Blocking the particular in the universal

Universal values calling for the sameness of all people tend to be weaker than the particular values of group and individual survival. Religions have usually identified universal values and devalued the particular, even though they make little offerings to the particular, at least for laymen.

The difficulty comes from placing too much value on the Inward Path to the God Within (or the Father Within) which is universal, and not enough value, or even blocking entirely, the Outward Path of evolution to Godhood. The Outward Path affirms material evolution, group selection and cooperative natural competition, the Inward Path blocks them.

Cattell and other psychologists have suggested that frustrated genetic urges which were unsatisfied led to beliefs to fit the frustrations. To me this suggests that the frustrations of natural life and selection led to religiously trying to block these drives and dwelling in the desire-free state of the God Within.

The healthier path would be to successfully fulfill the natural genetic urges, or at least develop cooperative competition to allow more than one group to fulfill their genetic imperatives.

The Twofold Path remedies this historical and imperialist religious mistake of trying to make the particular universal.  The Inward Path to the God Within is transformed, not blocked, because we are evolving to the God first seen inwardly as a mirror of outward Godhood. This is the next religious philosophy attached to the old, this is the new, psychologically healthier, stage in religious development.

A side point to this is that political philosophy has often made this same mistake trying to block the particular with the universal. There are no  large “perfect” societies full of universal saints or world altruists mainly because natural evolving life will not be blocked.