"A lot of religions were called The Way." Suddenly that Ugandan Knuckles meme from 2018 makes a lot of sense 😂

I see Rudyard I click Rudyard

I'm declaring war on the axial age

"Say it together class: Spit out that desert poison!" - Varg probably

I've grown to absolutely love this channel and history in general!

String Theory IS a religion - one wholly predicated upon mathematics, but repeatedly disproven whenever tested.

as a Buddhist who follows the early texts, i've done quite a study of northern ancient India at the time of the Buddha, it truly was a very interesting time in history.

9:43 Hmm, I didn't expect the Persian empire to look like that.

10 Interconnected Principles of the coming Axial Age 1. Be Authentic and honest about yourself (include your blessing as well as your warts and all) 2. Earth Life Is A School To Learn And Exercise Spiritual Principles in a very challenging environment (Earth School) and not for judgement 3. Love Everyone - Be Caring, Kind, Respectful and Forgiving towards Everyone Unconditionally including yourself and ALL Others 4. Find And Follow Your Divine Intuition or Inner Voice which blossoms from Joy and Love 5. Use Technological Advances Responsibly so that it is uplifting and fosters constructive development 6. Release Prejudice - Release all anger, fear, scorn and pain against any and all "other" entities you encounter in Earth School 7. The Power To Manifest is controlled by our thoughts and can create an environment and life full of gratitude, abundance and health (while we adhere to the 10 Principles) 8. Avoid Negative Influences and instead seek out Constructive influences 9. Everything (including divine or sub-optimal or selfish or "evil" choices) works together to provide free agency opportunities to grow in Earth School 10. We Are All One - How each of us chooses to act towards ourselves and the rest of us impacts (reflects back to) us - in heaven and earth there is only us or we and no "others" or them

Jeremiah and the Jewish prophets are also considered a part of the axial age. The Judeo Christian tradition is a development of the axial age age as well.

"Nukes Jets & Chips: How Global Enlightenments Happen".

Look at that I made it early again, I can't wait for the "explaining English civ" after tonight's horrendous election results.

Been waiting to hear about this subject for a long time.

"What I remember about the rise of the Empire is... is how quiet it was. During the waning hours of the Clone Wars, the 501st Legion was discreetly transferred back to Coruscant. It was a silent trip. We all knew what was about to happen, what we were about to do. Did we have any doubts? Any private, traitorous thoughts? Perhaps, but no one said a word. Not on the flight to Coruscant, not when Order 66 came down, and not when we marched into the Jedi Temple. Not a word." - Operation: Knightfall "Knightfall" - Star Wars Battlefront II (2005)

You’ve gotta read “The Origin of Consciousness in Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind” by Julian Jaynes.

Oh, I’ve been waiting for this one

What’s wrong with the thumbnail

lets goooo rud awesome video once again

13:30 "If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism" - Albert Einstein. Note that Buddha taught essentially the same social ethic as Jesus, without the metaphysics of Christianity.

is there a Inca Empire vid?

I love your work Rudyard,. I always learn something. Can I request a video on the pre-coinage IOU system? That fascinates me, I can't think how that would work on a large scale

Very interesting video Eduardo 👍

This video was very all over the place. Like to many incomplete thought going from one topic to another without much of a bridge just all over the place.

very insightful

You should do a video about eastern mysticism to do the topic justice now 😅 also I think it would be a fun and exiting video

Oh Lord, Rudy, what happened to your thumbnail bro? Edit: That's a bit better!

Have you been keeping up with John Vervaeke’s work on this topic?

7:30 is that why i have to bring/buy a coconut to mandir?

The Silk Road. That is all.

sweet more please

Rudy!!!🥰

Very curious about ancient African history

43:13. How does the old saying go? "There is nothing new under the sun."

These are good to listen to. Honestly, tho, the face cam seems a bit unnecessary. But that might just be me idk

Confucius say: man with hole in pocket feel cocky all day ⚡️

"middle east didnt have coinage" Wrrong! The Persian Achaemenid Empire had coins ~ 500 BC

58:06 Mircea Eliade? I don't expect him to know how to pronounce Romanian names but this was painfully hard to decipher

Trad Chad with a big Dad.

Dang, man, I just read Bertrand Russell's history of western philosophy. Very good book!

It's interesting that you mentioned it, I eventually became religious (I practice a polytheist religion) after being born into a non-religious household, flipped-flopped between agnostic/atheism, and studied in hardcore STEM for over 10 years. Like I'm doing a PhD in a STEM field right now. And I think science can co-exist with religion, as long as you don't believe in mythic literalism and make some other compromises which is something I think Abrahamic religions struggle with. Also people misunderstand what science is, it's not a belief system, it's just a list of simple steps to systematically study things. That's it. So you can use it to study the physical side of the universe, while religion is for the spiritual side of the universe.

Rupert Sheldrake. Morphic resonance

You should commission an artist to draw anime girls for your thumbnails. People love those damn animes

35:00 Funny, I used to think Plato was a brilliant philosopher and came to the opposite conclusion with time. The more I learn about Plato's philosophy, the less I respect it and those who abide by it

(Nitpick) Dates with all maps, plz.

“Greater Israel”

The problem with your idea of needing one god is that people were still polytheistic for another 700 years after this era.

I don't understand why Judaism doesn't count as axial age

247 views in 30 minutes? Bro fell off

Tbh I think this video would better fit Whatifalthist channel than this one

Its a great lie to say India 500 bc didn't have contact with other empires. The name Cambyses is a namesake of the Kambojas who the Buddhist converted during the reign of Cyrus. Cyrus is a namesake of the Indian Kurus who were aligned with the Kambojas. The archeologist Flinders Petrie unearthed an Indian Buddha at the Memphis Ptah temple dated to the time of Cambyses

How can you claim that these people from 500 BC were the foundation for the Abrahamic religions? Abraham himself lived in 2000 BC and Moses was like 1300 BC. I guess you can claim it influenced Christianity and Islam. But pretty much the entire Old Testament was before the axial age

I love your videos but please work on the thumbnail

Rudyards religious cope is hard to sit through sometimes

Wasn't there already morality in ancient Greek mythology before the Axial Age? You sacrificed goats and cows to the gods, sure, but you also had to resist hubris, being a bad host or guest, and lead a good, heroic life to reach Elysium. Those that broke the laws of morality were punished like Tantalus, those that acted in accordance to the moral codes were rewarded. Sounds like a religious moral system to me.

"middle east didnt have a market economy" LOL!!!

religious relativism is the worst take Rudyard has. Hopefully he comes to realize that being "spiritual" is pagan BS

First

The first rule of Orphism is, you do not talk about Orphism. Second rule of Orphism, you DO NOT talk about Orphism

I love this channel but bro make better thumbnails you can get so much more attention

Fix the thumbnail

That intro conversation aged poorly XD, its what I honestly expected as well but we definitely live in the most absurd times

We need a new post axial religion.

Sharia law for europe!