The Axial Age

The Enigma Of Historical Evolution

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Entries from August 2009

The great freedom sutra

August 24th, 2009 · No Comments

The issue of Buddhism is a confusing one. But one thing to consider is that it came into existence in the wake of the Axial Age, and then straddled an entire age until the modern, at which point its impetus began to fail. We see the desperation in the attempts to cast its ’seeds’ in [...]

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Wikipedia on ‘axial age’

August 20th, 2009 · No Comments

Wikipedia on Axial Age
The misperception of the Axial Age on Wikipedia is indicative of the inability to see the phenomenon: it is something far larger than the sages and prophets it appears to exhibit.

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Buddhism and the Axial period

August 7th, 2009 · No Comments

Buddhism in the Axial Age, and the successors

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Evolution of religion in the Axial period

August 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

Axial Age and the evolution of religion

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