Heidegger
concluded after years study that the West has lost its spiritual
strength,
lost its Gods, destroyed the earth, reduced humans to a mass, and
created only the mediocre, and the Traditionalist School agreed with
that assessment.
Rather than killing
religion and God, or going backward to a Traditionalist
School which repudiates all the great Western achievements of
modernity, they might have gone back to the point of the
metastasis and rejected the split between the material and the
spiritual. There is no non-material spiritual God but we can
reach ascending levels of supermaterial Godhood by way of material
and supermaterial evolution. Real Godhood is reached by material
evolution, which is not the symbolic
experience of bliss reached in ascetic practices.
Why
didn't
the Heideggerians and Traditionalist School followers study more
Western geniuses, like Edward Wilson and the great Neo-Darwinist
field of sociobiology, or men like the brilliant British/American
psychologist Raymond Cattell, or the courageous historian Wilmot
Robertson? Why
did they not find
science (a jewel of the West) nearly as important as Eastern
spiritualism (a
jewel of the East)?
I
see Heidegger's idea of Being as Time in line with that tendency of
intellectuals to overlook the fact that the “names” of things are
an abstraction which only point toward the reality of the thing
named---the abstract name is not the thing-in-itself. All philosophy
and theology is full of this metaphysical error, with God, Being, and
Truth as only
names and abstractions, often with no connection to real objects.
Godhood, religion,Truth, need not be lost when we bring our thinking
back to real, evolving, material objects.
The
big problem with the Traditionalist view is that there is no
non-material spiritual world, there is only ascetic interpretations
derived from spiritual language and strict ascetic disciplines
designed to overcome or block all material desires, which bring
feelings of great bliss to the ascetic that is exaggeratedly
described as a spiritual union with God.
If
they needed a God and religion why not the ascending levels of material/supermaterial
real Godhood reached through material, not spiritual evolution, by
employing the Western evolutionary sciences, rather than hearkening
back to asceticism, which seeks an inward god by way of blocking all
material drives and desires to experience the bliss of "god"
(satori, moksha, illumination, etc.), which is really a peak material
experience brought on by blocking all material desires.
Edward
Wilson's sociobiology makes it impossible for honest people to
sidestep the biological origin of our social behavior---which
includes
religion and philosophy. These men of the West deeply respected the culture-creating
West
and the
Western
gene pool; they certainly inspired my work on theological materialism
and ethnostatism.