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Assuming the reader has read World History and The Eonic Effect and/or a series of tutorials on the Eonic Effect, he will be familiar with our idea of the eonic sequence of three turning points, and of the parallel spectrum of the Axial Age, with the first phase of the Sumerians and the Egyptians dynastics. The 'eonic effects' or 'eonic emergents' are the phenomena associated with each phase or turning point, the data that makes us exclaim, Wow, the Axial Age. We already have a way to starting tracking the seminal world views that flow into the stream of civilization and become the sources of later ideology. We can get a bird's eye view with a simple list/map: Phase 1: Egypt/Sumer, the birth of Statism, empire Phase 2: From Confucius/Lao Tse to the Occidental regions we have a massive constellation of streams, notably the Buddhist/Hindu nexus, the Judaic/Zoroastrian religious monotheisms, the Greek universe, powerfully multivalent, comprising everything from the Pre-Socratics, to the Tragedians, with the first birth of democracy. Note how phase two reacts with ideas of freedom and equality against the archaic elements of primordial statism. Phase 3: The birth of the modern idea of freedom, with associated ideas of statism, revolution, etc,... We should note one crucial aspect of all this, which is that the eonic emergents of each phase are action scripts, to use the terminology of the text, i.e. proto-ideologies. To restate that consider what is the 'output of the system' at phase 2 in Israel, a religion! That is, a religion, a prime action script. The most basic action script is the idea of freedom itself. And, in fact, the basic ideologies of freedom are intrinsic to the whole of history, although not always so explicit as we see them in the Greek, then modern, manifestations. Beyond this we have the issue of the 'eonic observer'. We live in the present, we look backwards, and observe the eonic effect, and that makes us 'eonic observers'. Note that our position is ambiguous. The sources of our prime action scripts are inside the eonic sequence, while we are outside that sequence in a mideonic period. We are likely to be suffering a watered down ideological version of the prime eonic emergents of our series. That fact goes a long way toward explaining the political confusions of modern times. The successors to the eonic sequence are watered down versions of the originals, and are shifting in their quality, and meaning. Finally, note that the theorist is an eonic observer, or else a simple historian, and that any theory of evolution is from the viewpoint of someone immersed in the system under description. What he does is to transform the output of the system itself, and he may not have an objective stance toward the whole. A lot more can be said here!
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Was There an Axial Age?
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