Friday, February 24, 2012
I, We, It, and exhuming the material world in religion
It is a misconception to think of I,
We, and It as, body, mind, and spirit, as Ken Wilber does in his
“integral” philosophy. We need most to see the world the way
sociobiology sees the world, which places these things in a hierarchy
from the most powerful instincts of the I, up through the We, and
finally to the least powerful It. We need to work with the realities
of real life, of real human nature, and real religion, if we are to
develop any kind of harmony in the social structures of the world.
It has been hard for people to accept
that evolutionary selection takes place at the We level, the group
level first, and the I and It levels then adapt or relate to group
selection. We certainly do not need to accept, and should not, totalitarian ethnic imperialism in order to to accept and harmonize
these natural facts of human nature and evolution into our social
structures.
The problem with Wilber's integral
structure, like the problem with mystical religions, is that they
grossly devalue the material world in promoting supposedly
nonmaterial states of human consciousness. It is killing the problem
rather than dealing with it. And it is also misconceiving the basis
of religion and philosophy. If all the world reached the bliss state
of consciousness, which now only 1% can reach, mankind would probably
die out.
The bliss state of consciousness is not
Godhood. What has been formerly defined as “spiritual” needs to
be redefined as supermaterial, because the material and supermaterial
world are the vehicle by which we evolve to Godhood. It's that
simple, or difficult. And body, mind and spirit alone do not define
this structure correctly.
The mind evolves with the body, from
the sensory mind to the supermaterial mind, within a material and
supermaterial body. And the Spirit-Will To Godhood, which activates
the body, also evolves along with the body, which is the vehicle the
Spirit-Will uses to evolve to Godhood, from the material to
supermaterial Godhood, shaped by evolution.
It is time to exhume the
material-supermaterial world in religion, and unblock the real Path
To Godhood.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
The main problem with Ken Wilber's integral religio-philosophy
Both the involution to the Soul and the
evolution to Godhood can be applied in the Twofold Path of the Theoevolutionary Church, but they need to understood in the
following way.
Religions have had problems in
justifying material life, since their religious goals are virtually
all non- material. This is where rationalizations such as as Ken Wilber's “Pre and Post rationality” come from, along with the
mixing up of evolution with involution.
Wilber becomes especially defensive in
writing about what he calls the “Pre-rational and Post-rational
Fallacy” because these can look much the same in their
non-rationality. Wilber contrasts and defines the “trans-rational”
or post-rational, as the spiritual side of experiencing God or
nirvana, with the inferior state of pre-rational primitive matter
(although Wilber doesn't use the politically incorrect term
“inferior”).
But non-rational is non-rational. The
real difference is that the spiritual “trans-rational” stage is
reached by blocking the material and rational state, and the
pre-rational “primitive” state is supposedly unaware of
rationality without consciously blocking it.
Wilber's terminology needs to be
changed, which is not unlike the terminology of the mystical
religions. It is the Soul which is the involutionary---not
evolutionary--- goal of Wilber's integral system, and the goal of
the mystical traditions. It is the Soul-state at the zenith of the
mind that is the blissful, material-free, goal desired and reached
(by few) through the blocking of all the material desires, including
blocking rationality.
The Soul-state is indeed not a
rational state but it also is not Godhood, it is a mirror or
reflection helping us to understand something of what Real Godhood
will feel like, and this state can also be defined as pre-rational
and not as trans-rational. The term trans-rational only dresses up a
primitive although blissful, non-rational experience in mystical
religious veils.
I would reserve the term
“trans-rational” for the truly trans-rational Spirit-Will To
Godhood, which activates life from within to evolve to Godhood in
material-supermaterial evolution---not involution--- and then life is
shaped from outside by natural selection and evolution. The
Spirit-Will is trans-rational because it is a combination of
supermaterial intuitive-instinct, intellectual intuition, and
superationality.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
The Great Modification
Evolutionary supermaterialism is the fulfillment of Involutionary spiritualism
Since at least the Renaissance with
the revival of classical philosophy, beginning in the 14th
century, there has been a slow and steady turning away from
involutionary religions---although Plato was an involutionary
philosopher as well.
This has been a great historical
modification of tradition, not always understood by the modifiers.
As a result, involutionary religion has been thrown away at times in
favor of science, or other times it has been reconciled by
religious philosophers such as St Thomas Aquinas, who one could say, tried to
harmonize the differences between the inward and outward paths.
In the modern world the outward path of
materialism has gained much ground, even if fanatical religious
movements have risen in defense of traditional religion. Yet the morals
and ethics of civilization have been largely determined by the
Involutionary Inward Path of religious philosophy. Priests and
religious philosophers have insisted on exclusive control of the morals
and ethics of society derived from the Inward Path, and secular thinkers have
given us mostly modified versions of the Inward Path.
Why has the human world continually tried to modify the religious Inward Path? The Inward Path, at its
essence, blocks the material world in a Great Spiritual Blockade, originally for the purpose of experiencing or seeing and knowing the God Within. Material
life, seeking to live and prosper, naturally reacted to this blockade. It did so by sometimes
utterly rejecting the Inward Path and sometimes by modifying the Inward
Path. At this time science and secular humanism have grown strong in
utterly rejecting the Inward Path of traditional religions.
In affirming the Twofold Path, the Theoevolutionary Church joins the Great Modification of the Renaissance to
harmonize and synthesize the Inward Path of spiritualism with the
Outward Path of materialism and supermaterialism. We do not reject the great experience
of seeing the God Within, which was the central concern of the
Revealed Religions. We think of the Great Modification unfolding
throughout much of human history as an almost blind attempt to
discover the material and supermaterial Outward Path of Evolution to Godhood.
Godhood was glimpsed inwardly as a
most blissful and sacred experience, but it was a virtual experience
of what Godhood will be like when reached in the Evolutionary Outward
Path, after evolving beyond the human experience. All the blind groping
away from the Inward Path can be seen as a positive and constructive
attempt to understand and reach the Godhood of the Outward Path.
Religion and science can join one another. Evolutionary
supermaterialism is the fulfillment of Involutionary spiritualism.
This means that human civilization can
revitalize the morals and values of social philosophy, looking
outward toward evolving to Godhood, while retaining the inward first
experience of God. We are evolving upward to Godhood in the cosmos
and we need to apply our religion and science and social
philosophy to this sacred goal.
Monday, February 20, 2012
Evolution Not Revolution
Pat Buchanan gradually came to stand
between the Paleoconservatives and the New Right in Europe, with both
feet still planted in the American Paleoconservative camp. But
Buchanan agreed with the stark warnings of the New Right on the
suicide of the West and our replacement by faster breeding
immigrants.
This suicide of Europe and America
continues to be denied by the media and by the elite academics who
preach leftism and tolerance, and see our suicide as a sign of
progress. But this nefarious denial will not work forever as strong
biological instincts take over. There will be a powerful desire for
revenge, violent revolution will be proclaimed to take back our
territory and defend our children's future. But violent revolution
is not the solution to our decline.
Evolution not revolution is the way to
proceed. Endless racial-national wars will not fulfill our
evolutionary destiny. Given modern weapons, wars may even lead to our
complete demise. Raymond Cattell rightly described war as a
breakdown of evolution, like the immature chess player
who upsets the board. Competition, cooperative competition, is important, but war is not a part of the intelligent evolutionary
cooperation needed to evolve upward to Godhood. The chaos of war
destroys the order upon which steady upward evolution depends.
The activation of the Spirit-Will To Godhood exists within all people, within all life, and is shaped by evolution, wars will never extinguish it. There must be a place on earth for each
people to pursue their own evolution. For example, in the United States, the
Constitution can be legally applied to affirming the independence and variety of
the many states. There can be Europe of a thousand states. Even China of a thousand states, at least. And
each people can be protected in their independence by a light
federalism. Humans are capable of this, especially when our future depends on it.
We need to evolve, gradually, beyond the human
species, which continues to make war on one another. In the Theoevolutionary Church our mission is to help guide human
evolution to Godhood in the cosmos. Given our serious dilemma, will
the revolutionaries see the wisdom of evolution over revolution?
Evolution will need to be strongly proclaimed and defended.
Sunday, February 19, 2012
The moral imagination and prophets of evolution
My take on Russell Kirk's “moral
imagination” (and his mentor Edmund Burke) is that the moral
imagination should aspire to the right order regarding the material activation to Godhood, and the "right order" in political structures,
but also the right order in philosophy and art.
The “total art work” was supposed
to do this, as envisioned by the Ancient Greeks, and much later by
Richard Wagner. But in this sense religion is the real total art
work.
This affirms the definition of great
art as, art that affirms the sacred. Art obviously does not do this
today, which means that modern art is not good art, if it can even be
called art.
What is “right order?” Right order
means distinct and varied people directing their lives toward
evolving to Godhood in the cosmos, living in small states, or ethnostates protected
by a light federalism, and creating art and philosophy which affirms
and seeks to illuminate the sacred path of material evolution to Godhood.
This means we need prophets of
evolution more than prophets of inward salvation
and human stage utopian political schemes, which we have had plenty of.
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Revitalized Tradition the Third Revelation
If we separate history into the
“religious traditional,” from about 400 BC, to the nineteenth
century “modern scientific,” we see how tradition has been
fighting the modern, and the modern has been trying to bury
tradition, with tradition losing much ground and nearly fading away.
But rather than struggling, pinch-faced
and hopeless, to avoid and block the modern world, tradition needs to
face and affirm the Third Revelation of the Theoevolutionary Church.
When we look to the Great Books of
Western Tradition we no longer need to close the door to the
Enlightenment. Revitalized Tradition includes the Evolutionary
Outward Path to Godhood, the Third Revelation, which includes and
emerges from the first two Revelations of tradition.
The First Revelation was the tribal
interpretations of God. The Second Revelation was the universal
interpretation of God of Jesus Christ. The Third Revelation includes
both the tribal and universal God of the Inward Path, who is evolved
to in the cosmos through the Outward Path. Religion meets science, the spiritual meets the supermaterial.
Again, if we are to survive, prosper and evolve to Godhood, we need to face and affirm the Third Revelation of the Twofold Path.
Friday, February 17, 2012
Pat Buchanan has proved his political thesis
If even those who warn about the
suicide of the West are blacklisted, then Pat Buchanan has proved his
political thesis by sacrificing his own pound of flesh.
Buchanan is no racist or anti-Semite,
real racists and anti-Semites see him as a naive Christian
universalist.
Few Americans are as ethical and moral
as Buchanan is, without these dirty tricks Buchanan would have been President of the United States.
So what's next? This injustice
will create more racists and anti-Semites who will use Buchanan's
demise as proof of their philosophy. But this will only feed into
the deceitful narrative of those who rise to power by destroying the
West.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
It remains for the individual states and regions to be seen as saviors from the bureaucratic lies
Was the false idea of the limitless
assimilation of distinctly different people into one, peaceful, nation and culture, a big lie, or
was it an example of the human tendency to always be overly
optimistic rather than real? Both are possible explanations.
It has proved not possible to create
one, big, bureaucratic state of distinctly different people living in harmony. So why try? Here is where the lies, or the
over-optimism comes into practice. Clever and lying people can gain
advantage as middlemen in these schemes. Or people can dream of
emotionally satisfying but unreal utopias. Even the use of force
does not cause the assimilation of distinctly different groups in the
long term, big imperialistic states always break back down into small
states or ethnostates.
During the so-called process of assimilation, distinctly different groups do not fight merely for their “rights,” they fight for the dominance of their own people, their own culture. This is simply true and obvious.
When the old classic list of the five
original living races of man is considered, the Mongoloid, Caucasoid,
Australoid, Capoid, and Congoid (not necessarily in that order), and
when it is seen that these differences evolved separately, in very
different places, and at different rates (and it seems possible that
these differences existed even before the Homo-sapien stage
was reached by each race), then one can see how deep these ancient
divisions can be. Now we have the cousin-races of these divisions
with almost the same unassimilable differences.
Why is this so hard to affirm? And why
is it so wrong to have these differences? Again, it seems to be the
result of the lies or the over-optimism of man. This is not "racism," this is realism.
Lucky for us living in the United
States, our Constitution affirms the demarcation of many different
states and regions, each being as different as they choose to be--short of
becoming monarchies--protected by a light federalism. No revolution, no secession, is necessary to legally bring people in harmony with true human nature. It
remains for the individual states and regions to be widely seen or interpreted as saviors from
these bureaucratic lies, and saviors from the many problems caused by
the over-optimistic dream of limitless assimilation.
What do all people, all races, hold in
common? We are all activated by the Spirit-Will To Godhood, which
works with evolution in its diverse ways, on the sacred path of
evolution to Godhood. The Theoevolutionary Church is committed
to helping all people on their varied paths to Godhood.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Tough Humanitarianism
Like “tough love,” tough
humanitarianism is the appeal of the Theoevolutionary Church
(TC). As in Cattell's noble Beyondism, the humanitarian appeal
comes from trying to prevent the complete collapse of a people and
their culture as the only criterion for judging success or failure.
This can be accomplished by discovering
an index in social science, or sociobiology, for measuring the signs
of health and sickness of a society and a people, relating to its
gene pool, natural resources, geographical position and its ethical
and moral standards.
One advantage of TC over Beyondism,
which largely rejects traditional religion, is that we define the God
seen in the Inward Path of traditional religion as a mirror of the
Godhood reached through material/supermaterial evolution, thereby we
can offer a less radical Revitalized Conservatism and an Ordered Evolution.
TC wants to help all distinct people evolve to Godhood in the cosmos. This fulfills the sacred activation within the material world by the Spirit-Will To Godhood, which is then shaped by evolution from without.
TC wants to help all distinct people evolve to Godhood in the cosmos. This fulfills the sacred activation within the material world by the Spirit-Will To Godhood, which is then shaped by evolution from without.
TC is concerned mainly with the
ethical and moral standards of the evolution to Godhood.
This is a humanitarianism that still
needs to be understood as humanitarianism, or at least as tough
humanitarianism, by a culture of ruling politically correctness which is not
unlike cultural Marxism.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
The problem of too complex social structures
The “integral” approach of Ken Wilber, like traditional religion before him, overestimates and
outruns real human nature in affirming social structures too complex
to work well over time, which is mainly why we don't have the world
they envision after thousands of years of trying.
Valuing “worldcentric” and
universal programs as the most desired human structures, when they
exists at the weakest reaches of real human nature, and the most
difficult extensions for bonding humans together peacefully, leads to
various failures. This kind of “world philosophy” wrongly defines the world
as more important than small states, creating an unreal or false
holism of values.
Better to admit the hard reality of the
basic kin-centerdness and ethnocentrism of real human nature, and
learn to work with and harmonize this into the world, which suggest a
less complex view, of small independent states
within a very light protecting federalism.
Real workable social structures require
working hard on understanding cooperative competition rather than
hedonistic compacts of unreal harmony, which have their origin in the Involutionary Inward Path to the Soul of traditional religion. This is only half the religious worldview of the Twofold Path required to reach Godhood.
The religious base of working with real human nature, and the social programs that work best with real human
beings, is grounded in the sacred evolution of humanity over great time to
Godhood. This sacred evolution works best with variety, localism,
and competition, but a competition monitored by science and the religious values of Ordered Evolution.
Monday, February 13, 2012
No pluralistic theism in the origin of the cosmos
Primal Matter activated by the Spirit Will To Godhood gives birth to the
cosmos, then the Spirit-Will within matter activates
the cosmos to evolve to Godhood, from the material to the
supermaterial. Matter always has within it the Spirit-Will To
Godhood.
This is not “pluralistic theism,”
this is one process of life, activation, and evolution. The
Spirit-Will requires Matter and Matter requires the Spirit-Will. This is defined in theological materialism.
Those who seek to “release” the
spirit from gross matter (eg. the Gnostic perspective), would kill both matter and the spirit.
Those who allow only matter and no spirit (eg. science), see an incomplete or dead
matter and also kill both matter and spirit. Those who see the
Spirit-Will activating matter to evolve, unblock the Path to Godhood.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Diversity rather than multiculturalism
Like the past term “cosmopolitan,”
multiculturalism overlooks or blocks the sociobiological definition
of human nature, defined as being essentially kin-centered, local,
patriotic, even ethnocentric. You can't block these basic elements
of human nature without suffering a disjunction of personality, a
disharmony of culture.
It is not “bigoted” to be in
harmony with human nature! E.O. Wilson sought to include
sociobiology in the humanities beginning back in the 1970's with
little affect on the academic world, popular culture or the media.
Diversity is a better concept than
multiculturalism. Americans are most fortunate to have inherited a
Constitution that affirms diversity in the form of small states
within a light federalism, whose main task is protect those
differences. Small states can even be seen as ethnostates, where
real human nature can harmonize with a culture that relates to real
human nature.
When “provincialism” is defined the
way T. S. Eliot defined it, failing to affirm multiculturalism is not
being bigoted. Being provincial is being blind to historical
knowledge, blind to other periods of history which can help us
understand how to be better provincials, and better able to live in a
world of diverse people and cultures.
Granted, this is position is
“politically incorrect” at this time, but it had better not
remain so. True diversity unacknowledged has often led to radical,
secessionist revolution, and not tolerance of multiculturalism.
Saturday, February 11, 2012
On Conservatism
I love America and feel patriotic toward my country. I take my stand with those who see the government mainly as a protector of the freedom and liberty of the individual states within the light federalism of the government. This includes government protection of our manufacturing base, which free-market libertarians don't agree with. I approve of the creative free-enterprise system, but there is a limit to economic growth related to dwindling resources, and to survival ethics, and this still needs to be understood by the free-enterprise philosophy.
The split among conservatives really began in the 1950's and 1960's, between Russell Kirk and Willmoore Kendall, that is, between traditional, ordered, religious-grounded society, and free-market ultra-individualism.
The split among conservatives really began in the 1950's and 1960's, between Russell Kirk and Willmoore Kendall, that is, between traditional, ordered, religious-grounded society, and free-market ultra-individualism.
In the 1970's the “neoconservatives”
crossed over from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party in
protest against the antiwar movement, and also in dual support of Israel
and the United States. The neocons strongly influence the
big-government, war-interventions of the Bush years. They also more or
less rejected from the Republican establishment Russell
Kirk-oriented "paleoconservatives," like Pat Buchanan and Thomas Fleming.
The Republican Party establishment
continues to support many neoconservative programs and has persuaded
many social conservatives, using religious interpretations of the end times, to go along with their military adventures
in the Middle East and elsewhere. The libertarian wing of
conservatism does oppose these foreign military interventions, even if many of
their members don't mind the foreign interventions of global
corporations.
Evolution is sacred in my religious
philosophy, yet my position on change and order relate well to the
slow and careful changes affirmed by Burke and Kirk. The future goal of evolving
to Godhood requires a degree of change over time that Burke and Kirk would not
affirm, but successful survival and evolution takes place best in
stable conservative societies, where positive mutations have the
chance to be incorporated in the gene pool.
The decentralization of the states from
the central government relate well to evolutionary variety and natural cooperative competition. If given the proper independence
affirmed by the original United States Constitution, the growth of
multiple ethnic groups and cultures can be accommodated in the
various states of the union.
And finally, the religious roots of
society, emphasized by Burke and Kirk, is affirmed in the Twofold Path
of the Theoevolutionary Church. But this requires a
Revitalized Conservatism which includes the goal of Ordered Evolution
all the way to Godhood. The God first seen, and mirrored, in the
Inward Path of traditional religion, is the Godhood of the Outward Path evolved to in the
cosmos.
Thursday, February 09, 2012
The Wish-fulfillment of Ken Wilber
Ken Wilber centers on human personal
development, which is good but not nearly enough---Wilber's view of
evolution is really involution, not unlike the religious wisdom
traditions. What we need is the evolution of the human species to
higher and higher species and eventually to real supermaterial
Godhood in the cosmos.
Wilber's second problem is that his
“integral” approach defines “worldcentrism” as the highest
development of man, failing to emphasize the realistic, sociobiological, view of human nature as proceeding in strength from
the egocentric and ethnocentric stages to its weakest bonding at the
worldcentric stage.
Our worldview needs to harmonize with
actual human nature and actual evolution, which leads to the
synthesizing vision of the Twofold Path in the Theoevolutionary Church. We do affirm involution and the Inward Path to the
God-Within, as do the religious wisdom traditions, but we also affirm
the evolutionary Outward Path to Real Godhood in the cosmos.
We are all in this world together, not
worldcentrically, but ethnocentrically, and cooperative
ethnocentrism is the key to both stable societies and evolving
societies. We require psychological and social structures that
enhance actual, sociobiologically valid, human nature, which can then enhance real evolution, such
as small, naturally-bonding, states or ethnostates, with a light federalism--- not
worldcentrism.
Worldcentrism suggests a utopian dream
that leads to the hedonism of stopping all competition, variety and
evolution in favor of listless, noncompetitive pleasure. This relates
to the worthy goal of the Inward Path to the God Within, which is nevertheless only a mirror of the goal
of the Outward Path of evolution to Real Godhood in the cosmos.
Wednesday, February 08, 2012
Change and Conservatism
The Revitalized Conservatism I write
about is based in the concept that we are evolving to Godhood, which
certainly defines change, but we are doing so within conservative
structures which provide the best foundation for Ordered Evolution.
We have always survived and evolved best in familiar surroundings
among homogenous people who are loyal and patriotic regarding their
local environments.
This is somewhat different from Edmund Burke's modern conservatism, or Irving Kristol's neoconservatism.
Religion makes sacred the moral and ethical standards which also tend
to help us survive and reproduce more successfully. This is the
insight of the new/old science of sociobiology.
The religion of the Theoevolutionary Church affirms the Spirit-Will To Godhood which activates
life to evolve to Godhood. But it retains the traditional Inward Path of the Revealed Regions, which puts us in the camp of conservatism. This gives a new
foundation to understanding change and conservatism.
It is the Twofold Path of Involution
and Evolution that provide the basic religious foundation for uniting change
and conservatism. The God seen in the Inward Path of traditional religion
is the Godhood reached in the Outward Path of evolution to
Godhood.
Tuesday, February 07, 2012
Humans can prevent miserable biological and social collapse
(The shame of the taboos against evolutionary sociology and genetic
engineering)
Evolutionary sociology and genetic engineering can be benevolent and altruistic in preventing the
miserable suffering and collapse of individuals and societies. As
Raymond Cattell said, there is a difference between emotional
compassion and “planful altruism.”
By studying the genetic as well as the
cultural causes of the fall of people and groups, these cruel things
can be prevented, so that we all can get on with the sacred business
of evolving to Godhood, which is also prevented by the taboo against
evolutionary religion.
In the future these taboos will be seen
as irrational and even dangerous biases. It is ironic that those who
propagate these biases usually do so to try to advance themselves or their
group, consciously or unconsciously.
Of course there are dangers to human
administration in any field, but fear of the truth must not block new
truths. For example, people can simply be sociobiologically maladjusted to the cultures
they live within, and it takes more than education in job skills,
important as education is, to change things for future
generations. There must at least be voluntary ways to
restrict the birth rates or genetically improve the maladjusted,
rather than to try to cover it all over with blind charity, which does not
change the problem in the long run and can often make things worse.
The universe is not cold and
indifferent, since I believe that all life is activated to evolve to Godhood, and
therefore humans should not be cold and indifferent. We cannot
really block sex and aggression but we can control them, especially
when evolving to Godhood is the purpose of it all. In any case, the
natural justice of natural selection will take place, and groups that
do not or cannot choose wisely will collapse.
We can prevent these
miserable collapses with real altruism and compassion by way of the
sociobiological sciences, and with evolutionary religious values.
Sunday, February 05, 2012
The Reconciliation
The Inward Path of the Revealed
Religions “reasons” from the inside outward, the the Outward Path
of the Theoevolutionary Church (TC) reasons from the outside
inward. This Twofold Path harmonizes and reconciles religion,
science and evolution.
The God seen inwardly is the Godhood
evolved to outwardly. These are the Two Pillars of the Inward Path
to the Soul and the Outward Path of the Spirit-Will To Godhood.
The problem now with this
reconciliation is that traditional religion does not want to “merely”
define its view of God as the inward God, and traditional science
does not want to admit either and inward or and outward God, whether
evolved to or not.
The Twofold Path of TC saves religion,
science and evolution by harmonizing and reconciling them, which
defines revitalized conservatism rather than radicalism. This is a
religion of the past and the future.
Friday, February 03, 2012
Reason and intellectual intuition
The Theoevolutionary Church aims,
at least figuratively, to be one with the inward Spirit-Will To
Godhood which activates life, and then life is seen as shaped by
outward evolution. In this sense the Spirit-Will is given higher
priority than evolution although both are sacred and connected.
Science, and even the very few noble
attempts at science from religion, such as Raymond Cattell's
Beyondism, do not admit the Spirit-Will and think of this mainly as
an illusionist concept. This tends to make science seem ungrounded,
at least emotionally ungrounded, which is why it is so difficult to
make a science of religion.
Truth does not depend on science or
reason alone, but truth can use the help of reason.
Tradition defined reason as the “handmaid “ of the intellect.
Reason and science receive their subjects and their substance from
intellectual intuition and faith, which was once called
revelation. The Spirit-Will to Godhood is seen from this source at
this time, but science will one day catch up to it.
Thursday, February 02, 2012
On the new altruism
Looking at human competition and modern
warfare, the new Darwinism of sociobiology has helped us to see that “survival of the fittest” does not mean the survival of only
one fit group. Nationalists, racialists, supremacists, hegemonists
(including global corporations), religionists, and various
chosenhoods, need to fully understand that the world gangs up on
hegemony and supremacy, and given modern weapons, all groups can end
up greatly damaged, or destroyed.
This means we have to develop a more
intelligent altruism, beyond affirming ones own group against all
others. But this does not mean moving to the extreme altruism of demanding (sometimes at the point of a gun) love of the world more
than love of ones own people (which can also be a disguised attempt for dominance). Understanding the biological origin of
altruism, as a means to successful within-group cooperation and
advancement, needs to expand to cooperative competition between
different groups, rather than supremacy.
The universe can seem cold or cruel in
its natural selection and evolution, but when we see that the
Spirit-Will To Godhood activates all life, all groups, then we can
better understand the practicality of cooperative competition. Human
beings are not designed to love the whole world but they are designed
to understand that in order for their own people to survive and
evolve they need to allow others to survive and evolve. Unplanned benevolence, such as feeding people rather than helping
them develop agriculture, has almost always done more harm than good.
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
The Synthesizing Vision
When we connect the physical, or the
material world, to the “spiritual” world by defining the
spiritual as supermaterial, then we uncomplicate the overcomplicated
divide between religion and science, among other things.
Godhood then can be seen as the Zenith of
the material-supermaterial world. Evolution can enter the religious
discourse because the material evolves to supermaterial Godhood in
the cosmos.
This brings various separations
together, as the God seen, or incarnated in Jesus Christ, and other
wisdom traditions, by way of the Involutionary Inward Path of
religion, is the mind-Soul vision, or mirror, of the Godhood reached
in the Evolutionary Outward Path of material-supermaterial evolution.
This is how the Twofold Path of the Theoevolutionary Church is defined as the synthesizing vision.
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