Wednesday, August 14, 2019
High religious experiences are peak material, not spiritual, experiences
Can free inquiry into
intellectual things be free of all working purpose or is even
philosophy a function of the material biological origin of social
behavior?
Religious philosophy first
took the leap of thinking in terms of a non-material spiritual world,
which then supposedly allowed philosophers to think and feel free of the bonds of the material world. But that was not what they
were doing. High religious experiences are peak material,
not spiritual, experiences.
For example, by ridding
the body of material desires, as Christ, Buddha, and other ascetics
advocated they experienced the feeling of bliss which they described
as non-material and spiritual---they even called it “God”
which in reality was a peak material experience.
I believe that the deepest
religious experience is feeling, knowing, or experiencing the high
activation (Tirips) within material life to live, survive, reproduce,
and evolve in the material world to supermaterial Godhood. We cannot
function beyond or without this sacred material activation, why would
we want to? Does the false duality of the desire to transcend the
living object stem from the desire to transcend death?
It's interesting that
blocking or unattaching oneself from all material desires is a form
of death, the body shuts down the senses until “active death" is
attained, which is blissful---the state of sushumna “lights the
fires of death.” We seek freedom from life when we seek freedom
from the material world, and that is death.
We evolve in the material
world to supermaterial Godhood and we have free will to do so but
within determined paths, like a boulder rolling down a mountainside.
Why has that been so hard to accept? Evolution moves inevitably in a
pattern, even though it has its random elements, and the pattern has
a discernible direction, in spite of instances of stagnation and
retreat, toward higher and higher more effective living forms, all
the way to ascending levels of real Godhood.
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