Chris Snead - The Despiritization of Nature

In Kabbalah, an esoteric branch of Judaic teachings, Malkhut is the lowest of the Ten Sephirot, and represents the physical body and the material world. For the past few centuries, Western society has gone through great lengths to despiritualize Nature, to strip its secrets away and to force the natural world to conform to our demands of it. In so doing, we have lost touch with the other nine Sephirot...or many of the “rationalists” - the reductionists/materialists/empiricists have, at least. These mock-philosophies have so pervaded our culture that even those who consider themselves among the most devout of their faith can be hesitant to defend the Realness of the events which spawned it – to the point where many are afraid to speak their beliefs in anything non-physical at risk of being thought a simpleton or worse things yet. It has become apparent to me from reading his works that C. S. Lewis also took a very dim view of Institutionalized Science for its despiritualization of the world...and there is reason to believe that Lewis was at least somewhat familiar with Kabbalah through his workings with his friend Charles Williams as well. Indeed, it would seem that for Lewis, this despiritualization was an ever-present force, and in every instance that such a character has appeared in any of his works (that I have read, at least), that character is shown to be missing something crucial to their development as a person...and usually acts wickedly, having very lax codes of morality if they have moral codes at all.