gone part of the way toward rescuing mysticism from its Western friends. But only part of the way. In his book 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, Daniel Pinchbeck referred to Thompson as a cultural critic, a mystic, a practicing yogi, "one of the few modern intellectuals to appreciate Steiner's work", andone of a small number of original thinkers who not only understands our present impasse but realizes it is not the whole story. Something else is taking place as well— a sidereal movement of consciousness returning us to levels of awareness denied and repressed by the materialist thrust of our current civilization. Essential in this process, according to Thompson, is a change in our understanding of myth. We can change "from a postmodern sensibility in which myth is regarded as an absolute and authoritarian system of discourse to a planetary culture in which myth is regarded as isomorphic, but not identical to scientific narratives." Selected works The Language of "Finnegans Wake" (The Sewanee Review Vol. 72, No. 1 (Winter, 1964), pp. 78–90) Collapsed universe and structured poem: An essay in Whiteheadian criticism (thesis), (College English, October 1966) The Imagination of an Insurrection: Dublin, Easter 1916: A Study of an Ideological Movement, 1967 At the Edge of History: Speculations on the Transformation of Culture, 1971 The Individual as Institution: The Example of Paolo Soleri. Harper's, 1972 Passages about Earth: An Exploration of the New Planetary Culture, 1974 Evil and World Order, 1976 Darkness and Scattered Light, 1978 The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, 1981, 2001 From Nation to Emanation: Planetary Culture and World Governance, 1982 Blue Jade from the Morning Star: An Essay and a Cycle of Poems on Quetzalcoatl, 1983 Pacific Shift, 1986 Gaia, A Way of Knowing, 1988 (editor) Selected Poems, 1959-1980, 1989 Imaginary Landscape: Making Worlds of Myth and Science, 1989 Gaia Two: Emergence, The New Science of Becoming, 1991 (editor) Islands Out of Time: A Memoir of the Last Days of Atlantis: A Novel, 1990 Reimagination of the World: A Critique of the New Age, Science, and Popular Culture (with David Spangler), 1991 The American Replacement of Nature: The Everyday Acts and Outrageous Evolution of Economic Life, 1991 Worlds Interpenetrating and Apart: Collected Poems, 1959-1995, 1997 Coming into Being: Artifacts and Texts in the Evolution of Consciousness, 1996, 1998 Transforming History: A Curriculum for Cultural Evolution, 2001 & 2009.