Putin is an imperialist and supremacist not an ethnostatist

Putin and his intellectual Dugin should have celebrated the breakup of the Soviet Union into natural ethnostates. Putin is an imperialist and supremacist not an ethnostatist.

It is not necessary to hate other races to love your own; this has caused the most problems for the right---the hatred is gleefully exploited by the corrupt left. I never liked supremacism or imperialism on the right, it is antiquated human strategy to promote the supremacy or imperialism of one group against all others as exclusively superior, even if this sociobiological tactic enhanced survival in hunter-gatherer times, this behavior now only brings the overpopulated world together to destroy the supremacist imperialist group.

I wait for the day when forced imperialism, supremacism, and multiculturalism of the world will give way to an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, in line with real kin and ethnic-centered human nature. I think the real debate should be over how we can conservatively adapt the Constitutional separation of of powers and states to an ethnopluralism of ethnostates. Cooperative competition between small ethnostates and regions, protected internally and externally from imperialism, supremacism, and multiculturalism by some sort of federalism, can bring the variety and creativity that evolution prefers, as we all materially evolve toward Godhood.

The strengths and weaknesses of Russian and Western conservatism

Russian conservatism and Western conservatism have their strengths and weaknesses. Both don't respect science enough do mainly to their religious views; this means that both don't respect the evolutionary biological origin of social behavior which includes the origin of religion, although Russian conservatives rightly affirm ethnic nationalism. Russian conservatives are too enamored with imperialism, and Western conservatives love money, although the free enterprise capitalism is superior.

My 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 didn't the Alt-right feature 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-disparaging Russian imperialist Aleksandr Dugin and his Traditionalist School teachers, Guénon and Evola who did not find science (a jewel of the West) nearly as important as Eastern spiritualism (a jewel of the East).

Evolutionary conservatism believes that if real kin and ethnic-centered human nature was allowed to be what it is, it would naturally lead to regionalism, localism, general conservative values, eventually ethnostates, and finally 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.

The goal of evolving to Godhood need not deprive us of either science or religion. When Godhood is seen as a naturalistic and theological goal, the goal of evolution, then biology and theology need not settle for the empty spiritualism. Nature and philosophy can be seen as life materially evolving toward ascending levels of Godhood, and we can all get on with the religious goal of of evolving toward Godhood.

Intellectuals of the old far right and the new far right (from the archive

Intellectuals of the old far right had respect for Western science, men like Raymond Cattell, Richard Lynn, Roger Pearson, John Baker, and Wilmot Robertson respected the Enlightenment. But in the last several years the far right has seen the rise of the Traditionalist School and the works of Julius Evola and Rene Guenon who rejected rationalism and materialism in favor of a Vedic-Hindu, neo-Platonist worldview that disparaged Darwinist material evolution and downplayed the biological origin of social behavior in favor of spiritualism over naturalism.

Was it the deep desire for an all encompassing religion missing from Western science that drew the new Alt-right away from the science-oriented intellectuals of the old far right, or did the Traditionalist School de-emphasizing of race and genetics appeal to the new Alt-right as a way to escape the hatred of racism across the media-driven culture? It was probably some of both.

The new intellectual far right seems to have ignored or is unaware of work of research psychologist Raymond Cattell and his religion from science, Beyondism, or my religious development of theological materialism.

Theological materialism is thoroughly Western and proud of it, following the Western path in centering on science and reason. But unlike the Enlightenment, theological materialism affirms religious tradition transformed rather than rejected.

It is difficult to find ecumenical commonality between the ethnocentric proto-Indo-European pagan religion and the traditional Judea-Christian religions. Rather than getting lost in comparing the symbols of lost spiritualism it is better for us to return to the material world and find our religious connections that way.

The eastern experience of Buddhist nirvana, and the beatific experience of heaven, or the Father Within of Christ, were just that, a peak experience in the physical mind after much ascetic discipline in blocking or overcoming material desires. We can conservatively retain that preliminary Inward Path experience of the God Within, but it needs to be transformed in the Outward Path of material evolution to real Godhood.

We can look beneath thoughts and feelings and find the multifarious processes of the instincts activating life to evolve toward the supreme survival success of Godhood. This activation exists within material life and is never separate from it, and adapts and evolves within the environments life finds itself living in---there is no spiritual/material duality here. The activation of material life toward evolving to Godhood is the unchanging constant as natural selection and evolution make new discoveries and present new challenges as we evolve toward ascending levels of Godhood.

While I respect some of the conclusions of the Traditionalist School (Guénon and Evola---and now Aleksandr Dugin) the Traditionalist School does not find science (a jewel of the West) nearly as important as Eastern spiritualism (a jewel of the East) and they reject and want to destroy the Western world (and its great genetic potential?) due to its gross materialism. Among American followers of Dugin, patriotism seems unfairly lost in seeing only the flaws of the West, which are redeemable. For example, an ethnopluralism of ethnostates or regions could be established, legally, in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states, protected from marauding imperialists, supremacists, Marxists, chosenites, and money grubbers, by a defensive federalism.

Why I don't have much time for Dugin

“Is Dugin a Traditionalist?” Andreas Umland and Anton Shekhovtsov asked in their review of Neo-Eurasianism and Perennial Philosophy (The Russian Review, 2009). They decided that Aleksandr Dugin was only using traditionalism or giving his own interpretation to the authentic traditionalist school of Rene Guenon. Even though I don't approve of the imperialistic West-hating Neo-Eurasianism of Dugin, I say, it is well that Dugin try to breathe some life into the anti-life school of Guenon.

As Umland and Shekhovtsov said the traditionalist school repudiates all achievements of modernity. Traditionalist's believe that a “perennial wisdom” or “primordial Tradition” was revealed to humanity during a “Golden Age” (the Hindu Satya Yuga). As ages (Yugas) superseded each other, the world slid into decadence, and “perennial wisdom,” as a single “spiritual language,” gradually disappeared from people’s life. In our current age—the Era of Vice (Kali Yuga)—the ancient cultural foundations of human existence have degenerated completely: only traces of the “primordial Tradition” remain, and they survive only in certain world religions that traditionalists understood to be dialects of the lost single “spiritual language.”

The big problem with that worldview is that there is no non-material spiritual world, there is only ascetic interpretations derived from spiritual language and strict ascetic disciplines that 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. The inward God of the beatific vision of Christianity, or the Samadhi in Hinduism, was/is an ascetic peak material experience and not a spiritual union with God.

If we take the word “metastasis,” the spread of something, like a disease, from an initial site to a different or secondary site, and apply it to the split between the material and the spiritual, we can see the numerous problems this led to, not the least of which was, ironically and tragically, the decline of religion.

The liberals and progressives more or less rejected religion mainly because Western science could find no trace of the spiritual or a spiritual God. And they were right. But they were wrong to reject religion and Godhood. 

Rather than killing religion and God or going backward to a traditionalist school which repudiates all the great Western achievements of modernity, we might have gone back to the point of the metastasis and rejected the 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. As seen in the philosophy of theological materialism, real Godhood is reached by material evolution and not by the symbolic experience of bliss reached in ascetic practices.

So given Dugin's combined imperialistic West-hating Neo-Eurasianism and his version of the anti-life Traditionalist School, I don't have much time for Dugin.

We can have Godhood and religion without the anti-life illusions of Vedic/Platonic cosmogony

It is Maya that is the "illusion" or mirror of the universe, it is the world that is real, and the “God” seen in the mirror inwardly is unreal, but is experienced materially as real bliss when all the material desires are gotten rid of by the ascetics, which is a decidedly anti-life path.

The illusionary inward God might help us understand real Godhood evolved to in the material-supermaterial world. The inward God dissolves in the outward God, not the other way around. The evolution of life has ascending levels of Godhood, whereas the mirror inward God dissolves into illusion.

God is not one, that is Maya or "illusion," there are many Gods in Godhood. Even though the most evolved Gods may have great power in the world, the Gods do not appear to govern the world, the material activation of life within life, or Tirips, working in conjunction with natural evolution, govern the worlds.

We can have have Godhood and religion without the anti-life illusions of Vedic/Platonic cosmogony.

Why doesn't the Alt-right feature more Western geniuses?

Why doesn't the Alt-right feature more Western geniuses, men like the brilliant British/American psychologist Raymond Cattell, or the courageous historian Wilmot Robertson, or the great Neo-Darwinist field of sociobiology, rather than converting to the West-disparaging Russian imperialist Aleksandr Dugin and his Traditionalist School teachers, Guénon and Evola, who did not find science (a jewel of the West) nearly as important as Eastern spiritualism (a jewel of the East). Patriotism is unfairly lost in seeing the flaws of the West, which are redeemable. For example, an ethnopluralism of ethnostates or regions could be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states, protected by federalism.

If they needed a God and religion (civilizations rise with religions) why not the 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. We can retain the traditional Inward Path to bliss but transformed in the Outward Path of material evolution to real Godhood.

Ethnostates were examined courageously in clear prose by Robertson back in 1993 without veering into Heideggerian metaphysics. A humane religion from science was valiantly mapped out by Cattell. And Edward Wilson's sociobiology makes it impossible for honest people to sidestep the biological origin of social behavior---which includes religion. These men deeply respected the culture-creating West and the Western gene pool; they certainly  inspired my work on theological materialism and ethnostatism.

We need to now make abstractions unreal and real life real in religion and politics

The following statement is considered “politically incorrect”: Real civilization and culture cannot arise when men and women do not share the same place and ethnic group or genetic pool, homogeneity is then lost, people don't bond well together, subtleties are lost.

The next statement is considered religiously incorrect, which is sort of political incorrectness from the right: Spiritualism is as abstract as cultural Marxism; Godhood is not an abstraction, Godhood is material/supermaterial and evolved to in the material world.

Getting back to reality in religion and politics largely means rejecting or at least transforming old unreal abstractions. Then we can create societies in harmony with real human nature, which is fundamentally kin and ethnic centered, with religions that make sacred the evolution of a variety of life toward ascending levels of Godhood.

Both religious and political thinkers have taken the belief in abstractions to absurd levels. Let the abstractions of science, religion and philosophy be seen as only mirrors of real life and only secondary to real life, not the other way around. We have inherited spiritual nothingness from traditional religions, Plato, and their followers. We need to now make abstractions unreal and real life real in religion and politics.

Why we need to work within the system to transform it

When I think how rapidly the left “marched thorough the institutions,” as Gramsci called it, from the 1960's to today, transforming America and the West from a generally traditional conservative culture to a hedonistic, abortion-loving, drug-taking, sex changing, white-hating, leftist culture, in a very short time, it gives me hope that a countermarch thorough the institutions can take place.

Then comes the sobering realization that the very fast moving leftist march to destroy traditional conservative culture had the media, the schools, and politicians, and even the church on their side, and of course big business could care less about anything but making money. Damn! The paleoconservatives have nothing like that kind of support, and the deeply-conservative movement toward an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, which I support, has far less approval.

And it's stunning to realize that the left “marched thorough the institutions” pushing a social philosophy that has virtually no connection to real human nature, which remains as it has always been, 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 successful selection, followed by individual selection.

That should give us hope. But the radicals don't think so, they look at the support the left had/has and they say forget it, how can we work within that overwhelmingly dominant system? I know the feeling, I used to think that way too. But the left asked the same question back before they launched their cultural destruction, and most of them worked within the system---the radicals were arrested or killed.

So we need to work within the system to transform it. I believe ethnostates are the best political configuration for humans beings to live within, given real human nature. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates or regions could be established, legally, in the United States by way of our constitutional separation of powers and states, protected by federalism. It may require a few constitutional amendments to give more power to the states, and it will not be easy at all, but it is far preferable to radical Marxism or Fascism, or the degenerate political left we have today, which has brought us civil disruptions, even civil war, and a hedonistic, abortion-loving, drug-taking, sex changing, white-hating, leftist culture, within unworkable multicultural (multi-ethnic) societies.

The loss of religious sacralization and how to get it back without spiritualism

If we take the word “metastasis,” the spread of something, like a disease, from an initial site to a different or secondary site, and apply it to the split between the material and the spiritual, we can see the numerous problems this led to, not the least of which was, ironically and tragically, the decline of religion.

The liberals and progressives more or less rejected religion mainly because science could find no trace of the spiritual or a spiritual God. And they were right! But they were wrong to reject religion and God.

Rather than killing religion and God we should have gone back to the point of the metastasis and rejected the the split between the material and the spiritual. There is no non-material God but we can reach ascending levels of supermaterial Godhood. Real Godhood is reached by material evolution, and not by the symbolic experience of god reached in the ascetic practices of the traditional religions.

We needed to transform religion and God, not kill them. That was the real conservative project missed by the conservatives, and missed by Nietzsche, the abused father of postmodernism, who affirmed only new values created by individual supermen. Having no religion and no God modern men lost the sacralization of their morals, values, cultures, long-term goals, and even their survival.

How to get it back? The philosophy of theological materialism begins the process.

Basic intentions, motives, and views of theological materialism

When survival and reproduction breaks down then human nature, being constant, develops better versions of order and stability usually revising the old order. Revising the old order works best when it retains the best of the past even as it changes, which defines conservatism.

Civilization has sought order and stability because order and stability work best in survival and reproductive success. So human beings develop religions and political philosophies to make order and stability sacred.

Human nature has been constant in human history, but biology has been more constant in evolving human nature in the first place. The same problems keep coming up throughout human history because human nature and nature itself are basically constant.

We are at the stage or point in time when the West needs to revise its old order. Religions and political philosophy need to move deeper into the biology of social behavior. The old gods and the old political philosophies can be retained but biologized.

Theological materialism declares that religion and science can aid life in evolving toward ever-ascending levels of Godhood, and political philosophy needs to reflect that revision. The old inward God experienced by the ascetics from blocking material desires can be retained in the Inward Path but transformed in the Outward Path of material evolution to real Godhood.

In place of the multicultural multi-ethnic states, which competing groups are making wastelands, we need to form ethnostates. For example, the U.S. Constitutional separation of powers and states can be legally strengthened or amended if need be.

All ethnic groups and races, left and right, can affirm basic kin and ethnic-centered human nature and the sacred drive within life to evolve toward Godhood, while adapting to the ups and owns of the outside environment.

The “ends of man” are to be found in material evolution in space and time

Evolution is the real expression of history and the real structure of order. The “ends of man” are to be found in material evolution in space and time, not in a non-material transcendence beyond space and time. Non-material transcendence is the dream that blocks or slows down the natural path of material evolution toward supermaterial Godhood.

The religious transcendent school of history has been a veil thrown upon the workings of material evolution toward real Godhood. Religion should not be a blockade upon the evolution of mankind. Religion should affirm the natural path of material evolution toward ever ascending levels of Godhood, helped along by science, human culture, and the biological origin of social behavior, as affirmed in the philosophy of theological materialism.

What are the permanent things in reality?

Eliot and Kirk say the permanent things are “more than natural, more than private, more than human.” Really?

Conservatism cannot be purposefully built without naturalism. And we need not lose religion with naturalism if it is a religion built on the biological evolution of life to supermaterial Godhood.

Eliot and Kirk go on to say that “men will never be Gods.” Yes they will. No “tragic sense” of an irremediably fallen man is necessary or real. What is tragic is the Great Spiritual Blockade put up by non-materialism against the biological origin of social behavior.

Political philosophy traditionally stems from ethics and ethics from religion, but which religious philosophy? We do need to bond our societies with the sacred, but which sacred?

Real conservatism doesn't die with the affirmation of our material evolution to supermaterial Godhood, evolution naturally conserves the best of the past as we continue to seek the best in evolving toward ever-ascending levels of Godhood. True conservatism and permanence is built on that.

Political problems are at root biological problems relating to the biological origin of our social behavior

Political problems are not at root economic problems (Capitalism, Marxism) and are not at root cultural problems (customs, arts, social institutions), political problems are at root biological problems relating to the biological origin of our social behavior. Real tradition, real conservatism, knows this to be true, although it has become politically incorrect to say it, and that taboo, ironically, is itself the result of biological competition, consciously or unconsciously.

Cultures can operate for a time with behavior that goes against human nature with such experiments as cultural Marxism but cultures are eventually pulled back by the biological and genetic leash of real human nature to cultures that better reflect human nature, and humans then work within and adapt to the environments they find themselves living.

Even in advanced modern societies where survival is easier, the dangers of Marxism (demanding equality for the unequal), radical feminism (demanding biologically unnatural roles for women), homosexuality (demanding unnatural sexual life styles) and postmodern relativism (demanding an unnatural relativity of values) is behavior that goes against real human nature, which remains basically kin-centered, gender defined, heterosexual, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, among other traditional things, with group-selection as the primary unit of successful selection, followed by individual selection.

Given who we are and given what human nature really is, there should by now be politicians advocating ethnostates and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, in harmony with the growing variety of ethnic groups in America with different genetic pools and different competing agendas. We could, with the Constitutional separation of powers and states, develop an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, and we could with a light federalism protect the ethnostates from marauding imperialism and supremacism which always rear their ugly head.

Where are the politicians and intellectuals who should be trying to deal with political problems that are at root biological problems relating to the biological origin of our social behavior? They are not to be seen on Fox News. And the conservative intellectual journals won't affirm the biological origin of our social behavior either; perhaps they are afraid it will upend the idea that political problems are at root religious problems. Or it could simply be the desire not to be crucified professionally and personally by the corrupt Big Media etc., which I suppose almost justifies accepting the taboo. At least the "Alt right" will bravely discuss the subject---when they aren't singing the praises of Aleksandr Dugin and Russia.

Political dragons to tame

Ethnopluralism is, of course, too far ahead of its time, as populist America First was ahead of its time with Pat Buchanan before Donald Trump trumpeted it--although America First is still fighting for its existence against the Republicans, Globalists, Neoconservatives, and the foolish Left.

Ethnopluralism, that is, adapting the constitutional separation of powers and states to an ethnopluralism of ethnostates will prove more difficult than Trump trying to overcome the globalists---and he is a once in a million personalty. But someone needs to cry out in the wilderness about the coming ethnopluralism of ethnostates and I guess that's us, or me.

Then there is the problem with the far right and far left who are marginal but still stronger than the ethnopluralists. Many in the far right have gone over to the traditionalist school of Guenon, Evola, and the Russian Dugin and embraced a non-populist, religious, imperialist, hierarchy of rule, and have downplayed or even rejected the idea of evolutionary progress. Socialism and cultural Marxism on the left, although complete nonsense, are far stronger than the far right and have the corrupt Big Media on there side, so they are a big dragon to tame.

Real human nature remains as it has always been, kin-centered and ethnocentric, and in our crowded world the closest we will ever come to social/political harmony is when we provide each distinctive ethnic group or race its own ethnostate and develop an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, protected from marauding imperialists by some form of mainly protective federalism. And the more we can hang on to and adapt conservative traditions the better, such as, in the U. S. adapting the constitutional separation of powers and states to ethnostates.

Americans were not asked if they wished to sacrifice their lives to globalism

Americans were not asked if they wished to sacrifice their lives to globalism, that is not the way the nefarious globalists operate. The  globalist's provided much of the money to allow foreign producers to flood the American market with very cheap products designed to ruin American producers.

Very slowly, too slowly, Americans woke up to the great globalist scam and elected Donald Trump president because he spoke the populist-nationalist language of America First against globalism. And for doing that the entire controlled Media declared that Trump and his populist followers were simply racist.

It's not at all over yet, socialism, which is just another form of globalism, is rising again against populist-nationalism, financed in part by one of the chief globalist businessman, George Soros. The socialists we see around college campuses present a loud mouth and even violent form of globalism, which the populist-nationalist's weren't prepared for.

So globalism with its various nefarious promoters rolls on, holding most of the money, endlessly seeking to destroy Trump and populist-nationalism in America---and Europe is also rising against the globalists. The Alt-Right in America entered the fray for at time and were willing to organize demonstrations against the loud mouth and violent globalists. But the Alt Right was soon more or less suppressed for joining with the West-hating Russian nationalist/imperialist Aleksandr Dugin.

Who really knows where we will go from here, but real human nature will have its way, and real human nature is on the side of the biological origin of our social behavior, which actually ends the intellectual defense of globalism. Human nature leads naturally to the cultural expression of decentralism, regionalism, localism, and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all racial and ethnic groups, protected from imperial marauders by some sort of lighter federalism. That will come I believe, one way or another.

Better harmonizing and sublimating real human nature and nature itself

A limitation of religious and philosophical traditions has included the near absence of the biological origin of social behavior. Psychology has done better with the sociobiological advent of evolutionary psychology, although EP has usually avoided (or the Media has ignored) the more controversial political implications of the biological origin of ethnocentrism and nationalism within real human nature.

We need to honestly affirm our biological and genetic instincts if we wish to be whole and happy. Sublimation of the instincts is desirable but our sublimation's have tended to block them. Nietzsche's will to power and Freud's will to sex needed to better affirm the group over the narcissistic individual; group selection has been the primary unit of selection in successful survival and reproductive and is at the real biological origin of the altruism (being-for-others) seen in religion and politics.

Individual selection takes place within groups and is important in attaining excellence, but groups of altruists are successful over groups of individualists, as E. O. Wilson has pointed out. So those who attack altruism and affirm selfish individualism (Nietzsche more or less, Ayn Rand, etc,) have blocked more than sublimated the biological instincts. Nietzsche didn't "anticipate" Freud's sex drive, Freud adapted Nietzsche's will to power---but then Nietzsche adapted Schopenhauer.

Beneath the power and sex drives is the survival drive, however, beneath the survival drive is the material will within life to evolve in the material world all the way to supermaterial Godhood, which must work within the ebb and flow of outside or environmental natural selection, and it is that activation which needs to be sublimated over all the others.

Sublimating the material activation to Godhood (Tirips)---which also leads to the zenith of survival and reproductive success---engenders a new religious/philosophical ("theological materialism"), psychological ("evolutionary therapy") and political (an "ethnopluralism of ethnostates") perspective that better harmonizes with and sublimates real human nature and nature itself.

Hegel defines a spiritual non-material idea, and that is the same old problem

Hegel’s definition of beauty is “the sensible shining forth of the idea” Idea? Hegel defines a spiritual non-material idea, and that is the same old problem that goes all the way back to ancient religion and philosophy.

Ideas depend on evolved matter which creates ideas, not the other way around. Without the body and the material brain there would be no ideas or definitions of "spiritualism." Spiritualism is an idea thought up in the material ingredients of the mind. Even the God-Within is a blissful material experience by way of ascetically blocking material drives and desires---most of the gurus teach it that way.

But before spiritualists and idealist's become agitated over the loss of their favorite fantasy: Godhood and the philosophical "zenith" are not lost, theological materialism affirms them---but they are material, or more precisely, supermaterial. And Godhood is evolved to in the material/supermaterial world. Conservatism remains viable.

But before we rush to the very human idea of "final" endings: evolution and devolution never end, there will always be gods and universes evolving, arriving, rising and falling.

So in theological materialism we have nothing to lose but our deification of ideas and spiritualism, and we have a grand material synthesis of religion and science to gain, along with real Godhood.

The big metaphysical error comes from thinking that the perfect state gives birth to the imperfect state

The big metaphysical error comes from thinking that the perfect state gives birth to the imperfect state. If the so-called perfect state is thought of as non-material and spiritual then the material is seen as not good (even evil) and imperfect.

But when Godhood is seen as existing on the evolutionary material continuum leading to the supermaterial, as I believe, then the world evolves from an imperfect state to a verging-on-perfect state---verging-on-perfect because material life and Godhood never stop evolving (and sometimes devolving.)

"Timelessness" and "infinity" are also seen as another human invention: without material life living in time there is no related connection to time or infinity and they become as non-material-nothing as a non-material god.

The real relationship to Godhood, life, and human life (or our being an "image" of God) is the material and supermaterial connection, no invention of a spiritual or non-material connection is necessary to explain our connection to Godhood when Godhood is understood as material/supermaterial as we are and wish to be.

Upside down metaphysics of origins

The problem with religious cosmogonies is that they turn the origin of the cosmos and life upside down. They begin with a highest God from whose androgynous non-material Being the cosmos is created, which is considered a great falling away from the highest to the lowest.

I believe it happens the other way around. The lowest primal point of existence creates the beginning cosmos which then must evolve, if it can, to the highest existence, which is where real Godhood can exist.

That great metaphysical error has created many atheists, and devalued the world, life in the world, religion, and material evolution to real Godhood. It need not have.

The cosmos did not come from a non-material, spiritual, androgynous being, which was a metaphysical conception existing only in the minds of men who mainly dropped out of the material world to create such non-life conceptions. Godhood is a real and valid goal, but Godhood must be materially evolved to from the material to the supermaterial.

The false duality running through human history

We can retain religion, we can have Godhood, we can have ethics, embodiment, and transformation, but if we want reality in these things we cannot have transcendence of the material world. We "transcend" toward Godhood through material evolution.

The painting by Raphael, "The School of Athens,"of Plato pointing toward the heavens and Aristotle pointing toward the earth illustrates the false duality running through human history, although that wasn't Raphael's meaning.

There is the supermaterial, there is Godhood, but these divine things are evolved to in the material, not spiritual world. This means that science and religion have been falsely separated and need not be.

It is better to call spiritualism what it is, and is not, than to try to synthesize materialism into spiritualism by keeping it in a system of duality, as the great intellectual fathers of the church tried to do,

But with the Twofold Path conservatives and traditionalists need not reject the spiritual Inward Path of desire-free ascetic living, which can be seen as the first human inward glimpses of real Godhood now understood as reached in the Outward Path of material evolution.