
The Enlightenment: The Tree of Knowledge Takes Root
Christianity, Metaphysics, PhilosophyAfter the fall of the Roman Empire and into the middle and latter part of the Middle Ages in the West, mainly in the period from the 11th century CE until the end of the Renaissance and the advent of the Scientific Revolution, the beginning…

Aristotle and Democritus: Knowledge and the Atom
Metaphysics, Philosophy, PhysicsHaving established the premise of his thesis, what appeared to be clear cultural borrowing of mythological and cosmological themes between and among the ancient Western civilizations, themes which crystalized and evolved into monotheism as it…

Knowledge and the Intellect: Extracting Truth from Scripture
Ancient Civilization, Christianity, Meditation, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Vedanta, YogaOutside of his thesis coming together, with some clear indicators of cultural borrowing among Ancient Western civilizations with respect to the development of theology and philosophy, Charlie now had a much better context within which to view…

Muslim Philosophy: Muhammad, the Qur’an and Aristotle
Ancient Civilization, PhilosophyDespite Charlie’s Jewish heritage, at least Jewish by blood, and his penchant for the less rigid and orthodox theological systems of the East, he knew little about Islam outside of his aversion for its fundamentalist interpretation which,…

Early Christianity: Monotheism Becomes Marketable
Ancient Civilization, Christianity, PhilosophyThe next major monotheistic development in ancient times after Zoroastrianism from the East, Judaism from the Ancient Palestinian region, and Atenism from Ancient Egypt/Northern Africa is Christianity, a system which emerged out of the cultural…

Moses and Zarathustra: Long Lost Brothers
Ancient Civilization, Ancient Cosmology, Christianity, Mythology, VedantaChristianity and Islam are the most wide spread and influential monotheistic religions in the world today by any measure, and both sprung from and were heavily influenced by the monotheistic religions, and metaphysical and philosophical systems,…

The Scientific Revolution: God Learns Analytic Geometry and Calculus
Ancient Civilization, Christianity, Metaphysics, PhilosophyAfter much study and analysis then, it was clear to Charlie that there was no notion of this hard distinction/separation of subject and object in the ancient cosmological and philosophical systems of thought that developed in the ancient civilizations…

The Advent of Monotheism: One Step forward and Two Steps Back
Ancient Civilization, Ancient Cosmology, Christianity, MythologySo there he was, really no closer to finding the source of materialism, or more aptly put by modern philosophers as the mechanistic world-view, than when he started his journey back through the dawn of civilization and mankind’s search for…

Hellenistic Theo-Philosophy: Sowing the Seeds of Christianity
Ancient Civilization, Ancient Cosmology, Christianity, Metaphysics, Mythology, PhilosophyDespite his search through the evolution of thought from the dawn of civilization, particularly in the Mediterranean and Near/Far East, Charlie still had yet to find that marker, that break, where man had become so convinced of the reality of…

Meditation and the Mind: The Sharpest Tool in the Shed
Meditation, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Vedanta, Yoga
This review of the Cosmology of the ancients, their similarities and differences, their relationship to power and authority, were all intellectually interesting and of course relevant for that thesis that Charlie had to produce, but not so…