Matter is energy, but energy is
matter. There would be no matter without energy but also no energy
without matter. Do we really want to rate one higher than the other?
I would then rate living matter as more evolved than simple energy.
Spiritualism turns the real material world upside-down and claims that the
religious/philosophical ideal is not really material, is not
matter, or is more sacred energy than lowly matter. They claim that
their supreme ideas are non-material and Godlike, or even God.
Why the hatred of the material world
even to the point of blocking all material desires or blocking all life, at least for ascetics? They do it so
that they can dwell in the blissful bodily experience of supreme
ideas, unbothered and unaffected by material desires. It is a
cloistered world ultimately driven by hedonism.
The main problem with traditional
asceticism is that it blocks the path of material evolution to
real supermaterial Godhood, which requires material
desires, but channeled desires that need to genetically and
culturally funnel evolving life-forms toward the supermaterial zenith
of beauty, truth and goodness. This allows material science to enter
religion as a help-mate. That is the future of religion transformed.
We can conservatively keep the old ascetic inward path to the "god"
within in the Twofold Path, but only as a symbolic glimpse of the real
Godhood reached in the outward path of material evolution to real
Godhood.
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Spirit is Matter
Matter was Spirit to Teilhard
de Chardin.
He believed he had resolved a core conflict of the split between
Matter and Spirit, between Body and Soul. He believed he understood
that the evolution of matter was one and the same with the evolution
of spirit (consciousness).
"The Way Teilhard Saw It"
Spirit did not by the touch of the divine
call lowly Matter to life,
rather Matter was Spirit
from the absolute
beginning
latent with unimaginable power
in the embryo of a cosmic mustard seed
dreaming of bursting into flower!
-- Charles C. Finn, August 10, 2021”
Theological
materialism sees it the opposite way: spirit is matter, there is no
spirit. Spirit and matter are of one essence and not dualistic, just
as energy can “freeze” into matter, and matter can unfreeze into
energy. It's not really accurate to say that matter is the inferior
aspect of spirit and spirit the superior aspect of matter, spirit is
really super-materiality and not something apart from matter. This
means you really can't define spirit and matter as good and evil, but
you can define matter as evolved and unevolved. Evolution is the
activation of the will to life within matter to evolve to Godhood,
working along with outside evolution and national selection. Godhood
is ascending levels of super-materiality.
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