Rioting Antifa will only strengthen populism, national identity, and patriotism

America and Europe aren't having children anymore, mainly as the result of our modern liberal culture which devalues the family, and due to economic conditions that have made it impossible to afford medium size families. Along with our demographic decline we have had mass immigration of people from the outside who usually don't assimilate well into American and European societies. And all this national destruction is heavily promoted by our schools and by the Media and then twisted to look like political health. This destruction is what led to the populist nationalist movement that swept across America and Europe promoting national identity, patriotism, and the election of Trump.

The left-wing, “anti-fascist” political activist movement, antifa, which is now exploiting the racial riots across America after the death of a black man at the hands of the police will only strengthen the populist nationalist movement. The question is will this angry state of affairs some day lead to radical left battling radical right on the streets of America and Europe for totalitarian control, as happened in Germany before World War Two?

The hope is that populism, national identity and patriotism will eventually lead to a legal American constitutional separation of powers and states into regional ethnostates, where real human nature will be free to be as kin-selecting and ethnocentric as real human nature has always been since paleolithic times, protected by a defensive federalism. Given human nature and human history that is probably the best way to create long term order and civilization.

If the rioters across America now were demanding REAL natural rights

The biological origin of social behavior as defined by the evolutionary science of sociobiology from Charles Darwin to Edward Wilson supplies an increasingly precise basic definition of human nature, which is universal and should be applied to natural rights and the virtues and values of religion, philosophy, culture, and politics. “Natural rights” are rights that are not dependent on the laws or customs of any particular culture or government and are universal and inalienable.

Human nature has been affirmed throughout human history, at least since paleolithic times (from 2.6 million years ago to the present) as being kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other things, with group or ethnic selection as the primary unit of successful selection.

If the rioters across America now were demanding REAL natural rights in accord with the biological origin of real human nature and the biological origin of social behavior, then the demand for natural rights by the rioters could lead to a natural American constitutional separation of powers and states into regional ethnostates, where real human nature could be free to be as kin-selecting and ethnocentric as we have always been since paleolithic times, protected by federalism.

The social schizophrenia of multiculturalism now raging in Minneapolis

The Media contradicts itself when they forbid racism but never mention the black racism seething beneath the surface of the violent protests, setting fires to stores, etc., now going on in Minneapolis do to the arrest and death of a black man at hands of the police. Although it now looks like the police were at fault in his death there is no mention of the fact that the black man was arrested because he was trying to do something illegal.

And of course the foundation of the problem is also never mentioned: multiculturalism doesn't work, it creates social schizophrenia. Multicultural societies naturally fall apart because distinctly different ethnic groups do not or cannot easily assimilate and therefore compete against one another and even become enemies. This is the reality of real human nature, which remains kin-centered and ethnocentric. And to complicate multiculturalism even further, it is often promoted by people who exploit the disorder and chaos to advance their own groups.

Is there a way out the disorder and chaos of multiculturalism? Political or religious totalitarianism, fascism, or empire-building have often been the temptation to bring order, but these always fall apart for many of the same reasons that multiculturalism falls apart: distinctly different ethnic states do not or cannot easily assimilate, even with force, and the empires fall.

I think the way out the continuing disorder and chaos of multiculturalism is to legally develop an ethnopluralism of ethnostates. The constitutional separation of powers and states in the U.S. could lend itself to this natural solution. The big question is can this be done consciously and rationally, or will we have to completely fall apart first?

Knowing Godhood through evolution

Traditional theology says that God is not knowable by human concepts, but theological materialism says that with reason and imagination we can better know what Godhood may be like by looking at the evolution of life from the simple to the complex, from unconsciousness to consciousness, from the material to the supermaterial, and then extrapolating from there what supermaterial and superconscious Godhood may be like. “Faith” and subjective experience can then have a better foundation. The sticking point comes in asserting that Godhood is material/supermaterial and not spiritual and that Godhood is evolved to in the material world.

The good news is we can aid in this evolution toward ascending levels of Godhood. We are already shaping where the next generation wants to go, parents are already using testing and screening, genetic counseling, birth control, in vitro fertilization, and genetic engineering, and we can move on from there, as the deceitful paralyzing of eugenics begins to wind down.

This real Godhood can give religion back to us, this time with the aid of material science, and it can bring back the classical idea of total art works synthesizing all we know. That is a high culture that can save us, worthy of attaining.

Can we avoid racial revolution?

Another racial fiasco last night this time in Minneapolis, with another black man resisting arrest and then dying at the hands of the police, with the mayor and black police chief blaming the police solely for the fiasco and immediately firing the officers, followed by huge group of mixed race demonstrators (free at last from coronavirus restrictions) throwing water bottles, etc. at the police.

This can't go on. Minnesotan's have turned themselves inside out to accommodate non-whites. Populations of people of color have increased faster in Minnesota than the rest of the nation since 2010. The Somali's in Minneapolis have begun to broadcast the call to prayer over loudspeakers in their neighborhoods. There are more than 66,000 Hmong in Minnesota, the largest concentration of Hmong in America. Multiculturalism has been exploited by non-whites with the willing help of the bleeding heart liberals and venal politicians. Minnesotan's becoming clueless to cowbirds and cuckolds hasn't helped interactions between the races at all.

How can we conservatively retain the American union as we deal with our increasingly ethnically diverse society? Can we avoid radical racial revolution and yet adapt to the increasingly combative racial and cultural differences in America? I think we can.

We can legally adapt our Constitutional separation of powers and states to a deeper sociobiological knowledge of the biological origin of social behavior. If real kin and ethnic-centered human nature is allowed to be what it is, it would naturally lead to regionalism, localism, general conservative values, eventually ethnostates, and finally an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, protected from marauding imperialists, supremacists, and global money grubbers, with a defensive federalism.

Speculating on the direction of love in materially evolving to Godhood (from 2013)

Aristophanes said love is our longing for the other half, but there is something even deeper activating life and that is our primal longing for Godhood as the ultimate success in survival and reproduction, which activates life and applies to love.

Socrates said love is immortality, striving to be God as far as you are able to, immortality is sought through physical generation. The scriptures said “Ye shall be as God,” but they were speaking of the nonmaterial God of the Inward Path, which is a Half-God, only a definition, a mirror of Godhood.

This longing for Godhood has its source in the inward material activation of material Tirips or the Will, which activates material life to outwardly evolve to supermaterial Godhood, by way of increasingly complex and successful survival and reproduction, shaped by outside natural evolution.

Philosophers and religious mystics demand that God cannot be objectified, but that is precisely how real Godhood needs now to be understood. The demand that God cannot be objectified blocks real Godhood. Godhood is a living supermaterial object not a non-material spirit. Sociobiological artists can help us understand what evolved Godhood might be like in addition to theology.

We can ascribe predicates to Godhood, the Outward Path does objectify Godhood, even as the Inward Path does not. The prophets warn us that it is a sin to objectify Godhood, but objectifying Godhood is real progress in understanding Godhood as the supermaterial goal of material evolution.

It is time to leave the dreamy religious nursery. We cannot merely be “as God” in our human forms, we can see what Godhood may be like inwardly with religion, or by using the intellectual reason of philosophy, but we must evolve to Godhood in newer and better material and supermaterial forms.

Aspiration and definition are not the sole goals of religion and philosophy, the goal is to actually evolve to supermaterial Godhood. Religion and even reason prefer to fly free of material grounding, but religion and reason must return to the material and then the supermaterial world. Godhood, although rare, is not a dimension of no material or supermaterial habitation.

Yes, this supermaterial Godhood is also an ideal, a faith, a dream, but it is more concrete than Inward Path definitions, it is grounded in the ordered evolution of the material world. The truth, spirit, and reason of the Inward Path of philosophers and religious mystics only defines and mirrors the concrete Godhood of the Outward Path. Defining love, truth, spirit, and reason, or seeing a mirror of love, are not enough; these things seek their better half: real love in real life, and real Godhood materially evolved to in the cosmos.

Two pithy quotes

“The greater part of the conscious thinking of a philosopher is secretly influenced by his instincts, and forced into definite channels. And behind all logic and its seeming sovereignty of movement, there are valuations, or to speak more plainly, physiological demands, for the maintenance of a definite mode of life.” Nietzsche

"The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their effects on the human gene pool. The brain is a product of evolution. Human behavior . .is the circuitous technique by which human genetic material has been and will be kept intact. Morality has no other demonstrable ultimate function." Edward O. Wilson

How the narcissism of modern America can fade away

The narcissism of modern America comes from several almost contrary sources: single mother nurturing to every whim of her children with no male husband to help instill the reality of the world, and narcissism from children who cannot trust their parents. In both cases it forces children to center only on themselves.

Do to the political correctness of modern liberalism (cultural Marxism), which is like a totalitarian political police force, conservative's can offer only the libertarian philosophy of individualism, which plays right into narcissism. Traditional morality, ethnic bonds, and patriotism are disparaged by the total media and the schools. Only narcissism is consciously or unconsciously promoted.

The way out of this cultural death philosophy is to return to real human nature which affirms traditional morality, ethnic bonds, and patriotism; the biological origin of social behavior evolved a human nature that has been affirmed throughout human history to this day as being universally and genetically kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, among other conservative things, with group-selection as the primary unit of successful selection followed by individual selection.

This strongly suggests that if real kin and ethnic-centered human nature is allowed to be what it is, it would naturally lead to regionalism, localism, general conservative values, eventually ethnostates, and finally an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, protected from marauding imperialists, supremacists, and global money grubbers, with a defensive federalism.  In the U. S. this could be accomplished not by way of radical revolution but through legally adapting---not overturning---the U.S. constitutional separation of powers and states.

That is is how the narcissism of modern America can fade away. Can we do it? I believe if we don't want to continue falling like ancient Rome we have no better choice.

Making the sacred concrete in art (from 2013)

The narrative of art can find its power and meaning in the sacred evolution of life from the simple to the complex to Godhood. This is the engine that drives human nature and culture. Lacking these truths life, art, and literature appear smaller-minded. 
 
I think serious or high art has usually been an affirmation of the things that we have held sacred, which included religion, nature, and human beauty; un-serious or low art also often affirmed the sacred but with less sophistication, which is okay for its purposes. The highest art affirmed Godhood, which was valued higher than human beings---although humans have to be included in the overall affirmation of the sacred since humans also evolve toward Godhood.

Religious tradition says that man is best understood as an embodied spirit, whereas the theological materialism reverses this and says man is best understood as the embodied material will to life, or Tirips, activating life to evolve to material and supermaterial Godhood while being shaped by natural selection and evolution.

Evolutionary realism seems best to affirm this view of the sacred, evolutionary realism is the ideal choice in making the sacred concrete. Definitions of human beauty relate to Godhood as the zenith of beauty. The ancient Greeks were on the right track in their idealized realistic art creations of the Gods. Modern art forms have been mainly devoid of the sacred, or they hold individual hedonistic expression as “sacred;” modern artists tend to communicate only with each other, or only with critics hip to their experimentations, as Tom Wolfe criticized so well. And the public has largely turned their backs on high art.

The Old Right is not enough

In an essay back in September 2019 about “Resurrecting the Old Right” Paul Gottfried said white nationalism and the Alt-Right “represent a moribund ideology that offers an imaginary antidote to a misdiagnosed pathology.” But that is preciously what the Old Right represents.

I generally support the Old Right and courageous paleoconservatives like Pat Buchanan, but they won't rationally, instinctively, or openly affirm the biological origin of social behavior, and that makes all the difference in the world. Until that sociobiological reality is front and center culturally and politically the Old Right must be considered a partly moribund ideology (yes ideology) that offers mainly a traditional religious antidote to a misdiagnosed pathology. Conservatism fits together into a system, a magisterium, which includes as much “social-justice engineering” as any ideology. Russell Kirk is one of my favorite thinkers but his anti-ideology is also an ideology.

Politics is both the art of the possible and the ideal, but the Old Right wants to affirm only what it deems as the possible, which does not include the future biological evolution of man. The biological origin of our social behavior, which includes religion, actually ends the intellectual defense of postmodern relativism and the cultural Marxist ideologues, but it also takes some of the virtue-signaling away from conservatives.

In America conservatives have the political tool of the constitutional separation of powers and states, which has been increasingly losing to the growth of Big Government and globalist control. The constitutional separation of powers and states needs not only to be fought for but legally expanded toward an ethnopluralism of ethnostates within the regions and states of America, balanced and defended by federalism. That would be in true harmony with real kin and ethnic centered human nature as accurately and courageously defined by sociobiology. That is the way to actually conserve people and therefore conserve the ethnic cultures people create.

The “idyllic imagination” which Russell Kirk is so skeptical of can project the evolution of material life all the way to supermaterial Godhood, which is best done by preserving the best of the past, and by conserving variety, as we evolve toward higher forms of the good, the true, and the beautiful. That is the change coming of "evolutionary conservatism," which is really more prudent than reckless.

The goal of materially evolving to Godhood need not deprive us of either science or religion. Defining the internal material force of life which activates life toward evolving toward higher and higher forms, and eventually to Godhood, while being shaped by natural outside evolution, may be a bit further than religion and science want to go now, but we need to go there.

Will the Old Right affirm evolutionary conservatism? Will the Left? In any case I believe that the biological origin of our social behavior will be affirmed, not today, not tomorrow, but perhaps the day after tomorrow.

What would Nietzsche have thought of the rise of sociobiology? (from 2013)

According to Quentin Taylor and others, early Nietzsche hoped that the Germans could find a culture analogous to his beloved Hellenics (not copy it), and they could do this by doing as the Greeks did: preserving the values of real life over all the pseudo-needs of knowledge for knowledge sake, or by not spending so much time on gaining knowledge of the cultures that surrounded them, Persians, Egypt etc. This would mean bringing unity to diversity, or “harmonious manifoldness.” Nietzsche rejected the Socratic-Alexandrian and affirmed the Tragic-Dionysian believing that the Germans had gotten lost in Alexandrian specialization and scholarship, they were mere “pupils of declining antiquity.”

But what would Nietzsche have thought of the rise of “Alexandrian” sociobiology, which has done just what he asked for in modern times, organized the chaos of scholarship, found the values of real life, let go of the pseudo explanations of culture and life. Now what is needed, as E. O.Wilson pointed out, is for sociobiology to enter the humanities, which have become almost completely divided from real human nature and real life.

Science, specifically sociobiology, can save culture when it is also seen as an aid of our sacred evolution to Godhood in the cosmos. Science working with religion and art can unite the Alexandrian and Dionysian cultures. Theological materialism can revive myth-religion, this time it is the Alexandrian which can save us. The God first seen inwardly is now the Godhood evolved to outwardly applying religion and science.

Ethnostates are complete in themselves

...“Each authentic tradition is complete in itself. Thus, the “traditional man”, who follows one of those traditions has no need whatsoever to know anything about the teachings or symbols of another tradition. Everything he needs for his own self-development or self-transcendence is already there within his own tradition. Hence, it is absolutely absurd to call him a “traditionalist”, since he is simply a Hindu, or Taoist, or Sufi.” Colgero.  

Although the above quote seems a bit too insular, the same thing applies to ethnic groups or races and ethnostates. The teachings or symbols of ethnic groups and ethnostates were evolved in different places and environments and with different genetic traits. How can we conservatively retain the American union as we deal with our increasingly ethnically diverse society? That is, can we avoid radical revolution and yet adapt to the increasingly combative racial and cultural differences in America?  

Some of the loudest voices raised against ethnocentrism are the most ethnocentric groups. The “melting pot” and then the pluralist society went against the biological origin of social behavior and against basic human nature. These social experiments were probably mostly due to ignorance, although some knowingly promoted assimilation to try to take away the bonds of competing ethnic groups. 

How can we conservatively retain the American union as we deal with our increasingly ethnically diverse society? We can adapt our Constitutional separation of powers and states to a deeper sociobiological knowledge. 

If real kin and ethnic-centered human nature are allowed to be what they are, it would naturally lead to regionalism, localism, general conservative values, eventually ethnostates, and finally an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, protected from marauding imperialists, supremacists, and global money grubbers, with a defensive federalism.

 Human nature is biologically kin and ethnic centered and it's better to advocate ethnostates for all distinctive ethnic groups than to become anti-Chinese, anti-Semitic, anti-Black, anti-White, etc, etc. We need to protect and defend our differences and become as independent as we can, while still dealing with the world.  

Seeing the truth about human nature has been difficult through the ages because truth requires courage to see. Unfortunately it is often timid men who become intellectuals and their writings often reflect their timidity. There are exceptions but not many. This seems to be why folk culture often seems more truthful. Courageous men don't seem to become intellectuals. Perhaps this also explains why high culture needs to be the superstructure built over the structure of folk culture.

Expanding sacred art contrary to Frithjof Schuon (from 2013)

Traditional spirituality limits itself to the Inward Path and to pursuing and affirming perfect “nonmaterial” truth. The Inward Path of theological materialism and the projected Theoevolutionary Church is contemplative, the OutwardPath is active, and both can be inclined to sacred art, just as they can both be included in religion. 

If one does not wish to copy nature but to “repeat” nature in its creative mode, as suggested by Frithjof Schuon in traditional Art, then one will reflect material evolution, contrary to Schuon who prefers Islamic art. As Schuon put it, the sacred art of Perennial Spirituality “distrusts any materialization of religious subjects as if in fear that spiritual realities might become exhausted through an excess of sensory crystallization.”  

But we can bring back a center, a goal, a sacred material evolutionary goal to art, rather than trying to define God only as universal spiritual truth, as is done in nonrepresentational Perennial spirituality.  

With material or supermaterial living objects having once again taken their place in Godhood, Greek Art, which is too beautifully human to Schuon, can be exhumed and advanced once again. Perfect Beauty can be reflected or symbolized in perfect human beauty. And since art contains evolution in theological materialism, evolutionary beauty can also be explored. We need to even imagine beauty well beyond human beauty as Godhood. 

Godhood does not resemble man or even superman---and traditional sacred art has been well aware of this. Schuon accuses Greek Art of no longer resembling God, but God resembling man. Traditionalist's more or less reject Greek-Roman art as a deviation from Sacred Religious Art, but theological materialism can affirm Greek-Roman art as an evolutionary art, pointing the way upward by symbolizing the evolution of man to Godhood through material Beauty as well as through Truth.

My theological interpretation of primal emergence

“Emergence” over the last several years has been studied by science but also by theology. Jürgen Moltmann says emergent theology teaches that “God is enfolded in the world, so he has to be unfolded, and that’s where you get the concept of emergence.” Bradford McCall (Zygon 2010) asserts that “the Spirit is kenotically poured into creation, which onsets the long and laborious process of prebiotic evolution, leading to biological evolution toward increasing complexity.”

In theological materialism my interpretation of primal emergence identifies activating Tirips or the will as material, not spiritual---Tirips is never separate from the material body and animates or activates life as every cell in our body instinctively demands to live and have survival and reproductive success.

The complexification of matter, then, has its ontological origin through the agency of the activation of Tirips within life which activates life to evolve toward Godhood. Tirips enables the emergence or unfolding of the natural processes of life according to life's own inherent potentialities and possibilities, along with outward natural selection and inward evolution.

This natural activation can be blocked, subverted, or it can be unknown to us, but I don't think this primal life-activation and its connection with evolution can be intellectually or instinctively denied---it is directly and indirectly involved in the sacred evolutionary path to ascending levels of real Godhood.

Countering Spengler's prediction of inevitable fall

Many if not most of the “social justice warriors” and those who have been infected with the “Trump Derangement Syndrome” really do think of Middle Americans and Southerners as “deplorable” Klansmen, neo-Nazis, “white trash,” and Trump-backing Christian extremists. They were taught this view in the Media and the Schools. 

They resent all traditional values and believe that all truths are relative other than their own self-righteous hatred of deplorable Middle Americans and Southerners.

The conservative formula of believing what all men, everywhere, always have believed in, usually harmonizes with real biologically originated human nature, which is universally kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, religious-making, among other conservative things.

But human nature is also biologically ethnocentric, even xenophobic, with group-selection as the primary unit of successful selection, and that human reality is objected to by both conservatives and modern liberals.

The big problem for traditionalism in fighting back is that they use God rather than primal biology in demanding traditional conservative values, when the best argument for saving life and traditions is that traditional conservative values work best in successful survival and reproduction.

We will probably have to wait for future leaders to pick up what President Trump leaves undone, as Trump picked up what Ronald Reagan left undone. But we can continue to counter Spengler's prediction of inevitable fall in solving the age old problem of union in America by forming an ethnopluralism of ethnostates adapted from our Constitutional separation of powers and states, and then protecting the ethnostates from marauding imperialists, supremacists, global money grubbers, and social justice warriors, with a defensive federalism.

Even the highest consciousness is not non-material (note from 2009)

Even the highest consciousness is not non-material, it is part of highly evolved living material objects. This brings down to earth the idea of transcendence beyond time and beyond biology of traditional involutionary religion and of some psychology. We simply have not yet seen the deepest material dimensions of consciousness, and more importantly, we have not seen the material dimensions of Godhood as the supremely evolved living object, or objects. We can transcend the ego and affirm our oneness with all life, but that is not non-material, and is not Godhood, and is also not Absolute Consciousness, which must be evolved to in the very material world.

If California is still the bellwether state, the rest of the country is screwed

If California is still the bellwether state, the indicator of trends, the rest of the country is screwed.

Californians are “living beneath the heel of criminality, on islands of disease, vice, and disorder...Los Angeles and San Francisco are among the top ten dirtiest cities in America...San Francisco, the rainbow flagship of our brave new world, even has a “no-kill, catch-and-release” policy for rodents. “Once rats are caught,” SF Gate reports, “they’re released right in the backyard”...Meanwhile, “the “Ferguson Effect”—or the emboldening of criminal elements in light of the riots that followed the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri—has resulted in a nationwide war on cops and a consequent increase in gun violence...” Meantime “the Berkeley City Council has voted to replace the word “manhole” with “maintenancehole...” (Pedro Gonzalez, Chronicles) 

Can we answer Alexander Hamilton’s question of whether “societies of men are really capable or not, of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend, for their political constitutions, on accident and force?” 

What Hamilton was missing was deep knowledge of the biological origin of social behavior, which came after Darwin, when real human nature could be seem as being genetically kin and ethnic centered, with group selection as the main unit of successful survival and reproduction.

The decline of America culture and the American people really began to accelerate in the 1960's when several destructive things came together: postmodernism in the academic world, hedonism promoted by the Big Media, modern liberalism on the left, and libertarianism on the right, and, of course, continuing unlimited and undiscriminating immigration.

Wilmot Robertson suggested transforming the socially destructive aspects of ethnic or racial natural competition into developing socially constructive ethnostates.  Can we continue to counter Spengler's prediction of inevitable fall by solving the age old problem of union in America with an ethnopluralism of ethnostates adapted from our Constitutional separation of powers and states? Then we could protect the ethnostates from marauding imperialists, supremacists, and global money grubbers, with a defensive federalism.

I think in view of California being the bellwether state for the rest of the country, the Founders might even approve.

Two great religiopolitical blockades to overcome or synthesize

The Great Spiritual Blockade was created by the religious founders as the ascetic discipline for ridding the body of the desires of the flesh so as to experience the bliss of the God Within. The basic morals and values of Christ and Buddha came from this source.

The Great Biological Blockade was created by modern liberalism and cultural Marxism designed around the idea that human nature and human behavior is created by culture and not by biology. The basic morals and values of modern liberalism and cultural Marxism came from this source.

Theological materialism unblocks or synthesizes both these blockades.

Regarding the Great Spiritual Blockade, we can find only the mirror of Godhood inwardly, we cannot find real Godhood by ascetic contemplation only. In the Twofold Path the inward God may be a good start but is not the place to stop, even if, after great ascetic discipline, the experience of the inward god is blissful. We need to evolve in the material and supermaterial world to reach the real Godhood which was first only mirrored inwardly.

As to the Great Biological Blockade, as long as we are alive every cell in our body demands survival and reproductive success. This natural activation can be blocked, subverted, or it can be unknown to us, but it can't legitimately be intellectually or instinctively denied. As sociobiologist Edward O. Wilson said, "The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their effects on the human gene pool. The brain is a product of evolution. Human behavior . .is the circuitous technique by which human genetic material has been and will be kept intact...”

We can adapt our Constitutional separation of powers and states to a deeper sociobiological knowledge. If real kin and ethnic-centered human nature is allowed to be what it is, it would naturally lead to regionalism, localism, general conservative values, eventually ethnostates, and finally an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, protected from marauding imperialists, supremacists, and global money grubbers, with a defensive federalism.

Bypassing the confusion of religious symbols (from 2008)

Traditionally, material life is symbolized as the snake coiling itself around the Tree, meaning a person who does not involve themselves in desirelessness---desire is symbolized as the snake.

The involutionary symbolism of the Traditionalists, and those who study the Kabbalah, and others, can be an aid, although a complicated aid, in reaching the God-Within, but Godhood is only "reflected" inwardly. Much of the involutionary knowledge can be mistaken for ultimate wisdom, and it can become knowledge more  like the Ouroboros, the snake swallowing its tail.

We could apply another symbol, the Firebird, the Phoenix, rising from the desireless state of the involutionary god-nirvana to materially evolve to real Godhood---but does it even need a symbol?

Many secret societies appear to be using ancient primordial symbols, which were originally meant to aid elite religious seekers in reaching the involutionary Soul or God within. And the Jungians tend to apply symbols to the human psyche as the source of religion. For a purer reading of primordial symbols there is the the esoteric writings of Rene Guenon.

Or you could bypass the confusion of religious symbols and cut the Gordian Knot confusion of religious symbols, rather than endlessly trying to nitpick and unravel the symbols. Aren't symbols supposed to illuminate?

Far from disparaging science, the theological materialism says that science can elevate spiritual alchemy to “material alchemy,”  transforming man to Godhood in material evolution. In the Twofold Path with involution we experience the inward symbolic hint of Godhood (spiritual alchemy), but with outward  evolution (material alchemy) we materially evolve to ascending levels of real Godhood. 

Science has, until now, enjoyed prestige and support for the pursuit of more mundane non-religious goals, much as the modern chemists have departed from the spiritual goals of the alchemists. The sacred goal of science and religion (or all fields) can aid each other to attain Godhood in material evolution, as we rise out of our modern funk.  

Netflix boosts lesbianism mostly to the vulnerable young

The new Netflix romantic comedy “The Half of It” is a tug-at-the-heart affirmation of homosexuality which entertainingly and sentimentally boosts lesbianism mostly to the vulnerable young. It was written and directed by Alice Wu who says she came to the realization that she was gay while taking a gender studies class at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, of all places.

 

In the film Wu has the outsider nerd heroine, Ellie, agree to write love letters for a nice but dum outsider jock who wants to win a girl but he doesn’t have the word skills for it. Then Ellie finds herself falling for the girl too.

Falling for the girl by Ellen comes out of nowhere, we think we will have a cute little change of heart and the outsider boy and the outsider girl will end up falling for one other. But the heroine, Ellie, has never had a close friend before and apparently can't tell the difference between being gay and a normal same-sex friendship so she falls for the girl as a gay.

All the boys/men in this film are cartoonishly idiotic or deeply depressed, like Ellen's father. Wu has the rejection of marriage between a man and a women happen dramatically, with heart-felt speeches, at a church service!

Homosexuality is a learned behavior and this film will make it far easier for hapless girls to fall for the vile nonsense promoted in gender studies classes across the country. Netflix is, of course, planning a sequel.