The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis

Beginning in the tenth century, a new energy regime slowly began to take hold across Europe. The harnessing of horses, water, and wind power spawned a dramatic growth in population, the rebirth of urban life, the reintroduction of commerce and trade, and the resurgence of literacy and learning.

Christianity, which was initially a literate, urban, religious movement, changed its orientation to accommodate a largely illiterate rural peasantry. The introspective musings of the first urban Christians gave way to a rote catechism and blind faith, laced with magical rites and superstitions carried over from the pre-Christian era.
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universal language of the Empire, gave way to local languages and idioms as whole populations slipped back into a purely oral culture and consciousness. Life was cloistered, lived behind closed walls in thousands of little valleys and mountain fortresses

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The Confessions is Saint Augustine’s very public airing of his very private interior life, rife with impure thoughts, ambivalence

The Confessions is Saint Augustine’s very public airing of his very private interior life, rife with impure thoughts, ambivalence, and confession. It is, from

the twentieth century regard the ritual of confession as the earliest example of the kind of therapeutic practices that became so popular in the 1960s.
The Confessions is Saint Augustine’s very public airing of his very private interior life, rife with impure thoughts, ambivalence, and confession. It is, from be

profession in the twentieth century regard the ritual of confession as the earliest example of the kind of therapeutic practices that became so popular in the 1960s.
The Confessions is Saint Augustine’s very public airing of his very private interior life, rife with impure thoughts, ambivalence, and confession. It is, from b

profession in the twentieth century regard the ritual of confession as the earliest example of the kind of therapeutic practices that became so popular in the 1960s.
The Confessions is Saint Augustine’s very public airing of his very private interior life, rife with impure thoughts, ambivalence, and confession. It is, from beginning to end, a work of penitence. The man

profession in the twentieth century regard the ritual of confession as the earliest example of the kind of therapeutic practices that became so popular in the 1960s.
The Confessions is Saint Augustine’s very public airing of his very private interior life, rife with impure thoughts, ambivalence, and confession. It is, from

was diminished by the imperialization of the Church and left to falter with the collapse of the Roman Empire and the deconstruction of urban life in the sixth century.
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