“…and this is the similarity in their spiritual outlook. Again, it’s commonplace to imagine that an enormous gulf separates East and West in this regard, but the two of them look like twins to me, because they’re both obsessed by the strange idea that people need to be saved.”
In western psychology, there is a noted shift in human consciousness from collective to individual that took place roughly 500 BCE.
The advent of the first “universal“ religions or philosophies also emerged at roughly this time to include early writings and emergence of what would become Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Confucianism, Jainism, Buddhism, Sophistry, Greek Philosophy, Brahmanic-Sanskrit Philosophy, etc.
Why this change in human understanding and how did it lead to a need to be saved? Saved from what?
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