Ultimate reality should be called supermaterial rather than spiritual. Spiritual is the older term before the micro-world we are discovering. Even so, the supermaterial has many of the qualities formerly defined as spiritual. Even Godhood is supermaterial.
The Spirit-Within, which is also supermaterial, is the principal activator of life, the purpose of which is to activate life to evolve to Godhood, shaped by evolution from without. Although Teilhard De Chardin sees spirit as the withinness of matter, there is not the synthesis of matter and spirit he suggests at the end of evolution because spirit and matter are never separate, they are only different levels of material and supermaterial evolution, with the material evolving to the supermaterial, and the Spirit-Will always activating within. The Spirit Will is never separate from the material body, so it needs not a synthesis with matter. The Zenith of Evolution, rather than the so-called “synthesis,” is the Great Union when Godhood is attained, and from this Union new Kosmic Godhood is born.
Evolutionary Christianity declares a kind of living animism where every living object contains the Spirit-Will, as well as a kind of monism, with one reality on a continuum from the material to the supermaterial. This spans the history of this philosophy skipping over dualism, mentalism and idealism, although there is a kind of idealistic materialism in projecting the Zenith of Evolution, or Godhood, which remains mysterious.
It also remains for science to find the properties of supermateriality, which for the time being science does not admit. Religion has been examining this field for centuries.
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