Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Reviving teleological purposes


I agree with Nietzsche that the inner activation of life is a more important dynamic in evolution than the environment, but I think the inner activation is more than the “will-to-power." There is a goal, a sacred destination, beyond strength (Nietzsche) or utility (Darwin.)

Happiness and hunger are part of a deeper instinctive process which only uses these things to aid in the goal of evolving toward Godhood. Even success in survival and reproduction are a secondary result of the activation (the Spirit-Will-to-Godhood) toward Godhood.

Why does a thing want to survive successfully? The deeper purpose is not mentioned, if we can't measure it we won't consider it. Teleological purposes are buried. It is the development toward Godhood that is the real “progress.”

Godhood by way of evolution is the God we have been trying to define for millenniums, it is a transformed version of the inward God of traditional religion, which is conservatively retained but transformed in the Twofold Path.

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