Planets also have varying degrees of axial tilt; they lie at an angle to the plane of the sun's equator. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
The current phenomenon of cultural change, now on a global scale, may be regarded as a Second Axial Period in the known history of humankind. (religion-online.org)
Of course, much of the functioning of the soul is unaltered by the presence or absence of theories about it, but in humanly crucial respects, the elements attaining consciousness and the roles which they play in consciousness are profoundly interrelated in axial man with the way in which he understands himself. (religion-online.org)