Distortions of the material and spiritual

The mind is strictly material. Alexander Bard, a modern Zoroastrian, once pointed out (from a discontinued Google Reader) that Craig Venter invented artificial life which can reproduce itself. He used only chemicals and nothing else. Bard says everything is material and he said that the Indo-Europeans were always monists believing in one material substance over all. Bard says dualism, the belief that there is a spiritual substance separate from material, is both unscientific, nonsensical and Abrahamic, and certainly not Indo-European.

I agree that everything is material---and I include Godhood---but I think the Indo-European's became as spiritual as the Abrahamics and probably influenced them. I think what happened was in the distant past Indo-European warriors discovered techniques for helping them to endure distress without mental disturbance, mantras etc. which gave them advantages over their competitors. Specialists in these techniques then developed, teaching initiate warriors etc. Gradually this class of specialists became a priest class, and the mantras changed from material to spiritual.

Ascending levels of Gods and Godhood are strictly material and supermaterial and evolved to in the material world, activated by an inward material will or Tirips, which works along with outward natural selection and evolution. Neither the Indo-European's nor the Abrahamic's defined Gods and Godhood that way.