Wednesday, August 07, 2019

Transforming the ascetic inward experience of God in the Outward Path of material evolution to real Godhood


Conservatives and traditionalists rightly believe that religion should create the foundation of long-term culture, but which religion? A religion that does not ignore the biological origin of social behavior and the biological origin of religion and culture.

Traditional religions declare that a non-material non-biological spiritual God is at the origin of religion and culture. But the material activation of life in every cell of the material body (here called Tirips) activates life leading to the origin and creation of religion and culture.

Ascending levels of Godhood are reached through material evolution, not the other way around. Supermaterial Godhood is the goal of evolving life, not the origin of life, unless you want to call the material activation of life God.

Being aware of the importance of conservative order to life and culture and to maintaining the best of the past, the Twofold Path of theological materialism retains in the Inward Path that first traditional human glimpse of God as the ascetic, material, symbolic, experience of bliss, which ascetics called God, arrived at by ridding their bodies of biological desires. That ascetic inward experience is then transformed in the Outward Path of material evolution leading to ascending levels of real material/supermaterial Godhood.

Not even a leap of faith is necessary to believe in the Godhood reached by way of material evolution, but a little faith may be needed---and much work---in believing we can and will attain real Godhood. And fading religion itself needs transforming if we are to have religion in the future---religion and science can be merged. 

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