Spanning the bridge between God/Spirit and biologism

You can't be dominated by biologically oriented thinking, or instincts or drives, and expect to enter a new world you'd never entertained before. Those whose thinking accords with "intellectual shamanism" have had lives which span two historical eras (or, "history at cross-roads"). Nietzsche is a very good example of this, spanning an era dominated by "God" and one dominated by Darwinian ideas. Bataille's France embraced high levels of religiosity and artifice. And Marechera came from a colonial country. Enough said.

Then again if you're just an animal, self-admittedly so, how to you gain an understanding of the heights -- that is, of "God" and his mantel, which is cultural artifice?