If we have to know what Being is before we can decide what is real...

If we have to know what Being is before we can decide what is real (a question Nietzsche pondered), and then when I say that Being is an object, a material or supermaterial object, we can from there decide the difference between definitions and abstractions of Being, and Being itself. This is the way I have approached Being and ontology.

It is a “leap” (intellectual intuition?) one takes to see Being this way, but following that leap many things can fall into place. I think of Michael Polanyi's definition of truth: something is true if it reveals deeper meaning, if it has potential for future discoveries or manifestations, and not merely because something could be true because it could be proven exactly with scientific methodology.

A new theology forms from this way of seeing Being, which I have called theological materialism, the evolution of material/supermaterial life to Godhood. It is tied to the old theology but the Inward Path to the God Within is transformed and retained in the Godhood reached by the Outward Path of  material- supermaterial evolution.

Science, evolution and future evolution can reenter the religious worldview, conservatism can remain valid—we learn something new in terms of something old and familiar, which seems to be the way we learn.