The Simultaneous Miracle Something unprecedented happened between 800 and 200 BCE. Without internet, without aeroplanes, without any known communication between distant civilisations, human consciousness transformed simultaneously across the planet. In China, Confucius and Laozi revolutionised thought. In India, Buddha and the Upanishadic sages reimagined existence. In Persia, Zoroaster proclaimed cosmic duality. In Palestine, the Hebrew prophets declared ethical monotheism.