Friday, August 15, 2014

Motive Beyond Preservation


Nietzsche said, “there can be no other kind of intellect (for ourselves) than the kind which serves the purpose of our preservation” ("The Will To Power").  But I say just as the pleasure we get from food is a reaction to the more basic need of life for sustenance, and not the motive (contrary to the "happiness" primary motive of many philosophers), so is our preservation a reaction to the activation of the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood which is the cause or motive that requires our preservation. This is how religion legitimately can enter the phenomenon of the physical/material world. We are not alive only to survive and reproduce successfully, although these are important, we are alive fundamentally to evolve toward Godhood at the zenith of material/supermaterial evolution. Although religion has affirmed a supposedly "non-material," non-evolutionary “spirit” which can be experienced within by us---with the right ascetic discipline---religion, science and philosophy have not yet recognized the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood as an activating physiological/materialist motive, nor have they recognized Godhood as supermaterial. It will be good for life in general when they do.

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