From Empiricism to the Empyrean

Why the ancients preferred a geocentric cosmology

Many people make the mistake of thinking that the ancients were so ignorant that they didn't know that the Sun is at the centre of the solar system. The modern, pro-empirical science bias always wants us to dismiss the knowledge and wisdom of our ancestors or anything to do with spirituality, so it's no surprise that the modern education system teaches us such ridiculous myths. Much of the “debunking” of geocentrism reveals a total lack of understanding of the metaphysical worldview of ancient astronomers. Of course the ancients knew that the Sun was physically at the centre of the solar system, but the spiritually dead scientists of the modern age have no framework for understanding why the ancients would have promoted a geocentric understanding of the cosmos.