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Blue Jade from the Morning Star: An Essay and a Cycle of Poems on Quetzalcoatl

By: THOMPSON, WILLIAM

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Steiner Books:

Seller ID: 1369

ISBN: 0940262037

Binding: Paperback

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

William Irwin Thompson, Ph.D., was born in Chicago in 1938 and grew up in Los Angeles. A poet and cultural philosopher, received a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to study at Cornell in 1962 and a Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship to do his doctoral research in Dublin in 1964. He received his doctorate from Cornell in 1966 and published his first book, The Imagination of an Insurrection: Dublin, Easter 1916 in 1967. Thompson has taught at Corne...
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Transforming History A New Curriculum for a Planetary Culture

By: THOMPSON, WILLIAM IRWIN

Price: $35.95

Publisher: United Kingdom, Floris Books: 2009

Seller ID: 1622

ISBN: 1584200693

Binding: Paperback

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Education, argues William Thompson, is about more than teaching skills and knowledge. It's about transmitting a culture and a heritage, and in doing so we have an opportunity to transform our cultural legacy. This exciting interdisciplinary thinker offers a whirlwind tour from ancient literature to Disney and current politics, presenting a far-reaching system of teaching which can stimulate the best and healthiest patterns of development in our children and teenagers.
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Beyond Religion The Cultural Evolution of the Sense of the Sacred, from Shamanism to Religion to Post-religious Spirituality

By: THOMPSON, WILLIAM IRWIN, PREFACE BY JOY E STOCKE

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Lindisfarne Press:

Seller ID: 13959

ISBN: 1584201517

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. This little book is a Vade Mecum of the cultural evolutionary news to keep in one’s pocket to read along with the day’s emotionally manipulative political news.

Thompson shows us that, like a dying star in supernova, the expl...
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Author:THOMPSON, WILLIAM

Blue Jade from the Morning Star: An Essay and a Cycle of Poems on Quetzalcoatl

Transforming History A New Curriculum for a Planetary Culture

Beyond Religion The Cultural Evolution of the Sense of the Sacred, from Shamanism to Religion to Post-religious Spirituality