The Axial Age

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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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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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), but the [...]

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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 listed).
Even superficial [...]

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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 ‘eonic [...]

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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 the [...]

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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 [...]

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