The Axial Age

The Enigma Of Historical Evolution

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Entries from July 2009

Religious discussions with/without reference to Axial period

July 28th, 2009 · No Comments

Prerequisites for religious discussion
Discussing the history of monotheism without reference to the Axial period is delusive!

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Atheism in Axial period

July 28th, 2009 · No Comments

History of atheism
Students of Axial Age forget that atheism and monotheism both appear in the Axial period.

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Armstrong’s distortion of the eonic effect

July 14th, 2009 · No Comments

Karen Armstrong’s The Great Transformation is a disguised rip-off of World History And The Eonic Effect, transposed and reinterpreted to grease the wheeels. Note how Armstrong slips in the ‘great transformation of modernity’, but has changed the terms of discourse complexity.
In our current predicament, I believe that we can find inspiration in the period that [...]

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Higher powers

July 13th, 2009 · No Comments

HIgher powers

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God idea stillborn in Axial religions?

July 12th, 2009 · No Comments

‘God’ idea stillborn in Axial religions

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