# Cosmos Café \[2023-02-09\] -- WI Thompson’s 'Imaginary Landscape' 1 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cosmos Café\ **Tags:** feature, event, recording, cafe\ **Created:** [January 30, 2023, 3:40pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-2023-02-09-wi-thompson-s-imaginary-landscape-1/5551 "2023-01-30T15:40:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
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> [@achronon](#): > > In true Gebserian fashion [1, 2] (even though he never references Gebser), Thompson encourages us to revisit the emotional and epistemological power of myth in the transition of knowledge. It’s true that he doesn’t mention Gebser in this text but he has been guided by Gebser in other books and in his talks. I don’t know if Gebser was widely known at that time. I knew who Gebser was through Feuerstein’s _Structure of Consciousness_ which appeared in '87. I had also read Wilber’s praise of Gebser but I didn’t actually read him until the early 90s. You can sense that Thompson is resonating with Gebserian vibration even if he doens’t reference him directly. Gebser was in his aura. I recall an over the top attack by Thompson on Wilber for his misapporiation of Gebser. At the time, I could make little sense of that controversy. Maybe , after much experience working with with integral ideas, I can make better sense of Thompson’s annoyance. He was very polemical with a sharp wit and like Wilber he was an outsider. How does an independent scholar make it without instiutional support? That was what his grand experiement was about. Soon enough , it s all blood under the bridge. > [@achronon](#): > > Thompson also informs us that he’s enlisting the aid of four other wayfarers: Ralph Abraham, James Lovelock, Lynn Margulis, and Francisco Varela. Are you familiar with any or all of them? Yes, I know all of them really well. So, here we are again,at the edge of history, with the tools that we have been given. Where do we start digging? Maybe we can find an image for this page? Michael, can you help us with that? --- _[View the full topic](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-2023-02-09-wi-thompson-s-imaginary-landscape-1/5551)._