RESURREXIT THEORY – THE DUALIST EXPANSION OF STRUCTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY

Resurrexit Spiritus part 3

Dr. Marcus Aurelius Roe (2023)

There is something fundamental missing in psychology. Spirit is often recognised, however quickly brushed aside. This cannot do. Figure 1 presents the new theory. I call it Resurrexit Spiritus Doctrina, Risen Spirit Theory, or Resurrexit Theory.

The states in each successive domain spur anticipation for higher domains. This is all represented by the central arrows inside the “summerling” (butterfly) of Figure 1. Ascension is only accessible through the moderation invoked of understanding and experience in preceding domains.

Figure 1. Resurrexit Theory – Summerling of Domains Over Arrow of Elevational Motive, All Pointing Generally Toward the Spiritual

ELEVATIONAL MOTIVE

In the creation of a new order, I have generated an additional factor called elevational motive. This can just as easily be described as “spiritual ambition.” Hegel had a lot of elevational motive as evidenced by his devotion to explicating the concept of absolute spirit (Hegel, 1807). This was his use of “geist” closest to an English meaning of spirit, as opposed to mind alone.

Regenerative intentionality refers to the intentionality in behaviours that promote psychomena, such as thought. Spirit continuously activates through regenerative intentionality upward, causing elevational motive. This momentum encourages transformation. The trend of elevational motive is in finding solutions through the wholeness offered in ascendant domains, as guided by reason.

ASCENDING DOMAINS

The Kratos domain represents the most primitive psychomenal activity, that is nearest the material, hylic, or bottom of the spectrum. This contains the basic requirement for entry into human community. Whether it is better to resist or conform is very situational. Here it is the individual learns what is worthy of conformation and what is not. This is heavily dependent upon their spiritual currency, or most common mental locations on the domains summerling in Figure 1.

Defining the self is performed through a comprehension of potentiality and values contrasted against environment, in other words the optimal personality for time and place. These conformation selections represent proto-socialisation, and provide the first guidance and foil to definition. The next domain, Telos, provides the first stage for the visible activity of this personality, as resistance or conformation alone are meaningless without product and craft.

Those driven by product are often given the good advice to enjoy the process, or the craft in activities. Similarly, those focused on craft receive the opposite good advice to avoid procrastination, that is to focus more on the product. In this way, the Telos domain is an application of the lessons learned through the Kratos domain, establishing values fit to optimal personality. A resisting reaction in Kratos domain is more likely to carry into craft. Likewise, a conforming reaction can carry to product. It is the Telos domain as directed by the Kratos that factors into the reactive positioning of personality development amid social interactions, or entry to the Eros domain.

The Kratos domain presents proto-_erosic_ activity. The overall societal norms do not matter so much in Kratos domain. Rather, positioning is the most determinant factor within the overall intersection of societies. These typically predetermine alignments and predict erosic tendencies in the Eros domain. If Telos is the sports field, then Kratos domain provides the boundaries and Eros domain represents the goal posts.

The focus built in Telos domain demands development of Eros or relationships, to the self and to others. This provides greater definition for the productive Telos domain. Although it is the productivity and progress of the Telos domain that necessitates the later dialectical power dynamics of Logos, this can only occur through definitional values in Eros. It is moderation in Telos domain that enables more activity in the Eros domain.

Altruism and egoism in the Eros domain are natural by-products of progression and productivity in the Telos domain. The relational developments in definition develop into complex opinions and values, which create impetus for control. This control comes in the form of both power and mastery states, the Logos domain.

BALANCED LOGOS

Balance is important to all of the domains. Balance is fundamental to human nature and the very nature of reality. Being far off from the centre in any of the states leads to imbalance. This imbalance causes spiritual defeat in the event, relationship, or life. More extreme possibilities exist in the lower domains, enticing people to veer into greater imbalance.

Extreme residency in the lower domains traps a person to those abused states, as expressed in Figure 1. In order to attain being in higher domains more often, an individual must achieve balance in the lower domains. Those most resident of the higher domains still partake in all of the states of the lower domains with regularity, however more centralised and in particular order.

Each state only finds greater solace in the wisdom of the opposite. This is because tighter spurring between opposing states creates pressure for greater momentum upwards. The wider the movement, the more shallow, extreme, and long-lasting the reaction. With entrance to more being in states of Logos comes a prismatic reaction of spirit-dedicated regenerative intentionality, which is a meta-level and encapsulating creativity. This provokes an even greater desire to expedite the lower domains, encouraging ever more balance in them.

Sustainable and beneficial altruism is impossible without the knowledge afforded by product and goals. Mastery cannot occur without the thought and knowledge of others afforded by craft. Power cannot be achieved without self-knowledge, mastery, and goal setting. Mastery which is unattached to power is incomplete and degenerate. Power without mastery will always be corrupt.

Those naturally disposed to resistance must learn to embody product to achieve a balanced egoism. Those naturally disposed to conform must learn to embody craft in order to achieve a balanced altruism. Completion in each of the preceding domains anticipates balance because power and mastery are the embodiments of balance themselves, since extended residence in Logos domain implies contribution to the human dialectic.

The beloved and balanced superhuman Logos domain is definitively spiritual. Spiritual failure is an inability to enter or maintain moderation between power and mastery states. The Logos domain requires balance in lower domains for making optimal psychomenal judgements. This is especially crucial at moments of psychomena of psychomena, or judgments of mental beauty.

EXTREMISM

Resistance natively seeks craft, a key trait of craft being a general independence from guidance. Direct rejection of any and all guidance falls back into extreme resistance. Conforming is an extant product-focused action in itself, so that not resisting any intentions at all falls back into abject conformation.

Product focus is disposed to the immediacy of solipsism and its completion in the mastery of self. This is confirmed by the basic individualistic format of most goals. The ultimate goal of all individual goals is an unincorporated plan, meaningless to society without power state activation. This extremism in mastery is not mastery and exits Logos domain. It falls back as bare extreme egoism in Eros domain, or egotism. Egotism can also be defined as a self-obsessed product-focus in Telos domain.

Without mastery, ascent into power will be aimless and fail. This appears as the simple desire of authority for its own sake, and falls back into extreme altruism. The ultimate of craft in extreme altruism involves using power to force what is believed to be best upon others. This usually has very bad consequences without self-knowledge and mastery.

The states in all domains only discover their purpose through the meaning of their opposite. Craft without product guidance can never realise the intentionality needed in higher domains. _Product_ focus cannot achieve ideation, an egoist activity, without the realignment and basic joy learned of craft, or regeneration in the craft of setting new goals.

FIELD OF PLAY

Continuing with the earlier sports field metaphor, Logos domain is the sport itself. All people do on the field before Logos supremacy is make up their own games. Some are better than others but all are nothing compared to Logos. It is unsurprising that many believe this to be “simply” a “random” game they are playing “by accident” and, importantly, against their will. Games are usually intentional and can be very serious, depending on the stakes. Further, I do not believe reality can manifest accidentally.

The sport of the Logos domain is so literally intentional and serious that even a cavalier attitude in rejection plays into it, because everything is at stake. The supremacy of the Logos domain in life, however, attends a realisation of the sport. This is important but it is more crucial for the person to perceive the seriousness involved. They must realise that they do not get to make up the rules themselves since they already exist.

SUMMARY

The spiritual life is one devoted to higher love. This most commonly manifests in the areas of human activity to do with religion, art, culture, and philosophy. This higher love is greater than the individual human. Spirit manifests as deep affection for the best in humanity and the inheritances that supplant mere temporal or material benefit.

In simplest terms, spirit can be defined as life led by love, and human spirit as love of the Universal good in humanity. Spirituality, as the ultimate end of the erosic process, is a focus on this love of life-improving life. This is a love of the most especially universal aspects particular to life. Love of the universal particulars of life manifests ultimate balance. This balance underlies motivations in religious, artistic, cultural, and philosophical endeavours. Could this explain the differences between the two painters from the example used for parts 1 and 2? Absolutely.

The patterns of this theory are unlimited and cut across all human systems. Resurrexit Theory, as a theory of appearance in all human experience, is larger than psychology, sociology, religion, and politics. These states can be seen not only in individual development, but in the evolution of society, human relationships, personality, and spiritual enlightenment.

In the proceeding series of articles, I will explore the social, evolutionary, sexual, political, and religious ramifications of this systematic and ambitious new structure for phenomenology. I will also propose additional theories to do with spirituality, the psychological science of virtues, physical reality, and evolutionary psychology. All of these theories will be directly tied to Resurrexit Theory.

REFERENCES

Hegel, G. W. F. (1807). Phenomenology of Spirit (1998 English Translation by A. V. Miller with Analysis by J.N. Findlay). Motilal Banarsidass Publishers.