The psychology of inauthentic values and morals

Religion and philosophy have often defined ideas that are opposed to the senses, or opposed to nature, ideas “severed from reality” (“The Will to Power,” Nietzsche). Was this “civilizing” done to reduce the survival damage of aggression, or was it as Nietzsche thought, a way for the weaker to weaken the strong? Even scientists can look down their noses at natural drives and passions while almost exclusively valuing the rational scientific mind, although sociobiology has been looking more attentively at natural human nature.

What was needed was an ordering of the natural passions and drives of evolution and not a blocking or nonattachment to them, not a making evil of nature, or merely calling natural passions irrational. Religion and philosophy insisted on reaching the God Within of the Inward Path, or the highest good of philosophy, and they tended to block the natural drives, or advocated becoming unattached to them so as to experience the Father Within, or the highest good. This made actual natural compassion and love secondary to the needs of reaching the God Within, one could more easily feel compassion because one was emotionally unattached to the natural passions of reproduction, competition, and life in general.

Ordered Evolution in the Outward Path is the authentic answer to the psychology of the Inward Path values and morals---but the Inward Path can be retained as the symbolic-experience of the Godhood reached by material and supermaterial evolution in the Outward Path. We evolve to Godhood in nature not by blocking nature or becoming unattached to natural drives, our natural drives can be consciously directed toward higher evolution to real Godhood. God has been too much associated with the opposite of life and the depreciation of nature, a “denaturalisation” has taken place. We need a “moral naturalism,” but contrary to Nietzsche, one that sees altruism as authentically related to helping the group and therefore the individual survive, prosper, and most importantly: evolve.