i'll quote a liddul more first ... pay attention to the last line

http://www.wildriverreview.com/2/2-poetry_canticum.html

Canticum, Turicum

by William Irwin Thompson

for Beatrice

FOREWORD

I. IMAGES OF HISTORY

II. TORUS AND HYPERSPHERE

III. UNTER DEN LINDEN

IV. THE LATIN HINGE

V. GHAZAL FOR THE ECSTATIC SELF

VI. STONEHENGE AND THE GRAIL CASTLE

VII. A TESSERACT OF ADULTEROUS NARRATIVES

VIII. ROBERT WALSER ON THE TRITTLIGASSE

IX. THE END OF THE LINE

Do you know that if you stand in Nara and ask why the deer are allowed to graze
in great numbers within the temple walls, the Shinto priests say it is to honor
the White Deer upon which the ancient gods first descended from heaven to Japan?
Do you know that the Mexican Huichol in peyote trance see this same great stag and in pictures they make with colored yarn, show shaman and stag in conversation?
I could go on to speak of Hittite stags, Mesopotamian cylinder seals, but won’t, since that would be academic.
But it was this very same Great White Stag with radiant antlers of astral light that led Hildegard and Berta away from their high castle to the holy place where the Fraumünster cloister stands today.
If you cross the Münster-Brücke and stand
by the statue of Waldman with his axe,
you will see, between the Stadthaus and church,
an iron gate leading to a cloister.
Cross the street and go into the cloister,
and there you will find Bodmer’s paintings
of the White Stag and the serpent that came
to test the judgment of King Charlemagne.
But there is more to this old story
than what you see so realistically
expressed in Heimat religious paintings.
And all that has to do with the nature
of time and the kairos of religions,
for each is bound to a season of time
in which its worship derives its power.
The serpent is an image you can track all the way back to Old Stone Age Europe and forward to the art of William Blake.
It is known in many iconic forms:
from the staff of Osiris, the snake Moses set upon a rod in Sinai, the Caduceus of Greek medicine,
the plumed serpent of Quetzalcoatl, the kundalini of Vedic yogis, the dance of crane and snake in Tai Chi Chuan,
or bird and snake on inverted anchor as emblem of the Chemycal Wedding for Rosicrucian texts in Germany.
No matter in which culture it appears, it remains the emblem of the three brains spinal, limbic, and cortical, and their esoteric transformation in light.
For the Old Europe Gimbutas dug up, the snake is the mystery religion, the closed teachings of initiation that are not taught in churches and schools but only go from sage to hidden sage.
The eggs of the serpent, like Yeats’s crop of mummy wheat express the old passing its lineage on to another age, a new kairos in which new stars will pulse, changing the hidden dark environment for which the planets are merely dishes that pass on the energy of the stars.
The poison toad that broods upon the eggs means the old mysteries have been taken over and grown toxic, turned by false parentage to a life kept down in mud, and never to turn from snake into bird.
This also is an emblem of the race of Man and how we came out of starlight but were captured by the local spirits of the elemental Earth and had our parentage erased and reconscripted.
So here the old mystery religion can no longer serve the time, the serpent knows it is the kairos of Christendom, its Platonic Month of two thousand years that must parent the children of the snake.
Charlemagne as Celtic shaman is wise, and in the lineage of Cernunnos, he mediates between the snake and stag.
Passing the test of the serpent, the king insures the life of three eggs, three empires to come, Aachen, London, and Washington (and with each an esoteric teaching, Celtic, Rosicrucian, and Masonic).

http://vimeo.com/11877507 = 22 minutes .. he begins reading the Zurich poem  at 5m .. the whole thing ..

(Charlemagne allegory about 3 shifting centers, methods, and depths of depravity 'necessary', planned, scripted and/or feverdreamt - female choice robbingly and fabulatorily fearfondled? - in order to get whitie to bow, buckle and become instrumental in the brutality games  everybody is out to spare themselves and their own from)

William Irwin Thompson at Ross 2010 Poetry Week
from Ross Institute -- 3 years ago /

Blue Jade from the Morning Star: An Essay and a Cycle of Poems on Quetzalcoatl. New York: Lindisfarne Books, 1983.
 

Still Travels: Three Long Poems. New Jersey: Wild River Books, 2009.

William Irwin Thompson is a poet and cultural historian.

http://vimeo.com/rossinstitute/videos = 308 pieces

http://vimeo.com/75402318
1 month old

152 vids at their youtube account called www.youtube.com/user/theRossInstitute

other people citing WIT, starting with a particularly funny one, although i wouldn't put a little dry dusty pazuzu like qualities past the 'Gray' Eminencies .... yall try to spiritually innoculate against

Acorns: Windows High-Tide Foghat - Scribd
www.scribd.com/doc/123719606/Acorns-Windows-High-Tide-Foghat
04.02.2013 - Peter and Betty Ross, New York: Harper and Row, 1973). ...... Celtic Cernunnos sits cross-legged “surrounded by forest animals and rules ...... William Irwin Thompson considered the Grays as analogous to anaerobic bacteria.

volume IV (over a 1000 pages), $4
Joshua Morris 2013 iuniverse.com (bookseller)
the passage is a oneliner amidst many others ... attached to the chapter
with many diagram .. on Arthur Young (as listed in the TOC)
eeeeevrybuddy sells it .... yet no hits on blogs?????
https://www.google.nl/search?q=%22joshua+morris%22+foghat&ie=ut...

hey, you think that cannot be beat sizewise?

watch this just the letter C is a meg:

http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/bron/ern/C.pdf
     The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature .. the letter C
     2005 published in Bristol
     the entry before the one called 'Caves' is on the Cathedral of St John
     the Divine (Lindisfarne was an offshoot) and mentions WIT

  might as well paste the rest of yesterday's WIT related notes:

-the mother goddess figurine thumbs grace all 11 vids of the JDE series
macro / micro .. 'decantation'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4ejVZWcZsA&list=PL91D1C9D35D4F...

William Irwin Thompson Lecture 1/11
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Excerpted from CIIS lectures circa 1994
For more lectures by Thompson go to photosynthesis.com

wish the quality was better
http://www.photosynthesis.com/CIIS.html
old style tape seller ... and prolly lacks the images referred to
 

1:36 long vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m6sSs_e8ns&list=PL2214FD22ED21...

The Geometric Mentality
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William Irwin Thompson, author of Ross School's Evolution of Consciousness Spiral Curriculum, describes the Geometric Mentality.

it's all downhill after you suffer the lack of a climbing tree rack .... some trunkery situated upside down ... my treethinning fantasies have not been incorporated into any 'game' yet i take it? I use the Qmarks cause it's far from a game and losing it there leads to armed confrontations. Can we force them weirdo poor poor semite brothers to put 'their' money towards permaculture a la John Liu and Geoff Lawton? I mean these people are alive, willing and capable. Does this not deserve discussing in the UN???????? Them DueDevils blocking every hint in this direction 'with ease' still??????? i just did a more elaborate look at WIT (by no means exhaustive) here:
http://galacticspacebook.com/profiles/blogs/jose-in-the-70s-at-lind...
 
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm8jmAsgPt8&list=PL91D1C9D35D4F...
4th minute of 11:44 total for 7/11 (hour long lecture by WIT)

penis is a clitoris that suffers delusions of grandeur

6th minute refs gender trubbuls also
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6JE7SoUF7o&list=PL91D1C9D35D4F...
in the last of 11 he compares china's outlook with the small countries like Holland (i added this 2m long conclusion - before questions - to my Nl playlist) that nevertheless acted on imperialist ambitions .... this has to be seen in the light of this though:

Jews and the Opium Wars

Herman Esser - die juedische weltpest
45thou since 09 on a 1 vid account ... gentle tune 'into dust' (Mazzy Star)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS_LoLdEOGU&list=PL91D1C9D35D4F...
11/11 - 2 minute long vid
WIT's assertions - comparing China w small eu countries that went imperial have to be viewed on the light of this: 'Jews and the Opium Wars'
45thou since 09 on a 1 vid account ... gentle tune 'into dust' (Mazzy Star).
the pressures of supremacy affliction did perhaps center the SinoSapiens but caused vulnerabilities (to extreme sedation) due to inherent violence which hadn't been bent into the force for fertility direction as soil builders did, which jesus went and prophesied about glowingly enough as soon as he got home from his little study trip .. to no avail .. no instant micro profitsee desirable in the earth and aeon powning' peoples.
Chinese tensions were vastly more profitably 'dealt' with, doctored, 'ameliorated', assuaged, lindered, palliated ... in a word, exploited via poppies. Yes wars for izzitreal extend to afghanistan ... pleger and verpleger are accomplices as the phononymity helpfully indicates. Nowadays, pollution in china will soon obliterate all chances of reviving stuff written about by King (hattip Steve Solomon):
Agriculture Library Index - Soil and Health Library
www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/01aglibwelcome.html
King, F.H. Farmers of Forty Centuries: or Traditional Agriculture in China, ..