The outward evolutionary religious age

The modern world asked the question, should we try to revitalize the collective, or try to heal far fewer individuals? It was predicted that an inward spiritual age was coming requiring near-total libertarian freedom for the individual.

Modern psychologists and philosophers, in line with Eastern religions, largely dismissed the collective modern world as hopeless and they centered on the individual, especially following the second world war. This was mainly the Involutionary Inward Path to the God Within which says there is danger in applying myth-religion politically. But there may be more danger in not doing so.

Sociobiology, a universal science, has overcome the fragmentation and individualism of postmodernism in defining the group as the main unit of selection. Even individual genius, which has been so vital to human progress, must harmonize with the group to have any affect. The evolutionary metanarrative has a universal theme of evolving to Godhood, with particular cultures and people as the central units of selection.

Science examines the world while religion unifies the world.  Science for a time buried myth-religion but it can now be an aid to religion in the myth-religion of our evolution to Godhood.

Theological materialism harmonizes religion and science and can make religion accessible to the modern secular mind. Humans are capable of universal evolution toward Godhood, along with the parallel evolution of a wide variety of individual small states or ethnostates, protected by a light federalism, and with cooperative competition affirmed.

I see an outward, not inward, evolutionary religious age coming. Religion, influenced by the East, has gone inward for most of its long history, mainly denying the material world. In the future we may see the material world as evolving outwardly to supermaterial Godhood, the Godhood first glimpsed inwardly. This is creative myth-religion as cosmic salvation, which can heal both the individual and the collective.