Ahavat Olam: Love in the Cosmic Dimension

Love in the Cosmic Dimension AHAVATOLAM COSMIC: of or relating to the Cosmos. COSMOS: an orderly, harmonious systematic universe - compare Olam - world The cosmic dimension Eternity The broadest scale CHAOS NOTABLE COSMOLOGISTS of whom to be aware: Stephen Hawking Reb Schneur Zalman The Baal Shem Tov RebZalman Schachter-Shalomi The Dalai Lama The Arizal Einstein To think about Love in the cosmic ... dimension, we must start with the ,··. universe as a whole. We must begin Bohm Sheldrake with the attraction that permeates the"'_,•;-,. Grof ..,:. entire macrostructure. I'm speaking \:·: . precisely of the basic binding energy ~-~::.co~Sgt~Y fiound everywhere in the galaxy. >->The scientific study of ·~•'the universe as a whole - no longer sees the I'm speaking of the primal · =0 = universeasaninfinite changeless arena in allurement that all galaxies which events take place, the way Isaaac Newton experience for all other galaxies. did. The universe is an evolving, expanding And how does this connect being, and its origin is its oldest mystery .... with human love, then? cosmologists test The strangest thing is that this alluring theoriesbycreating activity permeates the cosmos on all theoretical universes in supercomputers and then comparing them levels of being. ::,_J with observations of the real universe to see whether the predictions These allurements perm.eating you of any set of hypotheses can survive and everyone and everything else are confrontation with the fundamentally mysterious. You are increasingly detailed data. interested in cert~in th~~~, certain people, certam achv1hes: each interest is as fundamental to the universe as is the gravitational attraction our ~~ Earth feels for the Sun. 'QJtantum CosmoWB!f am£ Primack.,am£ fit6rams,'liffun 'IFte'Universeis a <;reenVra9on 6y 'BrianSwimme,p. 45