What Is The Phenomenology of Spirit? New Integrative Concepts, New Synergies: How Politics and Religion Might Be Connected: 'Hegelian Christianity', 'Humanistic-Existential Christianity', 'Christian Daoism', 'Dialectic Divinities', 'The Holy Trinity' and 'The Holy Spirit' Re-Interpreted -- and The Potential Influence of These New Concepts on Ethics, Politics, Business and Economics, Marriages...

This essay is not for the faint of heart. Nor is it for the conservative-minded. It is not for anyone who believes in keeping things the same. It is not for any person who is incapable of a 'paradigm shift' -- who is plastered to the wall of his or her own paradigm philosophy and/or religion right now, and who cannot peel himself off of it to look at the world from a new perspective.

According to Otto Rank (a psychoanalyst from Freud's time who spent much of his time studying 'creativity'), creativity is all about making new integrations, new syntheses, and in the new vernacular -- new 'synergies'.

I am from a Protestant background although I have not been a practicing Protestant/Christian since my childhood. Still, I am not immune to my recent impulse to both 'deconstruct' and 'reconstruct' religious and biblical principles.

Questions like... 'How can I harmonize Christianity and Humanistic-Existential philosophy (and/or more particularly, Nietzschean 'anti-Christian' philosophy in a spirit that both sides might find acceptable?  To ask such a question, and better, to find a possibly workable answer, is from my perspective, The Search for 'The Holy Grail', or in my newly created vernacular -- The Search for a 'Dialectic Divinity'.

In my most recent spurt of creativity, I have found a whole host of new potential dialectic divinities -- arrived at by fusing together in a 'dialectically united way' the special individual properties, and polar characteristics of opposing philosophies and/or energies.

Can religion and humanistic-existentialism by united? In a word -- 'yes'. 

Can politics and religion be united? If they are united by the principles of humanistic-existentialism, then, 'yes, they can be'.

Can Christianity and Daoism be united? In Hegel's Hotel here, yes, indeed....It is just another example of 'negotiating, integrating, synergizing' a new dialectic conceptual product that -- if it works well enough -- can be construed as another 'dialectic divinity'.

Let me start by integrating Hegelian philosophy into Christianity in a way that 're-interprets' the whole concept of 'The Holy Trinity'. 

For me, Jesus Christ emulates the Spirit of Humanism -- which includes 'groundedness', 'stability', peace, tranquility, harmony, earth and water, 'compassion', 'generosity', 'caring', 'empathy', 'altruism', 'loving'... -- and the Eastern Spirit of 'Yin'.

Contradistinctively, God emulates the Spirit of 'Existentialism' -- 'freedom', 'independence', 'boldness', 'assertiveness', 'evolution', 'change', 'passion', 'air', 'wind', 'fire', 'Creativity'... -- and the Eastern Spirit of 'Yang'.

Rather than viewing both God and Jesus Christ as essentially the same deity, I view God and Jesus Christ as 'two polarized deities, emulating opposite energies' that when fused together can be viewed as the essence of 'Humanistic(Jesus Christ)-Existentialism(God)' or a 'dialectical divinity' or 'The Holy Spirit' -- and which, when incorporated into the spirit and the behavior of man -- gives us the final point of the triangle in 'The Holy Trinity'. This is what I call a Christian rendition of Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit'. Thus, the total package of what I am synergizing here  might be viewed as 'Hegelian Christianity', and a type of 'Nietzschean Christianity' where man expresses himself boldly and assertively while at the same time caring about, and for, others...

Let us not forget that allegedly, Nietzsche's last act before he went insane was a most 'Christian' act -- he ran across the street and threw himself in front of a whip that was aimed at a man's horse. 

Existentialism is not compatible with the Christian principle of 'self-denial' and 'self-submission'. Nor is it compatible with the Christian principle of 'Original Sin'.  Both of these ideas, Nietzsche objected to -- and rejected. Dissociated himself from. 

However, in Nietzschean Christianity -- as constructed and proposed by me -- man stands up for himself, asserts himself, expresses himself, evolves himself in fresh and creative ways -- and, in so doing, emulates God as one of his two main polar role models in an 'internalized or introjected dialectic divinity' (the other polarized role model being Jesus Christ). 

Internalizing 'the yin' of Jesus Christ, and 'the yang' of God, in a balanced, harmonious manner, man internalizes 'The Holy Spirit' -- or in Hegelian terms, 'The Phenomenology of Spirit' -- and by doing this, man becomes the last part of 'The Holy Trinity'. In this fashion, The Holy Spirit, or The Phenomenology of Spirit, becomes a Western version of The Daoist 'Path'. When we step away from The Holy Spirit or The Phenomenology of Spirit, and start to chase after 'greed' or 'power against people' or 'revenges' or 'violence' or 'war'.....then we are walking away from 'The Hegelian-Nietzschean Christian-Daoist Path'. 

This is the spirit of Hegel's Hotel and DGB Philosophy-Psychology. 

Have a great day!


-- dgb, November 11, 2012, 

-- David Gordon Bain 

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