Nietzsche was right in saying that life
is only a means to something, although I think he got the sacred ends
somewhat wrong. Life is not only the means to “power,” which was
Nietzsche's claim, life is the means for material life to
evolve toward the sacred end of supermaterial Godhood. “Happiness”
is the other choice thinkers make as the most basic motivation, but
happiness is a secondary reaction which only uses happiness as an
incentive for deeper goals.
The conscious world is only a small
slice of what lies beneath, which first Nietzsche and later Freud
understood. Consciousness itself arose to enhance the deeper goals
of evolutionary success, including the deepest motivation and goal of
the evolution of life to Godhood, which is described in theological materialism.
The means have been misunderstood as
the object itself, without looking for the end that explains the
necessity of the means. Nietzsche understood this, but he didn't
quite affirm the most basic activation of the evolution of life toward
Godhood, that is, the Godhood first insufficiency glimpsed in the
religions which Nietzsche dismissed.
Our values need to relate to
the conditions that preserve and enhance our ongoing evolution toward
Godhood, then the means are not mistaken for the end. Religion need
not be rejected but transformed from the ascetic God-Within of the Inward
Path, to the evolution of life to real Godhood in the Outward Path.
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