Saving Art With Transvalued Religion (from 2012)

Plato and other religious sages before him led to the revolt against the material object, which over time led to a revolt against Plato and the sages and their objectless non-material world, which led to non-sacred modern art objects in themselves, with no reference even to real representation. What a revolt!

Plato and other religious sages began with the idea that sense experience cannot be real because the real was said to be non-material, nonperishable, and unchanging, which was the audacious claim that set mankind on a path away from real objects and real sense experience, which was a Great Spiritual Blockade against the world.

Science more or less trans-valued this spiritual blockade back to the material world, and Nietzsche utterly rejected it. But the way to keep religion in art, and to revive real representation, is to understand that Godhood is the sacred goal of material and supermaterial evolution. Evolutionary Realism can then be confirmed, and not unrecognizable objects as an extreme revolt against the Platonic world free of real material objects. The path of sacred art and religion is material evolution to Godhood.

But we can keep the Platonic world of the great religions in the Involutionary Inward Path to the symbolic God Within, but this object-less world is transvalued from Plato and the founding religious sages and seen as the useful mirror of real material Godhood reached in the Evolutionary Outward Path.