The Caretakers of the Cosmos: Living Responsibly in an Unfinished World By Gary Lachman

00:01:14 At Kabbalah’s heart is the relation between creation, the finite, physical cosmos, and its infinite, unmanifest source, called the Ein-Sof, which means ‘limitless’ or ‘unending’.
00:07:21 Tzimtzum
00:10:16 When the Vessels Break
00:12:54 Tikkun
00:16:37 It’s a Big World After All
00:30:33 Give Life a Chance
00:34:57 Matters Dark and Meaningless
00:39:00 Nausea For Sartre
00:46:55 It’s a Tough Cosmos Out There
00:50:17 Shades of Gray

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An important and radical book that asks, “Why are we here?”

Why are we here? Human beings have asked themselves this question for centuries. Modern science largely argues that human beings are chance products of a purposeless universe, but other traditions believe humanity has an essential role and responsibility in creation.

According to Luria, in order to create our world – the universe – God had to ‘withdraw’ or ‘contract’ a part of his infinite being, to create, as it were, a ‘hole’ in himself within which a void or empty space could exist.
Lovecraft called his philosophy ‘cosmicism’, by which he basically meant that if we truly grasped the size, age, and sheer strangeness of the universe – an idea of which I tried to present earlier in this chapter – we would recognize that human life can play no important part in it, and that we are only temporary residents on a planet whose previous occupants are planning to return.27 Possibly the earliest proponent of ‘cosmicism’, although he didn’t use the term, was H.G.
Wells (1866-1946), whose novel The War of the Worlds (1898) tells us that our world was ‘being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s’ – the Martians – ‘and yet as mortal as his own…minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast, cool, and unsympathetic…’28 When Lovecraft wrote ‘The Call of Cthulhu’, no one had yet thought of a Big Bang – the astronomer Fred Hoyle, an opponent of the idea, coined the phrase in 1949 – although Einstein’s relativity was seeping into popular consciousness and quantum theory was raising its head.
It may seem aberrant to fly in the face of such universal celebration, but as far as I can tell from reading Gray’s books, he is basically a misanthropic pessimist, whose pro-nature and pro-animal remarks express little more than an emotional dislike for human beings.

Lachman brings together many strands of esoteric, spiritual, and philosophical thought to form a counter-argument to the nihilism that permeates the twenty-first century. Offering a radical alternative to postmodern apathy, he argues that we humans are the caretakers of the universe, entrusted with a daunting task: that of healing and repairing creation itself.

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