Civilizing The Beast

Conservatives and the fertility rate

2023-09-17T09:05:00.000-06:00

The advance of science very gradually led to the decline of religion which has greatly changed the western world. Most seriously it has affected the fertility rate.

Philip Jenkins writes (September 2023 Chronicles) “A fertility rate below 2.1—what we call a sub-replacement rate—results in a contracting population and an aging society. Briefly, European nations quite suddenly shifted from very high to very low fertility rates in what was historically the blink of an eye, and that happened during the years of religious collapse. In Italy, for instance, the twin processes coincided neatly between 1975 and 1985. Denmark and the Netherlands hit fertility rates of 1.5 or below. Rates across Catholic Europe fell to frightening (and thoroughly unsustainable) levels of 1.2.”.

“Tell me the total fertility rate of a society, and I will tell you how its religious institutions are faring, and be able to make a good guess whether it permits abortion or same-sex marriage.” Jenkins writes.

I am a conservative but I don't think bringing back Calvinist Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, or socialist secularity can save us now or is even possible.

Why aren't all conservatives also racial conservatives? If you don't conserve the races who created the cultures, you don't conserve the cultures for long, so it is not enough to be only a cultural conservative.

This tragic political mistake seems to stem from conservatives not knowing or not affirming the biological origin of social behavior, and from the blocking of the subject and making it taboo by those who benefit from integrating the world, which includes the worlds religions as well as global business people.

Conservatives need to admit our behavior, intelligence, and personalities are to a large extent heritable. Both liberals and paleoconservative's block or conceal or down play the ethnic-centered and xenophobic parts of human nature.

If real kin and ethnic-centered human nature was allowed to be what it is, it would naturally lead to ethnostates, and finally to an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all groups, black, white, brown, yellow, or red, with each ethnostate protected from marauding imperialists, global businesses, supremacists, Marxists, etc., and defended by a defensive federalism. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates could be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states. Then conservatives would be worthy of their name.

Two roads diverge in transhumanism

2023-08-28T12:41:00.002-06:00

This is my answer to those who, like Marc Andreessen, are selling the metaverse as a sort of Marxist way to deal with "the small percent of people who live in a real-world environment that is rich, even overflowing, with glorious substance with beautiful settings, plentiful stimulation, and many fascinating people to talk to, and to work with, and to date.” But these are just the lucky among us. “Everyone else,” he said, “the vast majority of humanity, lacks “Reality Privilege”—their online world is, or will be, immeasurably richer and more fulfilling than most of the physical and social environment around them in the quote-unquote “real world.”

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The first road biologically and genetically modifies natural evolution, the second road moves beyond what we are to join with machines or become artificial life. I affirm the first road of conscious evolutionary modification of billions of years of unconscious evolution, from the simple to the complex, using many forms of biological enhancements.

The superstructure of genetics and bioengineering needs to rest on the evolutionary base of biology and genetics, and not become a new artificial structure without a natural base. We can enhance our genetic and biological capabilities endlessly as we evolve toward Godhood, but if we upload ourselves into silicone chips we could end natural evolutionary life, which is a diabolical end.

There seems to be something almost paranoid about those who see racism behind any talk of the improvement of hereditary qualities, which is taken to the point of preferring artificial evolution to biological evolution, as with many transhumanists. A very cynical reading could also see those who wish to stop the evolutionary biological improvement of hereditary qualities as an underhanded way to enhance their own genes, consciously or unconsciously, by stopping the advancement of others.

Ethics can be inferred from evolutionary history (what else?) otherwise we attempt to go beyond nature itself. This does nor mean we will not move beyond the human species, ethnocentrism, for example, has been a stopping off place to secure beneficial mutations before moving on to the next stage, the next pause, the next species.

A sacred synthesis

2023-06-25T11:12:00.003-06:00

We can have our old religions and our old political and cultural arrangements along with modern science, they just have to be adapted a bit, so conservatives and revolutionaries can rest easier.

With evolution we are destined to be Gods: the golden synthesis of religion and science.

The will, soul, spirit, life-force, will to power, will to Godhood, or as I call it: Tirips, is the sacred will to evolve to Godhood and nothing more than that,which is enough. It is the most sacred drive but it isn't God, it is the drive within life to Godhood which must live and adapt the life it lives within to the exigencies of natural selection and evolution. It is a material drive, but the most sacred element of the material drives. It is not a “spiritual” drive, it lives within life and is passed on through procreation. It part of our nature, and the most important drive of the direction of our lives and cultures or should be.

This worldview which I define as theological materialism is the golden synthesis of religion and science. Energy is matter in another form, so matter is really not passive as Newton's first law said. Matter in the form of energy moves matter. Matter in the form of energy moves matter from within matter as well as from outside of matter. There is more than an outward action or reaction with matter, there is an inward vitalism working within and shaped by outside evolution, which is the activation of the will to life as inward metabolism, growth, reproduction. Theological materialism amplifies this vitalist will to life with the goal of Tirips or the will-to-evolve-toward-Godhood. Spirituality is not needed in religion when matter is not passive. It is matter not spirit that is evolving to its zenith of Godhood. With evolution we are destined to be Gods.

Political philosophers talk of ideologies, like the Great Reset, religious philosophers talk of covenants, mysticism, etc, like the Traditionalist School, I believe the Third Covenant, the Cosmic Covenant, surpasses both of these.

My view of the absolute importance of human evolution kept me away from the brilliant seduction of the Traditionalist School which is where the Alt-right turned. Many have now gone over to the school of Guenon, Evola, and the Russian Dugin, and embraced a non-populist, old spiritual religious, imperialist, hierarchy of rule, and have downplayed or even rejected the idea of science and evolutionary progress. Why didn't the Alt-right feature more Western geniuses, men like the brilliant British/American psychologist Raymond Cattell, or the great Neo-Darwinist field of sociobiology, rather than converting to the West-hating Russian imperialist Aleksandr Dugin and his Traditionalist School teachers, Guénon and Evola who did not find science (a jewel of the West) nearly as important as Eastern spiritualism (a jewel of the East).

I write of Three Covenants explaining how in the First Covenant of Primordial Tradition the Spirit and Soul of the Inward Path were understood as existing in the blood, that is, as being passed on only racially and tribally to a chosen eg. (Jewish) or noble (Aryan) people, etc.. Then Jesus Christ (and Eastern masters) brought the knowledge that the spirit and Soul-Within need not be understood and affirmed only racially or tribally but could be understood and followed by any race, any people, universally, provided they were taught the proper way to see or experience the God Within; Christianity said we were “Chosen” through faith in Christ not chosen by blood. That was the Second Covenant. Theological materialism (and the projected Theoevolutionary Church) affirm the mission and path of the Third Covenant, the Cosmic Covenant of the Evolutionary Outward Path, which revitalizes Primordial Tradition, Christianity, Hinduism etc. by once again affirming the First Covenant of genetic and biological qualities within our material evolution to supermaterial Godhood as applied to the Outward Path.

Constitutions and moral truths need to rest on real natural rights according to real human nature. From there we can derive the set of preferences with which to start. Natural law, when including the biological origin of social behavior, tells us that we have a biology determined human nature. Our real freedom is limited by various determined choices, but we have the flexibility to be mistaken about who we are and what we can do and be.

The best and most recent sociobiological knowledge has been telling us that human nature, affirmed throughout human history, has been, and continues to be basically, kin-centered, gender defined, age-grading, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection. This is basic human nature.

If real kin and ethnic-centered human nature was allowed to be what it is, it would naturally lead to ethnostates, and finally, if we are wise, to an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all groups, black, white, brown, yellow, or red, with each ethnostate protected from marauding imperialists, global businesses, supremacists, Marxists, etc., and defended by a defensive federalism. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates could be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states.

Both liberalism and Marxism got it wrong

2023-05-15T07:16:00.001-06:00

"Marx’s principal insight is that the categories liberals use to construct their theory of political reality (liberty, equality, rights, and consent) are insufficient for understanding the political domain. They are insufficient because the liberal picture of the political world leaves out two phenomena that are, according to Marx, absolutely central to human political experience: the fact that people invariably form cohesive classes or groups and the fact that these classes or groups invariably oppress or exploit one another, with the state itself functioning as an instrument of the oppressor class.” Paul Gottfried, Chronicles, April 2023

If this was the Marx view that “people invariably form cohesive classes or groups and the fact that these classes or groups invariably oppress or exploit one another,” he got that part right, but he missed the fact that this comes from the biological origin of social behavior and not primarily from cultural or economic conditions. This error led to the wrong solutions to the problem.

But the solution is not to advocate for individualism which as far away from real human nature as saying culture or nurture are primarily the origin of social behavior. Human nature, affirmed throughout human history, has been, and continues to be basically, kin-centered, gender defined, age-grading, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection. This is basic human nature.

The hidden truths about human nature and natural law

2023-05-10T06:27:00.000-06:00

Admitting this hidden truth about human nature and natural law will be very difficult because it admits ethnocentrism which is still widely thought of as evil.

The melting pot society went against the biological origin of social behavior and basic human nature

2023-04-29T07:31:00.000-06:00

Edward Wilson supplied an increasingly precise basic definition of human nature. Human nature has been affirmed throughout human history, at least since paleolithic times (from 2.6 million years ago to the present) as being basically 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. Trying to overcome this basic human nature has been impossible. We need a system where citizens of different ethnic groups and races can work together for the common good with ethnostates and an ethnopluralism. We need a system of ethnostates and ethnopluralism where differences and self-interest can be appreciated. Everyone can share the same cause, the same realistic pluralism. It wont be easy but the whole business of the melting pot society went against the biological origin of social behavior and basic human nature.

A realistic pluralism based on the biological origin of social behavior

2023-04-19T06:47:00.003-06:00

Political realism should be first based on the biological origin of social behavior, and secondarily on the realistic assumption that power is (or ought to be) the primary end of political action for all peoples, whether in the domestic or international arena. The main problem of the ethnocentrism of the 20^th century remains today and the politically realistic way to deal with ethnocentrism is through a common pluralism of ethnostates where self interest is seen in having ethnostates in common.

For this realism to take place we must accept that human nature evolved to be genetically kin-centered and ethnic-centered, even xenophobic, with group-selection and ethnic selection having been the primary unit of successful selection, followed by individual selection.

This is a realistic pluralism, the most realistic way for the different people, different races, different cultures to get along together.

Theological materialism, short definition

2023-04-16T11:19:00.002-06:00

“God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” John 4-24

Wrong: there is no real spirit, God or Godhood is a supermaterial, super-evolved living object or objects, Godhood is the goal of the primary drive within life and evolution, the material drive-force which is wrongly called spirit. This is the next direction which religion will take, called theological materialism.

Falling into a suicidal universalism

2023-04-10T05:42:00.000-06:00

“...Historically, Christians understood that while they had duties to outsiders, their principal duties were to those closest to them. No sane person would trust a mother who claimed to love all the children in the world as much as she loves her own. Nor should anyone trust a politician who claims to love all the people of the world as much as he loves his own...

Tribal behavior is what makes human beings human. Take it away from “man” or “humankind” and what you get is not “pure man” or “liberated man” but dehumanization and, from that, tyranny.

If Europe and the United States were simply to let in everyone who wanted to come, as the Biden administration is more or less doing along the United States’ open southern border, both places would soon be populated primarily by recent arrivals from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The United States and Europe would thus be completely unrecognizable to the great geniuses who made Western civilization the envy of the world, as well as the generations of ordinary Europeans and Americans who naturally imbibed what those geniuses created...…....

If American politicians still knew that their primary responsibility was the welfare of their fellow Americans, not the global economy.”

Tom Piatak (Chronicles)

Saving conservatism

2023-04-03T07:09:00.000-06:00

Conservatism can be saved only if it includes conserving the race or ethnic group that created the cultures that are to be saved. But alas, that is the one thing not emphasized in the conservative programs, which eventually dooms a people and a culture. But it could be added and emphasized in conservatism.

Why was this not emphasized? It seems one reason was the reluctance to accept the biological origin of social behavior and the belief in non-materiality as the basis of behavior. Another reason is the push back from competing races and ethnic groups, which could have been avoided if each race and ethnic group had their own ethnostate.

To save conservatism and to conserve various ethnic groups and races, conserving the race or ethnic groups that created the cultures needs to be emphasized by conservatism.

Why in view of the biological origin of our social behavior Biden and his administration must be considered evil

2023-03-27T07:33:00.000-06:00

Most important in the origin of our behavior is the biological origin of our social behavior. Whether you think its politically correct or not ethnic bonds are the root and base of nations and when they fall apart the nation falls apart. If we want to be conservative we must try to find the solution to our racial problems within the system. Gradual change is of course the preferred default method of change, but drastic change has happened to correct a worn out and corrupt world.

We could add more power to the healthy separation of powers and states or regions toward becoming ethnostates, so that we could end up with an ethnopluralism of ethnostates. We could reaffirm the separation of powers and states and reaffirm the 10th amendment where "the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States, respectively, or to the people."

That is the best political/cultural configuration to harmonize with real human nature, because in spite of the propaganda of modern liberalism and cultural Marxism, human nature remains kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of successful selection, followed by individual selection.

That is the legal and non-violent way to save the United States from the open mass immigration of Biden and his administration, which, in view of the above mentioned biological origin of our social behavior must be considered evil.

Elites use ideologies as a veil of deception

2023-03-11T08:06:00.000-06:00

“All societies are run by and for the benefits of their elites, rather than by the principles of political ideologies such as democracy, communism, or fascism. . .though elites use ideologies as a veil of deception Burnham sees both elites and ideologies as necessary for all functioning human societies..Ideologies are an indispensable verbal cement holding the fabric of any given society together.” (Edward Welsch on James Burnham. Chronicles, August 2021)

Unless a miracle occurs comparable to Trump's 2016 election China may rule the future

2023-03-05T10:31:00.001-06:00

Srdjaja Trifkovic in Chronicles (aug 2021) wrote this of the Chinese: “Unlike the Western tradition, China does not treat the individual endowed by natural rights, as the key building block of good harmonious polity. It gives absolute primacy to the family, the community, the Han ethnicity, and the State. It does not see diversity as strength but as a self evident weakness to be exploited. Accordingly, China does not accept immigrants and asylum seekers...It shares an essentially conservative consensus on gender roles, marriage, family, local community, and the nation. It continues to uphold the hierarchical order in a competitive, merit-based society: good grades, loyalty to the state, and hard work will be rewarded...”

Unless a miracle occurs comparable to Trump's 2016 election China may rule the future.

If conservatives want to establish long lasting and stable society's they will have eventually face these truths about human nature

2023-02-17T11:06:00.001-06:00

Conservative's leave out or de-emphasize the most important part of human nature and social life: the inborn genetic preference for ethnic group or group selection. This lack of emphasis seems to stem from the activities of nonwhite and minority ethnic groups who adamantly oppose and fear being excluded, and also stem from past failed brutal attempts to establish ethnostates. This keeps conservatives in fear of being able to establish the long lasting and stable society's they rightly want.

Groups with related genes, like ethnic groups, have numerous reasons for cooperating more successfully and harmoniously than with other ethnic groups. Ethnocentric groups are more likely to win the battle of group selection. Real human nature is ethnocentric, not with one group overall superior or inferior but with different talents, never equal, because for many thousands of years right up to our present time group selection, or ethnic altruism, was the best way to be successful in survival and reproduction. So human nature became genetically kin-centered and ethnic-centered, even xenophobic, as well as being genetically gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making, hierarchical, and religious-making, with group-selection and ethnic selection as the primary unit of successful selection, followed by individual selection.

If conservatives want to establish long lasting and stable society's they will have to eventually face these truths about human nature. If real kin and ethnic-centered human nature was allowed to be what it is, it would naturally lead to ethnostates, and finally, if we are wise, to an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all groups, black, white, brown, yellow, or red, with each ethnostate protected from marauding imperialists, global businesses, supremacists, Marxists, etc., and defended by a defensive federalism. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates could be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states.

Why human nature became genetically kin-centered and ethnic-centered

2023-02-04T08:59:00.007-06:00

We should be primarily conceived not as an individual, and not just as the family, but as a unit of a larger ethnic group---it is this institution that is the basic bonding place of larger social life. The family, which is of course vital, is nevertheless not capable of self preservation without a larger group to help protect the individual and family, and to help bond the social morality of the individual and the family living in society. In the end the essential function is the reproduction and evolution of the human race, beyond the individual or the family.

It is the ongoing evolution of life and in various group selections on the sacred path of evolution to Godhood that best counter ominous Spenglerian pessimism.

History is

2023-02-01T09:41:00.002-06:00

History is primarily the biography great men, as Carlyle said, but they also work with, or lead, or need, bonded ethnic groups to complete the historical biography.

The Theoevolutionary Church (TC), and Jungian Psychology (from 2009)

2023-01-19T15:23:00.000-06:00

By Kenneth Lloyd Anderson

Part One

Individuation and Sacred Affirmation

The question is, how does Carl Jung define the instincts and the unconscious with which he wishes to balance the conscious mind?

Jung did not have the science of sociobiology (although he did have Darwin) to work with, which has related consciousness to instincts of survival and reproduction. That is, the conscious and the unconscious, as well as human behavior in general have been largely, although not solely, controlled by mostly unconscious instincts to be successful in survival and reproduction. Perhaps these instincts are not as atrophied as Jung considered them to be.

Let me begin by saying that The Theoevolutionary Church (TC), maintains that the central activation of the mostly unconscious instincts resides in the Spirit Within, which seeks to activate life to Godhood in evolution. It is this drive which the conscious mind needs to integrate and balance and apply to civilization. Enlightened consciousness is based in this realization of the Ideal of the Instincts, and in turn this gives unconscious instincts a sacred religious base, a base missing in both Traditional religion and psychoanalysis, which deny, block, or psychologize this ideal.

It is the Self in Jung that replaces God, even though Jung does seem to make nods in the direction of a transcendent Self. For Jung, the Self essentially remains in the human unconscious where supposedly psychoanalysis can root it out and bring it to consciousness by studying dreams, symbols, and so on.

This is a mostly worthy endeavor, but eventually the base of the activation of the unconscious needs to be understood to be the Will to Godhood of the Spirit, which helps activate both nature and nurture to evolve materially and spiritually to Godhood. This becomes far more than the balance sought of “individuation,” this becomes a Sacred Affirmation of the Ideal of the Instincts.

The Four Zeniths

In TC we say that the zenith of the body is the mind, the zenith of the mind is the soul, or self, the zenith of the soul is the spirit, and the zenith of the spirit is Godhood. Affirming the four zeniths brings psychobiological health, indeed, the need for spiritual meaning is in this way instinctive or innate.

Civilizing the Beast

The unconscious must not be reduced to being a barbarian. The instincts are not evil. Survival and reproduction are not evil, and the dynamics of evolution are not evil.

When the unconscious is understood as being activated by the Will to Godhood, or the Spirit, then the unconscious can be a source of revelation. But if the unconscious is reduced to Soul-Mind alone, the Self of Jung, then it is doubtful that this can be considered a source of the deepest revelation because this self is still human, all too human.

Too often the unconscious has been thought to be “pathological” because it can “bursts out” after being ignored and repressed. But we should not be too quick to define the actions of evolution as pathological.

The dark side (the unconscious) and the light side (consciousness) are not thought of as opposing one another in TC. The light side of Traditional Religion is represented by the Evolutionary Outward Path and the dark side, more or less represented by the Involutionary Inward Path. But this is a less than desired way of defining these things, because it is based in ancient antagonisms, gnostic antagonisms, between spirit and matter, with matter always being reduced to the dark side, even essentially defined as the “shadow” by Jung.

We use the term Civilizing the Beast in TC to mean bringing in from the cold the “beast” of material life, ending the exile of the beast caused by the Great Spiritual Blockade of material evolution to Godhood. This is one of our main responses to both revealed religion and psychoanalysis.

In Jung “good” and “evil” are relative to consciousness and not fixed or absolute, because good and evil are only within our consciousness. In psychoanalysis the unconscious can introduce a view that can unsettle religion and society. For example, if religion calls “good” a life devoid of sexuality, then the unconscious objects to this repression. But since we often cannot face the “evil” within ourselves, we “project” the evil onto something or someone else. Jung even defines war this way, as a consequence of people not able to face their own shadow side, and so they make the other side evil. The more repression of the shadow, the bigger potential explosion, such as war. I will have more on the subject of war later in this essay.

Jung preferred to channel the twin forces of good and evil into a cultural form, with a less one-sided view of religion, and with a more gnostic view that could encompass the dark as well as the light, a system that could encompass opposites. For example, Jung said, “Christianity split the Germanic Barbarian into an upper and lower half, and enabled him, by repressing the dark side to domesticate the brighter half and fit it for civilization. But the lower, darker half still awaits redemption and a second spell of domestication.”

This is precisely what TC offers. In TC the Inward and Outward Path harmonize material and spiritual evolution. The “evil” of material evolution is seen as not evil, but as the path to attain Godhood---the God first seen in the “good” Inward Path of Revealed Religion. When we speak of the Great Spiritual Blockade, we think we are more realistically addressing the problem Jung saw of blocking unconscious or instinctive forces. When we speak of The Ideal of the Instincts, this is the real inclusion required to end the repression of human nature and end our exile from nature and evolution.

When W. B. Yeats speaks in his poem “The Second Coming,” of the beast being born in Bethlehem and recognized as a co-equal, this is that same need to incorporate the dark side. We think TC can act as the “civilizing force” for the whole man, engaging both the instincts and consciousness in recognizing the true repression of the instincts. The instincts seek Godhood and consciousness needs to know this and help guide evolution in this great and sacred task.

We have been describing here some of the same goals that Jung had, but we have, if I dare say, a deeper project. We are not made whole---and mankind will not be made whole---merely by absorbing or harmonizing the human unconscious into human consciousness.

The Spirit Within the unconscious seeks to activate the instincts to evolve life to Godhood, and the unconscious, and even the Spirit, will not be made whole until Godhood is attained. God exists beyond the human unconscious, yet God is first seen in the human unconscious through the Soul, the zenith of the mind, or more rarely seen through the Spirit.

To be made whole, we require the true God of the Evolutionary Outward Path, the God first seen in the Involutionary Inward Path of Revealed Religions, and the God defined much later in the unconscious by Carl Jung.

The Shadow Behind the Shadow

Civilization is out of balance with itself, as Jung discerned. But it will not be balanced alone by incorporating the unconscious into consciousness. Deeper than the unconscious is the Will to Godhood of the Spirit, which activates both the unconscious and the conscious mind. This is the shadow behind the shadow. We will always be out of balance until we attain Godhood in evolution.

“Accepting our fate” means accepting the Ideal of the Instincts, which is our destiny of Godhood. This defines a positive theology.

On War

It is a very serious mistake to think that “projection,” or transferring unacceptable “evil” from one's own unconscious onto an enemy, alone leads to war and violence, and that the “cure” is to synthesize the evil shadow of ourselves into our own conscious minds. Evolution is competitive, and alas, competition can be deadly, but this will not cease by incorporating the unconscious.

Understanding evolution and the Will to Godhood behind life can lead to finding acceptable cultural structures which allow evolution and competition to take place. For example, various forms of federalism which promote variety, localism and independent states, might be such an evolutionary cultural structure.

Jungianism may relieve the human psyche by opening wider the unconscious, more so than an exclusively involutionary religion, but the Theoevolutionary Church includes the evolutionary drive, which drives the psyche itself.

Jung may be right in saying that Involutionary Christianity did not enough engage the darker side, but Jungianism did not engage evolution nearly enough. Jung may offer more than the “pleasing patina” which Jung defined as Christianity, but Jungianism is itself a veneer of the unconscious over the evolutionary dynamic.

Jung was pessimistic about psychic health originating from governments, or even from religions. He thought psychic health had to happen with individuals first. This seems true also of the traditional teaching of virtue to individuals first in religion, but this pessimism seems also to stem from virtually ignoring the powerful universal force of evolution, where individuals help groups survive, and group selection is a central dynamic in human life, however blocked and unconscious culturally it may be today. Sociobiology has shown that individualism, as well as Jung's ideal of “individuation,” need to be related to group dynamics and evolution if they are not to be thought of as selfish.

On Gender

We have to realize that the force and direction of the Spirit is greater than ourselves. We can perhaps agree with Jung's calling the soul the logos of animas, and calling the spirit the animus of eros, but we don't see these as gender specific. Both genders possess them.

In the Theoevolutionary Church , the Soul, or animas, defines the mind (logos), or more precisely, the Zenith of the Mind, and the Spirit is defined as the Zenith of the Soul, or the Will to Godhood, working through survival and reproduction (eros) and evolution, which applies to both genders.

When the Spirit is seen as more than eros, more than connectedness and love, and when the Spirit is seen as the Will to Godhood, then talk of gender seems to fade, as both genders seek the same Godhood.

Men may be inclined psychobiologically more to logos, and women more to eros, but it is the genders working together in a complementary fashion, toward integrating the Spirit into the Soul and the Will to Godhood into the Mind, which is the central psychological and biological integration needed for both genders. We would have to disagree with Jung in his suggestion that only men have animas (Souls) and only women animus (or Spirit). Both genders have soul and spirit.

Was Jung himself blocked a bit by limiting spirituality to the unconscious human mind, which might have led to his concentration on gender differences? When the Spirit is seen as the Will to Godhood in evolution, then gender, though important, is less centered upon in religion.

Sociobiology has validated many of Jung's gender differences, which had, until recently, suffered from deconstruction as being merely social constructions. The truth remains a balance between the forces of mind, body, gender, evolution and culture.

Evolutionary Therapy

The Priest's role in the Theoevolutionary Church (TC), is to understand the intentionality of the Spirit, which the person is often unable to clearly comprehend, whereas in Jungian psychology, the therapist's role is to represent the intentions of the psyche and to see or understand the “Self”. The Priest needs to take the side of the Spirit, whereas the psychoanalyst takes the side of the Unconscious.

In “Evolutionary Therapy,” the Priest would need to mediate a deal or balance between the Spirit and the soul which the parishioner can live with. “Befriending” the spirit may be a task which could involve political incorrect insights. Egotistical human life and modern values may seem limited in the face of the long evolution of the spirit to Godhood, beyond man, beyond superman, beyond angels and gods, all the way to Godhood.

When the spirit is blocked, It turns away from its central path. The Priests “art” in TC is to help “release” the spirit into the energy of the person and society, making the energy of the spirit available for the individual and for society---like the martial arts, we can learn to use or turn the powerful force of the spirit away from hurting ourselves into helping ourselves, and helping our societies evolve.

Meanwhile the soul, which is the Zenith of the Mind and the ego, must maintain its task to intelligently help guide or “ride the tiger” of the spirit, even as the Soul needs to stop blocking the spirit. This is the desired balance. We need to befriend, not only the unconscious, but the spirit which activates the unconscious, and we need to correctly define the spirit and its direction.

We are not merely looking for the opposite of the ego, the contrary elements of our psyche, because androgynous balance is not the goal. The great goal of the Spirit is the goal, which lies beyond us, beyond the human unconscious, at the Zenith of Evolution to Godhood. Whatever parts of our psyche seem opposed to the direction of the spirit need to be synthesized and balanced.

Part Two

A Biospiritual Form of Transcendence

Jung's “transcendent function” goes at least as deep as the “Self” within the human psyche. Some argue that Jung was also defining something beyond the human being and beyond the human psyche, but this does not seem likely. David Tacey ("How To Read Jung") believes Jung does not wish to imply that this is a metaphysical process, or is a spiritual transcendence. Jung sees this as a “natural biological process.” The creation of the third or “tertium” in Jung seems like a biological process.

In TC, Godhood is a biological form of transcendence which we often call biospiritual transcendence, to indicate the highest levels of evolution, which are, in this sense, spiritual or biospiritual.

Inflation of the Human

Using Jung's concept of “inflation” somewhat differently, there can be an inflation of the human, yet alone inflation of the ego, which seems to take place in Jungian therapy when elements of the unconscious are seen as only human forces. The Spirit Within activates us to evolve far beyond the human, far beyond the human unconscious, far beyond the incorporation of the human unconscious into consciousness.

Jung said, “A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.” ("Psychotherapists or the Clergy") This is well said, but, we would use the word spirit rather than the word soul, which takes things out of the realm of the human psyche, the seed of the soul, and its potential inflation, and takes us into the realm of evolution, ultimately to Godhood.

The cause of suffering will probably not be cured by psychoanalysis because the human psyche and the human self is seeking something beyond itself, it is seeking to evolve to Godhood. There will, of course, be the suffering related to survival and reproduction in evolution, until Godhood is reached.

Knowing the goal of the spirit will certainly give meaning to a confused neurotic. Jung seems right in giving the patient their own psychic story, or myth (what Jung called a healthy fiction), especially since they seem to need it most in the second half of their lives. Jung thought no one could be healed without gaining a religious outlook. But Jung's medicine stopped at the human psyche, this is not a cosmic enough myth, which can inflate the human being.

Material causation goes much deeper than science now knows. We may one day understand the spirit and Godhood in physical or chemical terms, but for now we do not.

The mind is virtually reducible to the brain, which is where the soul lies, at the Zenith of the Mind. It is the spirit which lies at the Zenith of the Soul, and has transcendent properties, which go beyond the imminent or involutionary brain and soul. Yet even the spirit is inevitably bonded to the body and to matter, since the body is the vehicle of the spirit's evolution, and the only way the spirit will reach Godhood is through the evolution of the body activated by the spirit.

Establishment psychology seems to be a science, a “logos” without a soul or psyche, as Jung believed, but psychoanalysis seems to be a soul without a spirit.

Yet the logos is God to the Gnostics, which makes them, paradoxically, the progenitors of science. The Word, the Great Equation, is God to the Gnostics, which derived from Plato, Zoroastrianism, and the East.

Jung believed that the spiritual was real and natural (a deeper dimension of the real) yet he did not believe the logos was enough. Jung's spirituality was not discernible, necessarily, by reason or logic, yet it was real. This is confusing. How is the spiritual real, yet not discernible by logos? The answer is that what is defined as spiritual in Jung is really the logos, as it is defined in all the involutionary religions. It is an introverted, involutionary soul defined, an idea defined, and not really a biological process. Jung did affirm Gnosticism after all.

Spiritual Logos

In TC science becomes spiritual and the spiritual becomes science. The logos, then, moves into the camp of the spiritual since definition and equations and words can be defined as spiritual and of the mind only. In TC the Object not the definition of the object is all.

The spiritual joins the material in that the material evolves to Godhood and Godhood is the Zenith of biospiritual evolution. The spiritual is therefore real and the logos is unreal in TC, which transposes the traditional structure.

Symbols and archetypes are thus of the logos and not of the spirit, since they are symbols for a thing and not a thing in themselves. Jung seems confused in denying the logos and affirming the soul in analysis, since his soul is logos.

TC affirms the Supreme Object Godhood and not merely the logos or definition of God. And furthermore the Supreme Logos exists only in the mind of God, much like reason exists in the mind of man.

Our transvaluation or transposition says that science or logos defines the world and is therefore spiritual, and religion or the spiritual becomes the world and is therefore material.

When Jung seeks the spiritual in man, he is really moving away from the spiritual, and moving toward the logos of definition and symbol, thereby denying the spiritual as he seeks the logos.

The spirit is grounded in the material because it exists within the material, activating the material to evolve to Godhood. When we try to separate the material from the spiritual we create a false duality and concentrate instead on the logos of definition. This has set up the Great Spiritual Blockade.

We need to move back to the Object, and not the symbol of the Object.

Even the logos of definition is grounded in the mind within the body, as the spirit is grounded in the body of the soul. The mind or soul doesn't exist without the body, and the spirit cannot evolve without the body. This is not the Gnostic “entrapment” of the mind or spirit, this is material reality, the reality of the Object. There is no duality in this sense, which means the Jungians, Gnostics and their forefathers in Platonism, Zoroastrianism, Brahmanism, were more or less mistaken in seeing dualities. Martin Heidegger seems to have seen duality something like this.

In therapy Jung was worried about the ego appropriating things coming in from the unconscious and therefore Jung called for “expansion without inflation” of the ego. We see the best way to avoid the inflation of the ego is to avoid the inflation of the unconscious as well. The spirit is not complete in the human unconscious and seeks Godhood. What better way to avoid inflation of any kind, then to understand that we need to evolve far beyond the human species.

Spiritual Neurosis

A “psychoneurosis,” according to Jung, must ultimately be understood as “the suffering of the soul which has not discovered its meaning.” But it is the suffering not of the soul but the “suffering” of the spirit which we are concerned with. The spirit seeks to evolve beyond the unconscious, beyond the soul, beyond the psyche, all the way to Godhood. The spirit needs to direct unconscious material life to evolve this way. The Soul-Mind needs to discover its meaning in the evolution of the spirit. This defines the spiritual neurosis. Therefore, wholeness is more than “psychospiritual” wholeness.

We agree with Jung when Jung says that the spiritual is eminently “natural,” that it is not supernatural and that the spiritual is a deeper dimension of the real. But the deeper dimension of the natural and the real is Godhood, the Supreme Real Object which we must materially evolve to in the cosmos. Jung does not project the “real” to this destination.

Original Sin

We can somewhat agree with Jung's definition of original sin as alienation from the base of our nature, but we have severed more than our connections with the human unconscious. We have severed our connections with the evolving spirit, and this is the true “original sin”.

We need more than a “psychological enlightenment,” and this enlightenment is not beyond the categories of good and evil, as Jung implies. There is, in fact, an ethical code related to recovery of our alienation as defined by evolution. The basic code can tell us the “pattern” that takes evolution forward toward higher and higher consciousness, from the simple to the complex, and so on. It is the very difficult Beyondist task in the Order of the Outward Path to discern the evolutionary direction of the Spirit Within material life.

The new religioscience of the late Raymond Cattell's Beyondism sought to understand evolution and sociobiology so that human beings may evolve naturally out into the cosmos. We would continue this task, but unlike Cattell, we do continue to affirm and embrace the moral codes of “Traditional Religion” through the Involutionary Inward Path, which among other things, keeps the conservative order that is so important to continued evolution. Ordered Evolution is the balance we seek in our Revitalized Conservatism.

On “Remembering the Soul”

“Remembering the Soul” in Jung's Platonic reference makes one happy or “eudaimonic,” full of happiness, but therein lies the danger of what we have defined as The Great Spiritual Blockade. We stop and swim in eudaimonic bliss and forget or overlook the evolutionary direction of the Spirit and the Body. This has been the great error of Traditionalism.

Both Plato and Jung believed that this “remembering” was a central activity of the human soul. But we have called this a Great Spiritual Blockade which needs to be unblocked. It is not only the ego that opposes this remembering, it is the eudaimonic remembering itself that is the opponent of wholeness.

The ego may be a “good servant but lousy master” (Tacey) but the unconscious can also be a diminished master since the unconscious itself must learn to take direction from the Spirit or the Will to Godhood.

Ritual in TC, as in other religions, helps us get back in touch with the Will to Godhood, the flow of the Spirit, which is the central function of the ritual. Tacey points out that the word ritual comes from the Latin ritus, relating to flow and river.

Symbolic life according to Jung is initiated by spiritual life. The symbols point toward higher reality. Later in this essay we will define the ritual of the Mass of Joy.

The Alchemy of Evolution

The “holy marriage,” “the conjunctio,” the “chymical wedding” of alchemy is seen in ECC as the alchemy of evolution, leading to Godhood. Sacred Unions must be discovered in the alchemy of evolution to Godhood.

Sexuality not only symbolizes the search for the missing “other half,” it actually provides the Real conjunction of reproduction necessary to evolve to Godhood in the material world. Romance seeks the other half, the missing piece, which is why romance has often been a symbol for seeking Godhood.

The Spirit is “sick” when it does not feel connected to the Universal Spirit of the Cosmos, the “tree of life” in Hyperborean terms. The ego is often resistant to or ignorant of this connection.

The Spirit seeks more than to unite with the universal Spirit Within, the Spirit seeks to activate material life to evolve all the way to Godhood. Let us not stop the Spirit too soon, short of its goal.

It is the dams and walls set up against the Spirit, in the Great Spiritual Blockade, that we are concerned with, more so even than the walls blocking the conscious mind from the unconscious, which was the primary concern of Jung.

Nature is goal-directed toward evolution, and the unconscious is only a servant of this great goal, as the ego is the servant of the unconscious, or perhaps should be.

Biospiritual Health

It is our biospiritual health that we are concerned with, not merely our psychological health. We need to be in contact with more than unconscious human archetypes, we need to seek Godhood beyond the archetypes of the human species. Jung was concerned that religion damned up the unconscious, but we are concerned that the unconscious has damned up the Spirit, the Will to Godhood.

It is not only “psychic hygiene” we are concerned with but biospiritual hygiene. There has been no religious cosmology or cosmogony to affirm the forces of evolution which so essentially drive us. Contacting and including the unconscious is simply not enough.

Part Three

New Age

According to Jung, as religion and religious symbols have collapsed, we have opened the Pandora's box of the unconscious. And this process has increased since the time of Jung. New Age and neopagan organizations proliferate as the old religious symbols have declined.

The New Age has affirmed a so-called “evolutionary spirituality” which nevertheless defines only the evolution of human consciousness, not the evolution of the human species to super species and beyond to the gods---although it makes little fearful nods toward actual biological evolution. Therefore, in our opinion the New Age will not suffice in the search for religious symbols, just as Jungian psychology seeking to make a truce with the unconscious, was not enough.

The Spirit, the Will to Godhood, does not go away because we do not think about it, or know it. It is an instinctive force at the base of life, and TC is now paying attention to this primal force.

Religion, not psychology, is the “therapeutic system” we require, but we need a religion of biospirituality, and not one that denies even the validity or importance of the material world, as traditional religions essentially tend to do.

If we ignore the sacred symbol of evolution, it will not go away, it will break out in ways that seem uncivilized to us. Imperial racism is one example of this. We seek to “Civilize The Beast” of evolution with the religion of The Theoevolutionary Church (TC),. (“Civilizing The Beast” is our blog title, from Nietzsche, or Yeats?)

We do not wish to kill the 'beast' of evolution, as modern conscious life has tried to do, and thereby putting up a dam that will burst out occasionally in brutality. Evolution needs to be an ecumenical activity, and all people, all races, all states must be allowed to biospiritually evolve in what we call an Ordered Evolution, helped along with Revitalized Conservatism. This view finds imperial or colonial racism unacceptable.

We would not want Jungian psychology to become a therapeutic system which frees us from the necessity of dealing with the Spirit Within or the Will to Godhood and human evolution, by directing all our psychic energies into the human unconscious alone. We could tragically end the path of evolution to God if we are unable to unblock the forces that block evolution. We could even end human life itself.

Homo evolutus

The order of evolution has been unbalanced. Nietzsche wrote in “The Genealogy of Morals”: “All instincts that do not discharge themselves outwardly, turn inward—this is what I call the internalization of man: thus it was that man first developed what was later called his 'soul'.” It has been suggested that here might be one of the sources of Jung's (and Freud's) psychological dynamic.

While this may be true of the Soul, which is the Zenith of the Mind, it ignores the Spirit, which activates both mind and body from within, as the vital force in life and evolution. The spirit is not merely the product of outward life internalized, even if the soul may be. Nietzsche's Will to Power is more essentially, or more precisely the Will to Godhood, the Spirit in TC. Nietzsche's Will and Jung's unconscious need to be finer tuned to the dynamic of evolution to Godhood.

Jung said at one point, “the gods have become diseases,” but what he could have said was, in Jungianism the gods have become the human unconscious. We have been insisting here that the gods are real objects, biospiritual, beyond the human species, and beyond the human unconscious, and they can be evolved to.

The Cultural Slumber

We wish to awaken the Spirit, the Will to Godhood, from It's long cultural slumber, and not merely awaken the human unconscious. We are speaking of the source and activation behind the human unconscious. We understand that these are powerful forces and it should certainly be emphasized that the Spirit does not belong to one people or one state alone.

Ours is an ecumenical approach. All people, all states, need to be allowed to evolve in variety, to the gods, and ultimately to Godhood. This is the central mission of the Evolutionary Christian Church.

We think that the scientific, philosophical, political, and psychological cultures can become religious cultures, as these fields synthesize in the future. Material evolution needs to be seen as religious with a material-spiritual-numinous end.

Spiritual forces were relocated in the human unconscious with Carl Jung. They need to be relocated again in the Will to Godhood of the spirit in evolution.

Prophecy and the religion dynamic have been moved from priests to philosopher, to psychologist, to the artist. Prophecy needs to be brought back to the priests, where it began. Yet the patterns seen, the intuitive beauty of the cosmic “system” does seem to require the eye and imagination of the artist.

Jung thought we could not go back to the old religion, at least he could not go back, even to the great rituals of the Catholic Mass. The symbolism no longer worked for him, it did not express what he needed psychologically, and he did not, or could not found a new religion. So, basically, he went back to dreams, to the original Shamanic guide for man, back to the great primitive darkness.

We cannot agree with this solution to the loss of the old religion and the loss of the symbolic life. Revitalization, not revolution is the solution. For example, orthodox Judaism and the Kabbalah learned a great deal from the older religion of the Zoroastrians during Jewish captivity in Babylon, and the Zoroastrians learned a great deal from their cousin in Vedism, and Vedism seems to have been founded in the Hyperborean religion of an Arctic Homeland before the “cataclysm”. We would point out to the revolutionary minded that these great religions were overlaid, one upon the other, with changes that were adjustments to the conditions and new knowledge of the time, that is, they were philosophical, political, psychological and biological adjustments to the times. The old ways were retained, but revitalized.

TC is seeking to revitalize religion by bringing the old symbols in line with the modern world, and with knowledge of evolution, finding revitalized symbols.

Can we retain the “ecstasy” of being outside the human ego in religious ritual, which Jung believed was missing from modern, non-religious life? Ritual can supply this, but it needs to be ritual that modern men can believe in.

The ego and the unconscious are “trapped” in the body in present time. We need to untrap this entrapment through the use of new ritual, by contacting the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, which lives at the Zenith of the Soul, as the Soul lives at the Zenith of the Mind, and the Mind contains the ego. It is the Spirit that seeks Godhood, not the Soul or human mind which activates us to Godhood.

Ritualization of this great goal in TC symbolically represents the actual, real, spiritual-material goal of evolving to Godhood at the Zenith of Evolution where supreme life is the reward.

The Mass of Joy

This is the liturgy of joy, The Mass of Joy of the Evolutionary Outward Path in The Theoevolutionary Church (TC), The Traditional Mass of the Involutionary Inward Path, the Mass of Tradition, the Mass of Sacrifice, is retained as it is in Traditional Catholicism and other religions, and as it is in the Orthodox tradition---the Sacred Liturgy of the Mass of Joy is added in The Theoevolutionary Church.

This symbolically revitalizes the old symbols, newly expressing the needs of the ego, the needs of the Soul, and the needs of the Spirit to attain Godhood. The Liturgy of the Mass of Joy in the Outward Path, like the sacrificial Mass of the Inward Path, must contain poetry, passion, nature, love, survival, reproduction, music, and ritual escape from the daily entrapment of the ego and the soul, and it must give expression to the goal of the Spirit.

But the Mass of Joy does not merely provide escape from the ego and the soul, it revitalizes the activation of life, and centers on the great goal of evolution, which is to attain Godhood. This can even give ancient reference to Dionysian joy, but it is an ordered joy, in ordered evolution, not the old shamanic, frenzied, berserker, revolutionary form of evolution, it is evolution guided by the morals and ethics of traditional religion, retaining the same virtues and vices as Traditional Catholicism and other religions, while at the same time re-invigorated the virtues with the great virtue of the Outward Path, which is Evolution.

Human beings do need to spend time in ritual. Jung spoke about the indigenous people of Australia spending more than half their time in ritual ceremony. Compare that to the non-religious life of modern men. No wonder people seek Dionysian sensation in modern,secular life. Their egos and souls desperately need the sacred, and they do not often know it. To Jung, this defines “neurotic,” and we would agree. “The vacuum” created by the loss of ritual life is being replaced by pathology, disease and degeneration." (Tacey).

“When There Is No Vision, the People Perish” (Proverbs 29:18)

The “World Spirit” the Spiritus Mundi, the dreaming world, which Jung called the “Collective Unconscious” is not the same as the Holy Spirit seen in the Theoevolutionary Church. The World Spirit is the activation to Godhood within the cosmos, within life. The dreaming world of the collective unconscious is human all too human. Although other animals also dream, the collective unconscious exists within the Soul or within the Zenith of the Mind, and within the biological body. The Spirit is deeper, at the Zenith of the Soul, It is the Will to Godhood, which activates the collective unconscious and the body, and then life is shaped by evolution.

Redefining War

Earlier, we brought up the subject of war being the result of pent up unconscious forces from the loss of ritual religious ways to release these forces. Yet war was common among indigenous people who spent very much time in the ritual and transcendence of religion. This seems to somewhat contradict Jung's views on war as pent up unconscious forces.

The problem here comes from not fully recognizing the cosmic forces that move through us. Activating evolution is sought by the Spirit Within and evolution has, unfortunately, often involved war. This is an uncomfortable fact, even though during war, survival and reproduction are often side-stepped or halted.

Rituals of transcendence will not alone stop wars, as history and evolution have shown. The Spirit needs to be civilized. As mentioned earlier, we use the term Civilizing the Beast. Ordered Evolution is also the phrase we use. Ideally, all people need to be given the space and freedom to evolve. Ritual and religion can affirm this evolution to Godhood, and provide, not only an outlet, but a direction for the realized goal of Godhood.

We are “unitary” in seeing the Traditional Religions as deriving from the Involutionary Inward Path to the Soul Within, and we can be “universalist” in seeing the Evolutionary Outward Path as the path of all people, all races, all states, seeking to evolve to Godhood. This takes us into political philosophy, and the Revitalized Conservatism we affirm, which can lead to the Ordered Evolution of man beyond man to Godhood.

The advantage of TC is that is can affirm a return to literal thinking, even resembling the “fundamentalism” of the oldest religions, while at the same time embracing evolution and science. We do literally evolve to Godhood, the Supreme Object, not a symbol, not a logos only. This is virtually a literal interpretation of Godhood, and of course, and literal interpretations have been scorned by modern theologians.

This literal interpretation of evolving to Godhood does not contradict reason as much as scientific skeptics like to think it does. When the pattern of evolution is hypertrophied into end goals, it keeps one's feet on the ground. Metaphysical fact need not be metaphor or symbol here. Metaphysical fact is physical fact in the evolution to Godhood. A = A.

At the same time the Zenith of Evolution is enhanced by faith, symbols, imagination, ritual, and liturgy. The Spirit Within needs to be contacted. Its goals need to be experienced in ritual and symbol. This suggests the mystery and unknowable reality of religion and ritual that we psychologically crave, which transcends reason and affirms “intellectual intuition” or supra-rational thinking.

Has the guiding light of revelation deserted us, as Jung believed? The Theoevolutionary Church, believes that revelation is still possible. Dreams may be a substitute for revelation, but they are not enough. Jung seems to have personally believed that dreams and intuition were all that we have left, since the old religions could not be believed in, and so Jung returned to the original primitive guidance of man through dreams. We think that more than this is not only necessary, but possible.

We do not think we have to settle for a return to an earlier age, for example, to primitive times of dreams, as the only method of revelation. Science has given us the marvelous tool of evolution, which we believe is ultimately a very powerful and sacred religious tool.

We can even keep the glorious churches and the great religious works, which the movement of psychology and the modern world have virtually relegated to the trash. But we need to invigorate Tradition with the sacred knowledge that the God seen from within of tradition is the God reached through material evolution. The Soul of the Inward Path is vast, but the Spirit of the Outward Path is vaster.

The Post-Modern condition of brokenness, discord, perspectivism and relativity was the result mainly of the destruction of the religious path. We think that religion can be put back together again, but we will need a new coat and new hat, designed by evolution and science, and perhaps a new heart.

End

Conservatism has had the defining traits and values of conservatism---and nationalism---in the wrong order

2023-01-11T08:18:00.000-06:00

The relatively new science of sociobiology has taught me that conservatism has had the defining traits and values of conservatism---and nationalism---in the wrong order, especially since the last world war, by defining and emphasizing conservatism and nationalism more culturally, as a people living together speaking the same language, with the same religion and laws, but with biological descent merely bringing up the rear.

The biological origin of social behavior, emphasized by the evolutionary science of sociobiology, rights this hierarchy of conservative values. Getting this wrong changed the demographics of the nation allowing the immigration of people with a different descent, and therefore often a different culture. into the nation, which changed the face of the nation, weakening the ties that formerly bonded the nation.

Conservatism and the nation has to right this wrong if conservatism and the nation want to survive.

Conservatism can affirm both gradual change and drastic change

2023-01-07T09:46:00.002-06:00

Reading an recent article about Carlyle in Chronicles caused me to realize that Conservatism can affirm both gradual change and drastic change. The position of Burke and Kirk of accepting only gradual change as ethical is of course the preferred default method of change, but when you look at real history drastic change happens a lot and even seems sometimes necessary and realistic to correct a worn out and corrupt world---and it happens in biological evolution too. This realization doesn't change my preference for gradual change, especially since revolutions often make things worse, but it solves that nagging feeling I have always had with conservatism accepting only gradual change.

When politics is understood as a branch of biology

2022-12-22T09:31:00.000-06:00

Real natural law must be directed to the biological origin of social behavior. Political philosophy is best understood as a branch of biology. Modern political systems have deviated from the biological origin of social behavior. This is also the root cause of the decline of Western civilization.

A rational creature can understand what is good for him and cooperate with biology and biological evolution. Without biology, there is no basis for political or moral judgments. The rational and emotional way to think about politics would be to affirm ethnostatism as natural law.

Natural law, when including the biological origin of social behavior, tells us that society, and the ethnostate, are natural to man. We have a biology determined human nature even if modern man doesn’t think we do. Our real freedom is limited by various determined choices, but we have the flexibility to be mistaken about who we are and what we can do.

If we include what we really are in our cultural schemes and programs we will admit our behavior, intelligence, and personalities are to a large extent heritable. Both liberals and conservative's block or conceal the basic ethnic-centered and xenophobic parts of human nature. If real kin and ethnic-centered human nature was allowed to be what it is, it would naturally lead to ethnostates, and finally, if we are wise, to an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all groups, black, white, brown, yellow, or red, with each ethnostate protected from marauding imperialists, global businesses, supremacists, Marxists, etc., and defended by a defensive federalism. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates could be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states.

Countering the Spenglerian pessimism of many conservatives

2022-12-04T10:06:00.002-06:00

Rod Dreher points out in “The American Conservative” how the West is now dominated by left-liberals in the news, the entertainment media, the universities, the professions, law, and medicine, education, sports, and the military, and woke (cultural Marxist) businesses. If you want to be part of these institutions, you must conform.

Dreher says at the root of all these problems is the collapse of Christianity as a binding source of values for the West and that without a religious rebirth, we are not going to make it. He suggests that American conservatives of the near future may face “a battle to conserve truth, faith, and moral sanity while the ignorant armies of the radical left and post-Christian right clash in the long night ahead.”

Dreher likes the idea of applying the “Benedict Option,” his general term to describe the movement of Christians towards forming small communities within which faith and virtue can thrive and be passed on to the young, based on St. Benedict of Nursia, the founder of Western monasticism, who left the chaos of Rome to found monastic communities in the countryside.

The philosopher Oswald Spengler thought real unity is more cultural than biological, when the reality is the other way around, there is a biological origin behind cultural creations which basically enhances survival and reproduction, and ultimately enhances success in the sacred drive to evolve toward Godhood. Spengler speaks of a “mysterious cosmic force” that influences man, but he does not at all tie it to biology.

I believe that we have to decentralize the world to save the world. I define the activation within life of material Tirips or the Will, which is tied to biology, and is later shaped by evolution. This is the force that is universal within life and is therefore within distinct civilizations and cultures.

Universal evolution does not suggest only one people or one civilization, which could be destroyed by one disease or one disaster. Human evolution has always worked within a variety of people and cultures, each evolving in there own fashion---we would hope that their independence could be protected by a defensive federalism, while cooperating with one another in the overall evolution of human beings, even evolving into new species out into the cosmos, as Raymond Cattell suggested.

The age old problem of union in America could be helped by forming an ethnopluralism of ethnostates perhaps adapted from our Constitutional separation of powers and states, for all groups, black, white, brown, yellow, or red, and then protect the ethnostates from marauding imperialists, supremacists, global money grubbers, and social justice warriors, with a defensive federalism.

We can pay attention to the signs and cycles of the rise and decline of civilizations, which Spengler was brilliant in finding, such as the deterioration of the roots and traditions of the founders, the fall in birthrates, the rise of dictatorships, etc. but it is the ongoing evolution of life and in various group selections on the sacred path to Godhood which best counters ominous Spenglerian pessimism.

Rational sane culture depends on people accepting real human nature

2022-11-07T08:27:00.003-06:00

It takes courage to find the truth and it often takes courage to express the truth publicly. The truths of life are often hard to accept because truths often don't harmonize with the prevailing culture, especially in the modern world. Defining real human nature has suffered this fate. Human nature is not as free as either traditional man or modern man think it is. We have a biology determined human nature even if modern man doesn’t think we do. Our real freedom is limited by various determined choices, but we have the flexibility to be mistaken about who we are and what we can do which helped us in making survival over non-survival choices in the various environments presented to us in nature.

If we include what we really are in our cultural schemes and programs we will admit our behavior, intelligence, and personalities are to a large extent heritable. Both liberals and paleoconservative's block or conceal the ethnic-centered and xenophobic parts of human nature. If real kin and ethnic-centered human nature was allowed to be what it is, it would naturally lead to ethnostates, and finally, if we are wise, to an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all groups, black, white, brown, yellow, or red, with each ethnostate protected from marauding imperialists, global businesses, supremacists, Marxists, etc., and defended by a defensive federalism. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates could be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states.

Rational utterly sane culture depends on people accepting real human nature. The great failure in defining real human nature threatens our very survival with wars between marauding imperialists, global businesses, supremacists, Marxists, etc.

Nature's moral authority

2022-10-28T06:35:00.000-06:00

Human nature has freedom, but within determined choices. Human nature was developed in Paleolithic times, and modern human cultures developed out of this Hunter-Gatherer human nature interacting with the environment.

We may not be as free as either traditional man or modern man think we are. We have a determined human nature even if modern man doesn’t think we do, we are not free to do or become anything we please. Our real freedom is limited by various determined choices, but we have the flexibility to be mistaken about who we are and what we can do, which helped us in making survival over non-survival choices in the various environments presented to us by nature. And we can be mistaken in relation to survival in our cultural schemes.

There is a determined human nature, there is order in the universe, there is a goal to life, and a goal to evolution, and there is purpose in phenomena, but it is not defined the way either modern science, classical science or traditional religion define it. There is a material activating force in nature and in life, a Will, or a Super-Id---here defined as the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood---which is then shaped outwardly by the ups and downs of natural evolution and selection. We are evolving to Godhood, rather than from God. Godhood is the zenith of success in natural and supermaterial evolution. This purpose is defined in the philosophy of theological materialism.

Harmonizing with human nature and nature itself is what morality is mainly about. But we are never all-wise, we are always searching to find out who and what we are and where we are going. The best and most recent sociobiological knowledge is telling us that human nature, affirmed throughout human history, has been, and continues to be, kin-centered, gender defined, age-grading, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection. This is basic human nature. Culture and politics can then follow with an ordering among men, by including real human nature harmoniously in its programs.

We are free to help nature and help life, including human life, evolve toward the Godhood life naturally seeks. This is not the great evil of “man playing God,” it is trying to aid nature in nature's purpose of evolving to Godhood, which is the why, and not merely the how, of life. We can include science and religion together but more in the fashion of classical science, which did ask both how and why. I affirm the goal of life and nature evolving in the material/supermaterial world to the Godhood first only glimpsed in the Inward Path of traditional religion. This is the way we conservatively include but transform traditional religion and modern science.

How conservatives can be worthy of their name

2022-09-26T06:40:00.001-06:00

Why aren't all conservatives also racial conservatives, if you don't conserve the races who created the cultures, you don't conserve the cultures for long, so it is not enough to be only a cultural conservative.

Conservatives need to admit our behavior, intelligence, and personalities are to a large extent heritable. Both liberals and paleoconservative's block or conceal the ethnic-centered and xenophobic parts of human nature.

With evolution we are destined to be Gods: the golden synthesis of religion and science

2022-09-05T06:50:00.000-06:00

The will, soul, spirit, life-force, will to power, will to Godhood, or as I call it: Tirips, is the sacred will to evolve to Godhood and nothing more than that,which is enough. It is the most sacred drive but it isn't God, it is the drive within life to Godhood which must live and adapt the life it lives within to the exigencies of natural selection and evolution. It is a material drive, but the most sacred element of the material drives. It is not a “spiritual” drive, it lives within life and is past on through procreation. It part of our nature, the most important drive of the direction of out lives and cultures are or should be the most important design our lives and cultures.

This worldview which I define as theological materialism is the golden synthesis of religion and science. Energy is matter in another form, so matter is really not passive as Newton's first law said, matter in the form of energy moves matter. Matter in the form of energy moves matter from within matter as well as from outside of matter. There is more than an outward action or reaction with matter, there is an inward vitalism working within and shaped by outside evolution, which is the activation of the will to life as inward metabolism, growth, reproduction. Theological materialism amplifies this vitalist will to life with the goal of the will-to-evolve-toward-Godhood, or Tirips. Spirituality is not needed in religion when matter is not passive. It is matter not spirit that is evolving to its zenith of Godhood. With evolution we are destined to be Gods.