tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224705762024-03-13T02:33:37.079-06:00Civilizing The BeastReflections On Theological Materialism, Including A Philosophical,Political,and Artistic Defense Of The West Kenneth Lloyd Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852862610907259920noreply@blogger.comBlogger4323125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22470576.post-56316092614759426222023-09-17T09:05:00.000-06:002023-09-17T09:09:57.904-06:00Conservatives and the fertility rate<p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
advance of science very gradually led to the decline of religion
which has greatly changed the western world. Most seriously it has
affected the fertility rate.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Philip Jenkins
writes (September 2023 Chronicles) “A fertility rate below 2.1—what
we call a sub-replacement rate—results in a contracting population
and an aging society. Briefly, European nations quite suddenly
shifted from very high to very low fertility rates in what was
historically the blink of an eye, and that happened during the years
of religious collapse. In Italy, for instance, the twin processes
coincided neatly between 1975 and 1985. Denmark and the Netherlands
hit fertility rates of 1.5 or below. Rates across Catholic Europe
fell to frightening (and thoroughly unsustainable) levels of 1.2.”.</span></span><br />
</p>
<p>“<strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Tell
me the total fertility rate of a society, and I will tell you how its
religious institutions are faring, and be able to make a good guess
whether it permits abortion or same-sex marriage.” Jenkins writes.</span></span></span></strong><br />
</p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I am a
conservative but I don't think bringing back Calvinist
Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, or socialist secularity can save us
now or is even possible.</span></span><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Why
aren't all conservatives also racial conservatives? If you don't
conserve the races who created the cultures, you don't conserve the
cultures for long, so it is not enough to be only a cultural
conservative.</span></span></p><div dir="LTR" id="post-body-7587994802050332602">
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This
tragic political mistake seems to stem from conservatives not
knowing or not affirming the biological origin of social behavior,
and from the blocking of the subject and making it taboo by those
who benefit from integrating the world, which includes the worlds
religions as well as global business people.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Conservatives
need to admit our behavior, intelligence, and personalities are to a
large extent heritable. Both<span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">liberals
and p</span></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">aleoconservative's
block or conceal or down play the </span></span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">ethnic-centered
and xenophobic parts of human nature.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">f
real kin and ethnic-centered human nature was allowed to be what it
is, it would naturally lead to ethnostates, and finally to 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., and
defended by a defensive federalism. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates
could be established legally in the United States with our
constitutional separation of powers and states. Then conservatives
would be worthy of their name.</span></span></span></span></span></span> <br /></p></div>Kenneth Lloyd Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852862610907259920noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22470576.post-57774874798851594662023-08-28T12:41:00.002-06:002023-08-28T12:46:25.237-06:00Two roads diverge in transhumanism<p>
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<h3 class="western" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is
my answer to those who, like Marc Andreessen, are selling the
metaverse as a sort of Marxist way to deal with "the small percent of
people who live in a real-world environment that is rich, even
overflowing, with glorious substance with beautiful settings,
plentiful stimulation, and many fascinating people to talk to, and to
work with, and to date.” But these are just the lucky among us.
“Everyone else,” he said, “the vast majority of humanity, lacks
“Reality Privilege”—their online world is, or will be,
immeasurably richer and more fulfilling than most of the physical and
social environment around them in the quote-unquote “real world.”</span></h3>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">-----------<br />The first
road biologically and genetically modifies natural evolution, the
second road moves beyond what we are to join with machines or <u>become</u>
artificial life. I affirm the first road of <u>conscious</u>
evolutionary modification of billions of years of unconscious
evolution, from the simple to the complex, using many forms of
<u>biological</u> enhancements.<br /><br />The superstructure of genetics
and bioengineering needs to rest on the evolutionary base of biology
and genetics, and not become a new artificial structure without a
natural base. We can enhance our genetic and biological capabilities
endlessly as we evolve toward Godhood, but if we upload ourselves
into silicone chips we could end natural evolutionary life, which is
a diabolical end.<br /><br />There seems to be something almost paranoid
about those who see racism behind any talk of the improvement of
<u>hereditary</u> qualities, which is taken to the point of
preferring <u>artificial</u> evolution to biological evolution, as
with many transhumanists. A very cynical reading could also see those
who wish to stop the evolutionary biological improvement of
hereditary qualities as an underhanded way to enhance their own
genes, consciously or unconsciously, by stopping the advancement of
others.<br /><br />Ethics can be inferred from evolutionary history (what
else?) otherwise we attempt to go beyond nature itself. This does nor
mean we will not move beyond the human species, ethnocentrism, for
example, has been a stopping off place to secure beneficial mutations
before moving on to the next stage, the next pause, the next species.</span> <br /></p>Kenneth Lloyd Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852862610907259920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22470576.post-26667464916711949052023-06-25T11:12:00.003-06:002023-06-25T15:13:56.631-06:00A sacred synthesis<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">We
can have our old religions and our old political and cultural
arrangements along with modern science, they just have to be adapted
a bit, so conservatives and revolutionaries can rest easier.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">With
evolution we are destined to be Gods: the golden synthesis of
religion and science.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
will, soul, spirit, life-force, will to power, will to Godhood, or as
I call it: Tirips, is the sacred will to evolve to Godhood and
nothing more than that,which is enough. It is the most sacred drive
but it isn't God, it is the drive <u>within</u> life <u>to </u>Godhood which must live and adapt the life it lives within to the
exigencies of natural selection and evolution. It is a material
drive, but the most sacred element of the material drives. It is not
a “spiritual” drive, it lives within life and is passed on
through procreation. It part of our nature, and the most important drive of the direction of our lives and cultures or should be. </span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This
worldview which I define as theological materialism is the golden
synthesis of religion and science. Energy is matter in another form,
so matter is really not passive as Newton's first law said. Matter in
the form of energy moves matter. Matter in the form of energy moves
matter from within matter as well as from outside of matt<span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;">er.
There </span></span>is more than an outward action or reaction with
matter, there is an inward vitalism working within and shaped by
outside evolution, which is the activation of the will to life as
inward metabolism, growth, reproduction. Theological materialism
amplifies this vitalist will to life with the goal of Tirips or the
will-to-evolve-toward-Godhood. Spirituality is not needed in religion
when matter is not passive. It is matter not spirit that is evolving
to its zenith of Godhood. With evolution we are destined to be Gods.</span></span></p><p lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Political
philosophers talk of ideologies, like the Great Reset, religious
philosophers talk of covenants, mysticism, etc, like the
Traditionalist School, I believe the <span style="font-weight: normal;">Third
Covenant</span>, the Cosmic Covenant, surpasses both of these. <br /></span></span></p><p lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">M<span style="color: black;">y
view of the absolute importance of human evolution kept me away from
the brilliant seduction of the Traditionalist School which is where
the Alt-right turned. Many have now gone over to the school of
Guenon, Evola, and the Russian Dugin, and embraced a non-populist,
old spiritual religious, imperialist, hierarchy of rule, and have
downplayed or even rejected the idea of science and evolutionary
progress. Why </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">didn't</span></span><span style="color: black;">
the Alt-right </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">feature</span></span><span style="color: black;">
more Western geniuses, men like the brilliant British/American
psychologist Raymond Cattell, or the great Neo-Darwinist field of
sociobiology, rather than converting to the West-hating Russian
imperialist Aleksandr Dugin and his Traditionalist School teachers,
</span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en">Guénon and Evola who
did not find science (a jewel of the West) nearly as important as
Eastern spiritualism (</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">a
jewel of the East).</span></span></span></span><br />
</p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">I
write of </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Three
Covenant</u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">s
explaining how in the </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><u>First
Covenant</u></span></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">of
Primordial Tradition the Spirit and Soul of the Inward Path were
understood as existing in the blood, that is, as being passed on only
racially and tribally to a chosen eg. (Jewish) or noble (Aryan)
people, etc.. Then Jesus Christ (and Eastern masters) brought the
knowledge that the spirit and Soul-Within need not be understood and
affirmed only racially or tribally but could be understood and
followed by any race, any people, universally, provided they were
taught the proper way to see or experience the God Within;
Christianity said we were “Chosen” through faith in Christ not
chosen by blood. That was the </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">Second
Covenant</span></u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><b>.
</b></span></span><a href="https://civilizingthebeast.blogspot.com/2018/08/theological-materialism-and_9.html"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Theological</span></span></span></a><a href="https://civilizingthebeast.blogspot.com/2018/08/theological-materialism-and_9.html"><span style="color: black;">
</span></a><a href="https://civilizingthebeast.blogspot.com/2018/08/theological-materialism-and_9.html"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">materialism</span></span></a><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">(and the projected
Theoevolutionary Church) affirm the mission and path of the </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">Third
Covenant</span></u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">,
the Cosmic Covenant of the Evolutionary Outward Path, which
revitalizes Primordial Tradition, Christianity, Hinduism etc. by once
again affirming the </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><u>First
Covenant</u></span></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">of
genetic and biological qualities within our material evolution to
supermaterial Godhood as applied to the Outward Path. <br /></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Constitutions and
moral truths need to rest on real natural rights according to real
human nature. From there we can derive the set of preferences with
which to start. Natural law, when including the biological origin of
social behavior, tells us that w<span style="text-decoration: none;">e
have a biology determined human nature. Our real freedom is limited
by various determined choices, but we have the flexibility to be
mistaken about who we are and what we can do and be.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
best and most recent sociobiological knowledge has been telling us
that human nature, affirmed throughout human history, has been, and
continues to be basically, kin-centered, gender defined, age-grading,
heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even
xenophobic, and religious-making, among other things, with
group-selection as the primary unit of selection. This is basic human
nature.</span></span></p>
<p>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">If
real kin and ethnic-centered human nature was allowed to be what it
is, it would naturally lead to ethnostates, and finally, if we are
wise, to 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., and defended by a defensive federalism. An ethnopluralism of
ethnostates could be established legally in the United States with
our constitutional separation of powers and states.</span></span></span><br />
</p>
Kenneth Lloyd Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852862610907259920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22470576.post-92163652419133550822023-05-15T07:16:00.001-06:002023-05-15T07:18:21.249-06:00Both liberalism and Marxism got it wrong<p> "<span style="font-size: large;">Marx’s principal
insight is that the categories liberals use to construct their theory
of political reality (liberty, equality, rights, and consent) are
insufficient for understanding the political domain. They are
insufficient because the liberal picture of the political world
leaves out two phenomena that are, according to Marx, absolutely
central to human political experience: the fact that people
invariably form cohesive classes or groups and the fact that these
classes or groups invariably oppress or exploit one another, with the
state itself functioning as an instrument of the oppressor class.”
Paul Gottfried, Chronicles, April 2023</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">If this was the Marx view
that “people invariably form cohesive classes or groups and the
fact that these classes or groups invariably oppress or exploit one
another,” he got that part right, but he missed the fact that this
comes from the biological origin of social behavior and not primarily
from cultural or economic conditions. This error led to the wrong
solutions to the problem.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">But the solution is not to
advocate for individualism which as far away from real human nature
as saying culture or nurture are primarily the origin of social
behavior. <span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Human
nature, affirmed throughout human history, has been, and continues to
be basically, kin-centered, gender defined, age-grading, heterosexual
marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and
religious-making, among other things, with group-selection as the
primary unit of selection. This is basic human nature.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">If
real kin and ethnic-centered human nature was allowed to be what it
is, it would naturally lead to ethnostates, and finally, if we are
wise, to 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., and defended by a defensive federalism. An ethnopluralism of
ethnostates could be established legally in the United States with
our constitutional separation of powers and states.</span></span></span></p>Kenneth Lloyd Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852862610907259920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22470576.post-390736406210490662023-05-10T06:27:00.000-06:002023-05-10T06:27:06.065-06:00The hidden truths about human nature and natural law<p>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Constitutions
and moral truths need to rest on real natural rights according to real
human nature. From there we can derive the set of preferences with
which to start. Natural law, when including the biological origin of
social behavior, tells us that w<span style="text-decoration: none;">e
have a biology determined human nature. Our real freedom is limited
by various determined choices, but we have the flexibility to be
mistaken about who we are and what we can do and be.</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
best and most recent sociobiological knowledge has been telling us
that human nature, affirmed throughout human history, has been, and
continues to be basically, kin-centered, gender defined, age-grading,
heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even
xenophobic, and religious-making, among other things, with
group-selection as the primary unit of selection. This is basic human
nature.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">If
real kin and ethnic-centered human nature was allowed to be what it
is, it would naturally lead to ethnostates, and finally, if we are
wise, to 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., and defended by a defensive federalism. An ethnopluralism of
ethnostates could be established legally in the United States with
our constitutional separation of powers and states.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Admitting
this</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
hidden truth about human nature and natural law will be very
difficult because it admits ethnocentrism which is still widely
thought of as evil.</span></span></span></span></span></span> <br /></p>Kenneth Lloyd Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852862610907259920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22470576.post-16237768726510548882023-04-29T07:31:00.000-06:002023-04-29T07:31:33.525-06:00The melting pot society went against the biological origin of social behavior and basic human nature<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Edward
Wilson supplied an increasingly precise basic definition of human
nature. Human nature has been affirmed throughout human history, at
least since paleolithic times (from 2.6 million years ago to the
present) as being basically kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded,
heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even
xenophobic, and religious-making, among other things, with group or
ethnic selection as the primary unit of successful selection. Trying
to overcome this basic human nature has been impossible. We need a
system where citizens of different ethnic groups and races can work
together for the common good with ethnostates and an ethnopluralism.
We need a system of ethnostates and ethnopluralism where differences
and self-interest can be appreciated. Everyone can share the same
cause, the same realistic pluralism. It wont be easy but the whole
business of the melting pot society went against the biological
origin of social behavior and basic human nature.</span></span></p>
Kenneth Lloyd Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852862610907259920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22470576.post-48113142590670646972023-04-19T06:47:00.003-06:002023-04-19T17:20:46.989-06:00 A realistic pluralism based on the biological origin of social behavior<p>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Political realism should
be first based on the biological origin of social behavior, and
secondarily on the realistic assumption that power is (or ought to
be) the primary end of political action for all peoples, whether in
the domestic or international arena. The main problem of the
ethnocentrism of the 20</span><sup><span style="font-size: large;">th</span></sup><span style="font-size: large;">
century remains today and the politically realistic way to deal with
ethnocentrism is through a common pluralism of ethnostates where
self interest is seen in having ethnostates in common.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">For this realism to take
place we must accept that <span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">human
nature evolved to be </span></span></span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">genetically</span></u></span></span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">kin-centered
and ethnic-centered, even xenophobic, with group-selection and ethnic
selection having been the primary unit of successful selection,
followed by individual selection.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">This
is a realistic pluralism, the most realistic way for the different
people, different races, different cultures to get along together.</span></span></span></span> <br /></p>Kenneth Lloyd Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852862610907259920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22470576.post-78429420443811152842023-04-16T11:19:00.002-06:002023-04-17T06:32:12.719-06:00Theological materialism, short definition<p>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><i> </i>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>God</i></span></span></i><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>
is </i></span></span><i><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>spirit</i></span></span></i><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>,
and those who </i></span></span><i><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>worship
Him must worship</i></span></span></i><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>
in </i></span></span><i><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>spirit</i></span></span></i><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>
and </i></span></span><i><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>truth</i></span></span></i><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>.”
John </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">4-24 <br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Wrong: there is no real spirit, God or Godhood is a supermaterial,
super-evolved living object or objects, Godhood is the goal of the
primary drive within life and evolution, the material drive-force which is wrongly called spirit. This is the next direction which
religion will take, called theological materialism.</span></span> <br /></p>Kenneth Lloyd Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852862610907259920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22470576.post-71983246887521742372023-04-10T05:42:00.000-06:002023-04-10T05:42:17.520-06:00Falling into a suicidal universalism<p>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">“<span style="font-size: large;">...Historically,
Christians understood that while they had duties to outsiders, their
principal duties were to those closest to them. No sane person would
trust a mother who claimed to love all the children in the world as
much as she loves her own. Nor should anyone trust a politician who
claims to love all the people of the world as much as he loves his
own...</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tribal behavior is what
makes human beings human. Take it away from “man” or “humankind”
and what you get is not “pure man” or “liberated man” but
dehumanization and, from that, tyranny.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">If Europe and the United
States were simply to let in everyone who wanted to come, as the
Biden administration is more or less doing along the United States’
open southern border, both places would soon be populated primarily
by recent arrivals from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The United
States and Europe would thus be completely unrecognizable to the
great geniuses who made Western civilization the envy of the world,
as well as the generations of ordinary Europeans and Americans who
naturally imbibed what those geniuses created...</span>…<span style="font-size: large;">....</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">If American polit</span><span style="font-size: large;">icians
still knew that their primary responsibility was the welfa</span><span style="font-size: large;">re of</span><span style="font-size: large;"> their
fellow Americans, not the global economy.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Tom Piatak (Chronicles)</span> <br /></p>Kenneth Lloyd Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852862610907259920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22470576.post-776825169314985702023-04-03T07:09:00.000-06:002023-04-03T07:09:37.798-06:00Saving conservatism<p>
</p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Conservatism can be saved
only if it includes conserving the race or ethnic group that created
the cultures that are to be saved. But alas, that is the one thing
not </span><span style="font-size: large;">emphasized</span><span style="font-size: large;"> in the conservative programs, which eventually dooms a
people and a culture. But it could be added and emphasized in
conservatism.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Why was this not
emphasized? It seems one reason was the reluctance to accept the
biological origin of social behavior and the belief in
non-materiality as the basis of behavior. Another reason is the push
back from competing races and ethnic groups, which could have been
avoided if each race and ethnic group had their own ethnostate.</span>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">To save conservatism and
to conserve various ethnic groups and races, conserving the race or
ethnic groups that created the cultures needs to be emphasized by
conservatism.</span> <br /></p>Kenneth Lloyd Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852862610907259920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22470576.post-56304100198659458472023-03-27T07:33:00.000-06:002023-03-27T07:33:19.545-06:00Why in view of the biological origin of our social behavior Biden and his administration must be considered evil<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Most
important in the origin of our behavior is the biological origin of
our social behavior. Whether you think its politically correct or not
ethnic bonds are the root and base of nations and when they fall
apart the nation falls apart. If we want to be conservative we must
try to find the solution to our racial problems within the system. </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Gradual
change is of course the preferred default method of change, but
drastic change has happened to correct a worn out and corrupt world.</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">We
could add </span><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">more</span></u><span style="font-weight: normal;">
power to the healthy separation of powers and states or regions
toward becoming ethnostates, so that we could end up with an
ethnopluralism of ethnostates. We could reaffirm the separation of
powers and states and reaffirm the 10th amendment where "the
powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor
prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States,
respectively, or to the people."</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">That
is the best political/cultural configuration to harmonize with </span><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">real</span></u><span style="font-weight: normal;">
human nature, because in spite of the propaganda of modern liberalism
and cultural Marxism, human nature </span><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">remains</span></u><span style="font-weight: normal;">
kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual,
marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and
religious-making, among other things, with group-selection as the
primary unit of </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">successful
</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">selection, followed
by individual selection.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">That is the legal and
non-violent way to save the United States from the open <span style="font-weight: normal;">mass
immigration of Biden and his administration, which, in view of the
above mentioned biological origin of our social behavior must be
considered evil.</span></span></p>Kenneth Lloyd Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852862610907259920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22470576.post-57039027176096816322023-03-11T08:06:00.000-06:002023-03-11T08:06:20.826-06:00Elites use ideologies as a veil of deception<p>
</p>
<p>“<span style="font-size: large;">All societies are run
by and for the benefits of their elites, rather than by the
principles of political ideologies such as democracy, communism, or
fascism. . .though elites use ideologies as a veil of deception
Burnham sees both elites and ideologies as necessary for all
functioning human societies..Ideologies are an indispensable verbal
cement holding the fabric of any given society together.” (Edward
Welsch on James Burnham. Chronicles, Augus<u>t 2021</u>)</span> <br /></p>Kenneth Lloyd Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852862610907259920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22470576.post-19351088867050463602023-03-05T10:31:00.001-06:002023-03-05T10:31:40.780-06:00Unless a miracle occurs comparable to Trump's 2016 election China may rule the future<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Srdjaja Trifkovic in
Chronicles (aug 2021) wrote this of the Chinese: “Unlike the
Western tradition, China does not treat the individual endowed by
natural rights, as the key building block of good harmonious polity.
It gives absolute primacy to the family, the community, the Han
ethnicity, and the State. It does not see diversity as strength but
as a self evident weakness to be exploited. Accordingly, China does
not accept immigrants and asylum seekers...It shares an essentially
conservative consensus on gender roles, marriage, family, local
community, and the nation. It continues to uphold the hierarchical
order in a competitive, merit-based society: good grades, loyalty to
the state, and hard work will be rewarded...”</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Unless a miracle occurs
comparable to Trump's 2016 election China may rule the future.
</span>
</p>
Kenneth Lloyd Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852862610907259920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22470576.post-25498748820153338672023-02-17T11:06:00.001-06:002023-02-17T11:12:37.156-06:00If conservatives want to establish long lasting and stable society's they will have eventually face these truths about human nature<p>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Conservative's
leave out or de-emphasize the most important part of human nature and
social life: the inborn genetic preference for ethnic </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">group </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">or group
selection. This lack of emphasis seems to stem from the activities
of nonwhite and minority ethnic groups who adamantly oppose and fear
being excluded, and also stem from past failed brutal attempts to
establish ethnostates. This keeps conservatives in fear of being able
to establish the long lasting and stable society's they rightly want.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Groups
with related genes, like ethnic groups, have numerous reasons for
cooperating more successfully and harmoniously than with other ethnic
groups. E<span style="text-decoration: none;">thnocentric groups are
more likely to win the battle of group selection. </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Real
human nature is ethnocentric, not with one group overall superior or
inferior but with different talents, never equal, because for many
thousands of years right up to our present time group selection, or
ethnic altruism, was the best way to be successful in survival and
reproduction.</span></span></span> <span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">So
human nature became </span></span></span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">genetically</span></u></span></span><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">kin-centered
and ethnic-centered, even xenophobic, as well as being genetically
gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making,
hierarchical, and religious-making, with group-selection and ethnic
selection as the primary unit of successful selection, followed by
individual selection.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">If
conservatives want to establish long lasting and stable society's
they will have to eventually face these truths about human nature. If real kin and
ethnic-centered human nature was allowed to be what it is, it would
naturally lead to ethnostates, and finally, if we are wise, to 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., and
defended by a defensive federalism. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates
could be established legally in the United States with our
constitutional separation of powers and states.</span></span></span></span></span></span> <br /></p>Kenneth Lloyd Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852862610907259920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22470576.post-53100334832830361332023-02-04T08:59:00.007-06:002023-02-04T09:25:02.409-06:00Why human nature became genetically kin-centered and ethnic-centered<p>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">We
should be primarily conceived not as an individual, and not just as
the family, but as a unit of a larger ethnic group---it is this
institution that is the basic bonding place of larger social life.
The family, which is of course vital, is nevertheless not capable of
self preservation without a larger group to help protect the
individual and family, and to help bond the social morality of the
individual and the family living in society. In the end the essential
function is the reproduction and evolution of the human race, beyond the individual
or the family.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Groups
with related genes, like ethnic groups, have numerous reasons for
cooperating more successfully and harmoniously than with other ethnic
groups. E<span style="text-decoration: none;">thnocentric groups are
more likely to win the battle of group selection. </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Real
human nature is ethnocentric, not with one group overall superior or
inferior but with different talents, never equal, because for many
thousands of years right up to our present time group selection, or
ethnic altruism, was the best way to be successful in survival and
reproduction. So human nature became </span></span></span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">genetically</span></u></span></span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
kin-centered and ethnic-centered, even xenophobic, as well as being
genetically gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual,
marriage-making, hierarchical, and religious-making, with
group-selection and ethnic selection as the primary unit of
successful selection, followed by individual selection.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">f
real kin and ethnic-centered human nature was allowed to be what it
is, it would naturally lead to ethnostates, and finally, if we are
wise, to 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., and defended by a defensive federalism. An ethnopluralism of
ethnostates could be established legally in the United States with
our constitutional separation of powers and states.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">It
is the ongoing evolution of life and in various group
selections on the sacred path of evolution to Godhood that best counter ominous
Spenglerian pessimism.</span></span></span></span></span></span> <br /></p>Kenneth Lloyd Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852862610907259920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22470576.post-79587003423030016872023-02-01T09:41:00.002-06:002023-02-01T09:44:02.140-06:00History is<p>
</p><p><span style="font-size: large;">History is primarily the
biography great men, as Carlyle said, but they also work with, or
lead, or need, bonded ethnic groups to complete the historical
biography.</span> <br /></p>Kenneth Lloyd Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852862610907259920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22470576.post-39307086582427243802023-01-19T15:23:00.000-06:002023-01-19T15:23:11.636-06:00The Theoevolutionary Church (TC), and Jungian Psychology (from 2009)<p> By Kenneth Lloyd Anderson</p>
<br />
Part One <br />
<br />
Individuation and Sacred Affirmation<br />
<br />
The question is, how does Carl Jung define the instincts and the unconscious with which he wishes to balance the conscious mind?<br />
<br />
Jung did not have the science of sociobiology (although he did have
Darwin) to work with, which has related consciousness to instincts of
survival and reproduction. That is, the conscious and the unconscious,
as well as human behavior in general have been largely, although not
solely, controlled by mostly unconscious instincts to be successful in
survival and reproduction. Perhaps these instincts are not as atrophied
as Jung considered them to be.<br />
<br />
Let me begin by saying that The Theoevolutionary Church (TC), maintains
that the central activation of the mostly unconscious instincts resides
in the Spirit Within, which seeks to activate life to Godhood in
evolution. It is this drive which the conscious mind needs to integrate
and balance and apply to civilization. Enlightened consciousness is
based in this realization of the Ideal of the Instincts, and in turn
this gives unconscious instincts a sacred religious base, a base missing
in both Traditional religion and psychoanalysis, which deny, block, or
psychologize this ideal.<br />
<br />
It is the Self in Jung that replaces God, even though Jung does seem to
make nods in the direction of a transcendent Self. For Jung, the Self
essentially remains in the human unconscious where supposedly
psychoanalysis can root it out and bring it to consciousness by studying
dreams, symbols, and so on. <br />
<br />
This is a mostly worthy endeavor, but eventually the base of the
activation of the unconscious needs to be understood to be the Will to
Godhood of the Spirit, which helps activate both nature and nurture to
evolve materially and spiritually to Godhood. This becomes far more
than the balance sought of “individuation,” this becomes a Sacred
Affirmation of the Ideal of the Instincts.<br />
<br />
<br />
The Four Zeniths<br />
<br />
In TC we say that the zenith of the body is the mind, the zenith of the
mind is the soul, or self, the zenith of the soul is the spirit, and the
zenith of the spirit is Godhood. Affirming the four zeniths brings
psychobiological health, indeed, the need for spiritual meaning is in
this way instinctive or innate.<br />
<br />
<br />
Civilizing the Beast<br />
<br />
The unconscious must not be reduced to being a barbarian. The instincts
are not evil. Survival and reproduction are not evil, and the dynamics
of evolution are not evil.<br />
<br />
When the unconscious is understood as being activated by the Will to
Godhood, or the Spirit, then the unconscious can be a source of
revelation. But if the unconscious is reduced to Soul-Mind alone, the
Self of Jung, then it is doubtful that this can be considered a source
of the deepest revelation because this self is still human, all too
human.<br />
<br />
Too often the unconscious has been thought to be “pathological” because
it can “bursts out” after being ignored and repressed. But we should
not be too quick to define the actions of evolution as pathological. <br />
<br />
The dark side (the unconscious) and the light side (consciousness) are
not thought of as opposing one another in TC. The light side of
Traditional Religion is represented by the Evolutionary Outward Path and
the dark side, more or less represented by the <a href="http://civilizingthebeast.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Twofold%20Path%20%3A%20Involutionary%20and%20Evolutionary">Involutionary Inward Path</a>.
But this is a less than desired way of defining these things, because
it is based in ancient antagonisms, gnostic antagonisms, between spirit
and matter, with matter always being reduced to the dark side, even
essentially defined as the “shadow” by Jung.<br />
<br />
We use the term Civilizing the Beast in TC to mean bringing in from the
cold the “beast” of material life, ending the exile of the beast caused
by the <a href="http://civilizingthebeast.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Great%20Spiritual%20Blockade">Great Spiritual Blockade</a> of material evolution to Godhood. This is one of our main responses to both revealed religion and psychoanalysis.<br />
<br />
In Jung “good” and “evil” are relative to consciousness and not fixed or
absolute, because good and evil are only within our consciousness. In
psychoanalysis the unconscious can introduce a view that can unsettle
religion and society. For example, if religion calls “good” a life
devoid of sexuality, then the unconscious objects to this repression.
But since we often cannot face the “evil” within ourselves, we “project”
the evil onto something or someone else. Jung even defines war this
way, as a consequence of people not able to face their own shadow side,
and so they make the other side evil. The more repression of the
shadow, the bigger potential explosion, such as war. I will have more
on the subject of war later in this essay.<br />
<br />
Jung preferred to channel the twin forces of good and evil into a
cultural form, with a less one-sided view of religion, and with a more
gnostic view that could encompass the dark as well as the light, a
system that could encompass opposites. For example, Jung said,
“Christianity split the Germanic Barbarian into an upper and lower half,
and enabled him, by repressing the dark side to domesticate the
brighter half and fit it for civilization. But the lower, darker half
still awaits redemption and a second spell of domestication.”<br />
<br />
This is precisely what TC offers. In TC the Inward and Outward Path
harmonize material and spiritual evolution. The “evil” of material
evolution is seen as not evil, but as the path to attain Godhood---the
God first seen in the “good” Inward Path of Revealed Religion. When we
speak of the Great Spiritual Blockade, we think we are more
realistically addressing the problem Jung saw of blocking unconscious or
instinctive forces. When we speak of The Ideal of the Instincts, this
is the real inclusion required to end the repression of human nature and
end our exile from nature and evolution.<br />
<br />
When W. B. Yeats speaks in his poem “The Second Coming,” of the beast
being born in Bethlehem and recognized as a co-equal, this is that same
need to incorporate the dark side. We think TC can act as the
“civilizing force” for the whole man, engaging both the instincts and
consciousness in recognizing the true repression of the instincts. The
instincts seek Godhood and consciousness needs to know this and help
guide evolution in this great and sacred task. <br />
<br />
We have been describing here some of the same goals that Jung had, but
we have, if I dare say, a deeper project. We are not made whole---and
mankind will not be made whole---merely by absorbing or harmonizing the
human unconscious into human consciousness.<br />
<br />
The Spirit Within the unconscious seeks to activate the instincts to
evolve life to Godhood, and the unconscious, and even the Spirit, will
not be made whole until Godhood is attained. God exists beyond the
human unconscious, yet God is first seen in the human unconscious
through the Soul, the zenith of the mind, or more rarely seen through
the Spirit. <br />
<br />
To be made whole, we require the true God of the Evolutionary Outward
Path, the God first seen in the Involutionary Inward Path of Revealed
Religions, and the God defined much later in the unconscious by Carl
Jung.<br />
<br />
<br />
The Shadow Behind the Shadow<br />
<br />
Civilization is out of balance with itself, as Jung discerned. But it
will not be balanced alone by incorporating the unconscious into
consciousness. Deeper than the unconscious is the Will to Godhood of
the Spirit, which activates both the unconscious and the conscious mind.
This is the shadow behind the shadow. We will always be out of
balance until we attain Godhood in evolution.<br />
<br />
“Accepting our fate” means accepting the Ideal of the Instincts, which is our destiny of Godhood. This defines a <a href="http://civilizingthebeast.blogspot.com/search/label/Positive%20Theology">positive theology.</a><br />
<br />
<br />
On War<br />
<br />
It is a very serious mistake to think that “projection,” or transferring
unacceptable “evil” from one's own unconscious onto an enemy, alone
leads to war and violence, and that the “cure” is to synthesize the evil
shadow of ourselves into our own conscious minds. Evolution is
competitive, and alas, competition can be deadly, but this will not
cease by incorporating the unconscious.<br />
<br />
Understanding evolution and the Will to Godhood behind life can lead to
finding acceptable cultural structures which allow evolution and
competition to take place. For example, various forms of federalism
which promote variety, localism and independent states, might be such an
evolutionary cultural structure.<br />
<br />
Jungianism may relieve the human psyche by opening wider the
unconscious, more so than an exclusively involutionary religion, but the
Theoevolutionary Church includes the evolutionary drive, which drives
the psyche itself.<br />
<br />
Jung may be right in saying that Involutionary Christianity did not
enough engage the darker side, but Jungianism did not engage evolution
nearly enough. Jung may offer more than the “pleasing patina” which
Jung defined as Christianity, but Jungianism is itself a veneer of the
unconscious over the evolutionary dynamic.<br />
<br />
Jung was pessimistic about psychic health originating from governments,
or even from religions. He thought psychic health had to happen with
individuals first. This seems true also of the traditional teaching of
virtue to individuals first in religion, but this pessimism seems also
to stem from virtually ignoring the powerful universal force of
evolution, where individuals help groups survive, and group selection is
a central dynamic in human life, however blocked and unconscious
culturally it may be today. Sociobiology has shown that individualism,
as well as Jung's ideal of “individuation,” need to be related to group
dynamics and evolution if they are not to be thought of as selfish.<br />
<br />
<br />
On Gender<br />
<br />
We have to realize that the force and direction of the Spirit is greater
than ourselves. We can perhaps agree with Jung's calling the soul the
logos of animas, and calling the spirit the animus of eros, but we don't
see these as gender specific. Both genders possess them.<br />
<br />
In the Theoevolutionary Church , the Soul, or animas, defines the mind
(logos), or more precisely, the Zenith of the Mind, and the Spirit is
defined as the Zenith of the Soul, or the Will to Godhood, working
through survival and reproduction (eros) and evolution, which applies to
both genders.<br />
<br />
When the Spirit is seen as more than eros, more than connectedness and
love, and when the Spirit is seen as the Will to Godhood, then talk of
gender seems to fade, as both genders seek the same Godhood.<br />
<br />
Men may be inclined psychobiologically more to logos, and women more to
eros, but it is the genders working together in a complementary
fashion, toward integrating the Spirit into the Soul and the Will to
Godhood into the Mind, which is the central psychological and biological
integration needed for both genders. We would have to disagree with
Jung in his suggestion that only men have animas (Souls) and only women
animus (or Spirit). Both genders have soul and spirit. <br />
<br />
Was Jung himself blocked a bit by limiting spirituality to the
unconscious human mind, which might have led to his concentration on
gender differences? When the Spirit is seen as the Will to Godhood in
evolution, then gender, though important, is less centered upon in
religion. <br />
<br />
Sociobiology has validated many of Jung's gender differences, which had,
until recently, suffered from deconstruction as being merely social
constructions. The truth remains a balance between the forces of mind,
body, gender, evolution and culture.<br />
<br />
<br />
Evolutionary Therapy<br />
<br />
The Priest's role in the Theoevolutionary Church (TC), is to understand
the intentionality of the Spirit, which the person is often unable to
clearly comprehend, whereas in Jungian psychology, the therapist's role
is to represent the intentions of the psyche and to see or understand
the “Self”. The Priest needs to take the side of the Spirit, whereas
the psychoanalyst takes the side of the Unconscious.<br />
<br />
In “Evolutionary Therapy,” the Priest would need to mediate a deal or
balance between the Spirit and the soul which the parishioner can live
with. “Befriending” the spirit may be a task which could involve
political incorrect insights. Egotistical human life and modern values
may seem limited in the face of the long evolution of the spirit to
Godhood, beyond man, beyond superman, beyond angels and gods, all the
way to Godhood.<br />
<br />
When the spirit is blocked, It turns away from its central path. The
Priests “art” in TC is to help “release” the spirit into the energy of
the person and society, making the energy of the spirit available for
the individual and for society---like the martial arts, we can learn to
use or turn the powerful force of the spirit away from hurting ourselves
into helping ourselves, and helping our societies evolve.<br />
<br />
Meanwhile the soul, which is the Zenith of the Mind and the ego, must
maintain its task to intelligently help guide or “ride the tiger” of the
spirit, even as the Soul needs to stop blocking the spirit. This is
the desired balance. We need to befriend, not only the unconscious,
but the spirit which activates the unconscious, and we need to correctly
define the spirit and its direction.<br />
<br />
We are not merely looking for the opposite of the ego, the contrary
elements of our psyche, because androgynous balance is not the goal.
The great goal of the Spirit is the goal, which lies beyond us, beyond
the human unconscious, at the Zenith of Evolution to Godhood. Whatever
parts of our psyche seem opposed to the direction of the spirit need to
be synthesized and balanced.<br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />
Part Two</span><br />
<br />
<br />
A Biospiritual Form of Transcendence<br />
<br />
Jung's “transcendent function” goes at least as deep as the “Self”
within the human psyche. Some argue that Jung was also defining
something beyond the human being and beyond the human psyche, but this
does not seem likely. David Tacey ("How To Read Jung") believes Jung
does not wish to imply that this is a metaphysical process, or is a
spiritual transcendence. Jung sees this as a “natural biological
process.” The creation of the third or “tertium” in Jung seems like a
biological process.<br />
<br />
In TC, Godhood is a biological form of transcendence which we often call
biospiritual transcendence, to indicate the highest levels of
evolution, which are, in this sense, spiritual or biospiritual.<br />
<br />
<br />
Inflation of the Human<br />
<br />
Using Jung's concept of “inflation” somewhat differently, there can be
an inflation of the human, yet alone inflation of the ego, which seems
to take place in Jungian therapy when elements of the unconscious are
seen as only human forces. The Spirit Within activates us to evolve far
beyond the human, far beyond the human unconscious, far beyond the
incorporation of the human unconscious into consciousness.<br />
<br />
Jung said, “A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the
suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.”
("Psychotherapists or the Clergy") This is well said, but, we would use
the word spirit rather than the word soul, which takes things out of
the realm of the human psyche, the seed of the soul, and its potential
inflation, and takes us into the realm of evolution, ultimately to
Godhood.<br />
<br />
The cause of suffering will probably not be cured by psychoanalysis
because the human psyche and the human self is seeking something beyond
itself, it is seeking to evolve to Godhood. There will, of course, be
the suffering related to survival and reproduction in evolution, until
Godhood is reached.<br />
<br />
Knowing the goal of the spirit will certainly give meaning to a confused
neurotic. Jung seems right in giving the patient their own psychic
story, or myth (what Jung called a healthy fiction), especially since
they seem to need it most in the second half of their lives. Jung
thought no one could be healed without gaining a religious outlook. But
Jung's medicine stopped at the human psyche, this is not a cosmic
enough myth, which can inflate the human being.<br />
<br />
Material causation goes much deeper than science now knows. We may one
day understand the spirit and Godhood in physical or chemical terms, but
for now we do not.<br />
<br />
The mind is virtually reducible to the brain, which is where the soul
lies, at the Zenith of the Mind. It is the spirit which lies at the
Zenith of the Soul, and has transcendent properties, which go beyond the
imminent or involutionary brain and soul. Yet even the spirit is
inevitably bonded to the body and to matter, since the body is the
vehicle of the spirit's evolution, and the only way the spirit will
reach Godhood is through the evolution of the body activated by the
spirit.<br />
<br />
Establishment psychology seems to be a science, a “logos” without a soul
or psyche, as Jung believed, but psychoanalysis seems to be a soul
without a spirit.<br />
<br />
Yet the logos is God to the Gnostics, which makes them, paradoxically,
the progenitors of science. The Word, the Great Equation, is God to the
Gnostics, which derived from Plato, Zoroastrianism, and the East.<br />
<br />
Jung believed that the spiritual was real and natural (a deeper
dimension of the real) yet he did not believe the logos was enough.
Jung's spirituality was not discernible, necessarily, by reason or
logic, yet it was real. This is confusing. How is the spiritual real,
yet not discernible by logos? The answer is that what is defined as
spiritual in Jung is really the logos, as it is defined in all the
involutionary religions. It is an introverted, involutionary soul
defined, an idea defined, and not really a biological process. Jung did
affirm Gnosticism after all.<br />
<br />
<br />
Spiritual Logos<br />
<br />
In TC science becomes spiritual and the spiritual becomes science. The
logos, then, moves into the camp of the spiritual since definition and
equations and words can be defined as spiritual and of the mind only.
In TC the Object not the definition of the object is all.<br />
<br />
The spiritual joins the material in that the material evolves to Godhood
and Godhood is the Zenith of biospiritual evolution. The spiritual is
therefore real and the logos is unreal in TC, which transposes the
traditional structure.<br />
<br />
Symbols and archetypes are thus of the logos and not of the spirit,
since they are symbols for a thing and not a thing in themselves. Jung
seems confused in denying the logos and affirming the soul in analysis,
since his soul is logos.<br />
<br />
TC affirms the Supreme Object Godhood and not merely the logos or
definition of God. And furthermore the Supreme Logos exists only in the
mind of God, much like reason exists in the mind of man.<br />
<br />
Our transvaluation or transposition says that science or logos defines
the world and is therefore spiritual, and religion or the spiritual
becomes the world and is therefore material.<br />
<br />
When Jung seeks the spiritual in man, he is really moving away from the
spiritual, and moving toward the logos of definition and symbol, thereby
denying the spiritual as he seeks the logos.<br />
<br />
The spirit is grounded in the material because it exists within the
material, activating the material to evolve to Godhood. When we try to
separate the material from the spiritual we create a false duality and
concentrate instead on the logos of definition. This has set up the
Great Spiritual Blockade.<br />
<br />
<br />
We need to move back to the Object, and not the symbol of the Object.<br />
<br />
Even the logos of definition is grounded in the mind within the body, as
the spirit is grounded in the body of the soul. The mind or soul
doesn't exist without the body, and the spirit cannot evolve without the
body. This is not the Gnostic “entrapment” of the mind or spirit, this
is material reality, the reality of the Object. There is no duality in
this sense, which means the Jungians, Gnostics and their forefathers in
Platonism, Zoroastrianism, Brahmanism, were more or less mistaken in
seeing dualities. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidegger"> Martin Heidegger</a> seems to have seen duality something like this. <br />
<br />
In therapy Jung was worried about the ego appropriating things coming in
from the unconscious and therefore Jung called for “expansion without
inflation” of the ego. We see the best way to avoid the inflation of
the ego is to avoid the inflation of the unconscious as well. The
spirit is not complete in the human unconscious and seeks Godhood. What
better way to avoid inflation of any kind, then to understand that we
need to evolve far beyond the human species.<br />
<br />
<br />
Spiritual Neurosis<br />
<br />
A “psychoneurosis,” according to Jung, must ultimately be understood as
“the suffering of the soul which has not discovered its meaning.” But
it is the suffering not of the soul but the “suffering” of the spirit
which we are concerned with. The spirit seeks to evolve beyond the
unconscious, beyond the soul, beyond the psyche, all the way to Godhood.
The spirit needs to direct unconscious material life to evolve this
way. The Soul-Mind needs to discover its meaning in the evolution of
the spirit. This defines the spiritual neurosis. Therefore, wholeness
is more than “psychospiritual” wholeness.<br />
<br />
We agree with Jung when Jung says that the spiritual is eminently
“natural,” that it is not supernatural and that the spiritual is a
deeper dimension of the real. But the deeper dimension of the natural
and the real is Godhood, the Supreme Real Object which we must
materially evolve to in the cosmos. Jung does not project the “real” to
this destination.<br />
<br />
<br />
Original Sin<br />
<br />
We can somewhat agree with Jung's definition of original sin as
alienation from the base of our nature, but we have severed more than
our connections with the human unconscious. We have severed our
connections with the evolving spirit, and this is the true “original
sin”.<br />
<br />
We need more than a “psychological enlightenment,” and this
enlightenment is not beyond the categories of good and evil, as Jung
implies. There is, in fact, an ethical code related to recovery of our
alienation as defined by evolution. The basic code can tell us the
“pattern” that takes evolution forward toward higher and higher
consciousness, from the simple to the complex, and so on. It is the
very difficult <a href="http://civilizingthebeast.blogspot.com/search/label/Catholic%20and%20Beyondist%20Virtues%20of%20Evolutionary%20Catholicism">Beyondist</a> task in the Order of the Outward Path to discern the evolutionary direction of the Spirit Within material life. <br />
<br />
The new religioscience of the late Raymond Cattell's <a href="http://www.efn.org/~callen/ToC.htm">Beyondism</a>
sought to understand evolution and sociobiology so that human beings
may evolve naturally out into the cosmos. We would continue this task,
but unlike Cattell, we do continue to affirm and embrace the moral codes
of “Traditional Religion” through the Involutionary Inward Path, which
among other things, keeps the conservative order that is so important to
continued evolution. <a href="http://civilizingthebeast.blogspot.com/search/label/Ordered%20Evolution">Ordered Evolution</a> is the balance we seek in our <a href="http://civilizingthebeast.blogspot.com/search/label/Revitalized-Conservatism">Revitalized Conservatism.</a> <br />
<br />
<br />
On “Remembering the Soul”<br />
<br />
“Remembering the Soul” in Jung's Platonic reference makes one happy or
“eudaimonic,” full of happiness, but therein lies the danger of what we
have defined as The Great Spiritual Blockade. We stop and swim in
eudaimonic bliss and forget or overlook the evolutionary direction of
the Spirit and the Body. This has been the great error of
Traditionalism.<br />
<br />
Both Plato and Jung believed that this “remembering” was a central
activity of the human soul. But we have called this a Great Spiritual
Blockade which needs to be unblocked. It is not only the ego that
opposes this remembering, it is the eudaimonic remembering itself that
is the opponent of wholeness.<br />
<br />
The ego may be a “good servant but lousy master” (Tacey) but the
unconscious can also be a diminished master since the unconscious itself
must learn to take direction from the Spirit or the Will to Godhood.<br />
<br />
Ritual in TC, as in other religions, helps us get back in touch with the
Will to Godhood, the flow of the Spirit, which is the central function
of the ritual. Tacey points out that the word ritual comes from the
Latin ritus, relating to flow and river.<br />
<br />
Symbolic life according to Jung is initiated by spiritual life. The
symbols point toward higher reality. Later in this essay we will define
the ritual of the Mass of Joy.<br />
<br />
<br />
The Alchemy of Evolution<br />
<br />
The “holy marriage,” “the conjunctio,” the “chymical wedding” of
alchemy is seen in ECC as the alchemy of evolution, leading to Godhood.
Sacred Unions must be discovered in the alchemy of evolution to
Godhood.<br />
<br />
Sexuality not only symbolizes the search for the missing “other half,”
it actually provides the Real conjunction of reproduction necessary to
evolve to Godhood in the material world. Romance seeks the other half,
the missing piece, which is why romance has often been a symbol for
seeking Godhood.<br />
<br />
The Spirit is “sick” when it does not feel connected to the Universal
Spirit of the Cosmos, the “tree of life” in Hyperborean terms. The ego
is often resistant to or ignorant of this connection. <br />
<br />
The Spirit seeks more than to unite with the universal Spirit Within,
the Spirit seeks to activate material life to evolve all the way to
Godhood. Let us not stop the Spirit too soon, short of its goal.<br />
<br />
It is the dams and walls set up against the Spirit, in the Great
Spiritual Blockade, that we are concerned with, more so even than the
walls blocking the conscious mind from the unconscious, which was the
primary concern of Jung.<br />
<br />
Nature is goal-directed toward evolution, and the unconscious is only a
servant of this great goal, as the ego is the servant of the
unconscious, or perhaps should be.<br />
<br />
<br />
Biospiritual Health<br />
<br />
It is our biospiritual health that we are concerned with, not merely our
psychological health. We need to be in contact with more than
unconscious human archetypes, we need to seek Godhood beyond the
archetypes of the human species. Jung was concerned that religion
damned up the unconscious, but we are concerned that the unconscious has
damned up the Spirit, the Will to Godhood.<br />
<br />
It is not only “psychic hygiene” we are concerned with but biospiritual
hygiene. There has been no religious cosmology or cosmogony to affirm
the forces of evolution which so essentially drive us. Contacting and
including the unconscious is simply not enough.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Part Three</span><br />
<br />
New Age<br />
<br />
According to Jung, as religion and religious symbols have collapsed, we
have opened the Pandora's box of the unconscious. And this process has
increased since the time of Jung. New Age and neopagan organizations
proliferate as the old religious symbols have declined.<br />
<br />
The New Age has affirmed a so-called <a href="http://civilizingthebeast.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Hijacking%20of%20Evolutionary%20Spirituality">“evolutionary spirituality”</a>
which nevertheless defines only the evolution of human consciousness,
not the evolution of the human species to super species and beyond to
the gods---although it makes little fearful nods toward actual
biological evolution. Therefore, in our opinion the New Age will not
suffice in the search for religious symbols, just as Jungian psychology
seeking to make a truce with the unconscious, was not enough.<br />
<br />
The Spirit, the Will to Godhood, does not go away because we do not
think about it, or know it. It is an instinctive force at the base of
life, and TC is now paying attention to this primal force.<br />
<br />
Religion, not psychology, is the “therapeutic system” we require, but we
need a religion of biospirituality, and not one that denies even the
validity or importance of the material world, as traditional religions
essentially tend to do.<br />
<br />
If we ignore the sacred symbol of evolution, it will not go away, it
will break out in ways that seem uncivilized to us. Imperial racism is
one example of this. We seek to “Civilize The Beast” of evolution with
the religion of The Theoevolutionary Church (TC),. (“Civilizing The
Beast” is our blog title, from Nietzsche, or Yeats?) <br />
<br />
We do not wish to kill the 'beast' of evolution, as modern conscious
life has tried to do, and thereby putting up a dam that will burst out
occasionally in brutality. Evolution needs to be an ecumenical
activity, and all people, all races, all states must be allowed to
biospiritually evolve in what we call an <a href="http://civilizingthebeast.blogspot.com/search/label/Ordered%20Evolution">Ordered Evolution,</a> helped along with <a href="http://civilizingthebeast.blogspot.com/search/label/Revitalized-Conservatism">Revitalized Conservatism.</a> This view finds imperial or colonial racism unacceptable.<br />
<br />
We would not want Jungian psychology to become a therapeutic system
which frees us from the necessity of dealing with the Spirit Within or
the Will to Godhood and human evolution, by directing all our psychic
energies into the human unconscious alone. We could tragically end the
path of evolution to God if we are unable to unblock the forces that
block evolution. We could even end human life itself.<br />
<br />
<br />
Homo evolutus<br />
<br />
The order of evolution has been unbalanced. Nietzsche wrote in “The
Genealogy of Morals”: “All instincts that do not discharge themselves
outwardly, turn inward—this is what I call the internalization of man:
thus it was that man first developed what was later called his 'soul'.”
It has been suggested that here might be one of the sources of Jung's
(and Freud's) psychological dynamic.<br />
<br />
While this may be true of the Soul, which is the Zenith of the Mind, it
ignores the Spirit, which activates both mind and body from within, as
the vital force in life and evolution. The spirit is not merely the
product of outward life internalized, even if the soul may be.
Nietzsche's Will to Power is more essentially, or more precisely the
Will to Godhood, the Spirit in TC. Nietzsche's Will and Jung's
unconscious need to be finer tuned to the dynamic of evolution to
Godhood.<br />
<br />
Jung said at one point, “the gods have become diseases,” but what he
could have said was, in Jungianism the gods have become the human
unconscious. We have been insisting here that the gods are real
objects, biospiritual, beyond the human species, and beyond the human
unconscious, and they can be evolved to. <br />
<br />
<br />
The Cultural Slumber<br />
<br />
We wish to awaken the Spirit, the Will to Godhood, from It's long
cultural slumber, and not merely awaken the human unconscious. We are
speaking of the source and activation behind the human unconscious. We
understand that these are powerful forces and it should certainly be
emphasized that the Spirit does not belong to one people or one state
alone.<br />
<br />
Ours is an ecumenical approach. All people, all states, need to be
allowed to evolve in variety, to the gods, and ultimately to Godhood.
This is the central mission of the Evolutionary Christian Church.<br />
<br />
We think that the scientific, philosophical, political, and
psychological cultures can become religious cultures, as these fields
synthesize in the future. Material evolution needs to be seen as
religious with a material-spiritual-numinous end.<br />
<br />
Spiritual forces were relocated in the human unconscious with Carl Jung.
They need to be relocated again in the Will to Godhood of the spirit
in evolution. <br />
<br />
Prophecy and the religion dynamic have been moved from priests to
philosopher, to psychologist, to the artist. Prophecy needs to be
brought back to the priests, where it began. Yet the patterns seen, the
intuitive beauty of the cosmic “system” does seem to require the eye
and imagination of the artist.<br />
<br />
Jung thought we could not go back to the old religion, at least he could
not go back, even to the great rituals of the Catholic Mass. The
symbolism no longer worked for him, it did not express what he needed
psychologically, and he did not, or could not found a new religion. So,
basically, he went back to dreams, to the original Shamanic guide for
man, back to the great primitive darkness.<br />
<br />
We cannot agree with this solution to the loss of the old religion and
the loss of the symbolic life. Revitalization, not revolution is the
solution. For example, orthodox Judaism and the Kabbalah learned a
great deal from the older religion of the Zoroastrians during Jewish
captivity in Babylon, and the Zoroastrians learned a great deal from
their cousin in Vedism, and Vedism seems to have been founded in the
Hyperborean religion of an Arctic Homeland before the “cataclysm”. We
would point out to the revolutionary minded that these great religions
were overlaid, one upon the other, with changes that were adjustments to
the conditions and new knowledge of the time, that is, they were
philosophical, political, psychological and biological adjustments to
the times. The old ways were retained, but revitalized.<br />
<br />
TC is seeking to revitalize religion by bringing the old symbols in line
with the modern world, and with knowledge of evolution, finding
revitalized symbols.<br />
<br />
Can we retain the “ecstasy” of being outside the human ego in religious
ritual, which Jung believed was missing from modern, non-religious life?
Ritual can supply this, but it needs to be ritual that modern men can
believe in.<br />
<br />
The ego and the unconscious are “trapped” in the body in present time.
We need to untrap this entrapment through the use of new ritual, by
contacting the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, which lives at the Zenith of the
Soul, as the Soul lives at the Zenith of the Mind, and the Mind
contains the ego. It is the Spirit that seeks Godhood, not the Soul or
human mind which activates us to Godhood.<br />
<br />
Ritualization of this great goal in TC symbolically represents the
actual, real, spiritual-material goal of evolving to Godhood at the
Zenith of Evolution where supreme life is the reward.<br />
<br />
<br />
The Mass of Joy<br />
<br />
This is the liturgy of joy, The Mass of Joy of the Evolutionary Outward
Path in The Theoevolutionary Church (TC), The Traditional Mass of the
Involutionary Inward Path, the Mass of Tradition, the Mass of Sacrifice,
is retained as it is in Traditional Catholicism and other religions,
and as it is in the Orthodox tradition---the Sacred Liturgy of the Mass
of Joy is added in The Theoevolutionary Church. <br />
<br />
This symbolically revitalizes the old symbols, newly expressing the
needs of the ego, the needs of the Soul, and the needs of the Spirit to
attain Godhood. The Liturgy of the Mass of Joy in the Outward Path,
like the sacrificial Mass of the Inward Path, must contain poetry,
passion, nature, love, survival, reproduction, music, and ritual escape
from the daily entrapment of the ego and the soul, and it must give
expression to the goal of the Spirit.<br />
<br />
But the Mass of Joy does not merely provide escape from the ego and the
soul, it revitalizes the activation of life, and centers on the great
goal of evolution, which is to attain Godhood. This can even give
ancient reference to Dionysian joy, but it is an ordered joy, in ordered
evolution, not the old shamanic, frenzied, berserker, revolutionary
form of evolution, it is evolution guided by the morals and ethics of
traditional religion, retaining the same virtues and vices as
Traditional Catholicism and other religions, while at the same time
re-invigorated the virtues with the great virtue of the Outward Path,
which is Evolution. <br />
<br />
Human beings do need to spend time in ritual. Jung spoke about the
indigenous people of Australia spending more than half their time in
ritual ceremony. Compare that to the non-religious life of modern men.
No wonder people seek Dionysian sensation in modern,secular life.
Their egos and souls desperately need the sacred, and they do not often
know it. To Jung, this defines “neurotic,” and we would agree. “The
vacuum” created by the loss of ritual life is being replaced by
pathology, disease and degeneration." (Tacey). <br />
<br />
<br />
“When There Is No Vision, the People Perish” (Proverbs 29:18)<br />
<br />
The “World Spirit” the Spiritus Mundi, the dreaming world, which Jung
called the “Collective Unconscious” is not the same as the Holy Spirit
seen in the Theoevolutionary Church. The World Spirit is the activation
to Godhood within the cosmos, within life. The dreaming world of the
collective unconscious is human all too human. Although other animals
also dream, the collective unconscious exists within the Soul or within
the Zenith of the Mind, and within the biological body. The Spirit is
deeper, at the Zenith of the Soul, It is the Will to Godhood, which
activates the collective unconscious and the body, and then life is
shaped by evolution.<br />
<br />
<br />
Redefining War<br />
<br />
Earlier, we brought up the subject of war being the result of pent up
unconscious forces from the loss of ritual religious ways to release
these forces. Yet war was common among indigenous people who spent very
much time in the ritual and transcendence of religion. This seems to
somewhat contradict Jung's views on war as pent up unconscious forces.<br />
<br />
The problem here comes from not fully recognizing the cosmic forces that
move through us. Activating evolution is sought by the Spirit Within
and evolution has, unfortunately, often involved war. This is an
uncomfortable fact, even though during war, survival and reproduction
are often side-stepped or halted.<br />
<br />
Rituals of transcendence will not alone stop wars, as history and
evolution have shown. The Spirit needs to be civilized. As mentioned
earlier, we use the term Civilizing the Beast. Ordered Evolution is
also the phrase we use. Ideally, all people need to be given the space
and freedom to evolve. Ritual and religion can affirm this evolution to
Godhood, and provide, not only an outlet, but a direction for the
realized goal of Godhood.<br />
<br />
We are “unitary” in seeing the Traditional Religions as deriving from
the Involutionary Inward Path to the Soul Within, and we can be
“universalist” in seeing the Evolutionary Outward Path as the path of
all people, all races, all states, seeking to evolve to Godhood. This
takes us into political philosophy, and the Revitalized Conservatism we
affirm, which can lead to the Ordered Evolution of man beyond man to
Godhood.<br />
<br />
The advantage of TC is that is can affirm a return to literal thinking,
even resembling the “fundamentalism” of the oldest religions, while at
the same time embracing evolution and science. We do literally evolve
to Godhood, the Supreme Object, not a symbol, not a logos only. This is
virtually a literal interpretation of Godhood, and of course, and
literal interpretations have been scorned by modern theologians.<br />
<br />
This literal interpretation of evolving to Godhood does not contradict
reason as much as scientific skeptics like to think it does. When the
pattern of evolution is hypertrophied into end goals, it keeps one's
feet on the ground. Metaphysical fact need not be metaphor or symbol
here. Metaphysical fact is physical fact in the evolution to Godhood. A
= A. <br />
<br />
At the same time the Zenith of Evolution is enhanced by faith, symbols,
imagination, ritual, and liturgy. The Spirit Within needs to be
contacted. Its goals need to be experienced in ritual and symbol. This
suggests the mystery and unknowable reality of religion and ritual that
we psychologically crave, which transcends reason and affirms
“intellectual intuition” or supra-rational thinking.<br />
<br />
Has the guiding light of revelation deserted us, as Jung believed? The
Theoevolutionary Church, believes that revelation is still possible.
Dreams may be a substitute for revelation, but they are not enough.
Jung seems to have personally believed that dreams and intuition were
all that we have left, since the old religions could not be believed in,
and so Jung returned to the original primitive guidance of man through
dreams. We think that more than this is not only necessary, but
possible. <br />
<br />
We do not think we have to settle for a return to an earlier age, for
example, to primitive times of dreams, as the only method of revelation.
Science has given us the marvelous tool of evolution, which we believe
is ultimately a very powerful and sacred religious tool.<br />
<br />
We can even keep the glorious churches and the great religious works,
which the movement of psychology and the modern world have virtually
relegated to the trash. But we need to invigorate Tradition with the
sacred knowledge that the God seen from within of tradition is the God
reached through material evolution. The Soul of the Inward Path is
vast, but the Spirit of the Outward Path is vaster.<br />
<br />
The Post-Modern condition of brokenness, discord, perspectivism and
relativity was the result mainly of the destruction of the religious
path. We think that religion can be put back together again, but we
will need a new coat and new hat, designed by evolution and science, and
perhaps a new heart.<br />
<br />
<br />
End Kenneth Lloyd Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852862610907259920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22470576.post-6591323058771588442023-01-11T08:18:00.000-06:002023-01-11T08:18:08.553-06:00Conservatism has had the defining traits and values of conservatism---and nationalism---in the wrong order<p>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">The relatively new
science of sociobiology has taught me that conservatism has had the
defining traits and values of conservatism---and nationalism---in the
wrong order, especially since the last world war, by defining and
emphasizing </span><span style="font-size: large;">conservatism and </span><span style="font-size: large;">nationalism more culturally, as a people living together
speaking the same language, with the same religion and laws, but with
biological descent merely bringing up the rear.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">The biological origin of
social behavior, emphasized by the evolutionary science of
sociobiology, rights this hierarchy of conservative values. Getting
this wrong changed the demographics of the nation allowing the
immigration of people with a different descent, and therefore often a
different culture. into the nation, which changed the face of the
nation, weakening the ties that formerly bonded the nation. <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Conservatism and the
nation has to right this wrong if conservatism and the nation want to
survive.</span> <br /></p>Kenneth Lloyd Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852862610907259920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22470576.post-31016211017721018032023-01-07T09:46:00.002-06:002023-01-07T09:46:28.312-06:00Conservatism can affirm both gradual change and drastic change<p>
</p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Reading an
recent article about Carlyle in Chronicles caused me to realize that
Conservatism <u>can</u> affirm <u>both</u> gradual change and drastic
change. The position of Burke and Kirk of accepting only gradual
change as ethical is of course the preferred default method of
change, but when you look at real history drastic change happens a
lot and even seems sometimes necessary and realistic to correct a
worn out and corrupt world---and it happens in
biological evolution too. This realization doesn't change my preference
for gradual change, especially since revolutions often make things
worse, but it solves that nagging feeling I have always had with
conservatism accepting only gradual change.</span> <br /></p>Kenneth Lloyd Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852862610907259920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22470576.post-15187507348231249572022-12-22T09:31:00.000-06:002022-12-22T09:31:04.261-06:00When politics is understood as a branch of biology<p><span style="font-size: large;"><u>Real</u></span><span style="font-size: large;"> natural law must be
directed to the biological origin of social behavior. Political
philosophy is best understood as a branch of biology. Modern
political systems have deviated from the biological origin of social
behavior. This is also the root cause of the decline of Western
civilization.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: large;">A rational creature can understand what is
good for him and cooperate with biology and biological evolution.
Without biology, there is no basis for political or moral judgments.
<strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
rational </span></span></span></span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">and</span></u></span></span></span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
emotional way to think about politics would be to affirm ethnostatism</span></span></span></span></span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
as natural law.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: large;">Natural law, when including the biological
origin of social behavior, tells us that society, and the ethnostate,
are natural to man. </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">
We have a biology determined human nature even if modern man doesn’t
think we do. Our real freedom is limited by various determined
choices, but we have the flexibility to be mistaken about who we are
and what we can do. </span></span>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><i>I</i></span><span style="text-decoration: none;">f
we include what we really are in our cultural schemes and programs we
</span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">will
admit our behavior, intelligence, and personalities are to a large
extent heritable. Both</span></span><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">liberals
and conservative's block or conceal the basic ethnic-centered and
xenophobic parts of human nature. I</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">f
real kin and ethnic-centered human nature was allowed to be what it
is, it would naturally lead to ethnostates, and finally, if we are
wise, to 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., and defended by a defensive federalism. An ethnopluralism of
ethnostates could be established legally in the United States with
our constitutional separation of powers and states.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>Kenneth Lloyd Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852862610907259920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22470576.post-13885497192529482022-12-04T10:06:00.002-06:002022-12-04T10:06:27.192-06:00Countering the Spenglerian pessimism of many conservatives<p>
</p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">Rod Dreher points out in “The American
Conservative” how the West is now dominated by left-liberals in the
news, the entertainment media, the universities, the professions,
law, and medicine, education, sports, and the military, and woke
(cultural Marxist) businesses. If you want to be part of these
institutions, you must conform.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">Dreher says at the root of all these problems is the
collapse of Christianity as a binding source of values for the West
and that without a religious rebirth, we are not going to make it. He
suggests that American conservatives of the near future may face “a
battle to conserve truth, faith, and moral sanity while the ignorant
armies of the radical left and post-Christian right clash in the long
night ahead.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">Dreher likes the idea of applying the “Benedict
Option,” his general term to describe the movement of Christians
towards forming small communities within which faith and virtue can
thrive and be passed on to the young, based on St. Benedict of
Nursia, the founder of Western monasticism, who left the chaos of
Rome to found monastic communities in the countryside. </span>
</p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The philosopher
Oswald Spengler thought real unity is more cultural than biological,
when the reality is the other way around, there is a biological
origin behind cultural creations which basically enhances survival
and reproduction, and ultimately enhances success in the sacred drive
to evolve toward Godhood.</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Spengler
speaks of a “mysterious cosmic force” that influences man, but he
does not at all tie it to biology. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span>
</p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I believe that we
have to decentralize the world to save the world. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I
define the activation within life of material Tirips or the Will,
which is tied to biology, and is later shaped by evolution. This is
the force that is universal within life and is therefore within
distinct civilizations and cultures.<br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Universal evolution does not
suggest only one people or one civilization, which could be destroyed
by one disease or one disaster. Human evolution has always worked
within a variety of people and cultures, each evolving in there own
fashion---we would hope that their independence could be protected by
a defensive federalism, while cooperating with one another in the
overall evolution of human beings, even evolving into new species out
into the cosmos, as Raymond Cattell suggested. </span></span>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
age old problem of union in America could be helped by forming an
ethnopluralism of ethnostates perhaps adapted from our Constitutional
separation of powers and states, for all groups, black, white, brown,
yellow, or red, and <span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">then
protect the ethnostates from marauding imperialists, supremacists,
global money grubbers, and social justice warriors, with a defensive
federalism.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">We
can pay attention to the signs and cycles of the rise and decline of
civilizations, which Spengler was brilliant in finding, such as the
deterioration of the roots and traditions of the founders, the fall
in birthrates, the rise of dictatorships, etc. but it is the ongoing
evolution of life and in various group selections on the sacred
path to Godhood which best counters ominous Spenglerian pessimism.</span></span> <br /></p>Kenneth Lloyd Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852862610907259920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22470576.post-49047562185543009752022-11-07T08:27:00.003-06:002023-01-12T08:55:47.880-06:00Rational sane culture depends on people accepting real human nature<p>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">It takes courage to find
the truth and it often takes courage to express the truth publicly.
The truths of life are often hard to accept because truths often
don't harmonize with the prevailing culture, especially in the modern
world. Defining real human nature has suffered this fate. Human nature is not as
free as <u>either</u><span style="text-decoration: none;"> traditional
man or modern man think it is. We have a biology determined human
nature even if modern man doesn’t think we do. Our real freedom is
limited by various determined choices, but we have the flexibility to
be mistaken about who we are and what we can do which helped us in
making survival over non-survival choices in the various environments
presented to us in nature.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">The
best and most recent sociobiological knowledge has been telling us
that human nature, affirmed throughout human history, has been, and
continues to be basically, kin-centered, gender defined, age-grading,
heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even
xenophobic, and religious-making, among other things, with
group-selection as the primary unit of selection. This is basic human
nature.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">If
we include what we really are in our
cultural schemes and programs we</span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
will admit our behavior, intelligence, and personalities are to a
large extent heritable. Both</span></span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">liberals
and paleoconservative's block or conceal the ethnic-centered and
xenophobic parts of human nature. I</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">f
real kin and ethnic-centered human nature was allowed to be what it
is, it would naturally lead to ethnostates, and finally, if we are
wise, to 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., and defended by a defensive federalism. An ethnopluralism of
ethnostates could be established legally in the United States with
our constitutional separation of powers and states.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Rational
utterly sane culture depends on people accepting real human nature.
The great failure in defining real human nature threatens our very
survival with wars between marauding imperialists, global businesses,
supremacists, Marxists, etc.</span></span></span></span></span></span> <br /></p>Kenneth Lloyd Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852862610907259920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22470576.post-66724475587336191442022-10-28T06:35:00.000-06:002022-10-28T06:35:02.029-06:00Nature's moral authority <p>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Human nature has freedom,
but <u>within determined choices.</u> Human nature was developed in
Paleolithic times, and modern human cultures developed out of this
Hunter-Gatherer human nature interacting with the environment. <br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">We may not be as free as
<u>either</u><span style="text-decoration: none;"> traditional man or
modern man think we are. We have a determined human nature even if
modern man doesn’t think we do, we are not free to do or become
anything we please. Our real freedom is limited by various determined
choices, but we have the flexibility to be mistaken about who we are
and what we can do, which helped us in making survival over
non-survival choices in the various environments presented to us by
nature. And we can be mistaken in relation to survival in our
cultural schemes.</span><br /><br /><span style="text-decoration: none;">There
is a determined human nature, there is order in the universe, there
is a goal to life, and a goal to evolution, and there is purpose in
phenomena, but it is not defined the way either modern science,
classical science or traditional religion define it. There is a
</span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><u>material activating</u></span><span style="text-decoration: none;">
force in nature and in life, a Will, or a Super-Id---here defined as
the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood---which is then shaped outwardly by the
ups and downs of natural evolution and selection. We are evolving </span><u>to</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">
Godhood, rather than </span><u>from</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">
God. Godhood is the zenith of success in natural and
supermaterial evolution. This purpose is defined in the philosophy of
theological materialism. </span><br /><br /><span style="text-decoration: none;">Harmonizing
with human nature and nature itself is what morality is mainly about.</span>
<span style="text-decoration: none;"> But we are never all-wise, we
are always searching to find out who and what we are and where we are
going. The best and most recent sociobiological knowledge is telling
us that human nature, affirmed throughout human history, has been,
and continues to be, kin-centered, gender defined, age-grading,
heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even
xenophobic, and religious-making, among other things, with
group-selection as the primary unit of selection. This is basic human
nature. Culture and politics can then follow with an ordering among
men, by including real human nature harmoniously in its programs.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">We
are free to help nature and help life, including human life, evolve
toward the Godhood life naturally seeks. This is not the great evil
of “man playing God,” it is trying to aid nature in nature's
purpose of evolving to Godhood, which is the why, and not merely the
how, of life. We can include science and religion together but more
in the fashion of classical science, which did ask both how and why.
I affirm the goal of life and nature evolving in the
material/supermaterial world to the Godhood first only glimpsed in
the Inward Path of traditional religion. This is the way we
conservatively include but transform traditional religion </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><u>and</u></span><span style="text-decoration: none;">
modern science.</span></span></p>Kenneth Lloyd Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852862610907259920noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22470576.post-75879948020503326022022-09-26T06:40:00.001-06:002023-01-12T09:09:50.293-06:00How conservatives can be worthy of their name<p>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Why
aren't all conservatives also racial conservatives, if you don't
conserve the races who created the cultures, you don't conserve the
cultures for long, so it is not enough to be only a cultural conservative.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This
tragic political mistake seems to stem from conservatives not knowing
or not affirming the biological origin of social behavior, and from
the blocking of the subject and making it taboo by those who benefit
from integrating the world, which includes the worlds religions as
well as global business people.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Conservatives
need to admit our behavior, intelligence, and personalities are to a
large extent heritable. Both<span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
liberals and p</span></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">aleoconservative's
block or conceal the </span></span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">ethnic-centered
and xenophobic parts of human nature.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">f
real kin and ethnic-centered human nature was allowed to be what it
is, it would naturally lead to ethnostates, and finally to 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., and
defended by a defensive federalism. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates
could be established legally in the United States with our
constitutional separation of powers and states. Then conservatives
would be worthy of their name.</span></span></span></span></span></span> <br /></p>Kenneth Lloyd Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852862610907259920noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22470576.post-52861594761029635122022-09-05T06:50:00.000-06:002022-09-05T06:50:30.610-06:00With evolution we are destined to be Gods: the golden synthesis of religion and science<p>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">The will, soul, spirit,
life-force, will to power, will to Godhood, or as I call it: Tirips,
is the sacred will to evolve to Godhood and nothing more than
that,which is enough. It is the most sacred drive but it isn't God,
it is the drive <u>within</u> life <u>to</u> Godhood which must live
and adapt the life it lives within to the exigencies of natural
selection and evolution. It is a material drive, but the most sacred
element of the material drives. It is not a “spiritual” drive, it
lives within life and is past on through procreation. It part of our
nature, the most important drive of the direction of out lives and
cultures are or should be the most important design our lives and
cultures. </span>
</p><p><span style="font-size: large;">This worldview which I
define as theological materialism is the golden synthesis of religion
and science. E</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">nergy
is matter in another form, so matter is really not passive as
Newton's first law said, matter in the form of energy moves matter.
Matter in the form of energy moves matter from within matter as well
as from outside of matt</span></span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-style: normal;">er.
There </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">is
more than an outward action or reaction with matter, there is an
inward vitalism working within and shaped by outside evolution, which
is the activation of the will to life as inward metabolism, growth,
reproduction. Theological materialism amplifies this vitalist will to
life with the goal of the will-to-evolve-toward-Godhood, or Tirips.
Spirituality is not needed in religion when matter is not passive. It
is matter not spirit that is evolving to its zenith of Godhood. With
evolution we are destined to be Gods.</span></span> <br /></p>Kenneth Lloyd Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852862610907259920noreply@blogger.com0