Totality In Reality

A response to Ken Wilber and Andrew Cohen (“EnlightenNext,” # 47, 2011)

The problems that come from trying to transcend beyond the self, beyond what we are, stems from the original theological error of seeing Godhood as Nirguna-Brahman, as the empty, formless, unmanifested goal of life. This makes the rejection of ones own life, ones own people easier, as ones goal is to embrace the nothingness and bliss of a desireless Soul. This is not a higher level of love, this is the emptiness and bliss of the Soul. This defines the Inward Path to the Soul Within.

There is not two realities, one empty and one with objects, there is only the world of evolving objects. Objects are the ground of Being, not emptiness. This emptiness is defined as Nirvana in Tradition, but this is a self-created emptiness, created by the mind-soul emptying the mind and body of all desires and drives.

Seeking liberation from the desires of life is seeking death. The “nonduality” of Mahayana Buddhism, where both life and emptiness are supposedly united is not a union, it is acknowledgment of life against death, it is an affirmation of “samsara” alone which includes both suffering and joy. Formless, nonexistence, exists in the mind-soul of humans providing that they first rid themselves of all desires of a formful existence. This is not Godhood.

Godhood is not timeless and unchanging, Godhood is transmuting and transforming and activated by the Spirit Within. Godhood is not the Nirguna-Brahman of the Hindu Vedanta, which defines an unmanifest, formless emptiness. Godhood is a Supremely Evolved Living Object at the Zenith of Evolution in the Kosmos. The “enlightened” human being, according to the Traditional definition, is not fully conscious and is certainly not experiencing Godhood. To be Fully Conscious with Absolute Consciousness we must evolve far beyond man to superman and then to Godhood.

The Spirit or Will To Godhood is the Ground of Being and the Ground of Evolution, but it is not the Zenith of Being or the Zenith of Evolution, which is Godhood, the Goal of the Spirit. Godhood did not leap from the formless to form when creating the Kosmos, Godhood was Superform transmuting form, and Supermaterial transmuting the material.

The Spirit or Will To Godhood is not the sex-drive, but the Spirit activates the sex drive as the method or vehicle of survival and reproduction, for the Spirit itself to evolve within the material and supermaterial vehicle to Godhood.

“Who we really are” is not limited to the Spirit, the Spirit exists within the Body, the “thing-within-itself” which is evolving to Being-In-Itself, our Supreme Goal.

We have finally evolved to become aware of ourselves, which was an important development on the path to evolving to Godhood. But we won't become Totally Aware of ourselves with Absolute Consciousness of ourselves or with Absolute Knowledge of the Kosmos until we evolve to Godhood.

Elemental particles do not spontaneously burst forth into existence, they are activated by the Spirit Within or the Will To Godhood. This goes back to the beginning of the Kosmos, and to the Kosmos before that. The Spirit is born or transmuted from Godhood in each new Kosmos.

The Kosmos is not a static place, it is active, emerging, activated by the Spirit and not ruled by an unmoving, nonmaterial nothingness. Various structures in the Kosmos interact, integrate, collaborate, and some of these advance, but some fall back in entropy.

Movement and evolution are constant, the Kosmos never rests on it achievements, even when Godhood is attained in evolution, Godhood then transmutes and transforms into the next Kosmos.

There is self-copying in evolution, and then self-copying mutations take place. Some mutations are evolutionary, some are devolutionary. These changes in turn change groups, as entire groups advance and retreat.

We are all in this evolving movement of transmutations and transformations together, all activated by the Will To Godhood. This is why it is important to find a way, a social system that allows variety in evolution, such as the lightly federated small states, or ethnostates, we often speak of.

There is a problem with trying to hypertrophy love of ones own to “worldcentric” or kosmoscentric” stages. Love becomes lost in the process. When examining human nature as seen by sociobiology we see that we are essentially designed to advance our own, and so we look for a way to have “cooperative competition” in evolution, so that we can retain variety and divergence while still having convergence and order.

Higher levels of evolution do not destroy the dynamic of natural selection and mutation. There is evolution and devolution, there is separation and variety. We need to affirm divergence as the highest creativity and see convergence as less creative but still important in maintaining necessary order, which later allows more divergence. In the Twofold Path of the Evolutionary Christian Church, the Inward Path of Tradition is convergent and the Outward Path of evolution is divergent.