Saturday, August 17, 2019

Human nature, cultures, being what we are, and theological materialism


Not being what we are, not being one with oneself, not being in accord with ones being, is mainly caused from being taught what we are not, usually in three ways.

We are taught that financial success in the world is all, or we are taught that survival and reproductive success is all, or we are taught that the spiritual is superior to the material and we should therefore most importantly look to the non-material spiritual, with the advocates of those positions claiming that those positions are in the best accord with what we are. Various cultures have developed around those versions of not being what we are, of not being one with oneself, or not being in accord with ones being.

Success in the world financially is driven by the desire for survival and reproductive success, but the desire for survival and reproductive success is driven by the sacred activation to evolve in the material world to supermaterial Godhood. The non-material spiritual was only the first rudimentary glimpse of the ascending levels of Godhood evolved to in the material world.

Being what we are means being in accord with nature and with real human nature, which is basically kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of successful selection, followed by individual selection. Cultures are eventually pulled back by that biological and genetic leash of real human nature to cultures that better reflect real human nature, and humans then work within and adapt to the environments they find themselves living.

But in the deepest sense of being what we are and being in accord with ones being is the activation to evolve in the material world to ascending levels of supermaterial Godhood. Cultures can then work within and adapt to the environments they find themselves living in and consciously develop from that definition of theological materialism.

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