New post on my Substack, A Golden String.
Every so often the human imagination changes. Deep switches tend not to happen following major events, because people are inclined to react to wars and pandemics, environmental concerns and technological angst with what they already know and trust. But modifications can occur when the experience of being human itself is revised.
Novel philosophies and the cultivation of different perceptions prompt existence to be reimagined across its many variables, from the ecological to the existential; the social to the spiritual. Then, civilisations pivot.
Worldview breakthrough is no mean undertaking and is, therefore, fascinating when it occurs. And the 17th century, which bore modernity, provides a case in point.