Worlds within worlds: Kabbalah and the new scientific paradigm

Author:Gordon, K

Article Title:Worlds within worlds: Kabbalah and the new scientific paradigm

Abstract:
Beginning with relativity and quantum theory, the deterministic view that has dominated and shaped Western culture for more than 2,500 years has begun to unravel, leading to the emergence of a new paradigm. This new paradigm effectively reformulates the project of science, conceiving of existence as an interpenetrating web of coevolving, cocreative relationships. By exploring Kabbalah and the new scientific paradigm within the context of shared evolutionary principles, I seek to demonstrate a viable alternative to the prevailing deterministic worldview. By going beyond the limits of determinism and re-visioning existence as an evolutionary, emergent phenomenon, we can establish a new basis for an authentic dialogue between science and religion.

Keywords: attractor; autopoiesis; cocreative; complexity; cosmological natural selection; creation; determinism; emergence; evolution; existence; holomovement; implicate order; Kabbalah; Keter; macrocosm; microcosm; new scientific paradigm; open system; paradigm; sefirot; self-organization; structural coupling; transformation; tree of life; whole and part

DOI: 10.1111/1467-9744.00467

Source:ZYGON

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