A Renaissance or New Middle Ages?

A Renaissance, Not a Reset - Part III

This is a featured chapter from my upcoming book, Slaying Mithra: Magic, Mystery and the Trance Formation of the West.

“And men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, yet pass over the mystery of themselves without a thought.”

― St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

Modern Western civilization and modern science didn’t emerge the way most of us have been taught. It’s generally known that a pivotal shift in world civilization occurred with the advent of the European Golden Renaissance. However, how this mysterious transformation in Western civilization occurred remains an elusive story.

How did we arrive from the closed, static universe of the Middle Ages, with its imagined perfect circles and starry spheres above and a perpetual vale of tears below, all of which was meticulously segregated by a strict series of hierarchies, to a universe of infinite potential, creation and…