Naturalistic biological determinism with theological materialism

I think in terms of a realistic or naturalistic biological determinism, which leads not to a bias of idealism but calls the human brain a survival organ that sees the world in terms of survival and reproductive success. This is not a Kantian bias it is the real world as it is. I see a natural will to survival and reproduction success of the genes also aided in evolution by an inward, purely physical activation to materially evolve toward ascending levels of Godhood. This is not a “transcendental” idealism but a natural evolutionary upward evolutionary drive working along with natural selection and evolution. We lack a total worldview that seamlessly includes both science and religion when all our social schemes are driven by this biological origin of social behavior, and the universe really is a mechanism for evolving Gods, which we should consciously get in step with since we are already unconsciously driven by it. Art and politics follow with evolutionary realism and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, and with theological materialism in religious philosophy.

Metaphysics is nonsense

Metaphysics is nonsense in all the meanings of that word: foolish, not logical or reasonable, and literally not of the senses. It is impossible to have knowledge not of one material sense or another, even the vaunted "intellectual intuition," which mystics claim brings truths from beyond the world of the senses, is nonsense in all the meanings of that word. Abstract theory with no basis in reality is a game we can play but the material object is all when defining reality, and even when defining supermaterial Godhood.

As I have written here before: Nonexistent spiritual definitions have been given far too much attention and power in religion and philosophy, which has led to misdefining and degrading the real world. Ascetics even put up a Great Spiritual Blockade against the material world, which actually blocks the real path to Godhood of material evolution. When people like Paul Tillich or Heidegger say such things as, “God is being-itself, not being,” they perpetuate the same belief in nothing but a mode of thinking.

Spiritual definitions need to drop back to their support role or defining role and they need to cease to be Gods themselves. The natural world has to be unblocked if we are to reach real Godhood by way of evolution. The confusing name-games for God will stop when Godhood is seen as existing in the same sense and the same world that everything else exists in. The exoteric needs to rise again over the esoteric in religious theology, and does so with theological materialism where Godhood is seen as a supermaterial object evolved to in the material world.

But The Twofold Path can make room for the traditional, non-object-idea-only definitions of the God-Within, or even the bliss feelings of the Father-Within of the Inward Path of the great religions---this is included but transformed in the Outward Path of the theological materialism of the projected Theoevolutionary Church. This brings the real world into religion and religion into the real world, and most importantly it unblocks the long-blocked natural path to evolving to real Godhood, the real purpose of existence, which is only reflected in the God-Within. This means a transvaluation of Plato's and I dare say Heidegger's world, long overdue.

Religion and science need an evolutionary tune up followed by politics

It has been said that politics is down stream from culture, and culture is down stream from religion. But religion has been slowly dying since the the 17th and 18th century Enlightenment, and it's demise has been speeding up since then. Science has not filled the gap although for many in the West it has tried to take the place of religion. Both religion and science need a tune up where they can take things from each other.

As I wrote here back in 2013: “The transfiguring goal for Friedrich Nietzsche in his early writings was the creation of great men, a republic of genius. Although that is very important it is not nearly enough. Renewal requires the religious goal of our evolution to Godhood in the cosmos, which brings a far more exalted renewal of consciousness, and contains the power to revive religion, philosophy and art in the enlarged modern world.

It is not tragic music, as Nietzsche and Schopenhauer thought, which expresses “the immediate language of the will,” it is evolution. It is not the Will To Power but the Will To Godhood that activates life, which evolution then shapes, that is the real source for a renewal of mythopoetic power. Evolution is the super-epic for art, glorifying the struggle to attain Godhood. Art can bring religion to life but it is not religion.

Religion and philosophy can recognize evolutionary religion as what we need, politics can help create it, and art and religious rituals can affirm it. Our evolution can even be democratic, with a federal system respecting and protecting the independent parts of the whole, maintaining the separate variety which advances evolution best, now we can envision cooperative competition in evolution, as we gradually evolve beyond the human sub-species toward Godhood.

The Twofold Path brings together inward traditional religion with outward material-supermaterial evolution. The Twofold Path offers conservatism and synthesis to religion and science, and allows the new to work along with the old, without the damage of revolution, and most importantly offers the divine evolutionary path to real Godhood.

I did not erect theological materialism on the ruins of Christianity, as modern thinkers did with science and the humanities, I wanted to renew the religious building, not tear it down. This rebirth was done through the Twofold Path, where the God-Within, the Father-Within, is seen as the first glimpse, or the mirror of the Godhood reached through material and supermaterial evolution. But this was a revelatory insight and not done simply to retain Christianity, and not done because I in fact do respect the conservative thinkers who see the great value for life in traditions.

Early Nietzsche could not see his way out of the loss of both religion and science other than through the rebirth of art-myth as a guide to truth, along with creating individual great men as the goal of culture. Nietzsche thought that this loss of myth was the result of the reasoning of Socrates which supposedly destroyed myth, and also after the “historical sense” and the abstract pursuit of knowledge for knowledge sake in modern times further destroyed myth and religion. Kant helped this destruction along by showing the limits of knowledge, and Schopenhauer by adding the Will as the superior force to all knowledge.

Theological materialism and the Theoevolutionary Church can revive both religion and science after modern life could not retrieve them as a satisfactory guide to truth. This brings along the religious-cultural goal of evolving increasingly great men, and also the sacred goal of attaining real Godhood in evolution in the Outward Path, the God first seen and mirrored in the Inward Path of the great religions.”

How the West is increasingly lost to the foundation of real human nature and human behavior

We all, whether we know it or not, left and right, follow the directive of the biological origin of social behavior. But the left is more lost from this foundation than the right, because many on the left---but even some on the right---consider the biological origin of social behavior an evil idea, which really means that they think human nature and human behavior are evil.

The Marxist change in direction of modern Western culture does not follow the prompting of the biological origin of human social behavior and believes instead that nurturing and the environment alone account for human behavior. Never the less they are driven by the same biological origin of social behavior seen in their biological wills to power.

Here is a pithy quote from the great sociobiologist Edward O. Wilson: “I see no way out of the problems that...tribalism creates other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves....The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their effects on the human gene pool. The brain is a product of evolution. Human behavior . .is the circuitous technique by which human genetic material has been and will be kept intact. Morality has no other demonstrable ultimate function."

An ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all groups is merely applied biology. A true natural rights or civil rights movement would promote ethnostates and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all groups, black, white, brown, yellow, or red, with each ethnostate protected from marauding imperialists, global businesses, supremacists, Marxists, etc. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates could be established, legally, in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states.

Both the left and the right fall apart in their ultimate answers to racism

Charles Murray can't be accused of cowardliness in his work on the biological origin of intelligence, but neither can the Marxist Black Lives Matter movement in affirming that there can be racism behind human behavior. But both fall apart in their ultimate answers to racism.

Charles Murray believes American individualism is the answer to racism or group-selection, and the Black Lives Matter movement believe that only whites can be racist or group-selecting.

Charles Darwin himself argued for group selection believing that tribes of moral men “have an immense advantage” over "fractious bands of pirates''. E. O. Wilson of Harvard University (the father of sociobiology) and David Sloan Wilson (no relation) of Binghamton University affirm group selection, although selection takes place on multiple levels simultaneously. This can be summed up in the pithy comment: “Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups.”

The biological origin of social behavior which came with Darwin and later sociobiology shows that real human nature is and has been genetically kin and ethnic centered (ie. racist and ethnocentric) with group selection as the main unit of successful survival and reproduction, followed by individual selection. America has not successfully united different races and ethnic groups, we are naturally fragmenting into a nation of competing races in a zero game where the gains of one ethnic group is offset by the losses of another ethnic group, with much cruel social discord in the process. But all is not lost.

We need to gradually realize the reality that multicultural multi-ethnic societies just don't work. The twenty first century could be the century of the rise of ethnostatism. As one historian put it, what formerly divided us can put us back together again. It would be far more realistic to talk of un-assimilating differences rather than about superiority/inferiority. A true natural rights or civil rights movement would promote ethnostates and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all groups, black, white, brown, yellow, or red, with each ethnostate protected from marauding imperialists, global businesses, supremacists, Marxists, etc.

Economic reform needs to synchronize with or even follow real human nature

Economic reform needs to synchronize with or even follow real human nature. And real human nature is best defined by the science of sociobiology which affirms the biological origin of social behavior.

Edward O. Wilson wrote “The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their effects on the human gene pool. The brain is a product of evolution. Human behavior . .is the circuitous technique by which human genetic material has been and will be kept intact...”

Human nature has been and remains genetically ethnocentric, even xenophobic, as well as being kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection, followed by individual-selection.

Which economic philosophy best synchronizes with or even follows real human nature? It would center on an ethnopluralism of ethnostates which could be conservatively and legally established in America largely within the traditional American framework of our separation of powers and states. We would conservatively take something from economic nationalism especially, but also from laissez-faire capitalism and perhaps distributism. We need to honor real human nature and the biological origin of social behavior and advocate the creation of an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all groups, black, white, brown, yellow, or red, with their independence protected by economic nationalism and a defensive federalism.