The Axial Age
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Sunday, September 27th, 2009Zarathustra and the Old Testament Enigma
‘Evolution of God’ and Axial Age
Thursday, September 17th, 2009Robert Wright’s The Evolution Of God and lack of awareness of Axial Age
Buddhism and the Axial period
Friday, August 7th, 2009Buddhism in the Axial Age, and the successors
Evolution of religion in the Axial period
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009Axial Age and the evolution of religion
Armstrong’s distortion of the eonic effect
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009Karen 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 [...]
Conspiracy of silence
Saturday, June 13th, 2009Conspiracy of silence on the Axial Age
Israel and Archaic Greece
Friday, May 1st, 2009 Israel and Archaic Greece
the Axial interval in the Greek world can be seen in itself without the confusions of theology grafted onto it, and the basic dynamic stands out. We can then return to the Israelite case and see the way that the theology which the ‘output’ of the transformations is confusing us.
‘Axial’ ages, vs ‘The’ Axial Age
Friday, April 24th, 2009The question of the rise of modernity has an ironic meaning for students of the Axial Age: Blaut, modernism, and the ‘European Miracle’
A Gaian Matrix
Monday, April 20th, 2009Evolution: A Gaian Matrix
Online selections from World History And The Eonic Effect
Sunday, January 25th, 2009The online selections from World History And The Eonic Effect have a lot of material on, and insight into, the question of the Axial Age. Start here: Mysterious Drumbeat
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