Some differences between Evolutionary Christianity and Carvaka

According to Abigail Turner-Lauck Wernicki, “Indian Materialism” refers to the school of thought within Indian philosophy, usually called Carvaka, that rejects supernaturalism and rejects ethical systems that are grounded in supernaturalistic cosmologies. The good, for the Indian materialist, is strictly associated with pleasure and the only ethical obligation forwarded by the system is the maximization of one’s own pleasure. Wernicki says Indian Materialism pre-dated the British Empiricist movement by over a millennium.

The evolutionary Christianity of theological materialism applies the term “supermaterialism” rather than supernaturalism to avoid being mistaken for a non material worldview. Our ethical system is based in a supermaterial cosmology. The good is primarily associated with upward evolution to Godhood, which may or may not always be pleasurable to the individual in the short term but offers the maximum pleasure in the long term.

We are naturalistic in rejecting Plato's dualism, as well as Indian or Traditional spirituality, which says that there are two realms of reality, the material and the immaterial. We see the material and the supermaterial as one thing with different levels of evolution. Our naturalism affirms that all reality is in nature, but unlike naturalism we do not reject the idea that actions can have morally good and evil consequences. Upward evolution is sacred, devolution and entropy are profane.

But unlike the Carvaka we do not remain opposed to Traditional spirituality, we include it in the Involutionary Inward Path of the Twofold Path. This is the way ascetic and meditative practices lead to the bliss of the Soul, but not to Godhood. It is the Evolutionary Outward Path that affirms the Will to Godhood, or Spirit, in evolutionary survival and reproduction on the upward path to Godhood.

The body is a burden only in terms of attaining the Soul-Within in the Inward Path, but the body is essential in the Outward Path, as the vehicle of evolution to higher species, and eventually to Godhood. We dignify the material world in this sense, and we affirm science, even if some insights of intellectual intuition have not yet been validated by empirical science. But we do not reject supermaterialism and put science in it's place.  We do not reject theism as the Cavakas do, Godhood is seen as supermaterial and attained through long evolution.

We therefore accept philosophical and theological claims that have not been verified by direct experience, in doing so we have used the terms idealistic realism , or idealist naturalism. This means that our ontology rests on the affirmation of scientifically non-perceivable Objects, even though Godhood is not defined as non material. We agree with the Carvaka that the cosmos and the world, and the objects in the world are real, and that existence can be defined in terms of physical elements, although we include supermaterial elements, with the supermaterial realm yet to be understood scientifically.

We also believe that human consciousness is a material construct, but again, we add a supermaterial construct to consciousness. The Spirit Within, which exists at the Zenith of the Soul, is the ground of consciousness, but the Spirit is always based in the body. There can be no Soul or Spirit apart from the body, and the Spirit is passed on through material and supermaterial reproduction, which the Spirit, or Will to Godhood, activates.

We do not think it is futile to speculate as to the origin of the cosmos, but we acknowledge that higher evolution in conscousness and intelligence is necessary to know more and more. However, making connection with the Spirit Within can help in this difficult area.

Objects in the cosmos activated by the Spirit Within, with the purpose of evolving to Godhood, and objects are shaped by evolution from without. Existence is therefore purposeful and teleological.

Unlike the Carvaka we do not affirm egoism or individual selection over group selection, both work together, along with cultural selection, yet evolution has primarily taken place at the group level. Therefore altruism can this way be understood, as affirmed by sociobiology.

Unlike the Carvakas, Evolutionary Christianity is not negative toward traditional religion, even if traditional religion is negative toward us. We do believe that we revitalize Tradition.

"Move away from the ideology of global economic integration"

I thought this was worth quoting, from part of Herman Daly's farewell speech to the World Bank, way back on January 14, 1994 (suggested by Alex Imreh)   http://www.eoearth.org/article/Farewell_speech_to_the_World_Bank_by_Herman_E._Daly

“... Move away from the ideology of global economic integration by free trade. free capital mobility, and export-led growth—and toward a more nationalist orientation that seeks to develop domestic production for internal markets as the first option, having recourse to international trade only when clearly much more efficient.

At the present time global interdependence is celebrated as a self-evident good. The royal road to development, peace, and harmony is thought to be the unrelenting conquest of each nation's markets by all other nations. The word "globalist" has politically correct connotations, while the word "nationalist" has come to be pejorative. This is so much the case that it is necessary to remind ourselves that the World Bank exists to serve the interests of its members, which are nation states, nation communities—not individuals, not corporations, not even NGOs. It has no charter to serve the one-world without borders cosmopolitan vision of global integration—of converting many relatively independent national economies, loosely dependent on international trade into one tightly integrated world economic network upon which the weakened nations depend upon for even basic survival.

The model of international community upon which the Bretton Woods institutions rests is that of a "community of Communities", an international federation of national communities cooperating to solve global problems under the principle of subsidiarity. The model is not the cosmopolitan one of direct global citizenship in a single integrated world community without intermediation by nation states. To globalize the economy by erasure of national economic boundaries through free trade, free capital mobility, and free, or at least uncontrolled migration, is to wound fatally the major unit of community capable of carrying out any policies for the common good. That includes not only policy for purely domestic ends, but also international agreements required to deal with those environmental problems that are irreducibly global (C0₂, ozone depletion). International agreements presuppose the ability of national governments to carry out policies in their support. If nations have no control over their borders they are in a poor position to enforce national laws, including those necessary to secure compliance with international treaties.


Cosmopolitan globalism weakens national boundaries and the power of national and subnational communities, while strengthening the relative power of transnational corporations. Since there is no world government capable of regulating global capital in the global interest, and since the desirability and possibility of a world government are both highly doubtful, it will be necessary to make capital less global and more national. I know that is an unthinkable thought right now, but take it as a prediction—ten years from now the buzz words will be "renationalization of capital" and the "community rooting of capital for the development of national and local economies", not the current shibboleths of export-led growth stimulated by whatever adjustments are necessary to increase global competitiveness. "Global competitiveness" (frequently a thought-substituting slogan) usually reflects not so much a real increase in resource productivity as a standards-lowering competition to reduce wages, externalize environmental and social costs, and export natural capital at low prices while calling it income.

The World Bank should use the occasion of its fiftieth birthday to reflect deeply on the words of John Maynard Keynes: "I sympathize therefore, with those who would minimize rather than those who would maximize, economic entanglement between nations. Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel—these are the things which should of their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible; and, above all, let finance be primarily national...."

"Why should they want to be more like us?"

"Why should China abandon a trade policy that is working marvelously well for them, and adopt a trade policy that is failing dismally for us? "    Column here by Pat Buchanan      

Seeing and being the real physical object

Defining God as non physical probably began in more primitive times when early mystics thought mental life was non physical. This carried forward when mathematicians and logicians defined God with numerical meaning and truth, which was ideal and not physical.

I do not think we need to restrict things only to subjective data, as in phenomenology, or to evident data as in science, because Godhood and the Spirit remain ideal things understood through intellectual intuition (but may not always be). Godhood in this case is an “ideal” defined as physical, a Supreme Physical Object, which is why I sometimes use the term idealistic realism, or idealistic naturalism, or finally theological materialism.

What we see is real, but we can only see as much as our senses are evolved to see, and we don't See All with Full Consciousness until we evolve to Godhood, the Supreme Physical Object, or objects.

“Truth” then is the accuracy of judgment of the thing-itself, the object, depending on the level of evolution of consciousness of the definer of truth. Aquinas defined truth as the adequacy of the intellect and the thing.

Evolutionary Christianity brings religion to seeing and being the real physical object, both real and ideal, which evolves in the cosmos from the material to the supermaterial, and finally to Godhood.

Revitalizing Consensus Mysticism

The Atman (Soul) is not Brahman (God), but the Soul as well as the body derive from Godhood, which is an important distinction.

Many mystics stop at the bliss of the Soul and do not go deeper into the Zenith of the Soul where the Spirit dwells.

The Spirit activates material life to evolve to Godhood as the Will To Godhood. The Soul and Spirit are not non-sensory, they are super-sensory or supermaterial.

This is a revitalizing of consensus mysticism.

This explains the difference between the Inward Path to the Soul and the Outward Path of the Spirit to Godhood, in the Twofold Path of Evolutionary Christianity.

Consciousness And Being

“Consciousness” is the attempted unity of the Subject (as Mind-Soul-Spirit) and the Object (as Body.) Consciousness mediates between the Spirit and the Body. I say “attempted” unity because we cannot have full consciousness until we evolve mind and body higher on the scale of consciousness. Full consciousness comes with the evolution to Godhood.

The “thing-in-itself” is described as:  mind-soul-spirit as the “thing,” and the body as the “in-itself.” The Supreme-Thing-In-Itself is Godhood. This means that Godhood has a Mind-Soul-Spirit and Body as we do only Godhood has evolved to the Zenith of these things-in-themselves.

This way the subjective and objective are one, with different evolutionary levels and divisions of mind-body consciousness.

Immanence and transcendence are defined by the Spirit within the body, with the Spirit transcending within the body by activating the body to evolve to higher and higher stages. The Spirit is the offspring of Godhood and has traveled through evolutionary life activating life since at least the birth of the Kosmos and is also in this sense transcendent.

All concepts make their way back to the body and spirit, which are material and supermaterial objects and not concepts. Concepts and mathematics can go anywhere but Being as Object is circumscribed by the reality of the object. Being is not everything that was, is or will be, Being is its own object at different levels of evolution. Concepts are non-Being.

Godhood is not “reduced” to nature, Godhood is nature evolved to its highest state. There is no Being that is lifeless, there are active evolutionary objects as Being.

I think this reshapes consciousness and Being in an original way, with gratitude for the work of many others in this area. This can be applied to Evolutionary Christianity.

Bright Green And Upward Evolution

The Bright Green movement is another way of looking at sustainability and ecology. The old green solution was mainly to make man the villain in nature and to remove him from nature. The Bright Green way is to harmonize with the geophysicality and ecology of the planet, to shift from trying to control nature to trying to find designs and technology that fit in with nature.

Adding a religious element to this worldview we can recognize that the old theology splits the Spirit from the material world, whereas I think we need to put Spirit back in the material world as the activator of all life. This is the deepest current in nature which we need to harmonize with. Nature is evolving to Godhood if we let it, and help it.

Totality In Reality

A response to Ken Wilber and Andrew Cohen (“EnlightenNext,” # 47, 2011)

The problems that come from trying to transcend beyond the self, beyond what we are, stems from the original theological error of seeing Godhood as Nirguna-Brahman, as the empty, formless, unmanifested goal of life. This makes the rejection of ones own life, ones own people easier, as ones goal is to embrace the nothingness and bliss of a desireless Soul. This is not a higher level of love, this is the emptiness and bliss of the Soul. This defines the Inward Path to the Soul Within.

There is not two realities, one empty and one with objects, there is only the world of evolving objects. Objects are the ground of Being, not emptiness. This emptiness is defined as Nirvana in Tradition, but this is a self-created emptiness, created by the mind-soul emptying the mind and body of all desires and drives.

Seeking liberation from the desires of life is seeking death. The “nonduality” of Mahayana Buddhism, where both life and emptiness are supposedly united is not a union, it is acknowledgment of life against death, it is an affirmation of “samsara” alone which includes both suffering and joy. Formless, nonexistence, exists in the mind-soul of humans providing that they first rid themselves of all desires of a formful existence. This is not Godhood.

Godhood is not timeless and unchanging, Godhood is transmuting and transforming and activated by the Spirit Within. Godhood is not the Nirguna-Brahman of the Hindu Vedanta, which defines an unmanifest, formless emptiness. Godhood is a Supremely Evolved Living Object at the Zenith of Evolution in the Kosmos. The “enlightened” human being, according to the Traditional definition, is not fully conscious and is certainly not experiencing Godhood. To be Fully Conscious with Absolute Consciousness we must evolve far beyond man to superman and then to Godhood.

The Spirit or Will To Godhood is the Ground of Being and the Ground of Evolution, but it is not the Zenith of Being or the Zenith of Evolution, which is Godhood, the Goal of the Spirit. Godhood did not leap from the formless to form when creating the Kosmos, Godhood was Superform transmuting form, and Supermaterial transmuting the material.

The Spirit or Will To Godhood is not the sex-drive, but the Spirit activates the sex drive as the method or vehicle of survival and reproduction, for the Spirit itself to evolve within the material and supermaterial vehicle to Godhood.

“Who we really are” is not limited to the Spirit, the Spirit exists within the Body, the “thing-within-itself” which is evolving to Being-In-Itself, our Supreme Goal.

We have finally evolved to become aware of ourselves, which was an important development on the path to evolving to Godhood. But we won't become Totally Aware of ourselves with Absolute Consciousness of ourselves or with Absolute Knowledge of the Kosmos until we evolve to Godhood.

Elemental particles do not spontaneously burst forth into existence, they are activated by the Spirit Within or the Will To Godhood. This goes back to the beginning of the Kosmos, and to the Kosmos before that. The Spirit is born or transmuted from Godhood in each new Kosmos.

The Kosmos is not a static place, it is active, emerging, activated by the Spirit and not ruled by an unmoving, nonmaterial nothingness. Various structures in the Kosmos interact, integrate, collaborate, and some of these advance, but some fall back in entropy.

Movement and evolution are constant, the Kosmos never rests on it achievements, even when Godhood is attained in evolution, Godhood then transmutes and transforms into the next Kosmos.

There is self-copying in evolution, and then self-copying mutations take place. Some mutations are evolutionary, some are devolutionary. These changes in turn change groups, as entire groups advance and retreat.

We are all in this evolving movement of transmutations and transformations together, all activated by the Will To Godhood. This is why it is important to find a way, a social system that allows variety in evolution, such as the lightly federated small states, or ethnostates, we often speak of.

There is a problem with trying to hypertrophy love of ones own to “worldcentric” or kosmoscentric” stages. Love becomes lost in the process. When examining human nature as seen by sociobiology we see that we are essentially designed to advance our own, and so we look for a way to have “cooperative competition” in evolution, so that we can retain variety and divergence while still having convergence and order.

Higher levels of evolution do not destroy the dynamic of natural selection and mutation. There is evolution and devolution, there is separation and variety. We need to affirm divergence as the highest creativity and see convergence as less creative but still important in maintaining necessary order, which later allows more divergence. In the Twofold Path of the Evolutionary Christian Church, the Inward Path of Tradition is convergent and the Outward Path of evolution is divergent.

On the cohesive Chinese

..."most people do not really see themselves as members of a large multinational unit, global citizens, or "mass consumers." Instead the drivers of history remain the essentials: the desire to feed one's family, support the health of the tribe, and shape the immediate community. The particularistic continues to trump the universalistic..." from article in Foreign Policy,  "Rise of the Hans."

Being and Supermaterial Spirit

Being is represented by the Inward Dynamis of the Spirit-Will in man, existing in the “in-itself” of the body as the “thing-in-itself.”

This is “a prior,” and is not always conscious in man, but Spirit-Will could also be “a posteriori” if science rises to define it. 

Nevertheless, Spirit-Will is the primary activator of life from the inside, which is then shaped by evolution from outside. But Spirit-Will is supermaterial, therefore Spirit-Will (thing) and body (in-itself) are not dualistic.

The Soul, Mind and Ego (self-consciousness) grow or evolve out of the activation of the Spirit-Will, and they can be blind to the Spirit-Will because the mind is busy with daily living. This can be seen as Mind (mind-Soul) over Being (Spirit-Will).

Traditional mystics have reached the Soul by blocking the ego of the mind, etc., and here mystics experience the bliss of desirelessness. But this Soul-bliss seems blind to the Being or Spirit-Will which activates even the Soul.

However, the being (small b) of the Spirit-Will seeks the Being of Godhood, and it is for this purpose that the Spirit-Will activates life to evolve to Godhood. This means that Higher Being resides in Godhood and Lower being resides in the Spirit-Will.

The Inward Path to the Soul is the path of Traditionalism.  The Outward Path of the Spirit-Will seeking Godhood is added to inward Traditionalism in the Twofold Path.

The Object As Real and Ideal

“Truth-in-itself” is said to be atemporal and distinct from the facts of existence, as in pure or formal logic.

But the object-in-itself needs to be upgraded and truth-in-itself needs to be downgraded. Truth-in-itself is not Godhood and to say or think that it is, is making an idol out of denotation and defintion. Truth “only” defines the object that is real.

Godhood is not defined as beyond fact, experience, or material (ie. supermaterial) reality. But for now, intellectual intuition and probability lead to an idealistic realism which has to define Godhood until we evolve higher consciousness and intelligence to understand or see or reach the real Supreme Object Godhood.

Real “meaning” needs to be seen as not ideal logic but as real existing objects. Seeking the truth-in-itself free of any object can become an obsessive game and an escape from the world, as it has been for many mystics, philosophers and even scientists.

Arguments for direction in evolution

I find the arguments that evolution is “non-purposive” as closed as the arguments for direction, information is lacking in both arguments.

I often use intellectual intuition, analogy, and patterns in evolution, eg. from the simple to the complex, from unconscious to consciousness, etc. Also, when one theory harmonizes with another seemingly unrelated theory this is helpful. These arguments tend to accumulate and that accumulation is good in forming the larger picture.

I see no reason to deny that one may be transferring a seemingly ideal drive to a natural drive when one speaks of the Spirit Within as the Will To Godhood which activates life and has a Godhood goal for evolution. This is an ideal defined as material or supermaterial, that is different from standard idealism which usually rejects the material in using pure logic or spiritual conceptions.

“Verification” by science will be nice, but science too may have too expand its methods.

Meaning And The Twofold Path

The “there” of meaning is in two essential places: in the Spirit Within man (Will To Godhood) and in the Supreme Spirit of Godhood at the Zenith of Evolution.

This means that some (Heidegger) of the existentialists were right to place 'being” in man, as man is, in “Dasein,” although I understand that some have tried to place meaning in God or the Spirit.

Meaning remains dependent on man in this sense, on man's mind, but the mind is only the interpreter of the Soul at the Zenith of the Mind, and the Soul interprets the Spirit-Will at the Zenith of the Soul--- this means that “meaning” remains at/in the Spirit-Will in Man.

Traditionalism seems to stop at knowledge of the Soul-Within, which is traditionally arrived at through the Inward Path, by blocking all desires of the material world in a Great Spiritual Blockade. Ethics and morals in Traditionalsim derive basically from the needs of the Path to the Soul.

But this is only one of the Two Paths in the Theoevolutionary Church (TC). The Outward Path centers on the Spirit within the Soul, which activates life to evolve to Godhood, by unblocking the Great Spiritual Blockade toward sacred evolution, rather than profane devolution or toward no evolution at all. Both Paths are affirmed in the TC. The Inward Path to the Soul leads to the Outward Path to the Spirit.

“You are the Self. You are already and eternally That. There is never a moment when the Self is not; it is ever-present, here and now. If Realization were something to be gained hereafter, there would be an equal chance of its being lost; this cannot be Liberation, which is eternal,” Sri Ramana Maharshi.  Sri Ramana Maharsha is speaking here only of the Soul and not the Spirit-Will. Traditionalism requires the Great Spiritual Blockade of the Body and the Spirit (Will To Godhood) to gain the Soul or Self Within. This is only the Inward Path in the Twofold Path Of the Theoevolutionary Church.

The Outward Path, which is seen at the Zenith of the Soul, is the path of evolution to Godhood in the material and supermaterial world. Sacred not profane evolution is desired, rather than no evolution at all, or rather than dwelling in the bliss of the materially-empty Soul.

The Inward Path leads to meaning within man, the Outward Path leads to meaning within Godhood, a Godhood which must be evolved to from the material to the supermaterial. Only when Godhood is attained will Full Meaning or Absolute Truth be known.

The path of Traditionalism is the Inward Path to the Soul, in Christianity and the Eastern religions. The Outward Path is the Path of Evolution to Godhood. The Twofold Path in the TC is defined as Ordered Evolution.

The Sacred Ground Of Instincts

Unlike the ever courageous Raymond Cattell, I see the “ergic endowment,” the basic instincts, grounded in the Will To Godhood, or the Spirit-Within. Cattell suggests sublimating sex and aggressive ergic drives into evolutionary paths, and that I can agree with, but one doesn't want to sublimate the sacred ergic drive of the Spirit, which activates life to evolve to Godhood.

Religion is not merely frustrated ergs, religion should be centered in the prime instinct, the sacred instinct of the Spirit or the Will To Godhood. That is, we need to center on the instinct of the Spirit rather than frustrate this instinct.

Cattell quotes Tennyson saying, “Move upward, working out the beast, and let the ape and tiger die.”

But we must civilize the beast of the instincts rather than let them die, because the beast is grounded in the sacred Spirit, the Will To Godhood Within, even if the beast does not have the mind to see. Human religion need not let the ground of religion, the Spirit, die---the Will to Godhood is our only means to attain Godhood.

Life is more important than the definition of life

Life is more important than the definition of life. Even so, “pure logic” doesn't have to define life to be mathematically true. Pure logic is a game within the mind of real life. Pure logic has been overrated and has led to theological and philosophical confusion.

As if defining pure logic rather than Godhood, religion has often even blocked the real material world in defining God. It is time to get back to the natural object. Our evolutionary theology says real life must evolve to Godhood, and not merely mathematics.

“Truth-in-itself” "free" of the natural world is not Godhood. Godhood is a Supreme Natural Object evolved to in the cosmos, and not merely the Mind alone (Thing) without the Body (In-Itself).

" Religion, fertility and genes"

Here is an examination of the question: will the religious inherit the earth?,  from a skeptical Dienekes Anthropology Blog.

The Twofold Path And Beyondism

The Involutionary Inward Path affirms the “order” in Ordered Evolution, which helps evolution by affirming the tradition of the God Within. Nine-tenths of new mutations are unfit and so mutations are slow and benefit from the ordered society of tradition.

The Evolutionary Outward Path affirms “evolution” in Ordered Evolution, which is needed to attain Godhood, this requires progress and advancement in genetics and culture on the path to to Godhood.

I support, for example, the independent states affirmed in the original Constitution of the United States, but I also support a world federation of ethnostates, bonded in what Raymond Cattell hopefully called “cooperative competition” to evolve. War is negative selection, the fit are lost, war is dysgenic.

Cattell's impressive “Beyondism” seems to suggest that progress is blind and he thought we can therefore only speak of “going beyond” what we are. I believe that life and evolution have the religious goal of attaining Godhood, activated by the Spirit Within, and life and evolution are also shaped by evolution from without.

This briefly describes the Twofold Path in relation to Beyondism.

Agreeing and disagreeing with Heidegger

I partially like Heidegger's placing of Being in “Dasein” (see “Heidegger and Aquinas” by John Caputo), which to me means Being is placed in the existence of man, the place of meaning is man, meaning originates in the existence of man. Metaphysics had gotten away from the real world and was dwelling in pure faith or even pure logic with no relation to natural law. But even so Heidegger was too restricting.

I allow the ideal to go beyond man's mind alone and beyond man's existence. The ideal meaning can appear within the Spirit-Will which exists within man and within life. But this is a Spirit defined as remaining in the material-supermaterial world as part of the natural world. I think when early phenomenology tried to avoid metaphysical constructions it cut its head off, which is what science did.

If man can see the Spirit Within, man can see that man has his being, and higher evolved beings have their being, and our minds can only define being in relation to our level of evolutionary development.

This also means that man is not as “free” as Heidegger suggested. We are not “hurled” into the world with no idealistic-natural goal. The goal of the Spirit-Will is to activate our being at any given stage of evolution to evolve to the Zenith of Beings, which is Godhood. We are determined from within by the Spirit but shaped from without by “freer” evolution.

Openly Anthropomorphic

I openly anthropomorphize Godhood giving Godhood physical (although superphysical or supermaterial) qualities, including a Body, Mind, Soul and Spirit, as man has, except that Godhood is evolved to the Zenith of these things.

Evolution is also teleologically physically evolving from the simple and unconscious to the complex and conscious, as it has done on earth, and then evolving on to superconsciousness or more fully conscious Godhood, with backward sliding and entropy included along the way.

If there is a "ghost in the machine" it is the Spirit, or Spirit-Will To Godhood (a supermaterial ghost), which activates life from within as evolution shapes life from without.

I see it as wrong not to anthropomorphize Godhood, and incorrect to define Godhood as an infinite number, or a grand machine, or a nonphysical form, rather than as a Supreme Living and Evolved Object.

A New Kind Of Old Conservatism

I believe in representative government, not pure democracy. I value meritocracy, but I understand that there are natural aristocrats who can come from any class. Leadership and hierarchies are natural throughout the animal and human world, they help create order.

I respect tradition. Conservatives tend to be realistic and view human nature the way sociobiology views human nature.  Sociobiology has described how culture is on a “leash” of biology, and when culture roams too far from biological human nature it is pulled back to human nature. For example, attempts at universal equality have little relation to human nature---human nature is kin-centered, monogamous, hierarchical, xenophobic, and even ethnocentric.  We need to find a way for real human nature to live in the crowded modern world, which is why I advocate small states, ethnostates, with a light federalism protecting there independence and self reliance.

My view of evolutionary conservatism can help create order and stability, which allows evolution to take place in stable environments. I call this Ordered Evolution, which is something like conservative Russell Kirk's Ordered Freedom but with more emphasis on evolution. Evolution is a religious imperative in the Theoevolutionary Church.

Ethnostates can take what has been destructive, the differences in people, and apply this in socially constructive ways. We are not only trying to save one people, one race, we are trying to save the variety of all people, all races, by living in small, self-sufficient states.

Nations rose as homogeneous nations and they fell or drastically changed when they were no longer homogeneous. People create cultures more than cultures create people. This natural fact is a powerful incentive for allowing ethnostates, where all people, all races, have their chance at independent genetic and cultural advancement. Raymond Cattell in his Beyondist religion saw many of these things and used science to study them.

There are enemies of this worldview, which is why small states need to be protected with a light federalism. There are those who wish to abolish all borders, along with all ethnic and national identities, who claim that separate nations trigger wars, and therefore we need a World Government. Communist Marxism thinks this way, but so does Milton Friedman in his world of global Capitalism. Therefore, both left and right-wing can seek a pluralistic and multicultural new world order. These are the people who encourage open immigration, which seems designed to weaken national or ethnic identities. This is also the constant song of the media across the world.

But those who want a one world order also seek to rule it imperialistically, supremely, even if from behind the scenes. All people, all races must be afforded the right to live and evolve, with variety, and have their chance at independent genetic and cultural living, in separates states. Racial or politically supremacy and imperialism, promoting only one people in the world, runs counter to this natural, sociobiologically valid, way of living. The chief task of light federalism is to protect the independence of these small states.

Most importantly, this is a religious imperative. All people, not just a few, are activated by the Spirit to evolve and prosper, and this is the best and most practical way for all people to live and evolve. I affirm the Twofold Path in the Theoevolutionary Church, retaining the Church's traditions in the Involutionary Inward Path, and expanding the Church with the Evolutionary Outward Path.

All the Revealed Religions, Catholic, Protestant as well as the Eastern Religions were uniform in following the Involutionary Inward Path to the God Within. To this is added the Evolutionary Outward Path, where life evolves from the material to the supermaterial, and finally to Godhood. 

Religion needs to rise again. The Theoevolutionary Church is a revitalized religion living in harmony with human nature and the Kosmos. We no longer need to split the Body from the Mind or Spirit, they are together in life, activating life to evolve to Godhood. We evolve to the Godhood first glimpsed in the Inward Traditions of Traditional religion. 

With small states or ethnostates---and I don't see this going against the original Constitution of the United States---we can understand that all people benefit from loving and advancing their own people.  Some Europeans in the New Right have also seen the wisdom of thousands of ethnostates.

This is a conservatism based on sociobiology and traditional religion, allied to evolutionary religion. This is Revitalized Conservatism, which I believe is our only hope.

Reality

John Caputo reminds us that the word reality has its origin in the Latin word “res,” for “thing.” Many theologians and philosophers seem to see reality as mathematics, equations, unchanging nonmaterial forms.

Godhood is a Real Thing, a Supreme Form, a Supreme Object, or Objects even though there may exist in God's mind a Supreme mathematical equation defining Himself/Herself. The equation is not a living object outside of God's mind.

Realism says that the mind can determine reality, but the mind can determine only part of reality until we evolve all the way to Godhood. The subjective element is the level of evolution of the object trying to define reality.

There is no logical sphere outside of the material or supermaterial world, logic exits in the mind-spirit, or the “thing,” of the object, or the “in-itself,” who is doing the thinking. As Husserl said, real fire burns, but the meaning of “fire” is harmless.

American Decline Is Real

"...Remember, the money printing stimulus packages have allowed the US multinationals to receive record profits. So money was created out of thin air to fund their R&D, to pay for the outsourcing of US jobs and to bail them out when things went south. Contrary to what is told, the stimulus packages did create a lot of jobs but just not in the US..."   essay here from "Economy In Crisis"

Idealism-Spirit and Realism-Body, but both are material

The body has to evolve a mind to see the Spirit-Will or the Activating Dynamis which activates the body. Meanwhile the Spirit-Will will activate life whether life has a mind or not. Mind seems to develop with a bias toward helping the Spirit-Will activate the body to evolve to Godhood. Spirit is never separate from the body it lives within. But Spirit doesn't come “before” the body it lives within the body, although its goal may be the highest goal of the body.

“Being” therefore is described as an object with both mind-Spirit and body, and not only as mind-Spirit. Being is known by the mind within the body and not known outside of the body. But only the Supreme Object, or Objects, which define Godhood can Fully Know Its Own Being. Less evolved bodies can only know partial definitions of Being. Being is known or seen as best it can be known and seen by the Mind within the body-being at any stage of evolution.

This seems to indicate that there is a natural "bias" derived from the Spirit-Within, or the Activating Dynamis, or Will to Godhood. We see things the way they are, as the realists suggest, yet with an unconscious or conscious bias toward how things may help us advance in life and evolution.  So the Spirit-Will presupposes meaning in this sense.  But since this is all natural it is not really a "bias," it looks more biased when we think there is a non-material spirit opposed to materialism, which there is not. This helps describe the term Idealistic Realism, where idealism never exists outside the physical or superphysical object. The idealism refers to the Spirit-Will within the body and the realism refers to the body which the Spirit dwells within.  The "Thing" is the Spirit-Mind and the "In-Itself" is the Body, never separate.

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We are not ontologically or metaphysically neutral

Science and much of philosophy tends to be, or tries to be, ontologically neutral with no idealism. I am not ontologically neutral and I do not avoid metaphysical (supermaterial) constructions, as phenomenology, originally, sought to do in explaining the world.

Evolutionary Christianity espouses Godhood as the Supreme-Thing-In-Itself. I do not abandon the object, I see Godhood as “Spirit-Mind-Thing” living within “In-Itself,” which is the Supermaterial-Body. This suggest the term “I am therefore I think” opposite the Cartesian term.

Full Objectivity would this way only come when Godhood is evolved to in the cosmos, because the “thing” or spirit-mind, always resides in the “in-itself “of the body of whomever is being objective, and Godhood is the Supreme-Thing-In-Itself.

Materialism is not abandoned, materialism evolves to supermaterialism. I believe that one day science will empirically define the supermateriality of the Spirit-Will and Godhood.

This means that Evolutionary Christianity contains presuppositions and dogmatisms suggesting idealistic realism (or theological materialism), if the idealism is seen as supermaterial and not non-material.

We Will Not Bore You

The thing about socialists and liberals is they are boring. Things have happened, things happened way back in the 1970's, when sociobiology came on the scene, which socialists and liberals still aren't hip to. It's just boring. Most conservatives are boring too but at least their core beliefs don't run out of synch with biological human nature.

We can no longer look at life with such saccharine concepts as, “we are all the same,” this simply doesn't apply, it never has. Sociobiology should have entered the humanities in our colleges and universities years ago, but it has not.  It must have threatened the Marxian fiefdoms.

Even deconstruction and postmodernism carry the same boring socialist mentality, paying virtually no attention to more deterministic biology. All is culture with them, all is nurture. Nature is ignored.

You won't be bored here at Civilizing The Beast. We will speak of nature, of biology, and of religion which is not insulted by biology.

The West , the world, can only rise when we ground ourselves in biology, in evolving biology, in biology evolving to superbiology, in superbiology evolving to Godhood. This is not boring.

Is The West Over?

Modern people often don't find a pattern to their lives, but there is one, deep within their biology. People also don't find meaning in life, a meaning for events. Yet it is all there, deeper in our biology, deep within the Soul where the Spirit or Will to Godhood resides and activates life to evolve to Godhood.

At times, when no pattern is seen and when only death is seen, the natural reaction seems to be wild reproduction, sexuality, new life, waywardly, in a Dionysian frenzy, much like the 1960's in the West.

Those who seek to tightly control the whole world tend to be criminals. Let us have our variety or we will endlessly fight wars of supremacy, which destroy the earth.

Nature has other planets in other galaxies where other life seeks to evolve to Godhood. We will evolve to Godhood or we will fall into a hellish entropy.

To save America and the world we must see that there is room on this earth for thousands of small ethnostates. There seems no other way to accommodate true human nature, with the Will to Godhood residing in all nature and all men. The Constitution of the United States already affirms these small states, and they need to be given more power and implemented.  And the New Right in Europe affirmed thousands of ethnostates.

Toward A Basic Ontology, Epistemology and Theology of Evolutionary Christianity

The Meaning of Being

The meaning of Being is found in the Mind of Being, which is not separate from the Body of Being. There is no bridge between them other than the transmitting apparatus of the Mind-Body.

Mathematical and logical meaning exist in material and supermaterial objects with minds and not outside the minds. Mathematics is in the Mind and the Mind (the Thing) exists within the “Itself” of the Body.

Full Consciousness of Supreme Being (the Supreme Thing-In-Itself) requires the Supreme Mind that exists within the Supreme Body of the Supreme Being. This Full Consciousness or Absolute Consciousness needs to be evolved to in the cosmos.

We humans can only know as much of Full Consciousness as we have been evolved to be able to know. Different evolutionary levels explain different levels or categories of Reality seen or known by different beings. Yet all are attempting to see or know the same Reality, which can be only Fully Known when we evolve to Godhood,.

This is why the real and the ideal are not opposites. As the mind and transmitting apparatus evolves to higher forms it can define more of Reality. The intellect gives meaning to the body.

The Thing and the In-Itself

The Absolute Thing-In-Itself is Godhood, where the Godhood is the Absolute “Thing” and the Body of Godhood is the Absolute “In-Itself.”

The Soul is the Zenith of the Mind, and can see deeper into the Will-Spirit, which is the Zenith of the Soul. This is how we apprehend the “In-Itself.”

This can be called Idealistic Realism. Until Godhood is attained the Soul or Mind sees only part of the body “in itself.” The Soul intuits the Godhood goal of the activating Will-Spirit, and the Spirit is the “Thing” within the “In-Itself.” This Thing called Spirit is a thing of substance, that is, it is a supermaterial substance, and the Spirit is thus part of the material body, part of the “in-itself” body.

Again, this means that the Thing is the Spirit and the In-Itself” is the Body. We rise in evolution until the thing-in-itself (small letters) evolves to the Thing-In-Itself (big letters) which is Godhood. It is only here with Godhood evolved to that Full Consciousness or Absolute Consciousness of the Thing-In-Itself occurs, and not until then. Here Godhood knows Itself or Itself knows Godhood.

Any difficulty in comparing the “thing-itself” and our thought of the thing is the same difficulty we have comparing the mind and the body. Being is allied with meaning because they are one thing-in-itself.

Categories of Being

Categories of Being are evolutionary stages of Real Objects with Minds and Bodies. Objects without minds are probably objects trapped in the entropy and devolution of the cosmos. There is not a real category of being as mind-only, Being (Body) is always connected to its own Mind.

This is why meaning can never be divorced from existence. There is not an essence outside of existence. They are the same, the Thing (Spirit as essence) and the In-Itself (Being in existence).

Early Heidegger asked (“Heidegger and Aquinas” by Caputo), if the “real” is “Being” then what is “validity?” I answer that validity is the “Thing” and the “Real” is the “Itself.” The thing-in-itself is the mind (thing) contemplating the body (itself). There is only one Reality.

When life finally evolves to Godhood then life becomes the Supreme Thing-In-Itself where the Mind of God knows the Body of God as a Real Object attained at the Zenith of Evolution in the cosmos.

Being takes place in time, not out of time.

Logical Judgment

Logical judgment is affected by the circumstances of the mind making the judgment. The more advanced the mind and consciousness the more can be known of logic and truth.

We lesser-evolved beings can know only partial truths about Being on a scale of evolution.

The center of the realm of logical truth is in the Spirit or Thing, and Spirit is the offspring of Godhood and not Godhood, so Spirit cannot know Absolute Truth until it evolves within the vehicle of material-supermaterial bodies to Godhood. Even so, the Spirit-Will contains more knowledge of God than any other thing in the cosmos other than Godhood Itself. The Spirit seeks Godhood and attains Godhood by activating material bodies to evolve to Godhood.

This is how religion and philosophy tap into the Spirit-Will as best they can to understand what Absolute Truth may be.

The Self or Undifferentiated Being of Mysticism Is Not Godhood

The goal of reaching the Self, Absolute or undifferentiated Being in Traditionalism, is however the goal of reaching the Soul existing deep within the mind. This is not Godhood and this is not the goal of the Evolutionary Outward Path in Evolutionary Christianity. This goal of the Self, which is the goal of the Involutionary Inward Path, can even be a Great Spiritual Blockade against attaining Real Godhood at the Zenith of Evolution, if it is seen as the only path, rather than as one of the Twofold Path.

The Inward Path may be a glorious experience but it is the Path to the Soul and not the Spirit, and it is not Godhood. Godhood must be evolved to in the Kosmos. We “become” Godhood which does not happen in human form, it happens after the highest evolution in the Kosmos has been attained through evolution, which is the mission of the Evolutionary Outward Path. It is the Spirit or Will To Godhood that exists at the Zenith of the Soul, it is not the Soul, which guides and activates us to Godhood in evolution.

Intuition And Intellect Are Not At Odds

It is not “anti-intellectual" to affirm intuition. There seems to be a hierarchy within in which intuition is the deepest part of intelligence, not opposed to the intellect.

Is intellect-intuition rational? When rational is not defined as static, mathematical, nonliving form then intellect-intuition can be rational, because evolution moves, it is not stationary, the reason of evolution is attached to living, evolving objects which can then define logic.

Reason probably takes place in the mind-soul and intuition in the Spirit-Will, but since Spirit is at the Zenith of the mind-soul they are part of a whole.

Instinct-intuition is not “prelogical” it is logic itself prior to the intellect seeing it.

Even Socrates exalted reason yet still paid attention to the “daemon” voice inside which he thought was beyond reason. So did Nietzsche---too much.

A Grand Synthesis

"The invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead." - Romans, 1: 20

Our brain-mind structure originated in survival and reproductive drives, and when man creates or intuits religion and philosophy which become abstract beyond this survival origin it can be unhealthy and unbalanced.

But beneath the brain-mind at the Zenith of the brain-mind is the Soul, and deeper still at the Zenith of the Soul is the Spirit, and this Spirit or Will is the deepest essence or beginning of the origin of our survival and reproductive drives, which activates life to evolve to Godhood.

Evolutionary Christianity (EC) is the only religious and philosophical way I know of combing the survival and reproductive drives defined by science and evolution, with the traditional, religious Soul and Spirit defined as activating life to evolve to Godhood. This answers the separation of mind from body, and the separation of biology from the Spirit.

Some may think that Evolutionary Christianity is an illusory perception, or myth-making to coax the wayward intellect back to natural instincts, and that is okay with me as far as it goes, but EC believes we can evolve to Godhood and are in fact designed to do so.

Unlike Bergson's “elan vital” which does not see the future as predetermined, the Spirit or Will to Godhood does have a determined goal, which is Godhood, although the path of evolution has unforeseeable variety and undetermined paths.

Balancing Intellect-Soul With Instinct-Spirit

Religious formation seems to be the work of intuition, which essentially is instinct, and intuition-instinct seems often to be working against the intellect. Myth and religion are the Spirit-Will (instinct-intuition) calling out to or influencing the Soul (mind), which can be unbalanced or lost to the Spirit-Will instinct. The Soul is the Zenith of the Mind and the Spirit is the Zenith of the Soul.     

A Total Religion is the religion which has balanced intellect and instinct. Religions have moved away from the dynamic, causal, “animistic” instincts and toward the more static intellect, and even beyond the intellect, or so they hope, which has unbalanced religion. The idea is not to return to instincts alone but to put the instincts and intellect in balance.    

The Evolutionary Christian Church (ECC) has defined the Inward Path as the way of the Mind-Soul, and the Outward Path as the way of the Instinct-Spirit, or the Will to Godhood in evolution. Evolution has helped bring religion back to its sources.  The mission of the ECC is to civilize and evolve the beast, not to suppress the beast, the ECC seeks to break the Great Spiritual Blockade which tries to prevent the material world from evolving to the supermaterial world, and Godhood.     

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The Love Of Concepts And The Fear Of Determinism

It seems to be the general view among phenomenologists, psychologists, existentialists and post-moderns that it is the individualized concepts through which we see the world that matter most in reading human behavior. I find this view sophistical and driven by a general fear of determinism, among other things

This general fear of determinism seems to run through the escape from the sociobiological imperatives of human nature. Viewing the world sociobiologically does not mean that we must view the world as an emotionless robot, emotions and personal differences are certainly included. Sociobiology is far from reading only the “appearances” of the world as is claimed.

When sociobiology seeks to bring the humanities into sociobiology this does not create merely a reductionist worldview. It grounds culture in its own real causes and emotions. It is not sociobiology which “depersonalizes” the world, it is existentialism which dehumanizes the world by more or less rejecting or at least underplaying the biological base and activations behind human nature.

Sociobiology does not inevitably lead to Marx, Spengler or Goebbels, this is a scare tactic. Because progress can be affirmed through evolution does not mean that one does not believe in the past or in traditions. Human beings can chew gum and walk at the same time.

Evolutionary religion adds a religious element to sociobiology, bringing in a new intellectual intuition and faith, which is also far from affirming a cold robotic world. It is our belief that humanity and all life is activated by the Spirit Within and shaped by evolution from without. This is not something to fear but something to try to understand, and even celebrate.

"Create Millions of Secure Jobs and Restore U.S. Manufacturing Without Deficit Spending"

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Working hypothesis combining ontology and epistemology

"I am that I am," Exodus 3:14

As John Caputo nicely put it, Kant was interested in what knowledge is, and Aristotle was interested in Being, but I work with the idea that being and knowledge are of the same object, and so the object of knowledge, which is the interest of epistemology, is essentially the same as ontology, what Being is.

The subject is mind, the object is body, and the mind dwells in the object-body, so both are of the object-body.

We can only partially know the object ourselves, but evolution can increase our consciousness of the object, and we can project full consciousness of the Object at the Zenith of Evolution, which is Godhood.

Heidegger asked if the “real” is Being then what “is” validity? I say validity is what the real mind does within the real body, the mind validates the body as best it can, and does this with increasing accuracy as evolution continues. Validity does not exist on its own outside the object body of Being.

There is no real dualism here between Being (the object) and Ideal (the mind of the object).

Even the Spirit, or Will To Godhood, is of our bodies, made of the substance of the body, only it is a supermaterial substance at the Zenith of our Soul, and the Soul is at the Zenith of our Minds.

Defining the term “thing-in-itself,” I present the “thing” as the mind-spirit, and the “itself” is the body. The Supreme Thing-In-Itself is the Mind and Body of God as One.

Idealistic Realism: Seeing Form and Following Intuition

The idea or form of Godhood at the zenith of evolution is an idea, an intellectual intuition, but it is also a Supreme Evolved Object, and so we return to the old problem of unchanging idealistic form versus realistic moving evolution.

Godhood is more than an idea or an unchanging form, Godhood takes place in time with the evolution of moving bodies, otherwise it is only an equation, a form.

For me, real objects exist and we can usually see only part of them consciously, although, tapping into the Spirit Within, we can intellectually intuit what they are and where they are going. We can also intuit evolution evolving total consciousness to fully know reality, when Godhood is attained.

The religious philosopher's job is not to distinguish only the real from the symbolic, as science does, but to distinguish both the real and symbolic. This avoids the extremes of science (only what's real) and religion ( what's unreal.)

Republicanism As Meritocracy

I support meritocracy, change from the top, through the Republicanism of our Constitution, representative government, not through monarchism or fascism.

But Republicanism it is also populist, change from the bottom, since people vote for their representatives. This is better than the tyrannical populism of Marxism.

Republicanism in America is already a tradition which only needs revitalization and not a new revolution.

Will demographic changes alter our Constitution? If so it's over for America. Our way to cope with the demographic changes coming is to uphold virtually independent states, with a very light federalism protecting the variety.

And no culture has arisen or lasted without being grounded in religion, so religion and politics needs to understand and affirm this future, even as it upholds past traditions.

The False Despair Of Postmodernism

The main reason why Postmodernism finds only despair and irony in the world, after having rejected all the religious and philosophical “narratives” that people live by, is because they could not, or would not, face the real narrative of human biological evolution.

It is understandable that the tyranny and great suffering of the Second World War would scare people away from the subject of human sociobiology. The racial nationalism of that era was an imperialistic and supremacist misreading of how to live with the biological drives of all people, all races, all states. Sociobiology instead points toward thousands of small, evolving states protected by a light federalism, with no single noble or chosen race, as the best way to survive in the crowded world of competition.

Postmodernism, and science, have not looked deep enough into biology to see the Spirit or Will To Godhood activating biology from within, and evolution shaping biology from without. Evolutionary Christianity taps into the real world of evolution and finds sacred meaning for all people in evolution toward the Godhood first seen in Traditional religion.

What Marx Missed

Marx essentially limited materialism to human material society. When we spiritualize materialism we arrive at evolutionary supermaterialism and not the non-material spiritualism of Hegel. The Spirit is supermaterial.

Marx missed this deeper form of materialism-spiritualism, which would have synthesized “materialism” with “spiritualism,” science with religion.

We evolve materially to supermateriality and finally to Godhood. This is affirmed in the Twofold Path of Evolutionary Christianity (EC).

If Marx had made this connection to Traditional religion, Marxian theory might not have led to tyranny and collapse, as it did.

History can move with Ordered Evolution, not with radical revolution. The Revitalized Conservatism of EC affirms this Ordered Evolution.

Human genetic variation

From top to bottom: East Eurasians, West Eurasians, Australo-Melanesians, and Sub-Saharan Africans.

A fascinating article at Dieneke's anthropology blog on human genetic variation.

Artificial Life And Real Life

We can assume Relativity is true if we assume we can travel near the speed of light, which may or may not be possible. These are mathematical assumptions, equations, denotations. My problem is not with the math, my problem is making a God out of artificial definitions over the real living object.

Is this anti-intellectual? No, it is anti making a God of artificial numbers. Since I have not seen the Godhood I affirm why is not my definition as imaginary as the thought experiments proving Relativity? The difference may seem small but it is vital. I insist on the real living, material-supermaterial object Godhood and not the artificial mathematics or metaphysics of God, I even admit the term “idealistic realism” or theological materialism, to indicate the involvement of faith in the unknown..

This is not a rejection of mathematics or of artificial life, it is a rejection of the worship of artificial life over real life. These values have consequences regarding technology and machines used to advance ourselves, and the idea of “singularity, when men and machines are equal in intelligence. We do not want to become machines. The living object, the body is sacred, it is the material vehicle by which we evolve to Godhood.

Theological Materialism: History Beyond Hegel And Marx

Marx thought he had set Hegel on his feet in saying that human history and society is driven by material and not spiritual forces.

Digging deeper than the material feet of Marx into the biological body, here I find the Spirit of Hegel as the activating force of material evolution, but I don't see it as "spiritual."

History and evolution are moving toward Godhood, beyond the ideal state defined by Marx, and not toward the non-material Spirit of Hegel, but toward supermaterial Godhood at the Zenith of Evolution.

In the Twofold Path, the Spirit Within of religion reflects and adds the Godhood Without of evolution. This rescues Tradition from radicalism as the inward path is transformed but retained, adding the Spirit of religion to materialism and evolution.

No Duality Between Catholic Intellect and Protestant Will

I resolve the differences between the Catholic way of the intellect and the Protestant way of the will by declaring that the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood is higher than both.  In this sense instinct is will, intellect, and intuition. I see the Spirit-Will like a Super-Id directing evolution from the inside while being shaped by evolution from the outside.

The question: how can intellectual intuition define itself, the Soul, and the Spirit-Will in a scientific or materialist way? I think science will one day find the supermaterial substance of these things.

No duality here.

Reason, instinct and intuition

As Bergson more or less said, all is instinct. When we think we have multiple choice we think we have freedom, and when we have only one choice we think we are not free. But neither one is complete freedom. Bergson also brilliantly described instinct as intuition.

Can reason discover instinct-intuition? I describe the Spirit-Will as at the base of instinct, which is may also be the highest human reason, so in this sense there is no duality between reason, instinct and intuition.

Intellectual intuition exists at the highest level of the brain-mind, or the Will-Spirit, that is, the  Will-Spirit is at the zenith of the brain and cerebral process, where intellectual intuition dwells.The "Soul" is the seeing or experiencing of what is seen inwardly.

But if we take intellectual intuition deeper than the Soul, at the Zenith of the Soul is the Will-Spirit, or the Will To Godhood.

It is the Spirit or Will to Godhood which activates us to evolve toward the complete freedom and highest consciousness of Godhood.

The Lower and Higher Holy Grail

It does seem that the “Holy Grail” might be defined as the goal of searching for your higher consciousness, or seeking the the God Within. But this can be and has been a Great Spiritual Blockade when it is considered the end-goal of all religion.

The Lower Holy Grail is the God Within of the Involutionary Inward Path, but it is the Evolutionary Outward Path which seeks to evolve in the material world to the Higher Holy Grail of Actual Godhood in the supermaterial world. The Lower Grail is the Soul-Within, but it is the the Spirit-Will which activates evolution to the Higher Grail of Godhood.

Both Grails are retained in the Twofold Path of Evolutionary Christianity.

The Most Virtuous Acts

The most virtuous act is to recognize the Spirit-Within all created things as the Will To Godhood activating natural and supermaterial evolution to Godhood. The second most virtuous act is to recognize the Soul- Within as an inward mirror of Godhood. The first is the revelation of the Evolutionary Christian Church, the second  is the revelation of  Traditional Religion. Both Paths are affirmed in the Twofold Path of Evolutionary Christianity.

Idealistic Realism

The common sense approach I will take to the debate on Realism in philosophy is that what we see with our senses is real but incomplete. Science can sometimes help us see more of reality with it's increasingly sophisticated technology.

I enter into Idealism by applying intellectual intuition in seeing evolution gradually advancing our abilities to see what is real, and then I project this same evolution, which moves from the simple to the complex, and from unconscious to conscious, into higher and higher beings who can perceive more and more of reality. Finally, perhaps all or most of Reality can be seen and known when life evolves in the cosmos all the way to Godhood, where at this Zenith of Evolution all of Reality is seen and known, but not until then.

Modern philosophy has been blocked in paying too much attention to the methods and phenomenon of seeing reality, and this has overcomplicated the problem.  This is not unlike the Great Spiritual Blockade of evolving theological materialism.

The Evolutionary Christian Church combines the Realism of Catholicism with an idealistic and scientific evolutionary perspective.

Transformations and intuition

Definitions of God tend to be fixed concepts taken from moving, evolving reality, and this is a problem. Religions have tended to make God a fixed concept rather than a live Godhood.

Even Godhood transforms, transforming Godhood to higher and higher Godhoods, with some gods sinking back in the next cosmos.

As Bergson said, it is intuition that can better see moving things than rational immobile analysis.

All Is Causal

Science has said an event causes another event because there is a law connecting them. Theological Materialism says the primordial law causing other laws is the activating Will To Godhood, or the Holy Spirit-Will within all life, which works within the laws of natural evolution. The Will to Godhood activates life from within, evolution shapes life from without. This does not mean that the Spirit-Will is "Being," as Nietzsche seems to have thought with his Will To Power, because the desire of the Spirit-Will requires the material vehicle to evolve to Godhood.

Neither theology nor philosophy lifts human action out of the causal, as it has often claimed, even if science has not yet defined Godhood and the Spirit-Will. All is causal and it has been a great illusion to think that Godhood exists outside of the world. Godhood is not “less” because It shares causes and substances with us. Godhood is the Zenith of Evolution and the final destination of the activating Spirit-Will within life. Nothing is outside of nature, but Godhood is the Zenith of Nature.

Nothing stands outside it's causes

The following, for me, answers Heidegger's concerns (see Caputo's “Heidegger and Aquinas,” 1982) with who is defining or who is “sending” the Being, in relation to the thing sent, or what was defined.

Nothing stands outside it's causes, not even Godhood, which contains the Spirit that activates life to evolve to Godhood, including the life that became Godhood through evolution.

This is why essence, often defined as idea, does not stand outside of existence, or outside the thing or idea converted into reality. Essence for me is defined as the material Inward Dynamics or Spirit-Will, and existence is the material and supermaterial Body activated by that Inward Dynamics or Spirit-Will, with no real separation between them. Even Spirit is a supermaterial substance not yet identified by science.

Contrary to what Heidegger said, possibility is not more important than actuality, possibility is encased in actuality, in the way I have just mentioned, that is, the possibilities of the activating Spirit-Will within lies within actual life.

On Courage

It has always seemed to me that courage is the key to great philosophy perhaps more than anything else.  Seeing the truth has been difficult through the ages because truth requires courage to see in the history of ideas, and also amid the knowledge of ones time, which can often be not truthful.  With courage comes clearness, less complication, whereas lack of courage brings obfuscation.

Unfortunately it is often timid men who become intellectuals and their writings often reflect their timidity. There are exceptions but not many. This seems to be why folk culture often seems more truthful, courageous men don't seem to become intellectuals. This also explains why high culture needs to be the superstructure built over the structure of folk culture.

Aung Kyi said it's not power that corrupts but fear. One can be born with natural courage or one can cultivate courage by refusing to let fear dictate ones actions. The philosophers and writers I like all seem to be, at least, courageous.

Freedom and Determinism

It is not a matter of losing freedom when subject “surrenders” to object (Roger Scruton), because there never was such freedom in the first place to surrender. We are surrendering only the illusion of freedom.

I see the problem of “freedom” as compared to the brain-mind relationship to the body, with the brain being the subject and the body the object.

The brain (subject) is not free of the body (object), it is that simple, and this to me means the object controls the subject, even though the subject (brain) also controls the object (body), as the brain is the control center of the body.

The desperate attempt in philosophy to demand “freedom” probably stems from the fear of lack of control over ones life and existence. But the subject is encased in the object, and we have little freedom.

This dilemma was taken all the way to definitions of God, where it was hoped that at least God could be free. But I believe that even Godhood, in our likeness, has a Supreme Mind and Supreme Body, as subject and object, and God's Mind is not “free” from God's Body.

I think that we must accept that we are naturally and supernaturally evolving to Godhood as a determined goal in the cosmos, although we have some freedom in the paths taken to this determined goal. It is healthiest for us in general when we get in harmony with and accept this kind of determinism.

Concealing Being

According to John Caputo (“Heidegger and Aquinas,” 1982) Heidegger said that the difference between Being and being has been concealed by philosophy. It seems to me that this was not concealment because I see little difference between Being and being. However, later Heidegger became more interested in who was defining Being (the sender) than in Being.

I think that in standard ontology, Being (big B) is the definition or denotation only of being (small b) as when the brain defines the body. Even in Godhood Being is the mind of God (being). Being depends on being and being depends on Being.

This suggest to me that the being of ontology deserves the large B of Being because the overall total being is superior in its totality to the Mind or Being. Being is never separate from being. Being never “emerges” away from being on its own. Being or Godhood simply exists as a supermaterial object who knows itself fully as it exists.

This relates to what I see as the false separation between “essence” and “existence.” The essence, or idea, is never separate from the existence of the object in the same way that Being is not separate from being.

Aquinas, the central philosopher of Catholicism, sees Being as act, to be is to act, and this I can agree with. But Being also exists as a living being that has evolved to Godhood, which is the potential of all other objects in the Kosmos. Being then transforms, as other lesser objects transform, into the next Kosmos.

There is no It, or Being, left behind when being emerges from being, or Godhood. Only the Holy Spirit remains as the offspring of Godhood activating the next Kosmos.

It should be understood (it may be obvious) that my thinking on Being and being, like Aquinas, is ultimately mystical, “ratio” knows its place. I conceptualize a mystical view of Godhood (intellectual intuition) and consider conceptualization a lesser instrument than knowing or being the total Object Itself.

This leads to the ground of the Evolutionary Christian Church, which I call Theological Materialism.

Ending the war between the physical and the moral

The war between the physical and moral needs to end. This war seems to have been initiated by religions and philosophies which confounded God with form only, with the moral only, and not as a physical-superphysical Object. This war can cease when we realize that the physical seeks to evolve to the superphysical Godhood. The moral can then join and harmonize with the physical, and the physical with the moral.

Even so, the Traditional God of form and morality can be retained in seeking the Spirit-Will-Within through the Involutionary Inward Path. But this Spirit Within must not be confounded with God. Physical and supermaterial Godhood needs to be added so that we may evolve to true and real Godhood by way of the Evolutionary Outward Path.