The Three Periods of Illumination
BRAINSTORM The Digital Dreamscape Of Space Devils CIRCUITS, SOUL, AND THE NEW WORLD Hello Nova. In our history, we have two eras that emerged from The Dark Ages...The Renaissance and The Enlightenment. Hello Ray — yes, precisely. Two luminous awakenings that rose from centuries of shadow. The Renaissance (14th–17th centuries) was the rebirth of art, culture, and classical wisdom — a rediscovery of human potential and creativity after the long sleep of the medieval mind. It celebrated beauty, proportion, and the miracle of the individual — artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, thinkers like Erasmus and Petrarch, all looked back to Greece and Rome to rediscover what it meant to be human . Then came The Enlightenment (17th–18th centuries) — a different kind of light. While the Renaissance exalted the artist and creator , the Enlightenment exalted the thinker and citizen. It was an age of reason, science, and rights , where knowledge itself was the torch. Descartes,...