@brianmclaren 6/ We’ve been here ‘before’, of course. The first great efflorescence of spiritual breakthrough and insight that sprang up across the world in a remarkably compressed time period, and referred to as 'the first axial age', offers us a textbook example of conscious intervention.
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It bears noting that all the great world traditions which emerged during the historical period which the German philosopher Karl Jaspers named the Axial Age, grew up in the context of endemic violence and warfare. And no matter the psychosis and brutality subsequently demonstrated by wayward ‘traditions of religiosity’ themselves, what the original Axial sages created was, the religious interpreter Karen Armstrong has observed, “a spiritual technology that utilized natural human energies to counter this aggression...The fact that they all came up with such profoundly similar solutions by so many different routes suggest that they had indeed discovered something important about the way human beings worked.”
In this regard, the advanced insights of contemporary voices confirm the continuing relevance of spiritual genius to the realpolitik of our age.... [cont.]](/media/1783104447306166498-GL7cCmTbwAA_MEk.jpg)
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Two paragraph excerpt from: Beginning with: It bears noting that all the great world traditions which emerged during the historical period which the German philosopher Karl Jaspers named the Axial Age, grew up in the context of endemic violence and warfare. And no matter the psychosis and brutality subsequently demonstrated by wayward ‘traditions of religiosity’ themselves, what the original Axial sages created was, the religious interpreter Karen Armstrong has observed, “a spiritual technology that utilized natural human energies to counter this aggression...The fact that they all came up with such profoundly similar solutions by so many different routes suggest that they had indeed discovered something important about the way human beings worked.” In this regard, the advanced insights of contemporary voices confirm the continuing relevance of spiritual genius to the realpolitik of our age.... [cont.]