New clothes for old gods

The comparative mythology of Eliade and Jung thought that behind every cult or culture lurked archetypal religion. I would interpret this as the Spirit-Will and sociobiology behind every religion and culture, with the Spirit-Will activating material life toward Godhood, which is shaped by natural evolution as explained by sociobiology.

This definition of the Spirit-Will works in harmony with what we have learned of nature and human nature from evolutionary science. Survival and reproductive success, which has largely activated the creation of ethics, reaches its supreme success when Godhood is evolved to.

This is a grand agreement that ties religion with materialism in a positive way and brings science into religion legitimately. To know is more than to remember, as Plato thought. The sacred is not somewhere else or only in the past, it is here with life evolving toward supremely sacred Godhood. 

This involves both mystics and scientists. This “reduces” religion to the essentialism, universalism and particularism of the Spirit-Will and sociobiology, retaining the past in the future.