Transforming the old Inward Path of asceticism

If the “spirit” is defined as the power of comprehending the totality of being, as the old philosophers and as Josef Pieper say it is, it would then take the non-material out of the picture as well as the idea that God is spiritual.

As I see it, the totality of being is evolutionary and material or supermaterial and is never non-material or spiritual, and we will have to evolve much higher intelligence to see the the true totality of being that the evolved Gods see. We evolve from frogs to Gods and we have a long way to go.

And that's the point here, our traditional religious definitions of spiritualism and God as non-material, and defining the spiritual as comprehending the totality of being, have been blocking the process of material evolution to real Godhood, which we should be aiding.

Total being means materially evolving to supermaterial Godhood and to beings of eternal life, but evolutionary and material life might then go on evolving to higher levels of Godhood and higher levels of eternity.

We can think of the non-material ideas and experiences of the spirit and of God as preliminary attempts to comprehend the totality of being. The old Inward Path of asceticism can be retained but transformed in the Outward Path of material evolution to supermaterial Godhood.