Faith in the material world

I think there is no denying the mystical experience of absolute oneness, or union, of religious mystics since before the time of Christ and Buddha, and into the present day, but the interpretation defining this as "God" is wrong. This profound experience of the Inward Path is usually brought about by blocking, severely, material desires and material life in general, or at least greatly devaluing material life.

The God Within or Father Within of the Inward Path has not been interpreted as a symbol or virtual experience of the power and glory of the real Godhood which is reached by the Outward Path of material and supermaterial evolution. “Faith” is still required regarding the Godhood attained by evolution in the cosmos, but this time it is a faith in the teleology of the material world, a faith supplementing the patterns found by human reason and science.  This is the next development of religion.