Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Bringing real life back to religion


The libido (basic biological drives) is brought back to religion when the one-dimensional, exclusively spiritual God is seen as the product of material-supermaterial evolution. This is a recovery of human nature harkening back to archaic times when God was seen as a real object. This brings real art back, real life back, in contrast to the pale aestheticism of modern art and the lifeless asceticism of modern religion.

Real biological drives are more powerful than thoughts, definitions and mathematical equations. It is not progress to move away from biology and separate ourselves from our instinctual natures. Our instincts are divine when the zenith of the instincts is understood as the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood which activates material life to evolve to Godhood, later shaped by evolution.

It can seem almost grotesque to define God by way of killing all the material drives and desires and rejecting all material definitions of God. This is like making a tabula rosa of the mind and the body as a mystical trick, when the inward God should be seen as only a symbolic or virtual way to see real Godhood which we evolve to in the cosmos. In the Twofold Path we can retain the inward view of God but it needs to be seen as only a glimpse of real Godhood reached in the Outward Path of evolution.

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