artifacts and texts in the evolution of consciousness Thompson, William Irwin. Additional Author mixed material bibliography New York Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press 1996 monographic 1st ed. en English

Print

xi, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. 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 from the preverbal communications of early stone carvings to the writings of Marcel Proust and around the monumental wrappings of Christo to the rebirth of interest in the Taoist philosophy of Lao Tsu. Owing as much to the rhythmic constructions of jazz as to established methods of scholarship, Thompson riffs on biology and culture, seeing the birth of the mind in Proust's madeleine, the displacement of humanity in Christo's wrappings of the Reichstag, and the path forward into a new planetary culture in the Tao Te Ching. 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. Culture Mysticism Evolution Consciousness Mythology 155.70312158343 Transformatio Library Bandung Theological Seminary 155.7 Tho c E08004127 Non Fiction 155.7 Tho c 51oMxr%2BuIsL._SY425_.jpg 2748 1996-01-23 00:00:00 2024-09-24 17:12:52 machine generated