It is the thesis of World Perspectives that man is in the process of developing a new consciousness which, in spite of his apparent spiritual and moral captivity, can eventually lift the human race above and beyond the fear, ignorance, and isolation which beset it today.

Evil and world order (World perspectives ; v. 49)

William Irwin Thompson

Harper&Row

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

At the Edge of History

HarperCollins (paper)

At the Edge of History - Speculations on the Transformation of Culture

Harpercollins Publisher

Coming into Being: Artifacts and Texts in the Evolution of Consciousness

The author of The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light provides an incisive analysis on the evolution of human consciousness, from early stone carvings to the writings of Proust and the art of Christo, to renewed interest in the Taoist philosophy of Lao Tzu.

Self-Help

St.Martin's Press

In his best-selling The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light, William Irwin Thompson intrigued readers with his thoughts on mythology and sexuality. In his newest book, Coming Into Being: Artifacts and Texts in the Evolution of Consciousness, he 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, around the monumental wrappings of Christo and up to the rebirth of interest in the Taoist philosophy of Lao Tzu. Owing as much to the rhythmic constructions of jazz as to established methods of scholarship, Thompson plays a riff on biology and culture seeing the birth of the mind in Proust's Madeleine, the displacement of humanity in Christo's wrapping of the Reichstag and, in Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, the path forward to a new planetary culture. In Coming Into Being, William Irwin Thompson presents a fascinating vision of our past, our present, and our future that no one will want to miss.

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Planetary Culture & World Governance. Based on lectures given at the Findhorn Foundation, this is a lively & scholarly account of the transition from industrial civilisation to planetary culture. Illus. with diagrams. 1982

From Nation to Emanation: Planetary Culture and World Governance

Findhorn Publications

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Evil and world order (World perspectives ; v. 49)

At the Edge of History

At the Edge of History - Speculations on the Transformation of Culture

Coming into Being: Artifacts and Texts in the Evolution of Consciousness

Coming into Being: Artifacts and Texts in the Evolution of Consciousness

From Nation to Emanation: Planetary Culture and World Governance