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THE EONIC EFFECT: CLIMBING MT. IMPROBABLE
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Table of Contents for
World History
And The Eonic Effect
Civilization, Darwinism, and Theories of Evolution
3rd. Edition
The Book
By John Landon
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2. THE EONIC EFFECT: CLIMBING MT. IMPROBABLE
2.1 MYSTERIOUS DRUMBEAT
2.1.1 Enigma Of The Axial Age
2.1.2 A Second Axial Age?
2.2 AN UNEXPECTED CHALLENGE TO DARWINISM
2.2.1 Climbing Mt. Improbable: Evolutionary Directionality
2.2.2 Evolution And Ethics—At Close Range
2.3 THE GREAT EXPLOSION
2.3.1 A Photo Finish Test
2.4 HISTORY AND EVOLUTION: AN EONIC MODEL
2.4.1 A Gaian Matrix: The Need For A Global Model
2.4.2 The Myth Of The Continents
ENDNOTES
2.5 STREAM AND SEQUENCE: RATCHET EVOLUTION
2.5.1 The Axial Transition
2.5.2 Archaic Greece: The Clue
2.5.3 The Old Testament As Eonic Data
2.5.4 Transition And Oikoumene
2.5.5 The Case Of The Missing Centuries
2.5.6 Econostream, Technostream,…And Eonic Sequence
2.5.7 History And Evolution, Darwinian Or Eonic?
2.6 AXIAL AGES AND EONIC OBSERVERS
2.6.1 Karen Armstrong’s The Great Transformation
2.6.2 Non-genetic Evolution
2.6.3 Art, Evolution and The Tragic Genre
2.6.4 World Line Of The Eonic Observer
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The discovery of the eonic effect is the result of the increased perspective on
world history resulting from the archaeological revolution of the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. World history shows a clear non-random pattern of
spectacular proportions, one that becomes especially visible if we adopt
systematic periodization. We outline the eonic pattern, or sequence, and its
relationship to the data of the so-called Axial Age. This pattern fits neatly
into the category of 'punctuated equilibrium' and shows a developmental mainline
behind the broader context of world cultures. This analysis requires a new kind
of model and a distinction of 'macro-action' and 'micro-action', analogous to
macro and microevolution. The relationship of evolution to history suddenly
stands out as a contrast of two levels. The result is a global perspective on
evolution as the question of evolutionary directionality, hence teleology,
emerges from the master pattern of the eonic sequence.
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