We need not repudiate reason and
science, we can expand it out toward future evolution, and we can
very much include religion and art in a kind of romanticism within
science. This is evolutionary realism based in both science and art, inspired by the philosophy of theological materialism, and not
merely romantic grandiosity.
If we study the evolution of man, then the evolution of
man allows us to study our evolution toward Godhood in
the cosmos. This can revive, transform, and extend religion.
Religion has obviously been dying in the West along with the general
decline of the Western world.
Man long ago saw God inwardly in the
ascetic Inward Path by denying material desires, now we do not block
life, we relax life into the dynamics of material evolution. This is
not revolution this is evolutionary transformation.
William Blake said “Damn braces.
Bless relaxes,” but we do not “damn” the traditional blockade
of material evolution in the Inward Path, which was designed to
experience God inwardly, we retain but transform the Inward Path with the
Outward Path of material evolution to real Godhood.
(This response was inspired by a short
review of Romantic Art, by Gail Leggio, in American Arts, Summer
2015)
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