William Irwin Thompson Web Site

Lynn Margulis, 1938-2011

I. Lindisfarne Fellows Conference, 2011

When we pass on,

think only this of us:

we lived alert

to the rapids and breaks

of the heart’s cascade -

its loud blood

percusive music

in our ears,

as we encountered rocks,

marking our passage

in a broken open time.

II. Lindisfarne

My friends are dying

fast ahead of me.

Ideas we held

start to come apart.

A tidal island

lent its ancient name

and shared its spirit

in refracted time.

When the tide withdraws

and the road is dry

perhaps we shall cross

times to try again.

W.I.T.

The Lindisfarne Fellows is a voluntary informal association of individuals who are interested in the study and realization of a new planetary culture. The Fellows come from all faiths, theistic and atheistic, and all professions; although they share a common ethos, they do not share a common ideology.The Fellows meet once a year for informal discussion and do not offer a formal program of instruction to the public.

2009 Meeting at Upaya House

Roshi Joan Halifax

H.H. the Dalai Lama & Evan Thompson

Wendell Berry

Jane Hirshfield

Ralph Abraham

Mary Caherine Bateson

Pir Zia Inayat-Khan & William Irwin Thompson

Lefkoff, Margulis, & Bamford

2011 Meeting at the Sufi Abode of the Message in New Lebanon, NY.

The Roster of the new Lindisfarne Fellowship for 2012 is:

Ralph Abraham, Director, Visual Mathematics Institute, Santa Cruz, California.www.ralph-abraham.org/
David Abram, Eco-Philosopher and Author, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Brian Arthur, Economist, Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico. http://www.santafe.edu/~wbarthur/
Steve Arnold, Electronics Media Consultant and Venture Capitalist, Seattle, WA., http://www.polarisventures.com/
Christopher Bamford, Author and Publisher, Great Barrington, MA. http://www.lindisfarne.org/
Mary Catherine Bateson, Emerita Prof. of Anthropology George Mason Univ., Fairfax, Virginia. http://www.marycatherinebateson.com/
Nora Bateson, Cinematographer, Nelson, British Columbia, Canada.
Wendell Berry, Poet and Farmer, Port Royal, Kentucky.
Evan Chambers, Chair of Composition, Associate Professor of Music, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. http://www.music.umich.edu/faculty_staff/bio.php?
Bruce Clarke, Author, literary critic and cultural historian, Professor of English, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas. http://www.faculty.english.ttu.edu/clarke/
Richard Falk, Emeritus Professor of International Law, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton, NJ. Santa Barbara, CA.
David Finkelstein, Physicist, Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. http://www.physics.gatech.edu/people/faculty/dfinkelstein.html
Joan Halifax-roshi, Anthropologist and Abbess, Upaya Zen Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico. http://www.upaya.org/roshi/
Hazel Henderson, Author & Economist, St. Augustine, Florida.http://www.ethicalmarkets.tv/
Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, Artist, Zurich, Switzerland. http://www.wissenskunst.ch/en/biographie.htm
Jane Hirshfield, Poet/Author, Mill Valley, California. http://www.barclayagency.com/hirshfield.html
Vivienne Hull, Co-founder, Whidbey Institute, Whidbey Island, Washington. http://www.whidbeyinstitute.org/
Piet Hut, Professor of Astrophysics, Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, NJ. http://www.ids.ias.edu/~piet/
Wes Jackson, Botanist & Co-Director, The Land Institute, Salina, Kansas. http://www.landinstitute.org/
Pir Zia Inayat-Khan is the spiritual leader of the Sufi Order International and founder of Seven Pillars House of Wisdom, New Lebanon, New York. www.sevenpillarshouse.org.http://www.sufiorder.org/
Stuart Kauffman, Director of the Center for Biocomplexity and Informatics, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. http://www.ucalgary.ca/ibi/kauffman/
Tim Kennedy, Molecular Biologist, Professor of Neuroscience, McGill University, Montreal
Merle Lefkoff, Political Scientist and Founder of the Madrona Institute, Santa Fe, NM and San Juan Island, WA. http://www.www.madrona.org
James Lovelock, Chemist, Coombe Mills Laboratories, Devon, England. http://www.ecolo.org/lovelock/
Amory Lovins, Physicist, Rocky Mountain Institute, Snowmass, Colorado. http://www.rmi.org/
Luigi Luisi, Polymer Chemist, Professor, Universita degli Studi di Roma Tre. http://www.plluisi.org/grl_luisi.html
Paul Mankiewicz, Ph.D. Biologist, Director of the Gaia Institute, New York City. http://www.gaiainstituteny.org/
Laura McClanahan, Artist, Glen Gardner, NJ.
Robert McDermott, Author, Professor, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco California. http://www.ciis.edu/faculty/mcdermott.html
Saul Mendlovitz, Emeritus Prof. of International Law, Rutgers Univ., Rutgers, New Jersey. http://catalogs.rutgers.edu/generated/nwk-law_0406/pg5500.html
James Parks Morton, Interfaith Fellowship, New York City. http://11thhouraction.com/ideasandexperts/jamesparksmorton
Dulce Murphy, Director, Esalen Institute-Russian Exchange Program, San Francisco, Calif.
Michael Murphy, Author & Founder of Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California
Natasha Myers, Dancer and Anthropologist, York University, Toronto, Canada, http://www.arts.yorku.ca/anth/nmyers/
Mayumi Oda, Artist, Kealakekua, Hawaii. http://www.mayumioda.net/
David Orr, Prof. of Environmental Studies, Oberlin College, Ohio. http://www.oberlin.edu/envs/faculty_pages/orr.htm
Susan Oyama, Emerita Prof. of Psychology, John Jay College, City Univ. of New York
Dorion Sagan, Author, Science Writers, Amherst, Massachusetts. http://www.sciencewriters.org-
David Spangler, Author, Issaquah, Washington. http://www.Lorian.org.
Brother David Steindl-Rast, Author, & Benedictine Monk, Benedictine Grange, West Redding, Connecticut. http://www.gratefulness.org/brotherdavid/index.htm
Joy Stocke, Founder and Editor of the Wild River Review, Princeton, NJ. http://www.wildriverreview.com/index.php
Neil Theise, MD., Faculty of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Beth Israel Hospital, NY. http://www.neiltheise.com/
Evan Thompson, Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto, http://individual.utoronto.ca/evant/
William Irwin Thompson, Author & Founder of the Lindisfarne Association. Portland, Maine.
Robert Thurman, Prof. of Religion, Columbia Univ. New York. http://www.bobthurman.com/biography.shtml
John Todd, Institute for Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Co-Founder of New Alchemy & Ocean Arks, Falmouth Massachusetts, http://www.toddecological.com/
Nancy Jack Todd, Author & Editor, Co-Founder of New Alchemy and Ocean Arks, Falmouth, Massachusetts, http://www.oceanarks.org/
Rebecca Todd, Dancer, Choreographer, Cognitive Scientist, the University of Toronto, Canada.
Sim Van der Ryn, Architect, Sausalito, California,
http://www.ecodesign.org
Michaela Walsh, Founder of Women's World Banking International, New York, walshmich@gmail.com.
Paul Winter, Musician, Director of the Paul Winter Consort, Litchfield, Connecticut, & Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, http://www.livingmusic.com/
Arthur Zajonc, Prof. of Physics, Amherst College, Massachusetts, www.arthurzajonc.org