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November 2009 
What is the life stage of humanity?
Posted on Apr 21st, 2009
by 
Jamilah
Jamilah
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for April 21, 2009:
I don't think that humanity, as a whole, is at a particular life stage. I subscribe to the cyclical view of history rather than the linear view.
Some civilizations, such as the Egyptians and Babylonia, were at their peak thousands of years ago. They were replaced by the Greeks and, later, the Romans. Muslim civilizations thrived in Al-Andalus and the Indian subcontinent while much of Europe languished in during the medieval period. Now western civilizations have reached their peak, and countries such as China are rising again.
The earth has a single age, but humanity is comprised of civilizations and generations. My husband and I are approaching our senior years just as our children are entering adulthood. This is how it is for humanity also.
Some civilizations, such as the Egyptians and Babylonia, were at their peak thousands of years ago. They were replaced by the Greeks and, later, the Romans. Muslim civilizations thrived in Al-Andalus and the Indian subcontinent while much of Europe languished in during the medieval period. Now western civilizations have reached their peak, and countries such as China are rising again.
The earth has a single age, but humanity is comprised of civilizations and generations. My husband and I are approaching our senior years just as our children are entering adulthood. This is how it is for humanity also.
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Thanks so much for pointing that out, while some of us are entering our “Golden Years”, others are drawing their first breath. Still can't help but wonder about those legends of Lemuria and Atlantis, did they go too far too fast, only to fall back with the splash still heard centuries later? Hmm…
…or did they rise and fall like the tides of the ocean, as and when they were supposed to, creating a molecularly-connected energy to catapult the the successive waves?
I really like your way of saying it.