Spirit-Will-History

The instincts, or ergs, are not “irrational” but they can be stupid, for example, following more difficult than simple paths to their goals. But the goals of the instincts define the instincts as rational in seeking survival and reproductive success and in ultimately evolving to Godhood.

The Spirit-Will is the “central fire” (Jung's term) that energizes them all. The Spirit-Will-History theory says that the state, society, culture, religion, biology, all seek the rational goal of nature, which is to evolve all the way to the eternal representation of Godhood, whether they are conscious of this goal or not. We are in this sense at the mercy of this activating goal.

It follows from this Spirit-Will-History that the noble civilizations and cultures harmonize as best they are able with this goal, consciously or unconsciously. Sublimations of the ergs take place so that they may better reach more sublime goals. For example, the instincts of sex, aggression and compassion are improved or redefined and ennobled to turn upward in evolution toward Godhood, which is the zenith of such things as truth, beauty and merit.

The great religions essentially wanted to block the ergs rather than sublimate them, in their inward quest to reach the desire-free Father-Within of the Soul. Even Jungian therapy feared the power of these ergs preferring to balance one off the other rather than to affirm the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood of natural evolution. Perhaps this biased fear was do to the tragic errors of World War II. But all the roads of the the Spirit-Will don't lead to political dictatorships, they can lead more productively in the opposite direction, to varieties of small independent states and light federalism, which I affirm.

Religion leads the way in this history as a guide, grounded in the religious philosophy of theological materialism. This religious philosophy believes in progress and is not anti-modern while at the same time identifying with and sublimating the traditional inward God of the great religions in the Twofold Path, so that we may better evolve to real Godhood in the cosmos.