Evolution as a coordinating force

Civilizing man, civilizing the beast is seen as coordinating the animal nature of man with higher man, with his higher cortex, and not seen as ridding mankind of an evil “beast of prey.” On the other hand, Rousseau was wrong if he thought of primitive man as an altruistic communist who should be set free. But Nietzsche's solution of praising the beast of prey is not the way to go either.

Evolution has civilized the beast naturally without defining the beast as “evil.” Our three brains show that we modify and add on to old structures, which is like the pace of conservatism accepting the new. Civilization should not be merely a softening effect, a weakening effect on man. If we think in terms of coordinating our animal nature with higher man we can affirm the Enlightenment spirit of progress without defining the animal as evil, as we evolve toward Godhood.

Religion has been on the side of blocking animal man, not coordinating animal man, but even this blocking, which is the Inward Path to the God Within, can be coordinated with or transformed in the Outward Path of evolution to real Godhood in the cosmos.