The material at this blog represents a work in progress, an ongoing attempt to uncover the deep structure of human history and culture. The centerpiece of this work is a theory of history as an overlapping sequence of differing visions of the nature of reality.
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The Dance of the Visions<\/strong><\/p>\n The bulk of the theoretical material, illustrated by examples from the last 300 years of history, can be found listed in order of posting at Dance of the Visions 1.0<\/a> and Dance of the Visions 1.5<\/a>. The first of these includes entries from 2009-10 and the second from 2011-12.<\/p>\n More recent entries listed at Dance of the Visions 2.0<\/a> focus on how the cycle of visions might have arisen in the earliest days of our species. The first few entries provide a summary of the theory, so it is possible to start reading at that point. Active Visions and Higher Knowledge<\/strong><\/p>\n Three other topics overlap with the Dance of the Visions listings. <\/p>\n The Saga of Chaos and Holism<\/a> presents a selection of entries that provide a chronological survey of the chaos and holism visions from the 1860s to the 1980s. <\/p>\n Emerging Visions<\/a> focuses on the two most recent visions, horizontalism and creative imagination, and points to present-day developments in science and society that demonstrate their increasing impact.<\/p>\n Higher Knowledge<\/a> deals with the human mental capacity that underlies the entire sequence of visions. Prehistory<\/strong><\/p>\n Deep Prehistory<\/a> and The Roots of Civilization<\/a> include entries from no later than 2011 that deal with earlier and later stages of human prehistory, respectively. <\/p>\n More recent posts on the same subjects can be found at Dance of the Visions 2.0<\/a>. All these listings can also be accessed through the Topics menu on the topbar.<\/p>\n A listing of all blog entries in chronological order, with annotations to highlight the most important theoretical points in each, can be found here<\/a>. <\/p>\n
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