Truth is the Object

Theological materialism rather than metaphysics

“...What if that which is early outdistanced everything late?...(Heidegger)

I think of “truth” in terms of objects, living objects, not in terms of light and darkness, as the Ancient Greeks, or mathematical principles, as the moderns.

Light and darkness and mathematical principles can denote and define truth but they are not truth. Truth is the object.

Objects can be supermaterial, which in the past was called “spiritual,” yet they are none-the-less objects and material.

I see gradations of the level of the evolution of objects, from simple to complex, from material to supermateral, from atom to Godhood, all as objects and superobjects.

I see no “emerging from concealment,” the highest transforms or evolves into the lowest, and the lowest evolves to the highest. I see no “oblivion of Being.” What is concealed is ignorance of the object.

I see the cause of the cosmos as the evolution of all living objects to Godhood, each object or group of objects in its own variation, with backward going and sideways going and stops along the Path.

I see this not as pre-Platonic but perhaps as pre-pre-Platonic, or when reality was objects, however unevolved or evolved they might be. This is Theological Materialism rather than metaphysics.

Ending The Great Mystic War

The “I Am,” and the “I Will Become”

A central challenge and mission of the Theoevolutionary Church (TC) is to synthesize the Inward Path with the Outward Path. As the Inward Path seeks the Soul Within, the Inward Path goes against the natural, outward tendencies of nature. The Outward Path of evolution to Godhood moves away from the Involutionary Inward Path.

These paths are united in the Twofold Path,  and in the Ordered Evolution and Revitalized Conservatism of TC. TC affirms and fulfills the Inward Path with the Outward Path.  The Father seen and felt in the Soul Within of the Inward Path is a  symbol of the Godhood reached in material and supermaterial evolution in the Outward Path.

"I Am” is in the Soul and is the Father Within, “I Will Become” is in the Spirit-Will activating life to evolve to Godhood.  The “I Will Become” of the Outward Path is not the “I Am” of the Inward Path. But they are united in the Twofold Path of Evolutionary Christianity.

TC is renewing the symbols and metaphors of religion. A new religious order is developing, but it is built upon the old order. It may be one of the more volatile things said on this blog, but the Beast of the Outward Path can be civilized at last with the Father of the Inward Path, ending the Great Mystic War.

Evolution not revolution; the Christ-Center symbolizes the experience of Godhood

The goal of the Inward Path, the Christ-Center, the Father-Center, Atman, symbolizes for us now the distant goal of the Outward Path to Godhood.

The Christ-Center, which exists at the Zenith of the Soul, symbolizes the experience of what Godhood will be like when Godhood is attained in evolution through the Outward Path.

This is the bonding of Religious Tradition in the Inward Path with the Outward Path of Evolutionary Christianity. This is the base of ecumenism.

The new is synthesized with the old, Ordered Evolution proceeds, with Revitalized Conservatism, not with revolution.

Bestowal of Being and beings

Contrary to Heidegger, I don't see the bestower of Being withdrawn into oblivion.

When the Spirit-Will rides the vehicle of material-supermaterial life to Godhood via evolution, Godhood is then greater than the sum of It's parts, greater than the Activating Spirit-Will.

We do not want to make the metaphysical mistake of seeing the Spirit-Will as God. The Spirit-Will seeks Godhood, and thereby activates life to Godhood.

We also don't want to make the metaphysical mistake of confounding the Soul of the Inward Path with the Spirit-Will of the Outward Path. Tradition has usually confounded God and the Spirit with the Soul.

Tradition has called the Soul the Spirit/God, when neither the nirvana of the Soul nor the Activating Spirit-Will is Godhood. We must evolve to Godhood in the Outward Path, activated by the Spirit-Will.

Which came first, Godhood or the Spirit-Will? There appears to be no beginning of the beginning, the Spirit-Will and Godhood have eternally worked together in kosmic harmony. Human beings prefer a beginning but there appears to be no beginning.

The fantasy of world unification

The fantasy of world unification has led to many attempts to create centralizing states and religions. The latest came from the imaginative Teilhard De Chardin who saw all of history moving from diversification to unification in religion.

But there are healthy limits to unification based in human nature, as sociobiology and evolutionary psychology, and conservative historians have pointed out.

A better hope is to be unified in affirming differences, which is more natural, encourages evolution, and helps avoid the aggressive imperialists and fascists and dictator's who promote unification and a centralized state, which have been shown to be a quixotic dream, causing much hardship and bloodshed.

I would rather speak of islands of evolution with light federalism which gives evolutionary freedom to small states. Even economic nationalism seems like a workable compromise between marauding global business, communism, fascism, and total anarchy.

Being is not concealed but is highest evolved

The main difference between Being and being is the evolutionary level of each.  I don't see Being
"withdrawing” into any kind of “oblivion,” or immutability. Being is not “concealed,” Being is the Highest Evolved Object in the Kosmos, which does set Being apart from the rest of the Kosmos, but only in regard to the level of evolution.

Being primordially “withdraws” only as much as reproduction could be considered withdrawal when the parent transforms into the offspring, thereby, with Godhood, giving the Parent eternal representation in the primordial elements of the new kosmos, which is the Great Reward for life evolving to Godhood. The Spirit-Will reaches It's own Great Destination when material life attains supermaterial Godhood.

At this point I see no need for Heidegger's overly difficult “Ereignis,” the “event of appropriation,” the oblivion of Being, etc., in explaining the “bestowing” of Being. What bestows Being? At first glance it looks like the activating Spirit-Will, as the activating drive of evolution, bestows Being as well as bestowing beings in the cosmos. Such natural things as Big Bangs in old cosmos contain the old Spirit-Will of Godhood, which activates life to evolve to Godhood again.

The things defined as "concealed"  in the world by philosophy are often principals or definitions which philosophy supposedly unconceals, they are only non-object principals or definitions and not real living objects, they bestow nothing but the non-living principals or definitions, bestowed by the philosopher.

Everything is mutable

There is not a living object called “immutable.” There are only principles, definitions and denotations that are called immutable. Many religious or spiritual traditions define these principles and definitions as God.

This has not been done without severe consequences. The material world has been denigrated and blocked because the most sacred God has been declared non-material. This has tended to block or slow the path of evolution to Godhood.

The movement from the natural self to the spiritual self is a movement away from the material world.  This is the Inward Path to the virtual God Within, but this is not the path to real Godhood. The Outward Path is the path of evolution to Godhood.  Evolutionary Christianity works with both Paths.

Mutable is another word for evolution.

Ending the Real Oblivion of Being

To adapt a term of Heidegger's, the “oblivion of Being” is for me the error of the spiritualization of Being, the escape from the Object Being, or Godhood, by the blocking of materialism and supermaterialism.

There needs to be a transvaluation of the spiritual to the supermaterial, but not the truncated version of science, which attempts to break the spell of metaphysics by leaving God and supermaterialism out of the picture.

What needs to end is the oblivion of the material in metaphysics and philosophy. Being needs to be seen as the Supreme Supermaterial Object Godhood, which we can evolve to in the cosmos.

The history of metaphysics has been the oblivion of the material in various forms, and the blocking of supermaterial Being. Evolutionary Christianity seeks to end this oblivion.

The great confounding and the radical reorientation

“Hail the much needed earth.” (Poetic Edda)

Religious Tradition has the Soul as the psyche and the Spirit as Christ, and we are supposed to leave the Soul behind to follow the Spirit.

I can agree with leaving the Soul to follow the Spirit, but it is the Soul that is Christ, the Atman, not the Spirit. The Spirit-Will is the activator of material/supermaterial evolution to Godhood.

The Soul exists at the Zenith of the Mind (psyche) but the Spirit exists at the Zenith of the Soul, although this should be seen as analogous designation more than physical location. The Spirit-Will could be defined as the combined instincts of life in the body.

This is a radical reorientation, called “metanoia” in Greek. This opens up the Great Spiritual Blockade against material life, but most importantly, it opens up the blockade against evolving to Godhood. This is liberating news for the suppressed world.

It is not the end of the journey to reach Christ in the Soul, it is the end of the journey when Godhood is attained by way of the activating Spirit-Will, and life shaped by outside evolution.

The way of the Soul is the Involutionary Inward Path to Christ (also Buddha and the Hindu Atman) and the way of the Spirit is the Evolutionary Outward Path to Godhood. Both paths are affirmed in the Twofold Path of Evolutionary Christianity.

Looking within can give you Christ, but looking without can give you Godhood. Ordered Evolution and Revitalized Conservatism synthesize the new into the old.

What kind of populism will rise?

The wealth divide keeps growing. Populism will rise. But what kind of populism?

Has global big business damaged the free enterprise philosophy beyond repair?

The big private sector companies, in league with big government, have created most of our present economic problems, leading to 24% youth unemployment, and half of all American's not able to come up with $2000 in 30 days without selling their possessions.

American companies have plenty of money but they have put their profits into factories and development centers in Brazil, China, India, etc, while creating virtually no jobs in America since the 1980's.

The “Tea Party” seems to be against big government, and they appeal to populist sentiment with that, but they are usually also open border libertarians supported by multinationals, who seem to be playing them for fools.

The free enterprise system needs to be rescued from the globalists who have no real allegiance to any country or any people. Economic nationalism, with fair trade, not free trade, was the golden mean which was so successful in the rise of America, it protected American companies and American jobs on American soil.

How ugly could it get? The multinational firms control government and the media. Will totalitarian dictators rise in violent frustration on the left or the right? It has happened before.

We need to choose the ordered evolution of revitalized conservatism and economic nationalism. Economic nationalism is the natural remedy standing between total isolationism and the rapacious open border globalists.

Demographics without demagoguery

Although it has not been spoken of much, or it is demogogued mostly by Democratic politicians, demographics will be a powerful long-term force in American politics.

In 1980 white voters cast 88% of the total vote, by 2008 this percentage was down to 55%, and the proportion will decline more in 2012.

Latinos are growing rapidly and the Democrats are spending millions to try to capture the Latino vote, offering big government programs which many of them know we can't afford.

The best the Republicans can do is suggest that they shed their “nativism,” which is like throwing grandma under the bus because she has problems with the new in-laws.

It is far better to acknowledge human nature. Whites and Latino and Blacks should be allowed to embrace their ethnicity, and this can best be done when we affirm the Tenth Amendment and give power back to the individual states and regions, where variety and differences can be applauded, not suppressed.

We were designed by the Founders to be a nation of regions and states protected by a light federalism. This political structure is our great advantage.  If we let our variety of states flourish with their own unique ethnic character and tone, we need not have a revolution of warring ethnic groups. This is a cause both parties can affirm.

Demographics has the power to make us or destroy us. It is futile to try to go against the pull of human nature, people will always feel more comfortable with their own people. Even the term “ethnic states” within our great union should not be thought of as evil but as realistic. Revitalization, not revolution is necessary.

Everything that rises diverges

Teilhard insists that convergent love is the primordial energy of the universe. But, speaking unromantically, love is the secondary reaction to the primary drive to evolve to Godhood, which requires reproduction and survival success, and it is this which requires love. This is an important distinction and and it separates convergence, which is Teilhard's central mantra, from divergence, which is the evolutionary drive.

Teilhard's Omega Point, or Christ, seems to come when the whole universe converges into one. The Godhood of Evolutionary Christianity comes through divergence.  The convergence of evolution is a temporary stopping point to retain positive changes acquired during divergence.

Teilhard's Omega Point has the whole universe converging at once into One in the end.  In EC there is constantly diverging evolution, with some life attaining Godhood, while other life continues the struggle to evolve to Godhood. EC's mission is to help everyone evolve to Godhood, but this is a divergent more than convergent reality, with different levels of evolutionary development at all times.

Teilhard's Christ coincides with his Omega Point in the universe, but I see Christ as involutionary not evolutionary. Christ is the Soul's identification with Godhood, but Christ is not Godhood, Godhood must be evolved to, not involved to. In EC the Inward Path is reserved for Christ and the Outward Path for Godhood.

EC does not affirm the Gnostic God of mere definition or principle, and affirms a real living object Godhood which is evolved to in the cosmos.  This suggests that when Godhood is attained in evolution it is not the same, nonmaterial God, of the definition-is-God-school.

Economic nationalism as the golden mean

Economic nationalism suggests that neither big government or big business rules, the golden mean between them rules.

That is, government protects the free enterprise system within the states of the nation, not only with protection from foreign imports, but protection from the influence and dominance of national or global business. Neither big government or global business can fairly and efficiently run the economic system.

Both the government and philanthropy get their money from the business world within the enterprise system, where else would the money come from? Government and philanthropy depend on the free economic system within the nation, which is why the economic system should be kept as free as it can be.

But the freedom is defined as a global fair trade freedom, not global free trade, where global business readily destroys the manufacturing base of a nation to enrich themselves.

We need to revitalize economic nationalism, which is how all nations originally gained power. We need to give the power back to the small states so that regionalism and localism, the most efficient level of operation, can flourish, and then we need to protect that freedom with the light federalism that the Founder's envisioned.

Evolutionary Metaphysics

In the tradition of trying to understanding Being historically comes the next stage of understanding Being in an evolutionary way, this is the “metaphysics” of Evolutionary Christianity.

But traditional metaphysics sees Being as eternal, always existing outside of history, so it is really ahistorical, not unlike much of modern philosophy, in seeing Being as withdrawn from the world.

There is a separation between what I call the idolatry of denotation and Real Godhood. The denotation and defining becomes the idol, the God, which is given eternal life outside of material and even supermaterial life.

Being does not “withdraw" that way from the historical or evolutionary “sending” (Heidegger's term) of life, time and history are only denotations, definitions of actual living and transforming Being and beings, which do all the sending and begetting---nothing outside of living objects does the sending or transforming.

There is no “oblivion of Being” (again Heidegger's term), there is only the transformation of Being and the evolution of beings.

On the bias and arrogance of modern liberals

Modern liberals tend to see themselves as a intelligent minority living on the East and West coast surrounded by ignorant fools living between the coasts.

Liberal ignorance stems from their mistaken view of human nature. Liberals think humans are infinitely malleable, they think that nurture not nature makes us what we are. They believe humans are all the same, that differences are a fallacy and a bias, that global love is all we need, that big government should supply everything that human beings require, including values and morality, and liberals think that most traditions are mostly untruths which we have been wrongly indoctrinated into.

Liberals like to build empires which always later become so distant from real people that they break back down into small states, regionalism and patriotism, not globalism. Human traditions more or less affirm this small is beautiful ethos.

The problem with the modern liberal view of human nature is that human nature is not infinitely malleable, human nature is primarily kin-centered, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, monogamous, gender different, and we are only secondarily or lightly world-centered.

Liberals usually promote such things as the legalizing of pot, because they find it creative. But drugs bias the mind, they let you see a slanted view of the truth. Pot and other drugs (including alcohol) are as deceptive in seeing the truth as the deceptive satire liberals use against conservatives.

Liberals arrogantly believe that religion is foolish, when they have no proven scientific truths about how life began, or how the cosmos emerged, or where it is going, any more than religion does.  The only Absolute secularist's allow is their own. Even the Big Bang is being questioned now by scientists specializing in electromagnetism.

It is true that the views of traditionalists are often simple and not always creative, but small government federalism, with many small independent states, kin-centeredness, monogamy, and gender differences relate to real human nature far better than modern liberalism does, and these also tend to be the values promoted by tradition and religion.

Patience and Balance in Evolution

Evolution and realism in art in Evolutionary Realism are not contradictory. Also evolution and order in political and cultural philosophy are not contradictory. This is the root of synthesizing the new into the old of RevitalizedConservatism. Why must we always have the extremes of only the new or only the old? Balance is the key between future evolution and realism, order and evolution.

We are primordially designed to evolve in the cosmos all the way to Godhood, and this great mission and purpose of existence requires an almost superhuman patience and balance over a very long time. Perhaps we need to evolve more to be capable of this superhuman patience and balance, which is the sacred incentive for following upward evolution.

Confounding Spirit With Soul

There are several things wrong in saying that one must not judge according to the flesh but by the Spirit. A great wrong has been done by mystics in confounding the Spirit with the Soul. 

It is through the flesh, or the material/supermaterial world, that we evolve to Godhood. And the Spirit is of the flesh although a supermaterial flesh. Duality does not exist here.

When mystics wrongly tell us to leave the Soul (psyche) and follow the Spirit (Christ, Atman) they are talking about the Soul not the Spirit. The bliss they seek by blocking all material desire is of the Soul, not the Spirit.

The Spirit, or the Spirit-Will, resides at the Zenith of the Soul where the central mission is to activate the life the Spirit-Will resides within to evolve to Godhood in material/supermaterial evolution. This means ever refining material evolution, not killing material evolution.

We do not confound the Inward Path to the Soul, with the Outward Path of the Spirit, in the Twofold Path of Evolutionary Christianity.

Being, Time and the Given

John Caputo says that Time, to Heidegger, means the “constancy” of what passes away. To be constant is to be constantly present, and “presence” is Being. Heidegger wants to determine the “It” which “gives” Being and Time. Is it Time that does this? Heidegger seems to say that the It is the “event of appropriation.”

I think that nothing “gives” Time, Time is an unconscious bystander which gives nothing, it merely marks the time in which objects live and move, having no consciousness of marking anything.

The "future” can “deliver” nothing, evolution is unpredictable, and even if evolution was predictable it is the object or substance in the future that does the delivering and never the "future" and never Time, which are unconscious and “do” nothing.

As to “appropriation,” the Spirit-Will appropriates the substance or material body of beings all the way up to Being or Godhood, as a vehicle in the Spirit-Will's drive to evolve to Godhood. But this appropriation is not a “giving” or a true creative act, this appropriation takes place in ongoing reproduction and survival and is a supermaterial indwelling in substances or objects all along since the birth of the cosmos.

If a yogi would go further

If a yogi would go further into the Soul, which is the Zenith of the Mind, to the Zenith of the Soul, which is the Spirit-Will, there, with the Spirit-Will, the yogi can touch the activator of material life and evolution, which seeks supermaterial Godhood.

The state called “I AM” is not Godhood, it is the condition of the blissfully empty Soul. The Soul, not the Spirit, is sought by emptying the mind and body of virtually all life. The yogi has managed to rid himself of all signs of life, and virtually died to the world. In return for this sacrifice he obtains the bliss of the virtual experience of Godhood, or perhaps the virtual fulfilled Mind of God, which is wrongly defined as true God, the Father.

In order to follow the sacred path we do not sacrifice ourselves, we evolve ourselves, we do not die to ourselves, we refine ourselves in upward evolution to Godhood, we do not deny life, we fulfill life. The way of the Soul in the Inward Path is symbolic death, the way of the Outward Path is life. When we are yoked to the Spirit-Will we are yoked to life, not death.

The goal of the Outward Path is to move beyond the Soul of the Inward Path, to the Spirit-Will of the Outward Path, and then to continue on to Godhood in evolution, activated by the Spirit-Will, which seeks to ride the vehicle of life in evolution to Godhood.

Is a nationalist or populist president possible?

What has happened to this country was predicted years ago by those who said the grab for total wealth by the globalists would destroy the American middle-class.

Manufacturing was moved out of this country to exploit cheap labor, which has forced the middles in America to join the lowers in wages and life style. Then the globalists invested their ill-gotten gains in real estate schemes, and so on, designed to capture any remaining wealth in America.

When their criminal activities caused economic collapse, the global bankers were bailed out with borrowed money from the government, via China, because the globalists control the government. The taxpayers will have to pay back billions and trillions of dollars, even though the taxpayers now have little money to pay for anything.

Could a nationalist or populist candidate for president rise to save the nation? With the globalists controlling both the government and the media it will be very difficult, even assassination would not be off the table if all else fails.

“Libertarian” candidates are deceptive, while they condemn massive big government, most of them support the open-bordered economic enterprises of globalism, rather than economic nationalism.

We desperately need to bring our army and our manufacturing back home to America. Power has to be given back to the States, as our Constitution intended, protected by a light federalism. If this is not possible then we are as dead as the Roman Empire, which declined for similar reasons.

Still, it can be done.