11.14.08

Why everyone disowns the Axial Age

Posted in The Axial Age at 8:21 pm by nemo

After the post today on Armstrong and her The Great Transformation, I recomend the material on this: Enigma Of The Axial Age at eonic-effect.net.

The key to this situation is to realize that none of the various establishments wants to see the Axial Age. It is pure ostrich on all sides. Christians don’t want anything to do with it because is shows that the ‘age of revelation’ is something diffferent, a part of a larger pattern of evolutionary emergence.
The secularists don’t want to see the Axial Age because it seems to contradict the idea of Darwinian evolution: we see a spectacular and discontinuous surge in the development of cultures, and this in a mysterious global fashion where synchronous phenomena occur indepently. That’s bad news for current paradigms (although I don’t see why, science is about empirical data, and the Axial Age is data).
In the middle of this confusion various religious interpreters have distorted the Axial Age data to try and fit it into the ‘age of revelation’ mode, but somewhat generalized. Won’t work either. The case of Axial Age Greece shows that a ‘secularist’ version of the Axial Age works just as well (actually the greeks were polytheists, but the seeds of secularism are clearly sown in Axial Greece).

Thus we see why all parties are determined to not see what’s there and pretend their phantom paradigms and religions are OK as is.

It’s sad, because the beliefs people are clinging to are false, dull, and counterproductive, while a careful examination of the facts would open up a majestic vista of the reality of human evolution in a cosmic context.
I have challenged the scientific community many times to acknowledge and deal with the Axial Age issue. It is remarkable to watch the reaction (mostly no reaction). It’s like telling an ostrich to disearth its head from the ground. It can’t happen.
But it will happen soon.

Meanwhile the question of the Axial Age is the gateway to a larger question addressed by the issues of the eonic effect in a spectacular generalization of the Axial pattern.

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