06-30-2021, 02:05 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-30-2021, 02:44 AM by Eric the Green.)
(05-05-2020, 09:14 AM)David Horn Wrote:(05-05-2020, 04:46 AM)Blazkovitz Wrote: Missionaries were prone to magical beliefs during the 2T, but then went more rational after WW1. At the same time they retained a sense of awe for the wonderful Universe. Dawkins called this experience Einsteinian religion.
There has always been a dichotomy within Western religion (especially Protestant variants, but others as well) between focus on faith and faith-based activities, and doing good deeds as a sign of one's faith. The Transcendentals were clearly in the first category and Missionaries in the second. Boomers who fit in that world were, like Eric, New Agers and clearly in the first group with the Transcendentals. I suspect the next Prophets will be more grounded like the Missionaries.
More grounded and intellectual than Boomers and Silents were at the height of the Consciousness Revolution Awakening and into the early 3T, but by degrees and shades only. There is great similarity among the three generations and awakening periods as well. New Thought and Theosophy, the foundation of today's new age movement, were launched in the awakening of 1886-1908 led by Missionaries. Some of the hypersensitivity and opium-taking going on in Europe then, expressed so well in the birth of modern art during that Awakening, rubbed off on Americans too, as well as interest in spiritualism and seances as illustrated by Houdini. By the same token, today's fundamentalism that burst forth more powerfully in the 1970s originated in that Missionary/Great Power Awakening period too.
And on the other hand, the boom among inventors in the Missionary Generation's Awakening era, which launched the machine and tech world we know today, was matched by the tech innovation during the Consciousness Revolution that launched the Information Age, in-part spurred on by the interest among folks like Steve Jobs in the counter-culture and new age consciousness.
So, although there are differences because of the double rhythm, there's much more that's alike than different, from saeculum to saeculum among turnings and generations.