Defining the Spirit-Will

The wiseguys chuckle condescendingly at any claim of vitalism, but I don't. I ask why does “life” “live?” Why is life animate rather than inanimate? Why does life have metabolism, growth, reproduction? Why doesn’t life just sit there doing nothing? Why has life persisted time and again in evolving from the simple to the complex under the most extreme conditions? Why?

Finding no activation, no force, no direction to life seems too limited, too carefully, too empirical. This is where I see the Spirit-Will-to-Godhood in evolution activating life. Not a nonmaterial Spirit-Will, but a supermaterial Spirit-Will very much in the material world of nature, still to be defined by science.  I see a  simple Primal Material at the beginning of life, with the Spirit-Will never separate from it, continually beginning and evolving, not a First Cause, not God---Godhood is what we evolve to.

The activating Spirit-Will is not amoral or blind, it has a goal, it seeks Godhood by riding within the vehicle of life which it activates, all the way to Godhood by way of evolution. But the path to Godhood can go backward, sideways or wherever, shaped by natural evolutionary conditions. Evolving all the way to perhaps the eternal representation of Godhood in the cosmos is defined as ultimate success in evolution, whether all life is conscious of this goal or not.

The religious affirmation of the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood activating material life gives us more of an answer to why life developed from prebiological building blocks, rather than merely the how, which science continues to try to define. This is where religion and science can one day come together.