Consciousness and the Spirit-Will

Consciousness is not the conductor of the body, it is an organ of deeper bodily needs, consciousness is a sequence of thoughts and feelings become visible to consciousness. Consciousness is our relation to to the outer world, it was the outer world that helped develop consciousness. These causes are concealed from our knowledge. As Nietzsche (and Schopenhauer before him) pointed out, consciousness is a means of communication with a view toward the interest of the body, in relation to the outer world and our response to it. The inter-relations of bodily functions do not become conscious, nor does the storing activity of the intellect. Science is now trying to understand how this happens physically.

There is a superior directing force at work here which makes its power felt before consciousness, consciousness is not the conductor, and survival and reproductive success are also not the central conducting goal. The Spirit-Will-To-Godhood physically seems to exist as a kind of deepest combined instincts, prior to consciousness, and this is the central conductor activating life to evolve in the material and supermaterial world toward supreme success in survival, or Godhood, while being shaped by outside evolution and selection. The activation and goal of the Spirit-Will is yet to be affirmed by science, and religion sees the spirit as essentially unconnected to the material world.