A biological science of Religions: Religions of Man Vs Religions of metal
On the many oppositions caused by the paradox of history between human ecosystems and metal ecosystems, one opposition of informative nature is specially relevant to history. The opposition between Gold religions which deform the nature of humanity, and through weapon-based inquisitions and money-based churches transform men into animetals, repressing our biological drives towards social evolution (love the others),and the creation of a paradise, a world to the image and resemblance of man.
The
importance of the informative brains of societies -their ethic, legal and religious
ideas- is fundamental. Since brains
dominate bodies, it turns out that social brains dominate
the actions of men and create two kind of worlds. Metal religions in their verbal
version or their mathematical version [economics, science]
create a world to the image and resemblance of the machines. Human religions
create a world to the image and resemblance of man, with human
energy and human information, the concept of a paradise. That opposition
between both religions was clearly expressed by the Genesis, and the parable
of the Tree of science. How can we classify both kind of religions? Easily.
By knowing the nature of human freedom, human happiness, and human goods (human
property), those religions who repress those human elements are metal religions.
While religions who favor humanity and our natural drives are love religions.
Obviously most humans feel intuitively that. So love religions have expanded
far more than metal religions. Today 3 of those religions spread and are believed
by billions of human beings, that want to survive and make a world to the image
and resemblance of mankind, make of history, God, of the word: the verbal
networks of information that rule societies. They are Islam, Christianity
and Buddhism, partially corrupted by inquisitions and churches of money, yet
still holding their ground given the enormous intelligence and human understanding
of their initial prophets and their books of love: the gospel, the Koran, and
the teaches of Buddha.
Biological definition of God
We can now very easily define a God based in verbal texts, as the informative brain of the organism of History. As the nervous system of your body and your nervous brain is the God of your cells that controls them with informative impulses, the book of revelation of a prophet, and his ethic laws are the gods of a society that is controlled and survives better when it obeys those Laws. Of course those laws of human gods are based in the laws of survival of the Universe, which are basically the law of social evolution among equal species.
So it turns out that human Gods of love are also parallel to the Absolute God of the Universe, the Logos of the Greek, the Laws of nature, that say that equal species have to love each other and evolve together. So God means "the verbal, informative Mind of mankind, and His ethical Laws, that reflect the ethic laws of the Universe. In Christian Jargon the World that became man and inhabited among us. (Saint John, 1.)
Love Religions -by making the human language of information the word, God- put man at the center of the Universe, to help him to survive. Human Love religions spell the laws of Darwinian Evolution (Man can pray on other species) and laws of social evolution (Man has to love himself and his fellow man). Universal, informative Laws from the point of view of Mankind, and His language of information, Words. They call that human Laws of behavior and survival: God.
So if verbal, love Gods are the brain of humanity, of history, it is obvious that human individuals are the cells informed by that body. This again is confirmed by the Gospel. Since Christ declares that each men is the temple of the spirit, and our mystiques both in Islam and Christianity consider us as cells of the body of God, of Islam and Christ. Of course both Islam and Christ are themselves part of the total God, which is History itself, since their ethic messages are basically the same. We might say that there is only a God, and several great human prophets, sons of God, sons of the Word that have understood their messages of love. Christ, Mhmd, Buddha, are those great prophets. Modern ecological and socialist writers who drink on their traditions are their modern disciples that translate to modern jargon their messages of social love, and promotion of human goods.
The organism of that Human God, is the Body of History, the Ecosystem of Man, and Nature, that we should preserve to be immortal as a species. Because those who believe in me, will never die. Those who believe in Gold religions, in metal religions, in the tree of science, however will die, as the prophets of love have ever announced.
Perhaps our definition of a body or organism will help you to grasp what we mean by a God: A Universal organism is a biological radiation of a (particular species) extended in time and space and related by networks=Gods of information, and networks=Gods of energy. A God is the macrocosmic network of information or energy of the organism when perceived from the microcosmic point of view of its cells, that the network of energy or information controls.
You just have to find a herd of parallel cells and some energy network that relates those cells, and some information network or language or force of information between those cells, and you will have a macrocosmic organism. The networks of information and Energy of that organism will be for the small cells, macrocosms, with such informative and energy power, that will act in fact as Gods of those cells. Aristotle defined informative Gods, as knots-brains around which energy masses moved. Networks of information, linguistic networks do indeed move masses of energy, give orders, and inform that energy, transforming those masses, and shaping the future to their image and resemblance. For that reason Go[l]d and Word create different societies, different Wor[l]ds.
The brain of the Human god is the verbal network of believers, the books of Revelation, and the Social Laws that create human behavior. The ethical codes of man, are the Gods of man, his informative systems that create a collective future. We create the future when we obey informative verbal codes. God is the verb, and its ethical codes of survival expressed in religions.
The
metaphor of God: God became the Word that inhabited among us
God basically is Man, a metaphor for our species, and his language and networks of information, the ethic laws, and words that control and help society to survive. This metaphoric definition of god, that was clear to those first prophets who created those religions, has been manipulated so much in the past centuries, that very few people today understand the metaphor of God, as the verbal brain, of the Organism of History, as mankind... So scientists laugh at religion, without even knowing what they are talking about.
If we use instead of religious words, a biological perspective, societies and civilizations, the main units of historical analysis become organisms composed of cellular herds (human societies) which communicate through networks of information (words and money) and of energy (agriculture, vital territories, roads, electricity, etc.).
In such translation of philosophical terminology, we conclude that what history has traditionally called a Human God with ethical laws can be interpreted as an organic network of information. As a nervous system connects and organizes the cells of a body, God connects and organizes a mass of human beings, individually known as believers. Surprisingly we find that Islam and Christianity [Ibn Khaldun, early mystics, Saint Agustine] reached similar conclusions. The transmitters of such networks of collective information are the books of Revelation common to all believers that harmonize mass-cellular experiences. Since human networks of information are verbal ethic laws; the Word becomes the god of man, his social guide and network of information. As Saint John expressed so well: God, the Verb, became man and inhabited among us.
The Koran is the sacred word of God, his ideas. In Christianity the word becomes God in the mind of his human son Christ, the prophet who has the body of man, and the verb-mind of God. In him, the word reached its fulfillment. In him, the word expresses the Human Laws of social evolution, through love=sensory communication, and sharing of human goods between humans. Pure Christianity was socialist, because socialism is the natural Law of human organization, where money and machines do not impose limits to human communication. A prophet is a verbal master, a son of God=the word, the informative organ of the species. Mystics say that the community of believers shapes the body of Christ, and the Gospel is his mind. Muslims say that the body of Muslims is Islam and Koran its brain. In both cultures the Verbal language has to control the corruption of money, and the harm that weapons do to humans. If that goal is achieved, history (in the words of Saint Agustine) could evolve towards the perfection of such a body, into a citadel of saints, where all ethical words will be obeyed, and the body will be in harmony with its informative and energy organs. Then history (the passing of time) will come to an end. History will become immortal without war. Man will be happy. God will come to this Earth. He will reign supreme, because we all will understand the nature of ourselves, and that of the Universe.
However, another type of information network has also evolved on the Earth: digital languages based on numbers, with a different structure from verbal languages. What they mean to the evolution of History? Why are digital networks and sciences historically opposed to verbal networks and religions?
Since religions concluded earlier in his analysis of the Universe that digital languages tend to evolve metal-species more than human species. They are the backbone of economic ecosystems which reproduce weapons and machines that kill the organism of god, the world of nature, and social harmony, through war, and ethical corruption, due to money. So all great prophets have attacked money and weapons, because they have defended the ecosystem of History, of God... So simple to understand, and yet today so little people perceives the organism of God, of social history, that as Nietzsche put it, is dying, because men have killed it.
Scientists, and weapon designers we might say have killed God, the organism of social History, despite earlier warnings by the first prophets=historians of the future, who said do not eat of the tree of science, of his good (machines) and evil weapons, because they day you do, your species will die... So the myth goes, when Adam the first scientist discovered metal, God condemned him to work as a smith (Islamic account of the original sin), and ever sin Adam the Smith and his sons like Cain, also a Smith, have evolved metal and killed with weapons the beauty of the Genesian paradise of life.
But why the Human God can die? Because it is basically the expression of the Laws of Social Evolution in the Universe. So if man denies those laws, if man no longer believes in God, the laws of the universe punish him. And other species who believe in God, Metal-species and their controlled human slaves (animetals) who promote metal, and act together in favor of metal survive. machines survive and replicate, the world unifies not under human ethic words, but under money. And so the Human Planet never appears. Only the Metal-earth, the planet of machines, and Matrix, its mental networks evolve and reproduce.
It
is obvious that the power of Gods is relative to their size and the microcosm
they perceive. For your cells your nervous system is an over powerful God. Yet
for the Earth you are not God but just a cell of History. What you call physical
reality is irrelevant to understanding Organisms=Gods. Perception is relative,
and truths are subjective. Gods are also relative statements, only perceived
as Gods from the point of view of their cells and the languages of information
of those cells. In the case of History words are only Gods for humans able to
understand and belong to a historic organism. Such is the tragedy of relativistic
Gods, of networks that exist as macrocosm only on the informative eyes
of their microcosmic cells.
The Great Gods of History
An organism, such as the organism of human Gods=history survives when there is balance between its networks of energy and information, the Carbolife Earth and its networks of information, the verbal ideologies that rule men. The same balance required in the body between blood and nervous systems, that keep the body healthy, is required in the Organism of Human history between Nature and verbal Man.
The informative ethical rules of religion regulate and balance the individual human cells, and allow civilizations to exist in harmony with Nature. They might be boring since death, chaos and freedom are exciting, but religious societies are healthy organisms of history because their human cells (believers) follow and control their behavior for the sake of the Organism=civilization= collective God. The laws of harmony in the social body of history are defined by religions in verbal codes which all cells=humans of History understand and should obey. Man is a cell of the organism of History. Religion is its brain=informative God.
We could draw the 3 ages of Human religions considering their 3 horizons of increasing growth, as men understand the nature of God, as the collective man of mankind, from a primitive age of small, tribal societies (racial Gods, and primitive religions that divide men in groups, and so have become today transformed by inquisitions and churches in animetal religions that worship war and money) to an age of Human Gods, that encompass all mankind, when finally men understand the Law of Love (Buddhism, Islam, Christianity) to the present, social understanding of God, within the context of the Organism of History, and the fight between men and machine [ecologism, socialism]:
Wor[l]d. (Read: Word Information =Human World)
A Wor[l]d is a synonym of a Historic ecosystem. A World means a human society where words are the main network-brain of information and power of the organism. So a world to the image of those words is created. The world becomes a mirror of the words of such society, which cater as the biological language of man, to the natural needs of humanity, producing human goods. While a world designed with mathematical equations, and abstract economics, cater to the needs of machines and company mothers that design them. Examples of such societies are the Christian wor[l]d, the Islamic wor[l]d, and the Communist wor[l]d,before the power of their words were corrupted by words. By contrast, a society ruled by monetary orders is not a wor[l]d but rather a go[l]d society, God=Gold, where gold=money has become the informative god, the network that rules society. Go[l]d religions create economic ecosystems where machines have higher rights than human beings. Classical Phoenicia and Israel and modern America and the Planet at large are examples of go[l]d societies.