The Materialist View of Reality
Table of Contents
| Principles | Concepts Introduced |
|---|---|
| The Materialist View is Negative | Positive, Negative, Microscope Thinking, Materialist Disease, Crude Stratum |
The current prevailing belief among humans, which is the cause of so many problems, is that material phenomena is the cause of mental phenomena.
This is best explained by Karl Marx.
The mode of production of material life conditions the process of social, political and intellectual life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness.
Karl Marx
Critique of Political Economy, Preface
This makes the physical domain superior to the metaphysical, which is opposite of the actual order of Nature.
We call this the materialist perspective, as the opposite of the spiritual which correctly regards the metaphysical as superior.
- The materialist is rigidly objective. He wants everyone to adhere to a strict and precise system just as Physics is very strict and precise.
- The spiritual or natural is flexibly subjective. He wants everyone to be themselves and adjust to each other’s quirks just as how plants and animals must adapt to each other and to the changing weather.
The Materialist Mentality
The materialist mirrors the qualities of the Negative Force as being forceful, rigid, static, and selfish.
This is because:
- the main duty of the Negative is to divide and isolate in order to focus perceptions into a single point of Existence that preserves itself
- the main duty of the Positive is to spread perception to all of Existence to preserve all.
- This is why the Positive is subtle, expansive, dynamic, unifying, and all-embracing. This will be explained in Chapter 3.
In other words:
- materialists are selfish and specialization or thinking in silos
- the spiritual are selfless and holistic thinking or interdisciplinary
This materialist selfishness is echoed by Ayn Rand, the Objectivist, Charles Darwin, and John Stuart Mill:
Objectivist ethics proudly advocates and upholds rational selfishness. Rational selfishness is made up of the values required for human survival.
Ayn Rand
Critique of Political Economy, Preface
The differences between genera are caused by the struggle for life. All variations are for self-preservation. These will generally be inherited by its offspring.
Charles Darwin
On the Origin of Species
According to the Greatest Happiness Principle, the ultimate end is an existence exempt from pain, and as rich in enjoyments, both in quantity and quality.
John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism
This materialist-selfish-objectivism is most obvious in Economics as the fight between materialist Capitalism versus materialist Communism (Marxism is dialectical materialism).
However, the Negative materialist thinking also infests the other sciences:
| Science | Negativity |
|---|---|
| Physics | Shut up and calculate (ignore metaphysical causes) |
| Medicine | Material Pharmaceuticals with side effects (ignore bio-metaphysical causes) |
| Politics | Get numerical votes (ignore socio-metaphysical causes) |
| Biology | Darwinism Survival of the Fittest (ignore metaphysical symbiosis) |
| Psychology | Consciousness from the material brain (ignore metaphysical symbiosis) |
The Negative Leads to Microscope Thinking
The Negative force focuses on extracting information from a single point or small part of Existence to the exclusion of the rest of Existence. This is like microscope or telescope thinking.
This microsope thinking discards the information around and beyond the focus. This is why it is ignorant of what is happening around the focus.
- In Economics, this manifests as the focus on sheer GDP increase, ignoring other socio-economic metrics
- In Business, this manifests as focusing on sheer profitability, ignoring the unprofitable inputs or factors that indirectly supports that profitability
- In Physics, this manifests as focusing on theories that sound good on paper, but are useless in reality
- In Medicine, this manifests as harmful medicine that gets rids of symptoms but creates a guaranteed health decline
Blind focus or too rigid thinking often leads to failure.
Materialist Pegs Causes to Chance or to Mystery
If the focus is the effect, then the materialist-microscope thinking stays ignorant of the causes around it.
This ignorance of causes is why materialists peg the root causes:
- to blind chance or pronbability (to make it sound scientific) if they are non religious
- to a mysterious God if they are religious
We call this limitation as “Materialist Disease”.
In Physics this is best seen in the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
This deficiency of knowledge is expressed in the probability function.
Werner Heisenberg
Physics and Philosophy, Chapter 3
This ignorance of root causes fills Physics the most as ignorance-words, just as the ignorance in Economics leads to crisis-effects.
| Word | Implies |
|---|---|
| Singularity | Ignorance on what exactly is at the center of the Big Bang or black holes |
| Dark Energy | Ignorance on what exactly is expanding the universe |
| Dark Matter | Ignorance on what exactly keeps galaxies together |
| Graviton | Ignorance on what exactly causes gravity as to allow anti gravity |
The Fallacy of the Big Bang
This ignorance is best seen in the Big Bang which includes such ignorance-words like singularity, dark energy, and dark matter.
The error of this paradigm is that it assigns a material start, as a material primeval atom, and end, as a material heat death, as if ideas have a start and end in metaphysicality.
The fallacy of the Big Bang is abundantly proven by the recent findings:
| Finding | Source |
|---|---|
| Hubble Tension | Planck Satellite and James Webb Space Telescope |
| Massive ‘Early’ Galaxies | James Webb Space Telescope |
| Cosmological lithium problem in ‘Older’ Stars | Very Large Telescope Chile |
How to Know if a Person is a Materialist
The easiest way to know whether a person is a materialist is to mention to them the following concepts which you establish as fact or cosnsitently observed throughout history by civilizations that don’t talk to each other:
- souls, spirits, and reincarnation
- nature spirits or elementals
- advanced aliens
- life-force, chi, or prana
- chakras or aethereal vortices (Descartes)
The more negative or hostile they react to these natural concepts, the more materialist they are.
Materialist, Aetheralist, Spiritualist
A materialist is a mind that operates on the Crude and Material Layers.
An aetherealist is a mind that operates on the Aethereal Layers.
A spiritualist is a mind that operates on the Subtle and Astral Layers
A englightened mind operates in the Subtle, Astral, Causal, and Essential Layers.
So What’s the Use of Exposing the Materialist View?
Materialism creates limition in order to increase focus on a small part of Existence. This is usually done for ease and convenience.
This is easily seen in executives who resort to reducing their employees into quantitative dollar value instead qualitative subjective value so that:
- quicker decisions can be made
- information overload can be avoided
The materialist view is currently being pushed by the Western education system that focuses on thinking instead of feeling.
For example, critical thinking is taught, but no one has ever heard of critical feeling.
This is why the Western Civilization has consistently collapsed, as seen in the Fall of Rome, or declined, as seen in the current decline of the West under the rise of China and India.
Identifying materialism in beliefs lets people pinpoint the components that might endanger the sustainability of things.
For example:
- money problems often cause the breakup of relationships or marriages or families
- conflicting material territorial claims can lead to real conflict instead of harmony
- overfocus on rigid goals instead of looking at the big picture can cause conflict or decline in organizations
Identifying materialism in the sciences lets people think outside the box for better and more natural solutions which we will discuss in the next section as the natural view.