A realistic religious vision of the world

There has been a Great Spiritual Blockade against materialism in religion and philosophy, blocking the theological materialism which leads to real Godhood in evolution. Matter evolves to supermaterial Godhood, which is the other half of the “non-material” God-Within of the Involutionary Inward Path of the Revealed Religions.

“Spirit” is not “awareness” of the non-material bliss of religious enlightenment, which takes place in the Soul at the Zenith of the Mind. Spirit is the Spirit-Will To Godhood which activates the Soul, mind and body to evolve to supermaterial Godhood, its sacred destination.

Honest and courageous science-- not as common as is thought--shows that evolution takes place at the group level which interacts with individual and cultural evolution. This means that in religion and cultural philosophy “world-centrism” is an extreme idealism of the mind, and group selection, or ethnocentrism, should not be spiritually devalued lower than world-centrism, since evolution takes place first at the group level, and material evolution is the vehicle to Godhood.

Both scientific natural selection, and the idealistic religious goal of evolving to Godhood, point toward a world of thousands of small states, or ethnostates, protected by a light federalism, and this evolution and variety needs to be valued much higher than a world of gurus who are aware of the blissful God Within. The extreme idealism of the Traditionalist School of religion, and of philosophy, even defines the whole material world, which is the vehicle to evolve to Godhood, as illusion!

The Twofold Path defines the ground and goal of existence as not merely the blissful, “non-material,” experience of the God Within, which is only the goal of the Involutionary Inward Path. The highest goal of existence is evolving in the Evolutionary Outward Path to Godhood in the cosmos. The real human challenge is to fit the natural traits of human nature into a world that values evolution in all its variety, as all groups evolve to Godhood.  Gazing only inward is a truncated view of religion and the world.