from the preverbal communications of early stone carvings, to the writings of Marcel Proust, and up to the rebirth of interest in the Taoist philosophy of Lao Tzu.

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9780312158347 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 1, 1996, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Provides a incisive analysis on the evolution of human consciousness, from early stone carvings to the writings of Proust and the art of the Christo, to renewed interest in the Taoist philosophy of Lao Tzu

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9780333741801 | New edition (Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, August 5, 1998), cover price $54.00 | About this edition: The author of this book takes the reader on a journey through the evolution of consciousness from the preverbal communications of early stone carvings, to the writings of Marcel Proust, and up to the rebirth of interest in the Taoist philosophy of Lao Tzu.
9780312176921 | Griffin, June 15, 1998, cover price $21.99

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Product Description: 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...read more

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9780940262720 | Lindisfarne Pr, August 1, 1997, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: 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.

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Product Description: In a demythologized world, William Thompson finds that the power of myth is ironically being restored at the leading edge of science. This book surveys the present, from Post-Modern theory to a science encompassing Chaos theory and the Gaia hypothesis, and finds in it the threads out of which a future conceptual landscape might be woven...read more

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9780312028091 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 1, 1989, cover price $16.95

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9780312048082 | Reprint edition (Griffin, October 15, 1990), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: In a demythologized world, William Thompson finds that the power of myth is ironically being restored at the leading edge of science.

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Product Description: Seminal works of cultural history that changed the way we think about ourselves.

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9780940262324 | Lindisfarne Pr, June 1, 1989, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Seminal works of cultural history that changed the way we think about ourselves.

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Product Description: In this collection of thirty-eight poems, spanning the career of this eminent cultural historian, a keen mind and feeling heart are turned toward a third of a century of change. Beginning in a gentle Yeatsian mode, passing through acute and penetrating cultural commentary, the poems end in vision and cosmology...read more

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9780940262294 | Lindisfarne Pr, June 1, 1989, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: In this collection of thirty-eight poems, spanning the career of this eminent cultural historian, a keen mind and feeling heart are turned toward a third of a century of change.

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Product Description: Thompson brings together a collection of essays on the Gaia hypothesis by such authors as atmospheric scientist James Lovelock, biologist Lynn Margulis, cybernetic biologist Henry Atlan, and others. The suggestion is that for the first time since Newton, we have the chance to create a new ecology of consciousness, the basis for a new political and economic order...read more

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9780940262232 | Lindisfarne Pr, August 1, 1987, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Thompson brings together a collection of essays on the Gaia hypothesis by such authors as atmospheric scientist James Lovelock, biologist Lynn Margulis, cybernetic biologist Henry Atlan, and others.

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Drawing evidence from events and cultural artifacts ranging from the cold war to rock-and-roll video, this study analyzes the shifting focus of global culture from the traditional Atlantic centers to the dynamic Pacific

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9780871567505 | Sierra Club Books, March 1, 1986, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Drawing evidence from events and cultural artifacts ranging from the cold war to rock-and-roll video, this study analyzes the shifting focus of global culture from the traditional Atlantic centers to the dynamic Pacific

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Product Description: This beautiful little book, like Carlos Castaneda's works, shines new light into the mythical and poetic content of the collective unconscious.

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9780940262034 | Lindisfarne Pr, May 1, 1983, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: This beautiful little book, like Carlos Castaneda's works, shines new light into the mythical and poetic content of the collective unconscious.

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Product Description: Book by Thompson, William Irwin

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9780940262027 | Lindisfarne Pr, December 1, 1982, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Book by Thompson, William Irwin

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Investigates the intersection of science, history, art, and religion in myth as a way of illuminating human nature and providing a new understanding

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9780312805104 | St Martins Pr, December 1, 1980, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Investigates the intersection of science, history, art, and religion in myth as a way of illuminating human nature and providing a new understanding

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9780312805128 | St Martins Pr, March 1, 1982, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Investigates the intersection of science, history, art, and religion in myth as a way of illuminating human nature and providing a new understanding

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Product Description: Evil and World Order/Tb1951

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9780061319518 | Harpercollins College Div, June 1, 1980, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Evil and World Order/Tb1951

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Product Description: Seminal works of cultural history that changed the way we think about ourselves.

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9780686675709 | Irvington Pub, June 1, 1971, cover price $19.50 | About this edition: Seminal works of cultural history that changed the way we think about ourselves.

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