Cosmicism
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Cosmicism is American author H. P. Lovecraft's name for the literary philosophy he developed and used for his fiction.[1][2] Lovecraft was a writer of horror stories that involve occult phenomena like astral possession and alien miscegenation, and the themes of his fiction over time contributed to the development of this philosophy.[3]
The philosophy of cosmicism is explained as the idea that "there is no recognizable divine presence, such as a god, in the universe, and that humans are particularly insignificant in the larger scheme of intergalactic existence."[4] The most prominent theme is humanity's fear of their insignificance in an incomprehensibly large universe:[5][6][7] a fear of the cosmic void.[8]