Competing worldviews, west empiricism vs. Jewish creationism
By zevi770 · August 15, 2011
I just realized something very interesting, our entire western worldview, both metaphysical, including psychology and especially empirical namely scientific, is based on a fundamental erroneous premise which is the exact contradistinction in Judaism, especially Jewish mysticism of creationism.
If I lost u – that’s o.k., cause in laymen’s terms this means as follows, if one gets at the very premise of how one sees reality, one arrives at diametrically opposing conclusions in terms of immutability or changeability.
Let’s begin with the western empiricism we are brought up in.
All is here – what is here is all.
Now based on this, people think what is, is; and what isn’t, isn’t.
On the other hand Judaism starts off with the first verse of the Bible, “In the beginning God created heaven and earth;” in others words, the very first premise is that nothing but the Creator exists and then the creator CREATES heaven and earth.
To begin with, we have a Creator capable of altering reality.
This of course is the fundamental of Judaism, a reason for belief and prayer, hope and faith.
But Jewish mysticism takes it to its logical conclusion, if Creation came out of nothing, then fundamentally all that really exists is the hardrive, and all that is on the screen is not only immutable it is like every computer screen, constantly being recreated (for just as when you imagine something new, you need to bear in mind your creation for it to appear, similarly only through a constant flow from Gods imagination, if you were, to reality, does reality exist;) so in other words, the only logical conclusion is that everything can change as easily as pressing a button on your computer screen.
The ramifications from these divergent premises are pretty much infinite, but from the psychological premise Freud saw a world of realities and if you wanted to heal someone you needed to go back to the problem much as if a pipe is burst, you need to extract the broken part and replace it with a fixed one but in Judaism, particularly Jewish mysticism the methodology to heal is to add in light.