Thursday, January 30, 2014

The religious or philosophical outward map to nowhere


Jesus constantly warned against centering on the text and neglecting the spirit, the letter had replaced the spirit with the Pharisees. But then theology went on to neglect the living material object in the name of the abstract spirit. The constant push toward the word, the symbol, the idea as a nonmaterial abstraction then continued on toward the biggest abstraction of all: defining God as having no materiality, not even supermaterial objecthood. Religion and theology (and philosophy) now need to return to the object, the material object, and to the supermaterial objects of future evolution. Godhood is reached through material and supermaterial evolution.

The traditional Involutionary Inward Path leading to the God or Father Within, which is the same in all the revealed religions (a reason for ecumenism) can be retained in the Inward Path, but even this blissful symbolic-experience of the God Within takes place at the zenith of the material-supermaterial, biological, living-object, mind. Here is where the spirituality of the Inward God becomes misdefined. It is in the Evolutionary Outward Path of material-supermaterial evolution where true Godhood is attained, the Inward God is a blissful symbolic-experience of Outward Godhood.

Supermaterial Godhood is of course also an abstraction in the form of faith, but it is based in the objecthood of materiality and natural evolution. For example, we can see the physical record of evolution from the simple to the complex, and this is not based in spiritual, nonmaterial, nothinghood. It is more like the abstract-faith one has in reaching the material destination of a road map on a long journey. The Inward Father-Within can be experienced with much ascetic discipline, but it is not true Godhood reached through evolution. Although  the Inward God is not nowhere, it has to be called tragic for the world to follow a religious or philosophical outward map to nowhere.

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