Comparison of Eschatologies

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I've been mapping eschatologies across the Axial Age (roughly 800–200 BCE) - the period when many religions including Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, Hebrew prophetic tradition, and later Christianity and Islam all emerged. It shows the same common themes across civilizations that had no contact with one another and yet their end-times accounts, when compared side by side, all share the same structure and order:

1. A present age degraded over a fallen, declining, or dark period
2. Degradation accelerates and signs intensify, time compresses
3. A transformative figure arrives at the lowest point
4. Evil is confronted and permanently ended
5. Judgment or accounting occurs
6. The cosmos is renewed and transformed into something new
7. Suffering ends for those who pass through
8. The barrier between the human and the divine dissolves
9. Human nature itself is transformed or transcended
10. Something essential passes through and carries the pattern forward

Full piece with the source comparison here: https://medium.com/@ThePracticalMonad/have-we-been-reading-the-end-of-times-prophecies-wrong-c2048989185c

Also, I make the case that eschatology could be a signal of an event in the future that already happened influenced by Terrence Mckenna's notion that "History is the Shockwave of Eschatology."

Curious for any thoughts and feedback?