A GUIDE TO

 CREATION, 

THE BIG BANG AND 

OTHER CONUNDRUMS?
(Not really)

I am going to begin with a disclaimer and a repetition of the quotes used in last weeks blog. We need to be humble.

"Anyone who isn't confused here, really does not understand what is going on." Anonymous

"Our knowledge is the knowledge of children, we will know a little more than we know now but the real nature of things we will never know, never." Einstein

All I am going to do here is to give information I thought to be interesting and make no claim to understanding it, although I have tried to frame it with my own words and hence somewhat also my understandings. The Ancestors may take issue with its presentation but its meant to illustrate the mystery - both mystical and scientific, not to give an answer.

First a few ideas of Kabbalah and Quantum physics to both of which I am a neophyte but it might help us all to be in awe of the mystery. My apologies to anyone I offend with my simplicity.

The Zohar

Genesis tells us that in the beginning there was  "confusion and emptiness" - essentially chaos. 

Kabbalah teaches that the world could not have existed without God insinuating His/Her presence but also could not exist if He was fully present. 

Hence there was a 

CONTRACTION (TZIMTSUM) 

of the Divine Light 

sufficient for the creation but not enough for the total destruction of that same creation (Possibly as in God saying; "No-one shall see my face and live.")

This concept of Tzimtzum has been compared to the Big Bang (and even compared to the concept of White Hole - possibly a microcosmic representation of the Creator's Divine Light which began all of creation.) 

I could bore you with descriptions that I cannot fully fathom about Black and White Holes but I seem to be in good company with scientists who also do not understand these entities - although at a much deeper level of misunderstanding.

Black holes have been compared to and maybe be a tiny representation of Kabbalah's concept of Nothingness. Furthermore Kabbalah tells us it was the Hebrew letters (the Word,) with spaces of Nothingness amongst shapes of Somethingness that created Somethingness out of Nothingness i.e. the creation as actualized in the lowermost sephira of Kingdom which is earth and everything on it, in it and around it.

Kabbalah also teaches that the Creator created vessels in

 empty space into which the Divine Light was poured. However, these vessels were not strong enough to contain the power of this light and shattered. According to the Ari, these shattered vessels hold the Divine Light as holy sparks and our task as Talking Beings or Homo sapiens with our unique consciousness is to release them from the broken shards or vessels.

The Ari (Isaac Luria)

According to Kabbalah the only way to release the light contained in these shards is with love, light, laughter, joy and kindness to all beings.

Also ...

The Tree of Life and also of the Creation and 

Or Ein Sof or the Divine Light of infinity.

In the beginning there was Nothingness as opposed to Somethingness. Keter the crown sephira of the Tree of Life is Divine Will which created the universe i.e. with intention - "In the beginning was the Word." 

In Kabbalah there were four distinct phases to the creation; 

Emanation - The Word, Divine Will.

 Creation (as the sephira of Wisdom) - the blueprint or plan as evolved in the imagination of Divine Will. (Einstein wanted to understand the mind of God and realized this idea resided in his ability to fantasize and imagine.)

Formation - the coming together of all the elements or four bodies of creation as in; 

"Fire gave birth to light, water to darkness, wind to spirit and earth to humanity." The Zohar. 
These in turn created the universe in six days (or epochs) which does not exclude the possibility of evolution.

And finally Actualization in the lowermost sephira of Kingdom - us on earth and - Somethingness.

The Zohar also states that creation took place - something out of nothing and 
there is an ongoing, continuous and sustaining flow of Divine life force without which everything would return to nothing.

Research at Cern's Hadron proton collider in Switzerland was designed to create a mini Big Bang and simulate the energy and light that were released eons ago. It is a search for the primordial matter created at the time of this event which is very different to what we have now. Tremendous energy was release as it is now in the Hadron collider. Visible matter, scientists say, is only 4% of the yet poorly understood matter of the universe. The rest is called dark matter and dark energy. 

Cern scientists confirm the presence of matter and 
anti-matter 
 and are perplexed at the fact that something mysterious is preventing anti-matter from annihilating matter.  No-one knows where anti-matter went!

 The reality is that no one really understands what is going on. They have discovered the Higgs boson particle but cannot see it - only traces of what it has left behind travelling at almost the speed of light.

They acknowledge there are other particles coming out of the collider that they know nothing about.

It continues to be an ever evolving mystery and conundrum - nevertheless an exciting one. The scientist are so dedicated and fascinated by the project that they have spent years focused on the project at the expense of their social and family lives.

Im sure Einstein would agree with the Ancestors in his attempt to understand the mind of God ...

This also does not discount the importance of science.

Click on the link to highlight - then play and contemplate the mystery

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