Friday, March 23, 2012
The Group and the Individual
As Raymond Cattell pointed out, groups
take on their own psycho-dynamics, tied to the temperament of the
individuals within the group. I like to apply this to the states
within the United States, and to a future Europe and Eurasia of thousands of
states. For example, the Midwestern Swedes and Germans in the U.S.
created states that are culturally different from the Scotch-Irish
Southern states.
This is why I speak of small states and
regions as virtual ethnostates, and why their differences need to be
protected by a light federalism. The group and individual are like
the hen and the egg, does the egg exist for the hen or the hen for
the egg? Political abstractions are tied to patterns of the individuals in the group. The group in this sense
has a life of its own, just like individuals.
But the cultural advance of a group is
tied to the innovations of individuals, to a surprising degree.
Therefore it is vital to support priceless creative individuals. It
is not always easy to tell the difference between unethical deviation
and very creative deviation, but this must be done. Unchecked
individuality can go too far, like the wild adolescent, or the
radical libertarian. The individual is like a cell in the body, the
organic unity of the whole needs to be taken into account.
This position regarding the group and
the individual can allow cultural creativity and evolution to
flourish around the world. This is the answer to the dark warnings of people like Pat Buchanan. Will we eventually find leaders to make this happen?
Thursday, March 22, 2012
The Great False Definition of I Am-ness
When we quiet the mind completely and reach the I Am-ness of awareness, this has been falsely or ignorantly defined in the mystic traditions as the Spirit, the Ground of Being, or God, and as the same Oneness throughout time and the universe.
In reality, I Am-ness takes place at the zenith of the human mind, which has through serious ascetic discipline managed to block all input other than the I Am awareness. This state should be defined as the Soul-Within, the God-Within, or the Father Within which is entirely dependent on the material glowing of the human mind, although it is thought beyond the material world by the mystics.
The Spirit-Will is another deeper thing, and it could contain supermaterial elements of the Godhood it seeks to reach by way of activating life to evolve to Godhood, which is It's supreme goal. Experiencing the awareness of I Am-ness in the human mind is only a mirror of the Real Mind of Godhood at the zenith of material-supermaterial evolution, which is a Godhood vastly higher evolved then the I Am-ness of the emptied human mind.
Although the Inward I Am-ness of the Involutionary Inward Path is valid as the main goal of spiritual traditions, it is time to stop exclusively gazing at the empty mind so that we may complete the Twofold Path with the Evolutionary Outward Path to Godhood.
Monday, March 19, 2012
The Moral Expanse
An action is moral or ethical the more
it takes evolution toward Godhood into account. Worldcentric actions
are not “better” than ethnocentric actions since ethnocentric
actions, or group selection, is the main unit of selection, but
worldcentric values come into affect at some point in survival, for
example, evolution cannot take place if the world is damaged or lost.
This is how one affirms both the
ethnocentric and worldcentric views of thousands of small states, or
ethnostates, protected by a light federalism. This allows all
mankind to take the highest moral actions toward evolution, without
imperialism or supremacy destroying the whole.
All mankind is driven or activated by
the Spirit-Will to Godhood, which is then shaped by evolution, to deny this is to deny the
essence and reason for living on earth and in the cosmos.
Mystics usually confound the God-Within
with a worldcentric vision of Godhood, when it is more an egocentric
experience of material-free bliss, which is a mirror image, or
Soul-image, of Godhood at the zenith of the human mind, and not the
Godhood evolved to materially and supermaterially in the cosmos. In
morality the Evolutionary and Involutionary Twofold Path is needed
and not only the Involutionary God-Within.
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Recovering The Instincts As Sacred
Conservatives often misjudge the
instincts, or inherited behavioral patterns. Both liberals and
conservatives misdefine the instincts as Dionysian, as disordered and
frenzied. But the instincts are family-oriented, kin-centered,
patriotic, and driven by the needs of successful survival and
reproduction (see sociobiology).
The instincts are even sacred, in that
reproduction, the sex and family drive, is in essence the drive of
life to evolve to eternal survival in Godhood, activated by the
Spirit-Will.
The instincts are often blocked in
conservatism due to centering on the God-Within of the Inward Path, which is reached by blocking or stopping the material instincts.
This is legitimate but incomplete religion.
Religion needs to affirm not only the
Inward Path to the God-Within but also the Outward Path of evolution
to supermaterial Godhood in the cosmos. This is the Twofold Path of the Theoevolutionary Church.
Saturday, March 17, 2012
What Is Our Conservatism Conserving?
“ By conservatism we mean conserving
the best elements in our civilization.” Russell Kirk
In the Theoevolutionary Church
(TC) conservatism includes sociobiology and genetics;
evolution makes possible the Path to Godhood. But Ordered Evolution
in culture and society is needed, not revolution. Evolution is also
one of the“permanent things” that needs to be conserved if we wish
to reach real Godhood, and ordered evolution requires the stability
of conservatism.
Conservatism has downplayed or blocked
biology and genetics mostly due to its too narrow insistence on the
universal inward spirit of Christianity. Sociobiology cannot be left
out of religion or conservatism.
The problem stems from the Inward Path
to the God Within (universally experienced) which has religiously blocked
the more local and group-centered Outward Path of evolution to real Godhood. The Twofold Path of the Theoevolutionary Church (TC) seeks to correct this imbalance.
Real Godhood in the Outward Path of
evolution can be defined as containing the Absolutes of Truth,
Goodness and Beauty, and these elements are not only hierarchical but
discriminating, from the least of these to the best of these values.
All people, all groups, all states are
encouraged to biologically and morally conserve the best of truth, goodness and beauty, in the balance of the Twofold Path.
Friday, March 16, 2012
A reality that humans can live with
Most people, most groups, certainly are
no match for the global power masters and their gnostic subterfuges.
So what can we do?
The differences between people will
never be made whole by insisting on a one-size-fits-all cultural
philosophy. What we are looking for in the future is political
leaders who will affirm the great variety and diversity of people and
states as being healthy and normal, who can therefore advocate the
separation of nations, and the separation of the world, into many
small states, or ethnostates, protected in their independence by a
light federalism.
This is a reality that humans can
believe in, a reality that harmonizes with actual human nature and
nature itself. This future can set us up for real evolution to take
place, which is our primary mission.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
All nations can be humanely guided by social psychology, and religion, to avoid the tragedy of collapse, and to evolve
Cultural Marxism, the philosophy of
political correctness needs to fade so that human beings can avail
themselves of social psychological studies which can now measure how
healthy a country is in relation to its survival. Psychometrics and
factor analysis have made this possible (see the work of the late
Raymond Cattell). The social psychologist can draw a profile of a
nation or a small state the way a psychologist draws a profile of an
individual. The morality level of a country can be measured by such
things as fewer deaths from venereal diseases, lower percentage of illiterates, energy consumption, and so on, all the way to the more
controversial genetic and cultural qualities of intelligence and character involved in the fitness of a culture.
If we know the signs of a dying condition prior to the decline of a
nation, the nation can be humanely guided to avoid the tragedy
of collapse.
In the short term the ethical system of the Theoevolutionary Church is based on the goal of human
evolution, adjusted to the given environment and the given people.
The longer term sacred goal is to evolve to Godhood in the cosmos,
the God first seen in the Inward Path of the Revealed Religions.
That is the nucleus of the religion, a religion of the future and the
past, connected by the Twofold Path to the traditional Inward God and
to evolutionary Outward Godhood. The global power masters embedded
in the institutions and corporations of the West are now exploiting
cultural Marxism and political correctness, but once this corrupting
force has lost its influence, we can build a real future and a real morality people can
believe in.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
The Real And Mirror Image Of Godhood In the Twofold Path
Mystics rid the body and mind of all material desires, as Christ and Buddha did, and others, and suggest that we do too, to experience the Soul-Within. This means blocking the material-supermaterial Outward Path to Godhood with the Great Spiritual Blockade, so that we may see-experience the God-Soul-Within consciously rather than unconsciously. The Soul-Within is the mind emptied of all consciousness except the consciousness of utter, blissful, emptiness.
The scientists have attempted to define this human spiritual experience as a glowing of the material or supermaterial brain. The ground of being, or the Spirit, or
the God which mystics see, they see at the zenith of the human mind,
where the Soul is experienced. This is not Supreme Godhood, which needs to be evolved to at the zenith of material-supermaterial
evolution.
These paths are defined as the Twofold Path in the Theoevolutionary Church. The Involutionary Inward
Path leads to the Father-God-Soul-Within, and the Evolutionary Outward Path
leads to Real Godhood of cosmic evolution. The attention and
emphasis moves to the Outward Path while retaining and including a mirror-image of the Father-God-Soul-Within in the Inward Path of traditional
religions, seen as a human experience of what Godhood is like at the Zenith of Evolution.
Monday, March 12, 2012
A More Positive Outlook Than Buchanan and Murray
I see the states and regions as
becoming virtual ethnostates to harmonize the growing divisions in
the United States, and elsewhere. Even though I approve of
Jeffersonian devolution, I lean toward a lighter Hamiltonian federalism as the larger national unit to protect the states from becoming battling
tribal divisions, as happens in central Africa. This is a more
positive way to view the future than those who see mainly inevitable,
tragic, decline, as Pat Buchanan and Charles Murray.
States and regions as virtual
ethnostates also happen to be the most natural way to accommodate
real human nature as described most recently by sociobiology and in
the past by traditional conservatism. Mankind prefers its own
locality, its own kind, and we have got to allow this to happen
without the corruptions of cultural Marxism or political correctness.
Then we can get on with the sacred mission of Ordered Evolution to
Godhood in the cosmos.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Divine Order and Revitalized Conservatism
There is a divine order which we must
be a part of, but this order has been defined differently by
different schools of religion and science.
Cultural conservatism in its classical
form is concerned with what will help us live healthy lives with one
another in accord with the divine order of life, applying cultural
creeds and religious morals.
Divine order in the Theoevolutionary Church is defined, essentially, as the continual evolution
of life to Godhood in the cosmos, and the political and cultural
creeds that affirm and assist this divine order.
Each nation, each region, needs to pay
attention to its patrimony, the beliefs and practices it has
inherited over many centuries. In the West, in America, the American
Republic came from institutions and beliefs handed down from the
ancient Greeks, the Bible, the struggles for English liberty, and the
struggle for American liberty.
This patrimony, this history, can be
harmonized with life evolving to Godhood, with a conservatism
revitalized by the naturalism of sociobiology. Our traditional and
original Republic, our many states and regions can be thought of as
laboratories of evolution, protected by a light federalism, as we
evolve toward Godhood.
Other nations can synthesize their own patrimonies with the divine order of this religious philosophy. This Revitalized Conservatism rejects revolution and affirms Ordered Evolution.
Friday, March 09, 2012
A realistic religious vision of the world
There has been a Great Spiritual Blockade against materialism in religion and philosophy, blocking the
theological materialism which leads to real Godhood in evolution.
Matter evolves to supermaterial Godhood, which is the other half of the
“non-material” God-Within of the Involutionary Inward Path of the
Revealed Religions.
“Spirit” is not “awareness” of
the non-material bliss of religious enlightenment, which takes
place in the Soul at the Zenith of the Mind. Spirit is the
Spirit-Will To Godhood which activates the Soul, mind and body to
evolve to supermaterial Godhood, its sacred destination.
Honest and courageous science-- not as
common as is thought--shows that evolution takes place at the group
level which interacts with individual and cultural evolution. This
means that in religion and cultural philosophy “world-centrism”
is an extreme idealism of the mind, and group selection, or
ethnocentrism, should not be spiritually devalued lower than
world-centrism, since evolution takes place first at the group level,
and material evolution is the vehicle to Godhood.
Both scientific natural
selection, and the idealistic religious goal of evolving to Godhood, point toward a world of thousands of small states, or ethnostates,
protected by a light federalism, and this evolution and variety needs to be valued much higher than a world of gurus who are aware of the
blissful God Within. The extreme idealism of the Traditionalist
School of religion, and of philosophy, even defines the whole material world, which is
the vehicle to evolve to Godhood, as illusion!
The Twofold Path defines the ground and
goal of existence as not merely the blissful, “non-material,”
experience of the God Within, which is only the goal of the Involutionary
Inward Path. The highest goal of existence is evolving in the
Evolutionary Outward Path to Godhood in the cosmos. The real human
challenge is to fit the natural traits of human nature into a world
that values evolution in all its variety, as all groups evolve to
Godhood. Gazing only inward is a truncated view of religion and the world.
Wednesday, March 07, 2012
The Ideal
The Theoevolutionary Church (TC)
would like to integrate the biological, social and psychological
sciences into religion, along with art, philosophy and the
humanities.
The ECC sees itself with two main
missions. One: applying the psychometrics and sociobiology that Raymond Cattell dreamed of in
his Beyondism, that is, the humanitarian discovering and
measuring of the health and sickness of a society and a people, so
complete collapse is not the only criterion, and assigning a survival
index for society.
And two: we take ourselves out of the
rigidly scientific world of Beyondism and into the religious world,
by devotion to the inward, supermaterial, Spirit-Will which activates life to Godhood, shaped by outward evolution. We think the natural sciences will one day affirm the Spirit-Will.
The helping hands of psychometrics, and sociobiology, are synthesized with the religious Ordered Evolution of mankind all the way to
Godhood in the cosmos.
This will require a level of genius and
integration not attained before. All of humanity can benefit
from this mission, life can continue its evolution to Godhood, the
earth can be redeemed.
Working with people like the late Cattell, as well as religious mystics, we would hope to offer only advise, we
are not a political organization, the separation of church and state
works well with cool objectivity, political groups come and go but
science and religion remain.
Tuesday, March 06, 2012
The Absolute and the Evolving Object
The Evolving Object is defined by the
instinctive drive toward the true, the good and the beautiful. For
example, when we seek out the most beautiful over the less beautiful
we are driven by the usually unconscious sacred ideal of Absolute
Beauty, or Godhood.
Carl Jung wrote of how spirits-alcohol
could be a plea for spirit-God. I define the Evolving Object not as
a sublimation or misdirection but as a gradual, incremental evolution
toward the Absolute Object, or Godhood.
The religious philosophy of the Theoevolutionary Church seeks to focus material desires toward
the sacred goal of evolving to Godhood by way of incremental Ordered Evolution, not to rid life of material desires, as does the Inward Path to the God Within.
This means mankind is gradually
evolving toward Absolute Truth, Goodness and Beauty. The Outward
Path always seeks the most truth, the most goodness, the most beauty
which points the way in evolution naturally toward Absolute Godhood.
This means that in the Outward Path
material desires certainly are not evil, on the contrary, they are
essential drives directed toward the Sacred Supermaterial Object.
Sociobiological conditions can misdirect these material desires in
the course of evolution, but the desires are the vehicle that evolution
requires to reach supermaterialism and Godhood.
We need to stop the great materiaphobia, the Great Spiritual Blockade against
material-supermaterial evolution to Godhood.
A total art philosophy can be defined
this way too, as an affirmation of the sacred drive for the true, the
good and the beautiful. Psychology can affirm this dynamic in
human behavior.
Monday, March 05, 2012
Natural non-dual reality is the base of future religion and culture
The natural order is in harmony with
the sacred order, and this defines theological materialism and our
place in the order.
Moral action takes place when the material
and supermaterial are understood as one, in harmony, and not as
duality, not as in conflict.
The sacred does not have a dual nature,
it is evolutionary. Mankind has not recognized the sacred in
material and supermaterial evolution toward Godhood.
Evolution brings forth a natural
religion, not a non-material or dual or civic religion alone, but a
religion where the natural material world evolves to supermaterial
Godhood.
We seek Ordered Evolution and not only the anthropomorphic ordered liberty of conservatism, although we affirm that too. We
require evolution beyond the human species to reach Godhood.
The higher will in the prefrontal
cortex of our brain is not in real conflict with the lower will of
the midbrain, they want the same things, survival, higher Godhood, and the
Spirit-Will within activates life to evolve to higher Godhood, shaped
by evolution. These things harmonize.
Even the activating Spirit-Will is the
supermaterial overall instincts of the body, not non-material, and the Soul can be seen as the material-supermaterial
zenith of the mind, there is no non-material duality in theses
things.
But this worldview is not a morality of
unchecked passions or Dionysian instincts, higher evolution is valued
over lower evolution as we seek to evolve toward higher and higher forms of
the true, the good, and the beautiful.
As the conservative's say, the culture
comes from the cult in every long-lasting civilization, which means
that religion is the base of culture. Natural non-dual reality is
the base of future culture and religion.
Friday, March 02, 2012
Agreements and Disagreements with the New Right Identitarians
I can go along with Europe of a
thousand states, or China of a thousands states, protected by a light
federalism, but I can't go along with a leftist, fascist,
revolutionary imperialism, which many of the New Right Identitarians in the United States, France, Sweden, and Russia have affirmed. I am an American patriot,
and it goes against my instincts to see the New Right Identitarians turning to Eurasian imperialism against
the West.
I do not approve of the marauding,
global-business imperialism of the United States, promoted by the neoconservatives, but I do approve of
the light federalism and the strong states rights of the original
United States Constitution. And I approve of the enormously
successful free enterprise system. I think the federalist example of
the United States gives us an historical advantage in the legal
separation of small states from the central government, but this
independence needs to be reaffirmed and revitalized, even to the
point of thinking of the states and regions as virtual ethnostates.
I share the Identitarian idea that ethnic-cultural factors are
central, and that man is a combination of genetic and environmental
traits, which is why I affirm small states as ethnostates, more or less.
Another main difference between my
worldview and the Identitarians is that I strongly affirm evolutionary
religion, which goes beyond the realm of power politics. When
Identitarians do speak of religion they usually mean an
Evolian-Guenonian style Traditionalism, which basically rejects the
Enlightenment, progress, science, and evolution. These advancements
are of vital importance in the religious philosophy of the Theoevolutionary Church (TC), since it is the primary mission
of mankind to evolve in the material and supermaterial world to
Godhood.
The Traditionalists attempt to exhume remnants of ancient
pagan ideas of the God-Within, and connect this with the
remnants of this God seen and renewed in Orthodox or traditional Catholic
traditions. But in the Twofold Path of TC, in addition to
experiencing the inward mirror of God---which was the first glimpse of Godhood
seen by mankind---we affirm the Evolutionary Outward Path of
material-supermaterial evolution, which is the evolution of mankind
beyond the human species to real Godhood in the cosmos, not only the inward mirror of Godhood. This will
necessarily involve progress, science and evolution. Evolutionary religion is the deepest foundation for the rise of
mankind out of the decadence of the modern world. Politics and the
cultural ethos need to affirm this sacred path.
I approve of an
America which brings its empire home, its troops home, an America which takes its
manufacturing base back again from the imperial outsourcers, an
America with trading partners in the world, yet an America of economic nationalism, and an America of independent states---even of ethnostates
and regions---as the original Constitution can affirm.
I think Europe and Russia and China should go this way too because
it fits well with real, and ideal, human nature. Some Identitarians
do appear to affirm this worldview, more or less, but for a long term
civilization to rise, the ground of evolutionary religion is needed.
Thursday, March 01, 2012
Political realism and religion
I admire the political realism as first
describes by Thucydides. But alone, on its own, political realism is
like power for the sake of power, a truncated philosophy.
Political realism is another phrase for
power politics, which puts military protection and the political
security of a nation over ideology, morals or social structures.
In the West, banking and global
corporations have tended to use political realism and the military as
their vehicle to power, contrasted with other value systems, such as
the idealism of modern liberalism. The military in the West is
usually ruled by “democratic” political leadership with their
agendas.
I think political realism needs to be
attached to evolutionary religion. A people and a nation who are surviving and
reproducing successful are doing so for a larger more sacred reason
than mere survival. The evolution of mankind is advancing toward
Godhood, not mere survival, and political realism needs to be
attached to this sacred goal.
This points to a political realism less
present-time-provincial, less imperialistic in its cultural ethos, suggesting a world of thousands of small, largely independent states, or ethnostates, protected by a partially symbiotic light federalism.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
The Anthropomorphic Guru Blockade
Ken Wilber's "transrational" or “universal consciousness” is not on
the opposite end of the
spectrum from the pre-rational, as Wilber and other gurus claim. What
Wilber calls the Pre/Post Rational Fallacy is basically not a
fallacy, it is a rationalization regarding the unwanted similarity
between the pre-rational subconscious and so-called transrational
universal consciousness. The trans-rational state of supposed
universal consciousness is arrived at by consciously, at first,
rejecting or blocking out all material desires, including rationality
and normal consciousness.
This brings one to a state not unlike the
unconscious state of subconscious life, the difference is that one is
aware of it, or
conscious of it in a rare state of consciousness. But the state of "universal consciousness," blissful as it is, is only a mirror, or a virtual experience of what real Godhood will be like when Godhood is reached by way of material and supermaterial evolution. Godhood is far beyond the anthropomorphic experience of transrational bliss.
There
is much snobbery and elitism in this guru blockade of material
things, although it is disguised with nice words like “include
rather than reject.” It is said that only 1 percent of the
population reaches this transpersonal state, while the rest of humanity is mired
in the lower level of ethnocentric materialism. This is a gross
misconception of the Path to Godhood, which requires the
vehicle of
material-supermaterial evolution to reach Godhood.
That
being said, we can, and do, retain the Involutionary Inward Path to
the blissful God-Within in the Twofold Path of the Theoevolutionary Church---which was mankind's first glimpse of God.
However, this long-lasting Great Spiritual Blockade by the gurus
needs to be unblocked to include the sacred Evolutionary Outward Path of evolution to true Godhood in the cosmos. If Paul Tillich was correct in
defining “spiritual intelligence” as referring to that which
indicates a persons “ultimate concern,” then it is time for our
ultimate concern to be the evolution of material-supermaterial life
to real Godhood, not merely attaining the blissful but
anthropomorphic state of God-Within, which only mirrors some aspects of real supermaterial Godhood.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
A religious and social philosophy affirming nature
Do not leave nature out of your
religion, or your social philosophy, or nature will come back and give
you a final verdict by way of natural selection.
If your religion or social philosophy
essentially hates the material world you will eventually be in
trouble because nature will not sign this pact and inter-group
selection will debilitate your group.
The most realistic and just way to deal
with the realities of nature and human nature is to have thousands of
states or ethnostates in the world protected by a light federalism, each evolving
in its own fashion toward Godhood.
Evolution has worked like a spiral rather than a strait line, as history has shown, moving forward, circling, moving back, before moving forward again.
Godhood is supermaterial, evolving from
the material world to the supermaterial world, activated by the
Spirit-Will To Godhood. Religion and social philosophy need to
harmonize with this activation of life to evolve to Godhood.
Science has not as yet acknowledged the
activation of the Spirit-Will to Godhood, and religion has not
affirmed the theological materialism of the Theoevolutionary Church. Nature will continue to render a verdict on these things.
Monday, February 27, 2012
Toward research in the causes of decline or rise of nations
The Theoevolutionary Church(TC)
makes sacred the evolution of mankind to Godhood, therefore I affirm
the Beyondist perspective which says that if a country can find the
real signs of its decline before it completely collapses, this is a
more humane way to proceed than complete collapse as the only
criterion, which causes much suffering.
Social sciences such as sociobiology
and Cattell's Beyondism can discover or develop an index for
measuring the signs of sickness and health of a society, the general
genetic and cultural elements of success or failure, which can then
be applied to diverse countries in their own paths of evolution.
This kind of social science still lags
behind the cultural Marxism that rules the establishment, where
genetic research remains taboo and
cultural changes are alone studied and applied.
I affirm Cattell's idea of setting up
an international research center in this area of sociobiology for
studying the causes of the decline or rise of nations. The research
centers would be only advisory, we are not talking about world power
here---just as TC describes separating church from state. We
affirm Cattell's “organized diversity” and
federalism, which is contrary to one world power.
TC can apply this sort of
vital knowledge to our sacred mission of helping to evolve mankind to
Godhood.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Conservatism and the Theoevolutionary Church
Reason alone cannot guide human beings
or we end up with a truncated, robotic structure. Intellectual intuition
alone can't guide human beings or we get disorder. Tradition alone
can't guide human beings or we get stagnation. But taken all
together, these things lead, not to the individual alone, not to the
state alone, not to universal humanity. They lead first, to evolving groups as a reference point, and finally, and most
importantly, they lead to the central religious reference point of
evolution to Godhood.
Tradition is powerful and needs to be
affirmed, it is the accumulated knowledge and wisdom of mankind. If
the classical conservatives are correct in believing that when
Christianity goes the West goes, we can see the importance of tradition in the survival of the West. But tradition needs to include the
Ordered Evolution---not revolution---of mankind all the way to
Godhood. Tradition should not restrain evolution, it should restrain
revolution.
Religious tradition is included in the
Twofold Path of the Theoevolutionary Church. The Involutionary
Inward Path leads to the God-Within of Christianity (and the Revealed
Religions), and the Evolutionary Outward Path leads to the
Godhood first mirrored and partially known in the Inward Path.
Postmodern relativism does not balance
with evolutionary conservatism, because there is a hierarchy of
values, not a relativity of values, evolving from mankind up to
Godhood. There are various paths to Godhood in the spiral direction
of evolution, but this is not a goalless direction. Human values and
morals are not aimless.
The civilizing process is not limited
to the human species and human culture, the civilizing process is the
civilizing of the beast as mankind evolves to Godhood, beyond the
human species. Provincialism relates not merely to periods in time,
as Eliot suggested, but to the human species moving beyond the human
species to future species.
The “instinctive” has been more or
less devalued by conservatism related to the religious blocking of
material desires, which is necessary for reaching the God-Within.
But real Godhood in the outside cosmos is reached through material
and supermaterial evolution by way of the Evolutionary Outward Path,
which is activated by the sacred instinct of the Spirit-Will To
Godhood.
Politics is not an end in itself. At
the core of political philosophy is the sacred evolution to Godhood.
Political philosophy needs to affirm political structures that lead
mankind to Godhood in evolution. This sacred goal is not meant for
one exceptional group, but for all groups, which are all activated by
the Spirit-Will to Godhood. This suggests a world of thousands of
small states, or ethnostates, protected by a light federalism. This
is the just and practical way to balance distinctive people living
in the world, in harmony with real human nature as defined by sociobiology. Religion is this way the foundation of the culture.
This religious worldview is not a “liberation from
history,” this is an affirmation of the evolutionary history of
life itself evolving in the cosmos all the way to Godhood. And that
is the deepest kind of Revitalized Conservatism.
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