Monday, May 19, 2014

Deeper Psychology


I would add the activating, supermaterial, Spirit-Will-To-Godhood to the Archetypes of Carl Jung, and also to Evolutionary Psychology, which would make an even deeper psychology. The archetypes are innate and universal human traits, as are the universal traits of kin-selection, ethnocentrism, and group selection. But an inward even blissful archetype for God is not enough, it is only a symbolic experience of the Godhood reached in outward material and supermaterial evolution.

The main purpose behind the development of these innate universal human traits and archetypes was successful survival and reproduction, which is why they evolved---evolutionary psychology emphasizes this. But psychology, as well as religion and philosophy, would be broader and deeper by including the innate-supermaterial, universal, activating Spirit-Will-To-Godhood, which could be considered a Super Id.

As Nietzsche thought, the motive force and its expression should not be seen as separate things. The material and spiritual are seen as separate things, or else they are seen as Plato and the Eastern religions (and their Western versions) saw them, as really all spiritual and non-material. We need to repair or reconnect these two. Chance and natural selection do take place in material evolution but there is also an inward activating force in the selection process, as Teilhard Chardin and others have thought, with their somewhat different interpretations from this one. I see it the other way, trans-valued : it is all material and supermaterial, inwardly and outwardly evolving toward Godhood, no duality is necessary.

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