3.4 Religion And Evolution
Last modified 07/01/2008
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The most surprising aspect of the eonic effect is the discovery of the way
this impinges on the category of 'evolution', with relevance to the whole
descent of humans. The reader needs to proceed to the text of World History And
The Eonic Effect to see the way in which the vivid periodization sequences of
the whole of civilization demonstrate the way in which the 'evolution of
civilization' and the 'evolution of religion' are braided together around a
series of core ideas, that of the State, the empire, globalization, the
collectivist and libertarian poles of the place of the individual in that
context, with the issue of ethical action in relation to self-consciousness
brought to the fore by the constellation of all these elements.
The idea of the 'evolution of religion' has been misunderstood in the age of scientism and we can see that our model produces a dramatic example of one episode in the 'eonic evolution of religion' (equally of civilization) in the emergentism of the 'Israel' phenomenon. If we follow the entire course of the eonic sequence we will see that this 'macro' factor (as opposed to the micro factor in the actual emergence of particular post-Axial religions) is visible many times, going all the way back to the Neolithic, and onward to the modern Protestant Reformation, which we should now look at very briefly. But the point is that we have found something related to macroevolution in the question of the 'evolution of religion'.
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