Rev. 18:3: Evolution...Primordial Heresy as Royal Science of Man Becoming God

From the days of Adam right down to our own time, the devilish belief that man is God has danced across history, seducing millions in its path. Early Church Father John of Damascus identifies barbarism as the primordial heresy, the idea that man is god:

"Barbarism is that which prevailed from the days of Adam down through ten generations to the time of Noah. It is called barbarism because of the fact that in those times men had no ruling authority or mutual accord, but every man was independent and a law unto himself after the dictates of his own will." (John of Damascus, "The Fount of Knowledge," cited in Political Apocalypse, Ellis Sandoz, p. 131)

After studying civilizations across the whole span of history, noted historian Arnold Toynbee concluded that the paramount religion of mankind is self-worship...of man as god. Tal Brooke concurs, noting that historically there has always been an exoteric polytheism-pantheism for the general masses and a high level esoteric "advaitic" monism for the higher initiate. For initiates then:

".... the Great Lie (is) the foundation stone of Hinduism, Buddhism, Sufism, Jainism, Sikhism, Taoism, the Kabala, the Greek Hermetic, Eleusinian and Gnostic beliefs, Neo-Platonism, all the occult creeds from Theosophy and the Masonic orders to the Rosicrucian's (and) the New Age movement. The Great Lie is...the belief that man is God, that his true identity is the immortal self...that as God, he will never die (and) Sin and depravity are...illusions since this inner divinity is at man's core." (The Great Lie, Tal Brooke, SCP Journal, Vol. 29:2-29:3, 2005)

The Book of Revelation pinpoints Babylon as the post-flood center both of an organized religion based on the primordial heresy and as the first utopian or heaven on earth project. Babylon embraced the Great Lie. Its inhabitants claimed the title, "I AM." They were earmarked by their "advaitic monism," science of magic-transformism, exalted priesthood, gnosis, secret initiations, sorcery, astrology, channeling, psychic-powers, familiar spirits, and hedonism. But the root source of this evil religion and its occult power was the Great Dragon himself....Lucifer.

God abhors these practices and sternly reminds His people through the prophet Isaiah (45:18-19) not to be seduced by Babylon's deadly delusion:

"I AM the Lord, and there is none other. I have not spoken in secret, neither in a place of darkness." "I said not to the seed of Jacob..." seek me in the monistic 'one thing'....chaos, the formless void, Kant's deified reason,' Hegel's Geist, Marx's dialectical matter, Natural Selection, the Force, the Overmind, Absolute Spirit, the Christ consciousness or the "thought-universe" of quantum mechanics.

"Exalting mankind to the status of deity...dates from the farthest reaches of antiquity, but its development into an ideology embracing the masses is a characteristic of modernity." (Herbert Schlossberg, cited in The Seduction of Christianity, Dave Hunt and T.A. McMahon)

Toynbee pinpointed the bloody French Revolution as the first orchestrated reappearance of the primordial heresy, and in tacit agreement with the findings of early Conservative intellectuals, of the entire "nightmare of destruction in which America and other nations participated" from WWI through WWII as further manifestations. (The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America, George H. Nash, p. 31)

" rationalism, positivism, naturalism, materialism, evolutionism, social Darwinism, Natural Selection, empiricism, Hegelianism, Marxism, scientific socialism, scientism, Secular Humanism, Tran humanism, Freudianism, existentialism, progressivism, liberalism, utopianism, revolutionary activism, fascism, communism, national socialism, determinism, reductionism, nihilism, deconstructionism, moral relativism, antitheism, behaviorism and underlying them all, atheism."

In his book "Utopia: The Perennial Heresy," Catholic philosopher and historian Thomas Molnar (1910-2010) notes that the two recurring themes of modern ideologies are monism and evolutionary conceptions. At the root of these two themes there is:

" defiance of God, pride unlimited, a yearning for enormous power and the assumption of divine attributes with a view to manipulating and shaping mankind's fate." (p. 227)

"the order of being must be obliterated (and reinterpreted) as essentially under man's control." Taking control "requires the decapitation of being — the murder of God." (Eric Voegelin, "Science, Politics and Gnosticism," p. xv)

Fundamentally, Darwinism is materialist monism and as the pillar of natural science is the devilish idea by which naturalist god-men have "decapitated God" and seized control of the order of being.

"(Darwinism is) nothing but a kind of cult, a cult religion....It has no scientific validity whatsoever. Darwin's so-called theory of evolution is based on absurdly irrational propositions, which did not come from scientific observations, but were artificially introduced from the outside, for political-ideological reasons." (Jonathan Tennenbaum, "Towards 'A New Science of Life,' Executive Intelligence Review, Vol. 28, No. 34, Sept. 7, 2001)

Indeed, Daniel Dennett tacitly agrees, for he describes Darwinism as a 'universal acid.' In other words, Darwinism is the "acid bath" in which God the Father and His entire order of being are in process of dissolution, a diabolical conjuration requiring the conceptual dismantling of:

" human individuality through the dissolution of individual conscience and consciousness, and then to replace these with the collectivity (monism) and coalesced consciousness (i.e., the Force, Christ Consciousness)." (Molnar, 227, emphasis added)

In this light, when Daniel Dennett, the Wizard of Reductionism claims that there really is no you, that soul, spirit and free will are illusions caused by chemical interactions in the brain and Tom Wolfe, Sorcerer of Naturalism waves his magic wand and intones, "Sorry, but your soul just died," they speak as sorcerers (Acts 13:6-10) conjuring away man's "individual conscience and consciousness" through words that destroy. (The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul, Beauregard and O'Leary, p. 4)

"The leading principle of Utopian religion is the repudiation of the doctrine of Original Sin." (H.G. Wells, A Modern Utopia, 1905)

Repudiating Original Sin necessitates the obliteration of the transcendent God and His order of being, a project already underway by the time of Descartes. In her book "Total Truth," Nancy Pearcy, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, writes that one of the great ironies of history is that the enduring impact of Descartes philosophy has been precisely the opposite of what he had intended. Descartes had intended the defense of the human soul over and against the dehumanizing mechanistic and materialistic conception of the universe. Instead, the soul — and its citadel mind — was reduced to a shadowy substance totally irrelevant to the material realm known by natural science. The immortal soul became a kind of ghost only tenuously connected to the physical body. The novelist Walker Percy speaks of the:

"dread chasm that has rent the soul of Western man ever since the famous philosopher Descartes ripped body loose from mind and turned the very soul into a ghost that haunts its own house." ("Total Truth," Nancy Pearcey, p. 103)

After the success of Newtonian physics natural science began to be viewed as the way of progress and enlightenment and nature described as a cosmic machine, governed by deterministic energies working through natural laws as strictly as the gears of a clock. Though soul and spirit are crucial for reason, conscience, morality, belief, faith, prayer, theorizing, science, and religion, there was no room for them in the mindless cosmic machine.

The mechanistic conception gave rise to rationalism, determinism, positivism and scientific materialism (atheism), which grant naturalistic science a monopoly on so-called "real" knowledge while trivializing everything else to personal belief and social constructs.

"Evil thoughts...generated evil deeds." (George H. Nash, The Conservative Intellectual Movement, p.48)

"Observing the modern intellectual crap, it is time that someone knocked at the door of...Immanuel Kant and told him the fatidic words from that famous Brazilian comic samba — Here, take back your child." (The Father of the Crap, Olavo de Carvalho, Mar. 5, 1998, www.olavodecarvalho.org/ )

The German philosopher Immanuel Kant was a pivotal figure in the obliteration of man's immortal soul. Kant desired to cut loose from God, and being morally defective he eagerly embraced the Enlightenment's mechanistic image of man and the universe. Thus he took it upon himself to recast mind and freedom as "autonomous self" and the material realm as the deterministic Newtonian world machine. In praise of the cosmic machine he wrote:

"(it is) necessary that everything which takes place should be infallibly determined in accordance with the laws of nature." (Total Truth, p. 104)

Though Kant saw the need for reason and morality, which presupposes the soul (mind and free will), he nevertheless sought autonomy from God the Father, thus negating the existence of his own soul....and reason. Undeterred, Kant went on to define self-autonomy as being subject only to laws imposed on himself by himself. In short, Kant would be sovereign and influenced by nothing but his own deified reason. This is a variant of idealist monism that teaches that reality and creative powers exist within man's mind. As one theologian commented:

"The creation of universal (moral) law was traditionally the function of God alone, and this function is now arrogated to the individual human rational will." Thus it can be said that "Kant has made reason into God." (ibid, p. 105)

It is crucial to realize Kant's dichotomy is outright contradictory. For if mindless nature really is the deterministic machine of Newtonian physics, then mind (i.e., reason), morality, belief, and science are not possible in that man is nothing but a puppet dancing to the mindless tunes of mindless nature. Even Kant admitted that this was a paradox that he was unable to resolve. The trick, he said, is to enter into a charade. We will be swindlers who on one hand will publicly pretend to be fully caused and determined by nature while on the other we will quietly participate in a spiritual world where we conceive of ourselves as free moral agents.

According to Kant's swindle the material realm is the realm of publicly verifiable scientific facts which in our own time are for example, Darwinism, atheism, man as evolved ape, determinism, and moral relativism while the spiritual is the politically-incorrect realm of belief, faith, religion, special creation, God the Father and moral absolutes. Kant's swindle is behind the Orwellian-speak or politically-correct cognitive dissonance that has become pandemic in our own day through the efforts of contemporary Kantians: social scientists, evolutionary biologists, Hollywood, media, higher education, jurists, and sorcerers such as Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Richard Dawkins.

Following Kant's lead, a legion of neo-pagan ideologues openly advocated total integration into mindless nature. What these malcontents sought was salvation from God the Father, Original Sin, Universal Moral Law, sexual ethics, and their own immortal souls by immersing themselves into the "forces and rhythms of nature." Lester Crocker summarizes the Enlightenment premise:

"There existed in the eighteenth century a widespread desire to equate the moral with the physical world...." What was desired above all was, "total integration of man in nature, with refusal of any transcendence, even though it was admitted that his more complex physical organization gave him certain special abilities and ways of thinking. The important thing, as La Mettrie, d'Holbach, and others made clear, is that he is submitted to the same laws; everything is response to need — mechanically, some added, like a tree or a machine. Man merely carries out natural forces — without any freedom whatsoever — in all he does, whether he loves or hates, helps or hurts, gives life or takes it." (Monsters from the Id, E. Michael Jones, p. 5, 7)

"With Voltaire, man is a pure machine; Frederick the Great maintains..."I know that I am an animal organized, and that thinks; hence, I conclude that matter can think, as well as that it has the property of being electric." La Mettries' "man-machine, or his man-plant, only caused the Sect to blush from the open manner in which he had said what many of them wished to insinuate." (ibid, p. 6, 7)

The Enlightenment was in effect a diabolical effort to murder God the Father and obliterate His order of being, allowing for reality to be replaced with escapist fantasy: the cosmic machine and soulless machine-man, fully caused and determined by unseen forces of nature, with Newtonian physics as its guide.

Though Kant and others had speculated on a naturalistic origin of the universe, the picture was not complete until Darwinian materialism replaced God the Father and creation ex nihilo with a counterfeit: spontaneous generation of mindless matter from nothing.

The roots of evolution stretch back to the ancient Upanishads of India and to ancient Greece, and in its modern version evolution describes the progress (transmigration) of a divine spark or energy as it inhabits in succession the bodies of different beings over the course of millions and billions of years. In the words of Emergent Church leader Rob Bell:

"There is an energy in the world, a spark, an electricity that everything is plugged into. The Greeks called it zoe, the mystics call it 'Spirit,' and Obi-Wan called it 'the Force'.....This energy, spark, and electricity that pulses through all of creation sustains it, fuels it, and keeps it growing. Growing, evolving, reproducing..." (Love Wins, pp. 144-145)

"the evolution of man into superman — was always the purpose of the ancient Mysteries, and the real purpose of modern Masonry is not the social and charitable purposes to which so much attention is paid, but the expediting of the spiritual evolution of those who aspire to perfect their own nature and transform it into a more god-like quality. And this is a definite science, a royal art, which it is possible for each of us to put into practice..." (The Meaning of Masonry, W.L. Wilmhurst, p. 47)

Charles Darwin received the idea of evolution from his grandfather Dr. Erasmus Darwin who was a neo-pagan monist known to attend séances. As master of the famous Masonic Canongate lodge in Edinburgh he had close ties with both the Jacobin Masons, the organizers of the bloody revolution in France, and with the infamous Illuminati, whose diabolical cause was overthrow of the Church and destruction of Christendom. Thus Erasmus Darwin was an important name in European Masonic anti-religious organizations engaged in revolutionary activism. Erasmus Darwin mentored his grandson Charles:

"Dr. Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) was the first man in England to suggest those ideas which were later to be embodied in the Darwinian theory by his grandson, Charles Darwin (1809-1882) who wrote in 1859 Origin of Species." (Scarlet and the Beast, Vol. II, John Daniel, p. 34)

Pope Leo XIII issued a famous bull in 1884 entitled Humanum Genus in which he discussed the evil undertakings of the Free Masons and the Illuminati:

"...the partisans of evil seems to be combining together, and to be struggling with united vehemence, led on or assisted by that strongly organized and widespread association called the Freemasons. No longer making any secret of their purposes, they are now boldly rising up against God Himself." They intend nothing less than "the utter overthrow of that whole religious and political order of the world which the Christian teaching has produced, and the substitution of a new state of things in accordance with their ideas (that) shall be drawn from mere naturalism." (Humanum Genus, Encyclical on Freemasonry)

"Instead of Adam, our ancestry is traced to the most grotesque of creatures; thought is phosphorous; the soul complex nerves, and our moral sense a secretion of sugar." (Disraeli, quoted by John Passmore "A Hundred Years of Philosophy," p. 36)

With the triumph of natural science and Darwinism in the nineteenth century, the murder of God and the obliteration of His order was cast in the cement of "enlightened" pseudo-science. Westerners would be cut off from God the Father and their own souls, thereby disrupting:

"the bio-psycho-spiritual unity of human consciousness...." (Authenticating the Activities of Jesus, Bruce Chilton and Craig A. Evans, 1999)

The modern secular "scientistic" West has almost succeeded in obliterating the souls of its' citizens and now seeks obliteration of the two sexes:

"Little Johnny went to school; There to learn a brand new rule; No longer could the boys be boys Or have their special trucks and toys; Only six, so young and tender, It's time for him to unlearn gender." (Here At School the Slant is Gay, cited in Our Gay Pride President, David A. Noebel, http://www.worldviewweekend.com/worldview-times/article.php?articleid=7292 )

The Christian Truth which had been undermined and displaced by primordial heresy developed as ideology and natural religion was no mere philosophical truth but the Truth of Life and salvation. Once there began to:

"gain ground, among the multitudes who have been nourished by that Truth, the conviction that it is no longer credible, the result will be...a spiritual catastrophe of enormous dimensions." (Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age, Eugene Rose, pp. 44-45)

The climate of naturalist scientism established by eighteenth-century rationalists was extended by nineteenth-century positivists and evangelists of the idea of collective progress (monism), giving birth to the first natural religion of science: scientific socialism and/or Marxist Communism.

Fyodor Dostoevsky had a bitter foretaste of the demonically malignant effects of scientific socialism, "a spiritual catastrophe of enormous dimensions." This evil religion, said Dostoevsky:

"....is that terrible scourge of mankind, a scourge worse than plague, famine and war, an evil that didn't exist until this century... one that has its own priests and slaves; a tyrant that is worshipped with unprecedented awe and adulation before which science itself fawns and cringes." (The Restitution of Man: C.S. Lewis and the Case Against Scientism, Michael D. Aeschliman, p. 37)

Toward the close of the nineteenth century thinkers like Nietzsche foresaw the spiritual catastrophe that would eventuate in the genocidal "nightmare of destruction in which America and other nations participated" from WWI through WWII.

Today the Christian West is dead, leaving it with no moral defense against either jihadist fanatics and the imposition of Sharia on one hand or the approach of the satanic New Age on the other.

The contemporary West is drunk on the primordial heresy of Babylon. As progressive Christian Liberalism, it is the carrier of the devilish occult spiritual virus into the embattled Body of the Church where it acts to divide Christians against themselves. Peter Jones, author of "Spirit Wars: Pagan Revival in Christian America" connects progressive Christian Liberalism to ancient devilish Gnosticism, saying they are kindred-spirits.

As the natural religion of America's bipartisan (left-right) Ruling Class, it leads them to pray:

"to themselves as saviors of the planet and as shapers of mankind in their own image." (The Ruling Class, Angelo M. Codevilla, p. xix)

The Primordial Heresy is at the root of the 'scientific' religion of New Age Transnational Progressives, the Masters of the Universe, who with their Transcended Spirit Masters, aspire to complete control of the world and every man, woman, and child. Lee Penn notes that evolution is absolutely central to New Age theology, a syncretistic, monistic stew of Liberal Christianity, Theosophy, Spiritism, the Ancient Mysteries, Buddhism, Wicca, Goddess worship, and adulation of Lucifer. In the newest version of that "terrible scourge of mankind, a scourge worse than plague, famine and war," New Age god-men envision a spiritualized version of Marxist Communism that includes:

4.Utter contempt for authentic Roman Catholics, Protestant Christians, and faithful Jews

5. Forecasting a pending (and for them, desirable) "selection" of mankind, in which the progressives enter the New Age and the reactionaries face extinction. For the New Age Apostles of "progressive" Social Darwinism, these casualties are a necessary price to pay for human evolution." (False Dawn: The United Religions Initiative, Globalism, and the Quest for a One-World Religion, Lee Penn, pp. 5,7, 23-26)

The West's suicide looms in tandem with a rising spiritual catastrophe as the demonic in modern ideological movements penetrates ever deeper into the souls of Westerners, materializing and disordering them. On a daily basis, evolutionist ideologues and other secular naturalists in control of media, institutions of learning, Hollywood, law, and politics reinforce the demonic closing of souls to God the Father. Thus every day witnesses the spread of barbarism as more and more Westerners become "independent and a law" unto themselves.

"One Ring to rule them all...One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them." J.R.R. Tolkien

Though all of the ideologies have gone into the casting of the One Ring, none are so mesmerizing nor powerfully attractive as evolution, the Primordial Heresy as the royal science of becoming God.

The Ascendancy of the Scientific Dictatorship: Illuminating the Occult Origin of Darwinism, Phillip D. Collins, Feb. 24, 2005

Spirit guides? Really?

LOL!

Your battlelines are drawn clearly in your own mind, but they are a delusion.

You are not battling atheism by making futile arguments against science.

Science is not atheism. Science is based upon presupposing natural causes for natural phenomena and has shown its worth. It is not “psychological” for scientists to reject supernatural causation any more than it is “psychological” for a chess player to insist that bishops move only on the diagonal.

Science without methodological naturalism is nothing but the half baked loony tunes “spirit guide” soft headed mushy nonsense you seem to prefer.

Science need not address the “immaterial” mind, the spirit, the soul, spirit guides or any such immaterial fancies. Science addresses the “material” mind - the one that needs blood, consumes a large amount of our nutritional resources, and must be of a large size in order to be physically capable of human level cognition.

[ Gnosticism rather than Christian theism is dominant today. Your disparaging remarks regarding “flesh” are very Gnostic. ]

My disparaging remarks regarding flesh is very biblical..
Some, maybe most, chistians are very fleshly..

All sheep pens are fleshly.. John ch 10...
Thats why Jesus calls them “out” of them..

Some sheep pens are not sheep pens at all...
BUT Pig, Vampire, Vulture, Lion, and Goat pens..
masquerading as sheep pens..

The Gnostic’s may not been wrong about literally everything..
The Gnostics were just some kind of pen themselves..
You know just a denomination.. a sect...

Could be sheep pens are just spiritual “holding tanks”.. i.e. drunk tanks..
Many are drunk on the wine of a fleshly world..
They need to sober up...

Science addresses the “material” mind - the one that needs blood, consumes a large amount of our nutritional resources, and must be of a large size in order to be
physically capable of human level cognition

Spirited: The brain is material. The mind is immaterial. The brain and its’ processes can be observed. Dreams, memory, thought, will, etc., cannot be seen, measured, or “sensed” in any way. But then like Kant you really do know this. Like him, you pretend to be “caused and determined” by “physical phenomena.”

Your resistance has nothing to do with “science.” Your pretense is psychological.

Someday they may well be able to do all to “see” and “measure” and “sense” dreams, memory, thought, will, etc.

They can poke around in the memory center of someones brain and trigger memories.

Someone without a particular section of the brain loses syntax.

Etc.

A God of the gaps argument with the physical processes of cognition.

My resistance to what exactly? Resistance to adopting holistic “spirit guides” and quackery into science? Resistance to accepting a God that perforce must work in the ‘gaps’ of reality of what we do not yet understand fully? Resistance to rejecting a God who the Heavens proclaim the glory of?

Consider such foolishness resisted.

Empirical and/or natural science is but one way of knowing. There are many others, philosophy being one. Yet you zealously cling to the one way in exclusion to all others, even going so far as to hope that one day empiricists will finally be able to “see” the unseen.

This one way of knowing which people like you have enthroned is like a pass to an inner-circle of the supposedly best and brightest. Therefore to speak of this one way of knowing with anything less than total reverence and awe is to be accused of blasphemy.

Antony Flew came to see this, and when he dared to elevate philosophy above empiricism the “inner circle” immediately turned upon him and like ravening dogs conceptually “gnawed” him to death.

For all whose conception of self rests upon empiricism, this one way of knowing is in every meaning of the word a religion....a natural religion of science whose deities are “empiricism” and/or dogmatic materialism (matter) and Pride.

The author distinguished between the exoteric version and the esoteric version for the initiate. If you are of the exoteric school it makes sense that you are unaware of the initiate’s esoteric “advaitic monism.”

Oh, geez! Ha ha ha. Nice try, but about on the same level of argumentation as that of the author. The author did a whole lot of making pronouncements but little if any distinguishing between anything in any way that could be remotely called analytical. The "article" is a pastiche of quotes loosely assembled around a theme. Many statements are true in themselves but the author makes the grave error of assuming that their assembly makes for something larger that is true or even more true than the sum of its parts. This is, at least, the parts to the whole fallacy. Or that their juxtaposition to her characterization of them somehow validates what she claims they say. There is little development of any thought. The form is statement followed by a quote with similar language to the statement as support for the statement, again and again and again.

To support her thesis, she even quotes, without remark, Darwinists' false claims about Darwinism's importance to the practice of science, but any port in a time of polemical storm.

Fundamentally, Darwinism is materialist monism and as the pillar of natural science is the devilish idea by which naturalist god-men have "decapitated God" and seized control of the order of being.

Darwinism has never been the "pillar of natural science." Darwinism is the Johnny-come-lately of natural science. Its proponents are a very small tail-if that-desperately trying to claim that it has caused each and every movement of the dog. Darwinism is not "materialist monism." It may be that its proponents wish it could explain everything and claim it explains everything, but that's not the same as monism. It may be materialist, but assertions to the contrary, it is not monism, applying only to matters of biology and, except in a fanciful sense, to nothing else at all.

Your angry reaction is understandable, for the author dared touch upon your salvation system, which for you is sacred.

That you deny that Darwinism is monism merely displays your lack of knowledge. Monism is reductionism, which means that it reduces all else to one thing, in the case of Darwin to mindless matter. In the case of Kant to his own mind.

Buddhism is monism. It reduces the material realm to form and self to nothingness.

Buddha did not want God to exist, for which reason he built his monist system with heavy reliance upon the Upanishads. As Ravi Zacharias notes, Buddha’s system proposes a nowhere land for non-beings.

God the Father endowed all men with free will. Thus we are free to choose Him and the salvation He offers or we can reject His offer and choose instead the offer proposed by Buddhism, Marxism, Scientology, Theosophy or any number of man-made systems.

In case you did not understand the connection between Darwinism, the Upanishads, the ancient Greeks, and Erasmus Darwin, here it is: spiritism.

Spiritism, that is contact with and revelations from spirits, was widespread before and after the time of Erasmus Darwin and his grandson Charles. In fact, since the age of Nimrod, men have been receiving revelations from the spirit dimension.

You have a mind, allmendream. Mind is spirit, and it is open to influence from the unseen realm. In fact, the Early Church Fathers were extremely knowledgable in all things spiritual for the times in which they lived were earmarked by spiritism.

Dreams, especially nightmares, are caused by spirits, noted the Church Fathers. In this light, how very Kantian, and peculiar, that you call yourself allmenDREAM.

Science is not from revelations from spirits. Evolution through natural selection of genetic variation, the theory formulated by Darwin, was not formed through contact with spirits or revelations from “the spirit dimension”.

Mind is matter. Spirit is spirit. I AM a soul. I have a mind and a body. Age diminishes the mind - Age doesn't diminish the soul. Physical damage diminishes the mind - it doesn't diminish the soul.

Spirtisim and Spirit guides may be your religious fixation, but it is not now and never will be science, or replace science as a way of gaining useful knowledge about the physical world.

It is, and will remain, the domain of cranks, loons and con-men who, for a nominal charge, will put you in touch with your “spirit guides”.

A ridiculous God of the gaps argument is all you have.

It is amusing that you think such loony tunes nuttery is equivalent to science or will ever replace it, or that science itself is dependent upon “revelations from the spirit dimension”.

You are peculiarly insistent on abolishing yourself.

Materialism is an ancient superstition, thus the scientism based on it abolishes man in the same way as it abolishes reason. Your very stance nullifies your own reason, but your pride blinds you to this reality.

In the words of Michael D. Aeschlimann:

“By implicitly undercutting the validity of rational thought, the modern naturalists render meaningless and self-contradictory all that they have to say..”

In other words, by “materializing” your mind you undercut and render meaningless all that you say.

By reliance upon “revelations from the spirit dimension” and reliance upon “spirit guides” you undercut and render meaningless all that you say.

Methodological naturalism is the method of science.

Presupposing physical causes for physical phenomena has led to scientific and technological advancement and knowledge.

Presupposing supernatural causes for physical phenomena is an ancient superstition, the most ancient (Thunder is caused by the battles of the Gods donchaknow). It is absolutely worthless and has led nowhere but to delusion and quackery and “spirit guides” and looking for “revelations from the spirit dimension” rather than logic reason and evidence.

Nice gig if you can find enough credulous people to lap up your claptrap - but other than charlatans and con-men - nobody has ever benefited thereby.

“Presupposing physical causes for physical phenomena has led to scientific and technological advancement and knowledge.”

Spirited: The mind is not reduceable to “physical phenomena,” for which reason Flew utterly rejected this stupid claim and Sir John Eccles labeled it a superstition.

Those who cling to the materialist superstition do so for psychological reasons. For some, it is the allure of belonging to an “inner circle.” Many are they who sell their souls for admittance to the inner circle. Some cling for religious reasons. Submerging self (soul/mind) into the monist one-thing, be it matter or form (i.e., cosmic ocean) is salvific. For others, it is all about the heady power that comes from manipulating the minds of others.

Like Kant, your publicly stated belief of being caused and determined by nature does not jive with your private spiritual interaction.

The mind is most certainly reducible to physical phenomena. Without a physical brain there is no thought memory or will. The degradation of the physical brain diminishes the capacity and capability of the mind, but it doesn't diminish the soul.

Materialism is the opposite of superstition. Superstition is that there are ‘magical’ causes for physical events, not that there are understandable and predictable physical laws behind them.

I was created by God “from dust” and “to dust” I will return. I was also created through physical cellular processes involving DNA. No magic was necessary. The physical processes involving DNA were both necessary and sufficient to create my physical body and my physical mind.

Your superstitious nonsense about “spirit guides” and “revelations from the spirit world” will never replace science, because that crap is absolutely useless - the domain of nutjobs and the undereducated. Science, meanwhile, has a million and one useful applications, and only grows more useful as we figure out more and more about how physical processes are responsible for physical phenomena.

It seems the author is fixated on the fact that natural science has a million and one useful applications while their supernatural explanations for physical phenomena have never been of any use to anyone.

Maybe I'm missing your point, but if we honestly look around, faith in God has brought quite a bit of good into the world, such as Mother Theresa (and those who served with her), Billy and Franklin Graham, The Salvation Army. So it would seem these 'supernatural explanations' do have some very positive ramifications.

You are missing my point.

None of the good Mother Theresa did was dependent upon her ascribing supernatural causation to physical phenomena.

She didn't say that people were hungry because the devil lived in their bellies - she fed people real physical food to alleviate their real physical hunger.

Science supposes that there are physical causes to explain physical phenomena. That is a big no no to those who would rather rely upon a supernatural explanation - Magic, god (a lower case ‘god of the gaps’), “spirit guides”, etc, etc.

The “god” you describe is an immanentist dead-god of forces and energies. In “causing” you to come into existence it made you like itself: mindless. Where there was to be an embedded soul and its’ citadel mind, there is only the interaction of chemicals and the firing of neurons.

For you, liberty has been purchased at the price of your immortal soul. But in willfully choosing “liberty” you are now cursed by the knowledge of Yahweh’s Universal Moral Law and your own immortal soul, which you are compelled to deny. I doubt not that you are tormented by the yawning void of nothingness just below your feet.

That is exactly what you fail to comprehend with your infantile ‘god of the gaps’ theology - I do not deny the soul that God gave me - nor do I need “spirit guides” or “revelations from the spirit dimension” in order to know things about the physical world.

I doubt not that you are tormented by the fact that what you call knowledge is useless and leads nowhere, while science grows by leaps and bounds enriching us in our commerce and our knowledge of of the ultimate glory of God.

The less educated someone is, the more likely they are to be a creationist.

“The mind is most certainly reducible to physical phenomena”

In other words, there is no “you.” There is only the movement and interaction of chemicals and the firing of neurons empowered and moved by the unseen energies of nature to which all things are reduceable.

In other words, the material body and materialized “mind” of the machine-man called allmendream is possessed by unseen energies.

There is nothing new about any of this. Early Church Father Athanasius described the condition of the souls of the ancients as “materialized.” This means that because their souls were for the most part closed to the transcendent personal, living Triune God, they had become materialized——filled with darkness and disorder, for which reason they believed very peculiar ideas. Ideas that bear a striking resemblance to those you believe.

In fact, when you claim that your mind is material, you are unwittingly confessing that your soul is at least partially closed to God the Father Almighty.

This does not have to be a terminal condition. The remedy for saving your soul still lies within reach.

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