The Axial Age

The Enigma Of Historical Evolution

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Entries from April 2009

‘Axial’ ages, vs ‘The’ Axial Age

April 24th, 2009 · No Comments

The question of the rise of modernity has an ironic meaning for students of the Axial Age: Blaut, modernism, and the ‘European Miracle’

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Armstrong’s confusion over ‘Axial spirituality’, ‘Axial peoples’

April 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

“The first people to attempt and Axial Age spirituality were pastoralists living on the steppes of southern Russia, who called themselves the Aryans’,
Chapter 1, first paragraph, of Karen Armstrong’s The Great Transformation’.
Armstrong’s first sentence in her book is completely wrongheaded, and shows the first of a series of fallacies that completely wreck her whole [...]

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A Gaian Matrix

April 20th, 2009 · No Comments

Evolution: A Gaian Matrix

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Tags: The Axial Age · The Eonic Effect