We live in an epoch of denudation.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.
Our lives feel like these epochs, but really, we are dust in the wind.
We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.
One aspect of this is the way we have come during recent centuries to appreciate that the world and indeed the very universe in which we live have evolved over immense periods of time.
We will 'de-age' progressively, as cures are developed.
As scientists have discovered - or perhaps explained is a better word, or perhaps identified - we now live in the age of the Anthropocene. The geologic age of the Anthropocene. Those high priests of material evidence have given us our own epoch like the Holocene, the Pleistocene! Apparently we now, it seems, have superhuman powers.
We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.
We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.
The obscurest epoch is today.
In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.