01-01-2021, 02:50 PM
(12-31-2020, 01:05 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:(12-30-2020, 04:24 PM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: During my last move a decade ago, I seem to have lost some print outs of (what were then) old posts to the paleo 4T site. As I recall....
The War of the Hats was listed as an Awakening in Sweden. Seems to have had a very external focus. Two important themes: 1. The political system. 2.The economic system. Easy to imagine such a 2T being part of a revolutionary cycle.
There was a 2T in Britain about the same time as the Missionary Awakening in the USA. It seems to have been even weaker or milder than the Missionary Awakening. I believe that two themes were Feminism and Socialism.
Feminism and socialism were daring ideas back then. Philosophy, and often not religion, is the essence of some Awakening eras.
Awakenings are times when the heavens open ("the other side"), and people have genuine, blissful and powerful experiences of the divine. Then, it gets interpreted. Some people contact Jesus, and then revert to fanatical religion. Followers join in, hoping the share in the experience. Most probably only get the flavor. The interpretations of these experiences often go beyond the bounds of reason, either into the higher reason (mysticism), or below reason (zealous superstition). Those who don't awaken are left to wonder, look askance and stew about in conventional ways of thinking and believing. The beat goes on.