Wednesday, August 06, 2014

Projecting a real sacred but material cause in phenomena


“Causality evades us,” Nietzsche said. Biological phenomenalism goes before thoughts but we are not aware of it. Even pleasure and pain at bottom are effects in the process of our bodies getting us to do what our bodies require to survive, and they are not the motives that many philosophers thought they were. Instincts and passions intervene before and between our thoughts, we can deny them because we do not recognize them.

In this fashion, that which interrupts our consciousness, and adjusts it, are the elements of the feedback loop I wrote about earlier, that is, nature, nurture, plus the material life-activation of a Super-Id-like Spirit-Will-To-Godhood. Both Nietzsche and science missed or denied this sacred goal, which gives life moral structure, rather than the goalless immorality of Nietzsche's will-to-power, or the amorality of science which sees no inner activation toward Godhood but sees only nature/nurture and random evolution, and missed by spiritualism which rejected a material or supermaterial goal.

With theological materialism, the Father Within of the great religions is transformed and seen as symbolic of the real Godhood reached in outward material/supermaterial evolution, shaped by outside evolution and selection. Nietzsche did not identify this end goal of Godhood in evolution, which led to his stance of immorality. This might have given Nietzsche a moral and conservative view rather than his immoral or amoral and revolutionary view, and it could have done the same for amoral science.

This is a way to express or understand something new in terms of something old and familiar. Projecting a real sacred but material cause in all phenomena, a moral cause, which can be related to traditional religion, and social philosophy, is what is missing in modern philosophy and science. And the material/supermaterial vehicle of evolution to Godhood has been missing in religion.

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