Theological materialism is thoroughly Western and proud of it

Theological materialism is thoroughly Western and proud of it, following the Western path in centering on science and reason, but emphasizing group-selection as more important than the individualism preferred by the 17^th and 18^th century Enlightenment. And unlike the Enlightenment, theological materialism affirms religious tradition transformed rather than rejected.

I affirm those few westerners who envisioned a religion from science (like the great Raymond Cattell's "Beyondism"). Theological materialism affirms supermaterial Godhood reached by material and supermaterial evolution but conservatively considers the evolutionary Outward Path as an improvement, not a rejection, of the Inward Path to the God within of Traditional religions.

For example, the eastern experience of nirvana, and the beatific experience of heaven or the Father Within of Christ, were just that, a peak experience in the physical mind after much ascetic discipline in blocking or overcoming material desires. We can conservatively retain that preliminary Inward Path experience of the God Within, but it needs to be transformed in the Outward Path of material evolution to real Godhood.

While I respect some of the conclusions of the Traditionalist School of Guénon and Evola---and now Aleksandr Dugin (eg. ethnostatism), the Traditionalist School does not find science (a jewel of the West) nearly as important as Eastern spiritualism (a jewel of the East) and they reject and want to destroy the Western world for its gross materialism. Among American followers of Dugin patriotism is unfairly lost in seeing only the flaws of the West, which are redeemable. For example, an ethnopluralism of ethnostates or regions could be established, legally, in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states, protected from marauding imperialists, supremacists, and money grubbers, by a light federalism.

Theological materialism looks beneath thought and feeling and finds the multifarious processes of the instincts, or Tirips, which activate life to evolve toward the supreme survival success of Godhood. This activation exists within material life and is never separate from it, and works within and adapts to the environments life finds itself living in---there is no spiritual/material duality here. The activation of material life toward evolving to Godhood is the unchanging constant, but values within this basic instinct can conservatively change, as evolution makes new discoveries and presents new challenges as we evolve toward Godhood.