Friday, September 19, 2014

The phenomenological description of theological materialism


My understanding of Godhood and the activating Spirit-Will-To-Godhood comes from my internal experience of how theological materialism appears to my consciousness, a description of what is intuitively, intellectually and even rationally given to my consciousness, with myself living and seeing in the world. I think this religious philosophy synchronizes with science, philosophical naturalism, sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, human history, etc., but it nevertheless comes from a phenomenological description of what appears to my consciousness without first having the empirical okay of these various fields, they help to validate what I see. Perhaps in the past this was called intellectual intuition or even revelation, but a phenomenological description seems a better way to describe it.

General consciousness seems to be an abstraction of all the external and internal needs of survival and reproduction, with much of it unconscious. The Spirit-Will (which I also call the Super-Id, or the combined instincts) is seen as the essential activator of conscious and unconscious life, never separate from life, activating from the beginning universe onward, which then must contend with the outside shaping that takes place from the environment of evolution and natural selection. Belonging mainly to abstractions, religion has been estranged from this process of nature, religion has only approved of the material world begrudgingly, mainly because experiencing the God or Father Within has required unattachment from material desires. While retaining that Inward Path in the Twofold Path, Theological materialism brings religion back to nature, back to man, where real Godhood is understood as only evolved to in the formerly estranged Outward Path of the material and supermaterial world.

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