Ancient Cosmological Period: Dawn of Human Consciousness; animist nature worship: the sacred identified with nature.
First Axiel Shift (750 BCE to approx. 250 BCE, peaking about 500 BCE across cultures with Confucius, Zoroaster, Socrates, the Jewish Prophets, etc. and the emergence of primitive science.)
- The shift from animist nature worship (fire, air, water, earth characterized by ritualistic magic) to ethical awareness, character and ethical norms manifest in organized religion and religious law.
- The shift to primitive science and the resulting distinction of nature from the divine.
- The momentum toward idolatry of human reason (Enlightenment: approx.1750 through the modernist movement of the early 20th century) through World War I and II, and the military scientism of Hiroshima and Auschwitz.
Second Axiel Shift (From Psychological Awakening to the present; the shift to philosophical interiority.)
- God is dead; rejection of the return to medieval integration.
- Post Modern Relativism still in place; no objective truth.
- Rejection of Science as absolute due to our capacity for self- destruction and Modernism as reductionist.
- The turn to the psychological and consciousness analysis.
- The potential for the emergence of a new notion of God as operative within consciousness and all of nature. (a Third Shift?)
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