Grounding the mind, and religion, in theological materialism

Things in the mind come from the senses, but the mind can root around, disassemble what is there, and play games with the the patterns in the mind, and some of these actions were eventually called reason and logic. Religion and philosophy largely came from these higher patterns in the mind. The plumbing of the mind which we are born with can predetermine to a degree the way we think, but this too is defined as part of the material world of the senses. This does not mean that the mind cannot be brilliant and find real truths in life, but the mind is grounded in materialism. However, this materialism does not rule out Godhood.

Traditional religion and philosophy usually see “true' “essence” as spiritual, abstract, non-material, and the world is often seen as only a product, only phenomenon of the mind. This led eventually to an occult, mystical understanding of things and of life. But as I say here often, we were not “estranged” from the spiritual, we are estranged in a Great Spiritual Blockade from the material.

Theological materialism is grounded in sacred materialism, true materialism, filling the atheistic void of scientific and Marxist materialism with Godhood defined as the zenith of material/supermaterial evolution. Godhood is not a non-material God or non-material Absolute, Godhood is the zenith of material evolution, a supermaterial object, or objects, attained in evolution. This is a goal, a “faith,” based in projecting the known pattern of the theory of evolution and the ascent of life from the simple to the complex, and from unconsciousness to consciousness, all the way to supermaterial Godhood in the cosmos. And we can help this process along.

It was thought that the Inward God was non-material, the Father Within was thought of as God, but even this God was a state attained in the sensual mind which was reached after the ascetic discipline of ridding the body and mind of all material desires. Both Christ and Buddha carried on this tradition. Theological materialism sees the Inward God as a symbolic glimpse of what real Godhood may be like when attained in evolution. This symbolic God is retained in the Inward Path of the Twofold Path, but transformed in the Outward Path of material evolution to real Godhood.