The Axial Age

The conspiracy of silence over the Axial Age

One of the strangest side effects of the study of the eonic effect is the way it indirectly clarifies the confusions in antiquity over cycles of civilization.
We tend to reject all of this out of hand (but it always resurfaces, witness the debates currently over decline), but the simple periodization of the eonic model unexpectedly uncovers the empirical reasons for the confusion, and also shows clearly that, speaking empirically, the ‘new age’ effect is real (with many qualifications, and expressed in a different terminology), and is especially visible in the phenomenon of the Axial Age. This is a tricky subject, but it is possible, quite easy in fact, to restate this issue in terms that can satisfy the strictest scientific demand for rigorous analysis. All we have to do is lay down a detailed timeline, with an associated geographical component, and look at the sudden way the cyclical phenomenon stands out. Whatever the explanation.
This is at first preposterous, but the facts speak for themselves. Nothing like hard facts to kill a theory, here the ‘theory’ that non-random patterns don’t exist.