The Axial Age

The Greek Archaic and the Axial Enigma A post at Darwiniana on the relationship between the Axial enigma and the Greek Archaic period

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The conspiracy of silence over the Axial Age One of the strangest side effects of the study of the eonic effect is the way it indirectly clarifies the confusions in antiquity over cycles of civilization. We tend to reject all of this out of hand (but it always resurfaces, witness the debates currently over decline), [...]

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Enigma of the Axial Age, post at Darwiniana.com

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Reviewing WHEE: Seeing the Axial Age in a nutshell The prime objective is to describe a beautiful discovery: a non-random pattern in world history. This is called the ‘eonic effect’. The term ‘eonic’ is a pun on ‘eon’ and ‘eonic’ (as in digital sampling electronics, type ‘eonic in google’ and see all the DSP companies [...]

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The eonic effect: as Darwinism crashes… What if evolutionary dynamics operates at high-speed over short intervals of time? Too short for us to observe. This possibility is never considered by biologists, because it invokes the possibility that theories of evolution are, so far, beyond our grasp. We don’t have empirically documented intervals observed at close [...]

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Another older essay on the Axial Age The Axial Age is really an attempt to describe one section of the so-called ‘eonic effect. The eonic effect is a complex non-random pattern of universal history and is described using a simple model of world history based on the idea of ‘eonic transitions’, as intervals in an [...]

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An old essay on Armstrong’s book on the Axial Age Karen Armstrong’s The Great Transformation, an historical depiction of the Axial Age, is in many ways a poor addition to the literature, although one destined to remain popular, no doubt. Perhaps, however, her account will draw attention to a question that has been neglected for [...]

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Here is a short ‘blogbook’ on Enigma Of The Axial Age, and here is the Introduction: One of the enigmas of world history is the phenomenon of the Axial Age. The study of the eonic effect can throw especial light on the resolution of its riddle, and the complexity of its interpretation. The discovery of [...]

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We may as well jump in the subject of the Axial Age: here is an old essay, once very popular on the web. It is from the website for the eonic effect, and will be archived here. World history shows unmistakable evidence of a massive parallel effect in the period ca -900 to -600+ across [...]

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