Second-Axial Consciousness
= "The second-axial person is not the solitary individual of the first Axial Age. The new person is embedded in networks of relationships, ecological, social and digital. Identity is relational all the way down." [1]
Description
Ilia Delio:
"Cousins and Thomas Berry saw it coming, and Teilhard de Chardin saw it before them. It began to stir at the turn of the twentieth century, with relativity, quantum physics, evolution and the first global communication networks, giving rise to a new global consciousness and ecological sensibility. It is only now beginning to unfold.
The second-axial person is not the solitary individual of the first Axial Age. The new person is embedded in networks of relationships, ecological, social and digital. Identity is relational all the way down. We do not first exist and then relate; we exist by relating. This is not a return to the tribe. The freedom and conscience won in the first Axial Age are not lost. They are carried forward into a larger whole, a planetary “we” in which, as Teilhard put it, union differentiates. The more deeply we belong, the more fully we become ourselves."
(https://iliadelio.substack.com/p/toward-the-future-what-theology-beer?)