The Axial Age

Zarathustra and the Old Testament Enigma

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Robert Wright’s The Evolution Of God and lack of awareness of Axial Age

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Buddhism in the Axial Age, and the successors

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Axial Age and the evolution of religion

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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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Conspiracy of silence on the Axial Age

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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.

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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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Evolution: A Gaian Matrix

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The 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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