The Hindu Advaita Vedanta perspective, which the other revealed religions tend
to reflect, misidentifies real Godhood, and this is the cause of many
problems. Ascetics first stop all material desires to experience the wonder of
the Soul within, the Father Within, defining it as God. To see and
experience this blissful feeling they must block or dissipate the central drives
and desires of life, and also block the Spirit-Will, so that their
minds and bodies can center on the stillness of the unencumbered
Soul. But this experience does not define the Spirit-Will or God.
The Spirit-Will is the activator of
material and supermaterial life, the force that activates life
toward real Godhood, and life is then shaped by outside evolution. The Spirit-Will can only reach its goal of Godhood by activating and riding material evolution to Godhood. This helps explain the purpose of life in the cosmos. A
place can be reserved in the Twofold Path for experiencing the bliss
of the Soul, found in the Involutionary Inward Path, but this must
not be the single goal of religion, this is not God, it is only a
hint, a mirror, of the real wisdom and power attained with the
evolution of life to Godhood, by way of the Evolutionary
Outward Path.
With this theological materialism, no duality of spiritual/material purposes is needed,
what is needed is wisdom and knowledge in how to evolve to Godhood---and here religion and science can work together.
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