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.
William Irwin Thompson is a poet and cultural historian and has written nearly twenty books. He took his doctorate at Cornell University (1966) and has taught at Cornell, MIT, and York University in toronto. In 1972 he founded the Lindisfarne Association and served as its Director until 1997.
