systematic assertion of a false reality

Towards a definition of Materialist Realism, following this and this. 

Materialist realism 1 is the systematic assertion of a false reality based on the idea that material substance is all that exists in the universe, and that questions about consciousness and sentience can be explained away by the action of "lifeless atoms subject to blind and purposeless forces"2. Materialist realism draws on, among other arguments, a limited reading of Darwinian evolution and scientific cosmology (the Big Bang theory), to normalise its worldview through institutional cultural saturation 3. It is opposed here by spiritual realism, a rational approach to understanding human consciousness, based on direct perception of its underlying essence 4. Materialist realism is so entrenched today, it actually provides the framework for most current religious and spiritual discourse, a dilution of the knowledge taught in the traditions that presents it as an accessory to a consumerist lifestyle. 

Notes:

1 As a concept, materialist realism stems from ideas about Capitalist Realism, a form of Marxist analysis, that suggests capitalism has been institutionalised in the same way that Socialist Realism was institutionalised under Stalin in the former USSR. 

2 The quote is from the award-winning popular science author, Paul Davies, in The Origins of Life, Penguin 1999

3 Scientific theories are necessarily limited to the perceptive abilities of their makers, and are always framed by the cultural conditions in which they arise. Spiritual realism is not opposed to scientific enquiry, and delights in the evidence of how the material universe operates as part of a wholly conscious singularity.

4 As discussed in the various traditions of self-enquiry like Vedanta, Buddhism, and the esoteric teachings of  Judaism, Christianity and Islam.