It cannot be all over for the West

The West is committing suicide. Is It all over?

Virtually all the vested interests are against the things that hold a nation together: Big Business/Big Money, the political class, the national Media, the academic world, and even the general public, all support the devices with which the West is committing suicide. They support lowering all barriers to national borders and immigrants, all barriers to national government and national identities, all of them support hyper-individualism, that is, the rights of individuals over community, language, ethnic differences, and common culture.

And so the West is committing suicide. Can anything be done?

We can't just die and do nothing. We can continue to speak the truth about real human nature, in which group-selection, which leads to group-altruism, and even to ethnocentrism, remains the primary unit of human selection, even if this has been buried by the suicidal devices mentioned above. We can group ourselves in the communities of people we want to live with, with common ties. Multicultural societies drowning in hyper-individualism do not create any real uniformity of purpose in the members of a large group---they don't share many traits, culturally or genetically, and they don't coordinate much at all.

But peaceful means, which sane people advocate, may not stop future clashes and even civil wars, as real human nature reasserts itself. Perhaps then, after the clashes, a natural ethnopluralism will form out of the dying suicidal empires. We need to try to bring this about through legal, evolutionary, peaceful means. For example, the U.S. Constitution, with its separation of powers and states, could accommodate an ethnopluralism of regions and states, protected by a light federalism.

Evolution and devolution naturally take place, but sacred life is on the side of evolution, as life evolves toward Godhood. Evolution is not so much a preservation of life as it is an increase and accumulation of intelligence, beauty, complexity, and power, leading toward the zenith of material/supermaterial evolution, which defines Godhood.

Why the radical Nietzschean and neopagan paths are not necessary

Christian tradition does not condemn the desire to affirm ones country and ones ethnic culture. Even St. Thomas Aquinas said we are to honor our kin and country, only in second place to God.

It is understandable that the neopagans and Nietzschean racialists see modern Christians as culturally Marxist modern liberals who have, along with postmodernism (and even neoconservatives), welcomed the destruction of national borders and ethnic identities.

The religious problem comes when only the Inward Path experience of the God or Father Within is affirmed, because the Inward Path requires rejecting and virtually abandoning the natural laws of material desire, which Jesus centrally advocated (and Buddha too). Universalism and equality are easier to swallow when you care little or nothing for the material desires of natural law and human nature, which is the necessary ascetic path to symbolically experience the Inward God.

The religious and political solution here comes when the Father Within of the Inward Path is seen as only the first glimpse, the symbolic experience of real Godhood which is reached in the Outward Path of material and supermaterial evolution. Material desires refined by conscious evolution are in fact necessary to reach Godhood in the Outward Path. But both Paths are retained in the Twofold Path of theological materialism. Conservatism can remain a viable philosophy.

This is why we do not require the radical Nietzschean or the neopagan path to restore natural law and real human nature. Real human nature remains as it has always been, ethnocentric and group-selecting, among other traditional things, and this naturally, and rationally, leads to a political ethnopluralism, which can counter the modern liberal version of Christianity and cultural Marxism, which have nearly destroyed the West.

One thing that can be done: the U. S. Constitution with its separation of powers and states and protecting federalism could accommodate ethnopluralism. Then with ethnopluralism affirmed culturally and territorially we can get on with the most sacred mission of conscious evolution toward real material/supermaterial Godhood for all ethnic cultures and groups, which is a legitimate universalism.

This is how we conserve our nations and identities, and restore and evolve Christianity, natural law, human nature and science, without radical Nietzschean goalless power drives, or neopagan reversals.

The attempt to detach biology from culture

The political correctness of cultural Marxism now prevalent in the West attempts to detach biology from culture.

This can't be done, it's a lie, a non-reality, and it leads to nihilism and anarchy. So much for postmodernism.

When you try to leave nature and biology out of culture you get such abnormal monstrosities as the attempts at gender sameness, universal equality, multiculturalism, and gay marriage.

For one example: although men and women do share many of the same qualities, women have a more natural capacity for nurturing and compassion, men are more territorial and protective, and these differences balance relationships within society. Without this balancing, national borders can become unprotected, the state can grow in power, children don't know who or what they are, and this all leads to decadence.

Political correctness and cultural Marxism are full of empty words with no substance, but they have been exploited, ironically, for biological purposes, the will to power of those who promote it, unconsciously or consciously.

To save ourselves we need to move past political correctness and cultural Marxism, and we need to consciously re-attach biology to culture.

Making the world a monastery?

"Making the world a monastery" is the foundation of Christianity. (For a different view see Chronicles, January 2015). Living the ascetic life was the main theme and meaning of the Sermon on the Mount and this was the root of the social (really antisocial) values of Jesus Christ. Poverty, celibacy, obedience was (and is) necessary in the Inward Path to experience the symbolic God or Father Within. Not unlike Gautama Buddha, Jesus did not care for material life. Practical life had nothing to do with the ascetic life of Jesus.

It was the later reasoning of Catholic philosophers who adapted the ascetic values of Jesus, probably to accommodate the real necessities of human life and Church growth---Saint Thomas Aquinas was brilliant in doing this. Even though the reasoning of the philosophers kept the monastic system for the true followers of Christ, the Christian philosophers actually rejected more than transformed the ascetic life, in the the spirit of Saint Paul who told the Corinthians that it's better to marry than to burn with lust---a reluctant affirmation at best. This forever altered the traditional inward philosophy of Jesus.

But the way to deal with the delegitimizing of life and living in the ascetic Inward Path is not to reject the Inward Path but transform it in the Outward Path. The Twofold Path described in the theological materialism of the Theoevolutionary Church does not reject Christ's inward teaching. The Father Within is seen as the first symbolic inward glimpse of Godhood which can be reached in the Outward Path of material and supermaterial evolution. We do not turn away from the normal discontents of the real instincts of life, indeed, evolving material life is the only vehicle by which we can evolve toward real supermaterial Godhood.

Real human nature separates and even discriminates

Conservative's (The American Conservative, Chronicles) speak truth to neoconservatives, but ethnopluralist's need to speak truth to conservatives. James O. Tate suggested that it is segregationist to demand that in black neighborhoods the police must be black. But real human nature remains kin-centered, ethnocentric and even xenophobic, and human nature helps define why white police don't get along all that well in black neighborhoods.

The answer to this increasing problem is not more multiculturalism, where no real identity is projected, but ethnopluralism, where real identity is allowed. Regions and states need to move in the direction of affirming ethnic localities, which the separation of powers and states in the U. S. Constitution could accommodate and protect.

The same principal applies to immigration. America is not merely an idea or an ideology, as both political parties now preach, distinct people create distinct cultures, not the other way around. Aaron Wolf said if you recognize that immigrants are different in any way (except “better”) you are called a racist. The reality is, you are not evil because you recognize and admit that people are different, or that the territories which people live in should reflect and even champion those differences. Any long-term peace and harmony possible between people will come from this.

How Nietzsche's foundation was deficient

I think that Nietzsche's will to accumulate force (the will to power), which he placed first in the phenomenon of life, in reality comes third behind survival and reproductive success, and the material activating Spirit-Will-To-Godhood within life comes first. This is where Nietzsche's philosophy is deficient at its activating foundation.

This does not take away form Nietzsche's great courage in philosophy and psychology and the brilliant patterns he saw in life and culture. But Nietzsche and his postmodern disciples were off in their philosophical foundation leading to the amorality and nihilism we see today.

The sacred aim of life is not merely self-preservation or the accumulation of strength but is the material and supermaterial evolution toward Godhood. “Decadence” is the opposite of evolution. Even “happiness” is basically related to always striving to evolve toward Godhood.

Religion, philosophy, science and art continue in this way, with the Inward Path to the symbolic Father Within retained but transformed in the Outward Path of material evolution to real Godhood---Godhood and morality are not dead.

The main source of power of the occult schools

Here is the main and perhaps sole source of power of the occult schools, and the arcane initiation practices such as the Hindu chart of correspondences, the Kabbalah, etc: they obtain power from their symbolic systems because they think and believe they do. Real materialism and supermaterialism, and the religious philosophy of theological materialism replaces magic devices. Godhood is evolved to in the material and supermaterial world---compared to this real and future evolution, symbolic games have limited utility.

Ethnopluralism Not Imperialism

The basic and powerful principle of self-determinism of individuals and groups rooted in biology makes the various forms of imperialism and colonialism always decline and fall. And so empires tend to be tyrannical.

We need to work with, not against, the self-determinism of different ethnic cultures and not try to force them into one motley multicultural cauldron of trouble, as we are now seeing in 2015 America.

The global business elite have been trying to destroy differences across the globe and trying to herd all groups into one lower class, while destroying the middle class, which has usually been the class to conservatively hold on to the best of the past.

Then increased numbers in the lower class tend to become more angry, and the upper class tends to become decadent, often leading to radical revolution, the opposite of the order needed for successful survival and evolution.

I like the term “ordered evolution” better than the term “ordered liberty” preferred by the conservative middle-class. It is not enough to go back, reclaim, conserve, important as that is, we need to also evolve. That requres the deepest conservatism.

We want to improve ethnic groups and ethnic cultures by way of culture and genetics, not destroy them. This is how ethnopluralism rises affirming ethnic territories or ethnostates, and protected by some sort of federalism with shared sovereignty---with respect for ethnic differences. For example, I see no good reason why the separation of powers and states in the original U.S. Constitution could not eventually accommodate ethnic territories.

Given human nature which remains 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 selection, ethnopluralism is our best chance for ordered liberty and ordered evolution.

Colonel John Boyd and the ancient tripartite structure

Another way to look at the value of Colonel John Boyd's ideas on the different levels of war is to see them corresponding to the hypothesis of the ancient, tripartite, Proto-Indo-European (PIE), class structure: Boyd's physical, weakest level (PIE commoners, economic), the mental, middle level (PIE military, strategy, ) and the moral level of war, the most powerful (PIE the sacral, priests). Boyd's ideas on military strategy seem to have hooked into (probably unconsciously) a very old system, one that eventually conquered the ancient world.

God and Real Godhood

God is not an abstract definition of harmony in the cosmos, not the abstract laws of the cosmos, not the highest mathematical equations, and not high abstract unity, as some scientists (Einstein, Newton, Darwin) seemed to have almost reluctantly believed. What is missing is the literally living, highest evolved material or supermaterial being or beings in the cosmos specified as Godhood.

For what it's worth versions of this view are also seen in the philosophy of nominalism or conceptualism. The God of the scientists mentioned above defines “universals” and not real living highest evolved beings. Their God exists only in the material mind and has no material/supermaterial extra-mental existence. This view of real Godhood also tends to degrade traditionalist “mystery schools” of “initiation," freemasonry etc., whose God usually resembles various forms of abstract, non-existent universals.

Then also the God or Father Within of the ascetic Inward Path of most religions is not real Godhood but is a symbolic glimpse of Godhood experienced in the material mind and arrived at only after the ascetic discipline of ridding the the body of material desires. Although the Inward Path is or can be retained in the Twofold Path, it is not real Godhood which is arrived at in the Outward Path of material/supermaterial evolution.

How Wendell Berry Avoids Deep-Conservatism

He may be a Jeffersonian liberal or he may be a Burkean conservative, either way Wendell Berry is a national treasure. That said, I find his view of human nature incomplete.

Localism, which Wendell Berry rightly affirms, rises naturally out of the altruism of group-selection, and group-selection naturally leads to ethnic cultures and to ethnocentrism, and even to xenophobia. Ethnocentrism evolved as a basic part of human nature due to the advantages it brought to survival success and social harmony---call it deep-conservatism.

If localism is to be successful it needs to include an affirmation of ethnic cultures, with ethnic territories, and in a multi-ethnic nation this suggests ethnopluralism. American federalism could then protect the different regions, states, localities, and ethnic cultures, which could be affirmed by the separation of powers and states in the original U.S. Constitution. Whatever human peace is possible needs to include this deep-conservatism.

Although Berry is not the typical Christian, like most Christians he misses the central motive behind the ascetic sermons of Jesus. Jesus rejected all material desires, as Buddha also did, so as to experience the God or Father Within, which could only be fully experienced by ridding the body of material desires. One could love ones enemies and be peaceful and forgiving mainly because one was not concerned primarily with the material desires or outward actions of the flesh. This was not really a social or political philosophy.

Real human nature remains kin-centered, ethnocentric and even xenophobic, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection. Jesus, Buddha, and the Hindus before them would probably agree with this definition of human nature (they might even occasionally call it evil), as their ascetic philosophy ran contrary to it. We can retain the inward ascetic experience of the Father Within as the first symbolic glimpse of real Godhood, which is reached not by blocking human nature but by the guided outward evolution of material and supermaterial life toward real Godhood.

Long-term conscious evolution requires peace and order, and peace and order require local, ethnic cultures and ethnocentrism. Contrary to political correctness (cultural Marxism), we would probably not have the territorial racial battles we see happening today in West Baltimore if a protected ethnopluralism had been affirmed and established.

The problem with modern hipsters

Someone called the modern hipsters the “spent force” of postmodernism, but the hipsters are more like the culmination of postmodernism, Nietzsche's children who were taught by the academic world to see no real foundation for values and morality, other than a pseudo-creative and goalless will-to-power. So we have their identifying pose of irony.

Here is the problem with the hipsters: the things they champion, androgyny--the rejection of male and female ideals--, feminism, multiculturalism, and the general dismissal of cultural norms, does not harmonize or relate to real human nature---and that defines phoniness.

Actual human nature remains as it has always been, kin-centered, gender defined, age-grading, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, among other mostly traditional things, with group-selection (not hyperindivualism) as the primary unit of selection.

A fool is more comical when he does not know he is a fool. If they weren't arrogant you might feel sorry for the modern hipsters who are trying to find identity in a world that has taken away any real identity.

The difference between the Will to Power and the Spirit-Will-to-Godhood

Nietzsche's Will to Power is a primitive motive force with no real end goal other than endlessly and amorally seeking power, whereas the Spirit-Will-to-Godhood is the sacred activation of life toward evolving to the highest evolution of Godhood, which is a material/supermaterial activation. The Spirit-Will is not a primitive “Id” but is a sacred Super-Id, of which all other motives are derived.

The Spirit-Will-to-Godhood is a deeper motive than individual happiness, and even deeper than successful survival and reproduction, which are secondary results or symptoms which heed the needs and goals of the Spirit-Will. Nietzsche had it right when he said “happiness is an accompanying, not an activating factor.”

Science continues to deny a motive or internal activating force, it mainly looks at the results of forces. Living things seek to become greater and more than they are, and more than only self preservation. Adapting to the environment does bring changes to life forms but this is only one more obstacle to overcome in the sacred activation of life toward more beauty, intelligence, and power, on the path toward Godhood.

The “unaquisitive soul” of the Inward Path, seen in all traditional religions, means that the soul does not seek material things, but the reality of the Outward Path is precisely the opposite. The Spirit-Will-To-Godhood seeks Godhood by way of intelligent and guided material and supermaterial evolution. But we can conservatively retain the Inward Path as the first symbolic inward glimpse or Godhood, brought about by blocking the desires of the flesh, but then we can move on to the evolutionary Outward Path toward real Godhood.

The deepest difference between Nietzsche's Will to Power and the Spirit-Will to Godhood is that the Will to Power leads to the death of God and religion, and the Spirit-Will-to-Godhood leads to new life for religion and Godhood.

Response to the White House correspondents' dinner: the dangerous deceit of multiculturalism

While president Obama was amusing everyone with his “anger translator” at the correspondents' dinner, real anger was exploding in a West Baltimore neighborhood, with black mobs breaking windows, rioting, etc. which is lately becoming almost commonplace. Recently Somali immigrants in Minnesota (of all places) are angry and protesting against the police because the police are holding Islamic terrorist recruits from their community.

Most people know but can't say out loud that "multiculturalism" has meant open ethnic pride for minorities but not for whites. Speaking the truth openly today means hurting yourself. For example, the latest figures I know of from the New Century Foundation in 2005 (which may be changed somewhat by now) found that: “Blacks commit more violent crime against whites than against other blacks. Forty-five percent of the victims of violent crime by blacks are white folks, 43 percent are black, 10 percent are Hispanic. Blacks are seven times as likely as people of other races to commit murder, eight times more likely to commit robbery and three times more likely to use a gun in a crime. Blacks are an estimated 39 times more likely to commit violent crime against a white person than vice versa, and 136 times more likely to commit robbery. Black-on-white rape is 115 times more common than the reverse. (If decent black folks have trouble being racially profiled these numbers may help explain it.)”

This is not to say that there is no unfair racial bias, of course there is. But why don't blacks police themselves?

Speaking of deeper but related things, by rejecting real human nature our educational system and the media in general have doomed the nation to constant civil disturbances and even eventual civil war. Why? Human nature remains as it has always been, kin-centered, ethnocentric, and even xenophobic, and no amount of forced “multiculturalism” within the same living space will lead to homogeneity and peace. That is the reality of human nature.

The separation of powers and states in the original U. S. Constitution could accommodate, if we wanted it to, a realistic ethnopluralism with separate regions and states for distinct ethnic cultures within our federation, which might then help bring whatever peace and harmony is possible for human beings. Otherwise civil war will probably create these things---The same ethnic social dynamics applies to Europe and the rest of the world...I could support only a legal movement of ethnopluralism, but I can't predict its chances of taking place very soon.

The main test of value of a political system

The main test of value of a political system is whether the political system helps the majority---and not just a minority---evolve upward toward more intelligence, beauty and good character, on the path toward Godhood.

A republican form of government can do this, but so can other forms of government. It is usually best to prefer the government you have, mainly because slower conservative change usually works better and does less harm than radical change.

We could use more scientists, and not only lawyers, in government. Once the people decide where they want to go, the direction can be enhanced by consulting with experts in the field, which is needed in our increasingly complex world, as Raymond Cattell pointed out. National research centers in sociobiology, economics etc. need to be supported by the public too. And it wouldn't bother me a bit to see more requirements and qualifications to vote, rather than fewer and fewer as we have been seeing.

Ultimately all social questions are ethical ones, and therefore religious. All long-lasting cultures and civilizations were founded in religions. After all, the sacred goal of life is to evolve toward Godhood.

Religious Transformation in the Twofold Path

Ascetic freedom from material and bodily desires which the Hindus, Buddhists, Christians and others feature, is in reality limited to the Inward Path symbolic experience of the God or Father Within, but total religion requires the Outward Path of evolution, which can channel material desires toward evolving to real Godhood, and not destroying that sacred activation.

In general, the Great Spiritual Blockade of the Inward Path of traditional religion says, in reality, as Schopenhauer said, it is better not to be born than to be. Think of that! But even so, the Twofold Path does not reject the traditional Inward Path, which was our early, inward, ascetic glimpse of Godhood, it transforms it into the Outward Path of material/supermaterial evolution to real Godhood.

This is conservative evolution rather than radical revolution. One of the basics of conservatism is that you don't abolish your culture, you change it or reconstitute it on a new basis. This is the opposite of the Marxists who openly admit that they act contrary to all historical experience.

The material world, science, culture, can legitimately re-enter religion again with the Twofold Path. Present man and present religion are only the beginning of the man and woman of the future, as we all reach toward Godhood. This means also that politically we have to find a way to keep life and the world going, which leads to the ethnopluralism written about here.

The political coalition of the future

The left and right can get together against marauding globalism, because the left hates big-corporation global capitalism, and the right hates border-marauding, sovereign-killing, so-called free-market capitalism. But I would like to see it go even deeper than this natural populism. I would like to see ethnopluralism affirmed by both the left and the right: ethnopluralism could gain from the division between the failing parties---although they have become more alike in their political correctness.

Unlike multiculturalism which causes the loss of identity by attempting to affirm everything and everyone equally, ethnopluralism affirms ethnic groups and cultures living mainly in their own regions and states, which could even be accommodated by the separation of powers and states of the original U.S. Constitution. This could appeal to the left in that it supports not one but all ethnic cultures, and to the right because it protects the traditional distinctness of existing groups. Libertarians will like the devolution of Big Government back to the regions and states.

But the great natural advantage of ethnopluralism is that it affirms real human nature, which has remained 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 selection. The refusal to acknowledge territorial ethnic differences always leads to social disruption and even to civil war.

Even democracy or a Republican form of government can fit better with ethnopluralism. Any marauding minority will have more difficulty subjecting society to their conditions because with ethnopluralism it is the group, the majority, which sets the patterns in the states and regions---protected by an overall light federalism.

Nietzsche's wild man as a misreading of nature

“Everything returns to its natural condition, man cannot denature nature.” (Nietzsche)

But man can aid in the evolution of man in nature, which means harmonizing with the deepest sacred nature. Nietzsche claims (the Will To Power) to love nature and the return to nature, but he sees the undomesticated “wild” man as a correction, a cure, a recovery for man, and he does not give much value to the group or to human altruism.

This was a misreading of human nature. In every human culture ever studied, human nature included, among other things, kin-selection preferences, incest taboos, marriage, hierarchy, division of labor, gender differentiation, religion making, localism, ethnocentrism, even xenophobic, and with group-selection as the primary unit of selection, which means altruism as well. If the culture proposes to not include these things, the culture does not last long and it always returns to these things. These values also happen to be at the core of conservatism and tradition, whereas many of these traits are missing in, say, the cultural Marxism of modern liberalism, and missing in Nietzsche-influenced post-modernism, and missing even in the hyper-individualism of modern libertarianism.

The “domestication” most vital is to aid in the inward-activated evolution of man toward Godhood, affirmed by culture, which means far more than the unleashing of the wild man, which fascinated Nietzsche. The evolution of man toward Godhood is the most sacred element in the return to real nature and it requires long-term selection as well as harmony between the individual and the group, which includes the altruism that Nietzsche finds “degenerate.” Our evolution toward Godhood is the real civilizing of the beast, the real return to nature, the real and sacred return to human nature.

Harmonizing with the activation beneath the surface of our lives

Sensations, thoughts, pleasure, pain, even our consciousness are less important than what is happening beneath the surface in our bodies. And the things beneath the surface are largely outside our consciousness. What I call the Super-Id, or the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood, pursues its material/supermaterial goals, activating life inwardly as life adapts to the environment outwardly with evolution. The whole of culture, the whole of our consciousness is probably developed from this activation. We create the culture that we are.

Life ascends in evolution toward Godhood and our consciousness and our cultures are healthiest, and most real, the closer they can harmonize with this activation beneath the surface of our lives. The sexual instinct is one of the highest expressions of this activation toward Godhood, as both Nietzsche and Freud pointed toward.  (Without Nietzschean philosophy there would have been no Freudian psychology)  That is, the sexual instinct is not primarily the expression of power (Nietzsche) or the selfish libido (Freud) but is primarily the expression of the activation of life toward Godhood.

This points toward a new religious psychology grounded in theological materialism. We are not only individuals and groups, we are part of the evolution of life toward higher life and eventually to Godhood. That is good news for life and for consciousness, and good news for religion.

The Advantages of Ethnopluralism

The quixotic dream of complete equality between different ethnic groups is not realistic because real human nature remains very much ethnocentric and even xenophobic, with group selection as the primary unit of selection. This is a realism that must gradually arrive in the U.S. and in Europe---it has all but happened in the breakup of the Soviet Union into ethnostates, if Putin allows it to continue. The traditionalist's who moan and just bare it believing all this is human all too human, and the modern liberals who continue their multicultural fantasies, offer no real long-term solutions.

“Multiculturalism” has brought us a serious identity crisis in that we no-longer have a clear national identity, and ethnopluralism is the realistic way out of this crisis. With ethnic cultures celebrated in different regions and states, affirmed by the separation of powers and states inherent in the original U.S. Constitution, most of the battles now and in the future coming from unmelting and unassimilating ethnic groups---African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, Asian-Americans, Native-Americans, Muslim-Americans and White-Americans---can be largely avoided.  Federalism, with as light a touch as possible, can protect the whole.

The retreat into narcissism, survivalism, etc., as a reaction to the loss of identity inherent in multiculturalism is not the healthy way to go. For example, ironically, it is that very ethnocentrism and xenophobia inherent in human nature---if it is acknowledged---which can help avoid such things as the constant antisemitism we see, because when ethnopluralism and ethnostates are affirmed, than chosenness, supremacism, and imperialism, which naturally create so much angry rebellion against them, recede. Islam too needs the same reformation against imperialism and the real affirmation of largely independent ethnic states and regions. Without constantly meddling in the affairs of other people, internationally and imperialistically, and with ethnopluralism affirmed, antisemitism and anti-other groups can gradually diminish.

Thoughts on the activation of life, and the sacred goal of life

Life seeks something, life does not seek nothing, and the point here is that life seeks more even than success in survival and reproduction. What is ultimate success in survival and reproduction? Virtually eternal success in survival, defined here as the zenith of beauty, truth and goodness, among other things, which is Godhood. Life itself can be defined as the activation toward this goal. To say there is no goal to life is to say there is no life, since the goal ultimately defines life itself.

Science has been mainly concerned with the events of phenomenon and not so much with deepest causes leading to those events---causes are not easy to measure. Most causes are assumed to come from the outside environment, but there is also “energy” enclosed in matter which activates matter. The form is matter and the activation is the function.

This suggest that hedonism is a sophistical argument since pain and pleasure are not end goals but means, or rewards along the way for doing the bidding of the biological and superbiological causes of life. The same can be said of Nietzsche's power for power's sake, power is only a means to an end. Passion and emotion and even the attempt to be objective tend to take a back seat to the activation of the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood, which is defined as the sacred material or supermaterial activation of life.

Organic functions, material functions, are thus the forms and result of the essential activating Spirit-Will-To-Godhood, which helps explain causality for both religion and science.

Procreation can be looked at, ultimately, as the result of the desire of life to evolve successfully all the way to the zenith of success, which is Godhood. Procreation is ultimately a seeking hunger for Godhood, in which beauty, truth, power, goodness, etc. are guides along the way.

America's future is misunderstood by Harvard academic

Joseph Nye of Harvard University, “Dean of American political scientists,” thinks that it is open immigration that has made the U. S. greater than the closed immigration of China, which will keep China from being great. “China can draw on the talent pool of 1.3 billion people, but the U.S. can draw on the world's 7 billion.” (Time, March 23, 2015) This is probably just the standard lack of knowledge of sociobiology among Western academics, or perhaps it is the refusal to accept knowledge of sociobiology.

The reality is that the melting pot of America did not melt for Latin Americans, Native Americans, African Americans, etc. and it won't melt for the millions of new immigrants---for example, Islamic Somalis are not melting, on the contrary, they are agitating against the establishment on behalf of their own people and religion, which is only natural. Human nature remains ethnocentric, even xenophobic, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection.

Then there are the clear IQ differences among people: Asian intelligence is the highest in the world, so China's closed pool of 1. 3 billion people will do just fine against the open immigration of the U.S.  I am not saying China doesn't have problems, but for Professor Nye to crow about U.S. future geopolitical dominance over China is at least a misunderstanding of reality.

But China is now making the same mistakes that the U.S made in becoming a global empire (and Great Britain before us), and this will be the main negative challenge for China in the future. The United States military needs to come home, and so do America's international companies, then we can begin to think again of U.S. dominance. Millions of American jobs have been lost to globalism, the middle class has been gutted, and disparities of income are ever greater, which is a sure scenario for social problems.

The U.S. can move ahead of future trends by re-embracing economic nationalism and fair trade with the world, and by largely dismantling the America empire, which has made us inferior, not superior. As to open immigration, we need to do more than stop immigration to assimilate the millions of new immigrant we now have, because they won't assimilate any better than the past immigrants---other than those who more or less came from the same countries of the nation's founders.

As a consequence of the non-assimilation of the various ethnic cultures in America, I believe we will need to boldly look at the structure of ethnopluralism, applying the Constitutional separation of powers and states and regions to ethnic cultures, virtual ethnic states, held together and protected by federalism. That is a future which can give real social and cultural hope for our long-term existence. And China would do well to apply its own form of ethnopluralism if it wants to avoid future social disruptions and decline, which may be more difficult for communist China than the United States.

Both faith and reason can distort reality

In traditional religions, faith and reason can distort or manipulate reality so as to affirm their particular worldviews. But both faith and reason are subordinate to the essential life-activation of the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood. Faith and reason can affirm or deny life's sacred activation with their particular procedures, but they are not superior to it. However, since the Spirit-Will is seen here as a material and supermaterial living substance or living object activating material life to evolve toward Godhood, it seems that reason and science can one day discover and affirm it.

The human mind can govern the passions but the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood actives both the human mind and the passions with a sacred goal, if we can see it. “Freedom from the passions”? It is more the direction of the passions, the freeing of the passions, toward evolving to Godhood, which is the sacred goal of life and religion, as described by theological materialism. Traditional religion sought to rid the body of all material desires so as to experience the God or Father Within, which can certainly be retained in the Inward Path, but that is a preliminary glimpse of the Outward Path of material/supermaterial evolution to real Godhood.

The Alternate Reality of the Western Media

The United States has two main sources of news information, the politically correct and culturally Marxist liberal media (eg. CNN), and the neoconservative media of the global empire (eg. Fox News), and both spin and manipulate public opinion, and they have a monopoly on media outlets which follow their lines of propaganda. No one in the Western media is objective or reality-based, but a few, like the tiny paleoconservatives and the foreign policy realists come closer to reality, with little influence on the public, whose feelings and emotions are widely exploited by the Big Media. Both CNN and Fox News support rampaging globalism, open immigration, multiculturalism, egalitarianism, etc. etc., and they both advocate war on behalf of huge global corporations, and especially advocate war against the enemies of Israel.

The greatest influence dealers in Washington are the Wall Street lobby, the fossil fuel lobby, and the Israeli and Saudi lobbyists, who often pay off and threaten corrupt government officials and representatives to get them to take actions that are completely against the interests of our nation. Reality-based news will require much larger news and entertainment organizations than it now has, which is no small task since these hugely wealthy influence dealers control, or own, the Media in the West---and they play dirty.  But all this has to be curbed if we are to save ourselves.

Do we try to out-spin the spinners? No, I think reality will do. This mainly requires helping the public to understand real human nature. In every human culture ever studied, human nature included kin selection-preferences, incest taboos, traditional marriage, hierarchy, division of labor, gender differentiation, localism, ethnocentrism, even xenophobia, and group-selection as the main unit of selection. If the Big Western Media proposes to not include these things, and it certainly does not, the culture will not last long---it will always return to these things, and not always peacefully.

The Big Media in America and the West is actually dangerous to your family and your life, and it will help destroy the United States if we cannot counter it.

Basic difference between the Traditionalist School and Theological Materialism

The Traditionalist School, which the New Right has become so enamored with, seeks to return to a “golden age” which it believes is vastly superior to the present age, with a “purer” teaching from a purer age, whereas the conservatism of Theological Materialism includes a place for religious change, that is, evolutionary change. A motto might be: some things need to change so that important things can remain the same.

Theological Materialism retains but transforms the preliminary experience of the Inward God, found in the Inward Path of the Traditional School, to the Outward Path of material evolution, moving toward attaining real supermaterial Godhood in the cosmos.

The God of the Traditionalist school is reached through the involution or devolution of material life to the “non-material” God Within or Father Within, preached by both Jesus Christ and Buddha, and the Hindus before them. The God Within was experienced by ridding the body of all material desires. Buddha lived much longer than Jesus and had refined this ascetic technique, which could actually be used by Christians.

Survival makes gradual change in evolution necessary, and the sacred evolution to Godhood should not be blocked by the Great Spiritual Blockade attempting to go back to a desire free body and "purer age," which is really involution or devolution. Traditionalist's often don't even believe in material evolution, or at least greatly downplay it, which is a serious religious error since it is through material evolution that we can attain real supermaterial Godhood.

Satan is not material life. The symbolic occult is a mind-game only, with power only if believed. Gnosticism is no longer necessary, there is no separation or war between the material and the spiritual, there is only the primal material evolving, or not evolving, to the supermaterial.

High and Low Art

If high art is the refined affirmation of the sacred, and low art is the unrefined affirmation of the sacred, profane art would not affirm the sacred or could even actively deny the sacred. This seems to be seen in traditional cultures.

Does this imply a “universal” art and a universal sacred? Not necessarily. Each culture, each people tend to have their own version of the sacred---which can however show universal similarities. This is another argument in favor of ethnopluralism which best allows separate ethnic cultures to affirm their own ideas of the sacred.

This also allows cultures to exist in harmony with our existing human nature, which remains ethnocentric and group-selecting. Some sort of cooperative yet competitive federalism can then protect the whole.

What politicians of courage eventually need to affirm and promote

What needs to be repudiated is collectivist statism, rampaging global corporations, feminism, open immigration, egalitarianism, and multiculturalism---none of these things relate to real human nature. We need to affirm ethnopluralism, the separation of powers, regions and states for ethnic cultures, (which the U. S. Constitution could accommodate), and the affirmation of the continued evolution of life in the material and supermaterial world toward Godhood.

This requires politicians with the real courage to commit electoral and social suicide, with the hope that men of courage eventually impress their people with the real needs of survival and evolution. The “great man” view of history applies here, but great men need groups as much as groups need great men, as group-selection remains the main unit of selection.

As Western social order falls, ethnopluralism could naturally rise, but there is a risk of strong despotism first, which is not the separation of powers and states we require, given real human nature. Human nature will change as we evolve beyond the human species, but for now we remain very much kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection, which social and political structures need to harmonize with for long term survival.

In whose service morality?

Nietzsche asked the question, in whose service does morality, virtue, culture, work, and he answered: in service to the will-to-power, which he thought was goalless. I think otherwise, morality serves the fundamental animal-yet-sacred function of the activation of life to evolve toward the goal of Godhood.

The zenith and perfection of material/supermaterial evolution is Godhood, which is the ultimate of successful survival, the Godhood only seen in its preliminary stage of understanding in the Inward Path by experiencing the God or Father Within of traditional religion.

Flesh and blood, the objects of life are far more important than the means of culture, virtue, morality, and more important than definitions and symbols which are actually worshiped in much of religion and philosophy.

There is one action, one material/supermaterial Spirit-Will-To-Godhood, inherent in all phenomena, although it has been the most concealed.

Nietzsche was almost right, but he missed the sacred goal of life and evolution, and he killed God instead. The sacred path is to continue the evolution of life to Godhood. The old preliminary Inward God can be retained---conservative change is more realistic---but transformed in the Outward Path of evolution to Godhood, which is the Twofold Path.

Reason, the Senses, and the Super-Id

Unlike Burke I don't think that a man left to his passions will necessarily be a savage beast. Even Nietzsche made the same mistake in seeing the instincts more as a Dionysian beast, but unlike Burke, Nietzsche did not want to mediate the beast with reason (which to Burke seems to have been morality). Nietzsche claimed to like the beast, which had no goal other than power itself.

I define and present a Super-Id as the the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood, and define Godhood as the material or supermaterial sacred goal of the Super-Id, the instincts combined, and the evolutionary goal of life itself. Godhood is the evolutionary zenith of intelligence, beauty, truth, goodness etc, and of course, is not a savage beast.

Reason and morality too often overcompensate or repress the creative imagination that comes from our senses (Burke's moral imagination), and also can obfuscate the data from our senses, which can become a Great Spiritual Blockade. I see reason more like the rider of a valiant steed called the Super-Id or Spirit-Will-To-Godhood, which the rider/reason can help harmonize with, or even guide, but the rider is not the steed itself---and the rider would be arrogant in thinking that he alone sets the sacred goal.

 

The main strength of conservatism

Conservatism at its best fits youth into maturity, which is like fitting meritocracy into aristocracy. Time and experience allow cultural maturity to accumulate, but we need to avoid aristocracies where merit has slipped and become effete snobbery. But meritocracies alone can bring unethical, uncultured, bright monsters. We need both youth and maturity, both meritocracy and aristocracy. I think conservatism can do this, which is the main strength of conservatism, when it's working at its best. This applies to politics as well as religion. Even science can benefit from the conservative approach. This is also mainly the way evolution works---radical revolution usually harms more than it helps.

Don't replace biological evolution with intelligent-machine evolution

I don't worry about the development of intelligent machines as much as I worry about those who control the machines as their will to power. Nietzsche rightly said that science is usually the transformation of nature into concepts for the purpose of governing nature, and I see this being done among the brilliant transhumanists and singularity people. They may not look or act like it but they have the will to power of military generals.

Awhile back I wrote: “In the process of our materiel/supermaterial evolution, machine intelligence has the potential to evolve considerably faster than biological life can evolve, but this does not mean that we should abandon the sacred goal of biological life evolving to Godhood. This could no doubt bring a contention between advocates of machine enhancement and advocates of biological enhancement. Intelligent machines can certainly serve slower evolving biological intelligence, but it is simply suicidal to be centered only on super-intelligent machines. Some of our brightest minds have been intimidated by a devious political correctness (cultural Marxism) into replacing biological evolution with machine evolution---courage here is needed, the sacred purpose of real life evolving to Godhood depends on it.”

The old enemies of ethnopluralism and social harmony: looking the hard truths of ethnicity in the face

We have to look the hard truths of ethnicity in the face. The problem with one-race supremacy and empire is that all ethnic groups feel that they are supreme, at least instinctively, which is why one-race supremacy and empire have been defeated time and again throughout human history.

A juxtaposition of ancient and modern knowledge is seen in ethnocentrism. Human nature is in fact ethnocentric and xenophobic (as well as being gender-defined, heterosexual marriage-making, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection) and human nature has been this way at least since hunter-gatherer times, which has been reflected in both ancient and modern worldviews, from traditionalism to sociobiology.

While it is not perfect comparison, the one-race supremacist ethos of Chosen Jew, Aryan German, Black Power, Asian Power, or Hispanic power, all roughly feel that their own ethnic group and culture is superior to all others. The way to civilize this ancient yet modern beast is to affirm ethnopluralism, with separate, small, largely ethnic states, which is in social harmony with real human nature, protected by some sort of cooperative federalism.

This is the closest we can come to social harmony between distinctive ethnic groups and cultures, and it needs to not be swept under the carpet of political correctness as it has been. Ethnic supremacy and empire are the enemies of ethnopluralism. The long-term material and supermaterial evolution of human beings toward Godhood, which is our sacred destiny, requires long-term social and technical harmony, which ethnic wars destroy, along with the natural life on earth.

Counter-Abstraction in religion and philosophy

“Ultimate happiness” is not in the contemplation of God, as Aristotle and the Catholic philosophers tell us---important as that is in the Inward Path---it comes in attaining physical and supermaterial Godhood in ongoing material evolution in the Outward Path. This view takes religion and philosophy out of the dead world of abstraction, while retaining the experience of the God Within, and into the real world of the objects of life. It is not the definition of God, truth, beauty or virtue that comes first, it is actually becoming and being or embodying these things as physical living objects. This counter-abstraction counters the Great Spiritual Blockade, and affirms theological materialism.

How the United States could last another several hundred years, at least

Sometimes it's disheartening to realize that even as “Affirmative Action” is slowly being understood to really be reverse discrimination---for example, giving 20 points to underrepresented minorities for admission to various universities, or one fifth of those points needed, regardless of their test scores---we do still nevertheless apply the concept of “discrimination” even in the face of many years of evolutionary science, from Darwin to Edward Wilson's sociobiology, showing that human nature is kin-centered, and is ethnocentric, even xenophobic, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection.

Rather than trying to force assimilation, which rational people can see is not working in the United States (and elsewhere), we should by now be gradually protecting unique ethnic cultures living within their own geographical localities and states. This would seem to mean a gradual acceptance of Black states in the South, Hispanic states in the West, White states in the Midwest, and even mixed states in the East, if they insist on trying to make assimilation work.

But with cultural Marxism now largely---and uncomfortably---in place in the United States, a natural geographical ethnopluralism does seem difficult to bring about. But if we could put this natural political behavior in place, over time, legally, in the United States---which already has a separation of powers and states on paper---we could perhaps last another several hundred years, at least.

Transforming Both the City of Man and the City of Godhood

If we go along with the Thomist idea—adapted from Aristotle—that the purpose of the city is to have a place where people can live virtuous lives, with social design forms in harmony with real human nature, and then if we upgrade Aristotle's definition of human nature to include human nature defined by modern sociobiology (human nature as being 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 selection), and then if we transform the old Greek concept of God from a God as mainly supremely rational to also--and more importantly--a Godhood attained by way of the evolution of material and supermaterial life, then we can more practically affirm ethnopluralism as containing both cities of man and cities of Godhood, that is, cities and small states containing mainly ethnic cultures involved in the highest value of citizens evolving toward Godhood in their own unique ways, with variety, living in the natural ethnic configurations which human nature has always preferred.

We would then have material cities of man evolving toward supermaterial cities of Godhood. On the one hand ethnopluralism would be very much involved in the particular, the local, the place, while ethnopluralism would also transform the local to the universal with its sacred goal of all life evolving toward Godhood. The transformation need not even be a radical transformation since, for example, it can conservatively go along with the separation of powers and states and the federalism of the original United States Constitution.

The material primal plot and the sacred path

What someone called the “primal plot” usually does not include the evolution of life to Godhood, which is the real primal plot. It does not begin in Eden and end in Golgotha, or Nepal, or Mecca, that is only part of the plot. It begins at the various primal origins of various universes, all of which appear to be evolving material life toward Godhood. Some make it, some do not. That is the material primal plot as well as the sacred path. The ultimate purpose of life, which includes art and culture, is not merely to confirm a “maker” but to affirm the sacred path to Godhood of material and supermaterial evolution, guided by the activating Spirit-Will-To-Godhood within life.

Beyond the Will-to-Power

Going beyond Nietzsche, it is not reducing all the intentions of life to the increase in goal-less power, power is an adaptation to the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood, which is the sacred goal of evolving material and supermaterial life, as well as the secondary goal of having the greatest success in survival and reproduction. This exhumes Godhood, religion and morality after their murder attempt by Nietzsche.

The purpose of the sun is not alone to warm the earth for us, the energy that reaches the earth is only a small part of the sun's output. Even at the most basic level, the sun's energy has that inner activating Spirit-Will-To-Godhood seeking Godhood in its basic level of action, as it helps engender life where it can, as other stars do.

Model of causation and activation in theological materialism

The Spirit-Will-To-Godhood within life activates energy and matter to evolve in the material/supermaterial world toward Godhood; even at the most basic level, the concept of energy has this inner Spirit-Will-To-Godhood. Then comes the power drive, then the hunger drive, then the molding of the evolutionary drive to survival and reproductive success, and then the intellectual function and shaping of the social/cultural/political drive. All these things interact with the environment and the outside forces of selection and evolution. All action is this process of evolution. All these sequences are adaptations to the fundamental Spirit-Will-To-Godhood, which have been mostly unconscious to life, including human life. The evolution of man is this way on the path to higher evolution, bringing forward higher evolved individuals and groups, all moving, with starts and stops and devolution, on the sacred path toward highest evolved Godhood.

Re-imagining moral imagination

In theological materialism, Godhood is transformed from the non-material to the material/supermaterial, and then re-imagined culturally in moral art (perhaps another version of Burke's “moral imagination”). God is not rejected but conservatively transformed: the God or Father Within of traditional religion is understood in the Twofold Path as a symbolic experience of the real Godhood reached through material and supermaterial evolution.

There is teleological purpose in the activation of the evolution of life, and not “mere” utility or strength. Basic causality is seen in the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood which activates and virtually defines life. The teleological equation becomes utility (survival success of Darwin) plus strength ( power eg. Nietzsche) leads toward upward evolution (theological materialism). Both religion and science are transformed, and saved. Godhood is seen as the zenith of beauty, truth, goodness, power, etc. attained in material/supermaterial evolution.

There is no legitimate universal right for the West to insist on the freedom to attack Mohammed or for Islam to demand universal obedience to its values

A very important real “universal” is the affirmation of its opposite: exclusiveness, the particular. This means that radical Islam does not have the universal right to impose its religion on the whole world, but then the West does not have the universal right to impose its ideas on free expression and democracy on the whole world either. There is no legitimate universal right for the West to insist on the freedom to attack Mohammed or for Islam to demand universal obedience to its values, that is totalitarianism.

The separation of powers and states is one of the beauties of the United States Constitution, which is one of the few healthy political universals blocking totalitarianism. This we have to return to---it is a highly civilized worldview related to natural human nature, which is universally 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 selection.

The separation of powers and states allows human nature to flourish, totalitarianism obviously does not, whether it derives from Western neoconservatism/neoliberalism or from radical Islam.

Realism also tells us that the separation of powers and states, which brings healthy variety, needs to be defended or it is lost.

Valuing ethnic and national differences more than world markets

One doesn't want to destroy world trade, but one also doesn't want to destroy the uniqueness and exclusiveness of separate nations and small states, which world markets and globalism have in fact done. It's a matter of valuing differences in cultures and states more than world markets---global markets usually make a few capitalists very rich and everyone else less rich, while destroying variety and natural differences, as well as damaging religion, morality, politics---even science is subsumed.

“For 40 years, U.S. workers have seen factories close, jobs disappear and company towns become ghost towns, the "creative destruction" of Joe Schumpeter's felicitous phrase. Only the wholesale destruction was no accident, it was planned.” (Pat Buchanan). This is why the protection of tariffs on foreign products is one of the few places (national defense is another) where government over-site can be good. What we need is a separation of powers where no section or group in the world or the nation can gain dominance over the others, which happens to be what the Founders of the United States had in mind by separating powers and states.

But successfully and harmoniously separating nations and states to protect differences does seem to require civilized people. At least real human nature is solidly on the side of preferring ones own kind, as the science of sociobiology has most recently reiterated. But politics in the West has been captured by nation-destroying-globalism, so changing this will of course be a challenge.

What is the difference between multiculturalism and ethnopluralism?

Multiculturalism attempts to be universal, and in doing so, no culture is supported---although people privately tend to prefer their own. Ethnopluralism takes seriously the differences in ethnic cultures and groups, enough to allow them to flourish, and preferably in their own territories. Then, as Angelo Codevilla wrote, “good relations” become not ends in themselves but a way to deal with one another in each country, preferably with cooperative competition.

Ethnopluralism is closely harmonious with real human nature, which is not only ethnocentric and often xenophobic, but also in every culture ever studied, human nature included kin-selection, incest taboos, marriage, hierarchy, division of labor, gender differentiation, localism, and group selection as the center of selection. If a culture proposes to not include these things the culture does not last long and eventually returns to these things.

My hope is that one day the separation of powers and states inherent in the United States Constitution will deepen to see states and regions as virtual ethnostates. This might occur in any case with more primitive separations and secessions---personally, I could only agree to doing it legally and conservatively....But our depraved and controlled culture today seems not yet ready to even think about this return to health.

Order, the Populist Right, and Ethnopluralism

Both big government and big business tend to destroy the natural exclusiveness of localism, small states, and even nations. We need not be against trading with the world but against being devoured by the world, where everything becomes subservient to bigness.

Contending against big government and big business is of course not easy, they have immense wealth and power. It seems to me that some form of populism which promotes the natural rights inherent in localism seems possible. But populism has been exploited by both the left and the right. The populist left tends to like big government and hate big business, whereas the the populist right tends to hate both big government and big business, which seems like the healthier way to go.

The United States Constitution seems to me to be on the side of the populist right. Libertarians move in localist directions but their hyper-individualism overlooks the centrality of group-selection in real human nature which tends to allow powerful individuals to return to bigness and exploitation.

I would like to see localism and the rights of small states eventually deepen to include an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, which could bring the longest-term order---if their independence was protected by a light federalism. The order of society depends on the process of appropriation and assimilation and if the process of assimilation does not succeed the whole organism falls apart and separation occurs. Here the science of sociobiology can help us in seeing that people really do get along and assimilate best locally, and with their own kind.

Reviving teleological purposes

I agree with Nietzsche that the inner activation of life is a more important dynamic in evolution than the environment, but I think the inner activation is more than the “will-to-power." There is a goal, a sacred destination, beyond strength (Nietzsche) or utility (Darwin.)

Happiness and hunger are part of a deeper instinctive process which only uses these things to aid in the goal of evolving toward Godhood. Even success in survival and reproduction are a secondary result of the activation (the Spirit-Will-to-Godhood) toward Godhood.

Why does a thing want to survive successfully? The deeper purpose is not mentioned, if we can't measure it we won't consider it. Teleological purposes are buried. It is the development toward Godhood that is the real “progress.”

Godhood by way of evolution is the God we have been trying to define for millenniums, it is a transformed version of the inward God of traditional religion, which is conservatively retained but transformed in the Twofold Path.

Unifying the city of man and the city of God

The city of man and the city of God can be reconciled in the material and supermaterial evolution of material man to supermaterial Godhood. There is no real separation here, no real conflict, when material evolution is understood to continue to supermaterial Godhood---in theological materialism both man and Godhood are on the continuum of evolution.

The diversity of mankind and the universal goal of Godhood need not be a conflict if separation and variety are understood to enhance real evolution toward Godhood. Diversity and universalism can work in harmony with real human nature, which is in fact naturally ethnocentric and even xenophobic. The goal of diverse ethnic cultures and states is to evolve universally toward Godhood. Forms of federalism can protect the general evolutionary independence.

I know of no better way for mankind to realistically get along over the long term while retaining sacred religion and natural philosophy and science. Humans are capable of cooperative competition in this great and sacred adventure.

Fantasy God or Real Godhood?

There has been much theological fictionalizing, treating God as independent of material life and distinct from nature. Then religious philosopher's developed brilliant ways to make a non-material God seem both rational and objective. This should have sent up alarms regarding what reason and objectivity really mean.

We don't have to lose God, or more precisely, Godhood, if we bring God back to real nature. We evolve in the material and supermaterial world toward Godhood. Nature preceded both man and God, indeed, nature evolved both man and Godhood.

When we conceive of Godhood as that which we evolve to become in the material and supermaterial world, as is done in theological materialism, then religious and philosophical problems tend to be resolved. We can conservatively retain but transform the old conceptions of God in the Twofold Path.

Why Evolution?

Life is not so much a “force-establishing process” as Nietzsche suggested (The Will To Power) with no goal, life is a Godhood-establishing process by way of evolution. But life does seem to be evolving not toward stability or equilibrium, life just keeps on evolving higher and higher, even as it also devolves occasionally.

What does this say about the evolution toward complexity? Nietzsche suggested that complexity can be a simplifying process as well. Evolution simplifies an unwieldy mass, with a sort of refined complexity. The evolution of life is more a “continually increasing but persistently simplifying process.” But contra Nietzsche, evolution is more than only a force-establishing process.

I describe the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood of theological materialism as a plurality of forces bound not so much as a common “nutritive process” or “force-establishing process” but as the inward activation of life toward the zenith of evolution, which is Godhood. The Spirit-Will activation then works with the outside forces of selection and evolution in whatever environment life finds itself in.

Evolution and adaptability explain what happens, but not why. The Spirit-Will-To-Godhood and not the will to power alone is “a means, an instrument in service to higher life, and the elevation of life.” Our consciousnesses has not been fully aware of this process, which created consciousness.

Sacred cause and purpose in the modern world

If science cannot find a main purpose, a cause, a goal behind life, this does not mean that life has no goal. But a mathematical formula may not be complete knowledge of a thing, and neither will be a mere definition. Men tend to reduce all phenomena to the level of men with human senses and human mathematics, but any Godhood attained by way of evolution will be way beyond man and beyond man's senses and mathematics. But we do still want to affirm what is “right by nature,” as Aristotle put it, and this means we examine nature by various means including reason, intuition and even some form of revelation.

Theological materialism seeks to answer this question of purpose and goal. The general word “evolution” explains an enormous fact, but why a given life is used for this purpose is not fully explained. We evolve not merely for survival and reproductive success but because life seeks the zenith of survival, truth, and beauty in evolution, which helps define Godhood, the Godhood religions have been trying to define for millenniums. Nature is not God, nature becomes Godhood by way of life evolving to Godhood in the material and supermaterial world. The central question for religion, philosophy and science then becomes: what is the best way for life to evolve to Godhood? And cultural creations follow from that foundation.

Life and the cosmic goal

To adapt and change Nietzsche (The Will To Power), we could say the evolution of life is a “force-establishing process” in which various contending forces grow unequally, with some coming to terms with resisting forces by combining with those that are sufficiently related to it, and they then conspire together for power and survival success. And the process continues with continual “interpretation” of the various power levels as one of the very first principles of the organic evolutionary process.

The cosmos is not evolving toward a state of stability, and so its evolutionary zenith is not equilibrium. Energy is converted into life and then life is converted toward evolving to Godhood by way of material/supermaterial evolution, which goes on always, with some life receding, devolving, and other life evolving toward Godhood.

Religion, philosophy and science need to harmonize with this dynamic. In our overpopulated world this is how we arrive at a cooperative ethnopluralism, to harmonize with the natural dynamic of evolution, real human nature, group selection, and the contending forces of men. The cosmic goal is Godhood, which is life at its highest evolution and success.

Essence and Existence

It is not ideas but evolution which drives history, which does not mean ideas are not important, but ideas are driven by biological evolution. Intellectuals especially often overlook this in making illusory ideas the driving force of history.

It requires more than the consciousness of evolution, evolution is not merely a mental awareness, we require actual biological evolution toward Godhood. Actual future human evolution will need to be revived after being buried by modern liberalism.

For me, bringing existence in harmony with essence means affirming and harmonizing the essential activating force within life, which is the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood, with biological and superbiological evolution in the environment, which defines existence.

How the driving forces of future history can be religious

It is not non-material ideas and conceptions that drive history, these can be illusions, it is men and groups seeking to survive and reproduce successfully, and thereby creating cultures, civil societies, ideas and conceptions. Ideas that harmonize with this material evolutionary worldview are the most realistic.

What has been considered “objective” has often treated historical conditions independent of the actions of material life and evolution. On the other hand, I don't think that the Americanized modern French ideas that see no objective truth which now dominate academia---mainly influenced by adapting German Nietzsche---will prevail.

We need not rule out religion or even Godhood as other philosophies of materialism do, there is no need to completely “pass from the realm of God to the realm of man.” Life evolves in the material world to Godhood, if it can, and this can define future ideas and conceptions in religion, philosophy, and science. Real human nature along with altered circumstances of living can bring this realism forward.

How to avoid Nietzsche's radicalism and affirm materialism in religion

Nietzsche was too radical, he jumped from the traditional spiritualism and celibacy of religion to the affirmation of amoral material desire, especially with his goalless will-to-power. Such a radical jump can be considered unrealistic when one absorbs the more realistic evolutionary rather than revolutionary ideas of change in conservatives like Burke and Kirk.

Philosophical or ascetic priests tried to bring about a Great Spiritual Blockade of material desires, which was designed to aid in the ascetic experience of the God or Father Within. This did not work well among the population, it worked best in monasteries ( although it also led to homosexuality among the priests.) So the “sins” of materialism remained, as they well might.

The Twofold Path is the less radical more evolutionary approach to religion, the Involutionary Inward Path to the God Within is retained as the first glimpse or human experience of God but it is now transformed by affirming and not blocking the material desires of evolution which lead toward real Godhood in the Evolutionary Outward Path.

Material desires are not defined as the “free,” radical, amorality of Nietzsche's goalless will-to-power, material desires are subsumed in the evolutionary ethics of material and supermaterial evolution leading toward Godhood in the Evolutionary Outward Path.