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The Human Journey

The first section of ISHK’s Human Journey website is now available on www.humanjourney.us. It includes:

The Human Legacy
To provide an understanding of the basic, shared complement of abilities all humans possess.

Among the topics covered are:

Our Distant Ancestors
Human Universals - the qualities shared by our early ancestors as they migrated out of Africa and that remain ours to this day.
The Development of Language
Out of Africa and The First Settlements
The Road to Now

In 2010, we will start to look at how we came to think the way we do and what we need do to face our future. This section will include:

Pre-Axial Thought
An overview of how our early ancestors understood the world and their place in it.

Axial Age Thought
An overview of what is known of this pivotal era of human history when the great religions took root: Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, and the Greek Revolution.

Post-Axial Thought
An overview of the influences and development of religious and spiritual thought in the Western world.

The Road to the Future
A consideration of our challenges in this new world of High Population, High Technology and High Stakes.

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