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Updated and expanded version of our hand-assembled Meru Research Sampler in three bound softcover volumes.
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THE ALPHABET IN GENESIS:
Meru Foundation illustrated essays in three volumes
  • Vol. 1 – Graphic Essays 58 pages of full-color reproductions of Meru teaching posters, plus the meditation mandala, The Genesis Gate.
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  • Vol. 3 – Essays and articles in five sections: Spiral Metaphors; Learning, Literalism, & The Scholarly Approach; Interviews and Articles; Prof. Jay Kappraff's Introduction to Meru Research; and Supplementary Essays.      220 pp.  ISBN 97800-9793086-2-8
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What is The Meru Project? Using the objective tools of science, the Meru Project has discovered that the sequence of letters in the Hebrew text of Genesis reveals a simple yet extraordinary and unexpected series of geometric models whose meaning describes processes inherent in fields as diverse as embryology, modern physics, and consciousness studies.

Meru Foundation findings demonstrate that the Hebrew letter text of Genesis preserves models and provides tools intended for our spiritual, intellectual, and emotional growth. When studied, they lead to a deep understanding of the framework of our own existence and ways to access our potential to improve ourselves and the world around us.

 Meru research also demonstrates that the Hebrew alphabet, in its early rabbinic form, is at its core a universal language of gestures. People from all cultures, even those who are blind from birth, and children before they speak, make spontaneous use of this natural language. The gestures of the Hebrew alphabet express universal needs and choices.
 
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THE ALPHABET IN GENESIS
FROM JERUSALEM TO SHARON: TEN YEARS OF MERU RESEARCH
©2006 Stan Tenen / Meru Foundation

From the Preface by Stan Tenen:

The Alphabet in Genesis is more an extended journal of essays, graphics, references, and insights than an organized book. There is no story, yet the story of this research is written between the lines on every page. You will get a sense of the development of these ideas by noting the first publication date on each essay. This is the first bound edition of Meru essays that we have made available. . .

After ten years of work with no results (from 1968 to 1978), and almost twenty years of work breaking new ground while looking for past precedent to confirm my findings, finally, in 2006 Jewish scholars that I’ve been working with have found discussions in traditional literature that match, confirm, and extend my findings. We now know that people in the 12th century knew that the [Hebrew] letters came from hand-gestures, based on the same model that it took me thirty years to recover, working only from first principles and the letter-text of the Hebrew Bible. . . [This] is an essential part of the Western traditions that has been lost over the centuries. It is now our responsibility to present these findings for the benefit of as wide a range of scientists, students, scholars, peoples, and traditions as possible. . .

What’s important is that people have the opportunity to see for themselves that these ideas are real, they’re simple, they’re understandable, they’re not limited to one group or another, and they are accessible by people of all talents who learn to act with integrity, care for others, and humbly and patiently wait for the good they’ve sown to bear fruit. (Integrity, caring, and humility/patience are the three phases of the manifesting principle, which I write about in The Three Abrahamic Covenants and the Car-Passing Trick, included in Volume II of this series.) . . .

The good news is that what we’ve found tells us that life is not a zero-sum game, and that in fact it is possible for you to win, for me to win, and for everyone else to win – all at the same time, without compromise and without rivalry. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are not rivals. They are separate essential organs in the Abrahamic body politic, which is part of the planetary body politic. . . The physics of quantum mechanics teaches us that the mechanistic view that there is not enough to go around and that competition is best, isn’t the most realistic. In fact, our lives are entangled, and the best choice for living our life is to live by the golden rule. I will be writing about this increasingly in the future. The golden rule is central to what our scholars call a “theory of mind”, and in the teachings of all of the great faiths. . .
—Read Stan Tenen's complete Preface here

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THE ALPHABET IN GENESIS: Contents by Section
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  I.  Graphic Essays
  
 II. Published Work
  
III. Essential Essays
 IV. The Pardes Cycle
 
 V. Spiral Metaphors
 
 VI. Learning, Literalism, and the Scholarly Approach
 
 VII. Interviews and Articles
 
 VIII. An Introduction to Meru Research
            by Jay Kappraff, Ph.D.
IX. Supplementary Essays
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Section II

Section III

Section IV

Section V

Section VI

Section VII

Section VIII

Section IX
I.  GRAPHIC ESSAYS (Vol. 1)

58 Pages of Graphic Essays and Posters, in Full Color
This volume of The Alphabet in Genesis series includes full color versions of the illustrations in the Greyscale Edition volumes.  Several new graphic pages are included for the first time.

INCLUDES THE MEDITATION MANDALA, THE GENESIS GATE
Our meditation mandala, The Genesis Gate, and instructions for using it are included. Created by Stan Tenen in 1978 as a means of drawing the Hebrew letters, it is published here for the first time. This deceptively simple pattern of circles enables everyone who works at it to begin to explore the Pardes meditation in Genesis for themselves, safely and at their own pace.

II.  PUBLISHED WORK (Vol. 2)

The God of Abraham: A Mathematician's View......................................................................... 2.1
The Noetic Journal, Vol. 2 No. 2, April 1999, Richard Amoroso, Ph.D., ed.

The Shape of Information: How to Talk to an Extra-Terrestrial.............................................. 2.15
The Noetic Journal, Vol. 3 No. 2, April 2002 Richard Amoroso, Ph.D., ed.

Shabbos and Resonance................................................................................................................ 2.26
NISHMA Introspection, 5763 No. 1, R. Benjamin Hecht, ed. (2003)

Man Bites Dog................................................................................................................................... 2.28
B'Or Ha'Torah #15E (2003), Herman Branover, Ph.D., ed.

On Immortality.................................................................................................................................. 2.31
The Fool: Voices from the Findhorn Spiritual Community, Issue 1, D. Gregson, ed. (2003)

The Three Pillars of Love............................................................................................................... 2.33
The Fool: Voices from the Findhorn Spiritual Community, Issue 2, D. Gregson, ed. (2003)

The Three Abrahamic Covenants and the Car Passing Trick................................................. 2.35
Expanded from chapter in Zen and the Art of Close Encounters, D. Pursglove, ed. (1995)

The Emerald Tablet Identified: Continuous Creation in Hermetic Metaphor....................... 2.41
Prepublication draft of article in German in Tattva Viveka #8, March 1998, Ron Engert, ed.


III.  ESSENTIAL FINDINGS (Vol. 2)


Fait d'Accompli (2005)...................................................................................................................... 3.1

Graphic: The Bellows.......................................................................................................................... 3.5

A More Intelligent Design (2005)................................................................................................... 3.6

Graphic: Aleph Gesture and Rainbow Flame.............................................................................. ...... 3.11

Symmetry Woven into the First Verse of the Hebrew Text of Genesis and........................ 3.12

Genesis and Sepher Yetzirah (Graphic Essays, 1998)................................................................ 3.14

 

The Dirac String Trick--    

Graphic: The Double Covering Formed by Two First Hand Models (sculpture)...................... 3.19

The Dirac String Trick: First Hand(tm) (Graphic Essay, 1997)...................................................... 3.20

Graphic: First Hand(tm), Finger Width (sculpture)........................................................................... 3.22

Graphic: Breathing Out and Breathing In -- The HYPERSPHERE..................................................... 3.23

 

Squaring the Circle: A Philosophical Solution --

The Hand Aims the Spotlight in the Theater of Consciousness (1997)................................. 3.24

Graphic: First Hand(tm)....................................................................................................................... 3.25

Squaring the Circle with a Straight Edge and a Compass (1999)............................................. 3.26

Graphic: The Cup of Blessing - The 3,10 Torus Knot of Continuous Creation....................... 3.27

Background Sources on Quadrature and the Circle and Line................................................. 3.28

A Purloined Letter: The Evidence is Not Hidden (1999)............................................................. 3.31

 

Speculations on Natural Language and the Hebrew Alef-Bet.................................................. 3.33

(Foundational Essay for Meru DVD A Matrix of Meaning)

The Light in the Meeting Tent (1986) ........................................................................................... 3.41

(Foundational Essay from Meru Foundation's Archives)


IV.  THE PARDES CYCLE (Vol. 2)

First Hand: Canaanite and Hebrew................................................................................................ 4.1
from Meru Foundation TORUS Journal, vol. 2 #4, January 1994

PaRDeS............................................................................................................................................... 4.29
Draft for Meru Foundation TORUS Journal, September 1997 (unpublished)

The Arm of God:............................................................................................................................... 4.41
Geometric and Algebraic Metaphors for the Sh'ma and the Unity of God (Draft essay)

      Appendix to Pardes and The Arm of God..................................................................................... 4.60

V.  SPIRAL METAPHORS  (Vol. 3)

On the Sacred Geometry and Philosophical Meaning of a Few Interesting Spirals........... 5.1

The First Distinction and the Most Asymmetric Spiral............................................................ 5.14

Some Notes on the Logarithmic and Golden Mean Spirals.................................................... 5.17

VI.  LEARNING, LITERALISM,
      AND THE SCHOLARLY APPROACH (Vol. 3)

A Few Notes on Literalism............................................................................................................. 6.1

Alternatives to Biblical Scholarship.............................................................................................. 6.7

When is the Textual Approach Not Appropriate?...................................................................... 6.11

Learning by Copying vs. Learning by Reading.......................................................................... 6.14

Scientists and Wordsmiths........................................................................................................... 6.16

On the Origin of the Gesture Letters........................................................................................... 6.21

Letter to Bible Review:  Equal Interval Letter-Skip Patterns................................................... 6.28


VII.  INTERVIEWS AND ARTICLES (Vol. 3)

Secrets of the Hebrew Letters..................................................................................................... 7.1
      (Interview of Stan Tenen by Cynthia Gage, 1998)

Where the Torah Meets the Torus............................................................................................... 7.4
      (Feature Article from The Forward, 8 April 2005, by Rick Harrison)

Features from The Boston Jewish Advocate (Jewish Telegraphic Service, 1999);................... 7.6
The Atlanta Constitution (1995); and NY Jewish Newspapers (Jewish Tel. Svc., 1995)

Lecture Announcement: An Ancient Science of Consciousness............................................ 7.9
     (California Institute of Integral Studies, 2001)

Re-Introductory Letter to Berkeley/San Francisco Fundamental Physics Group (2000)... 7.10

Interview with Rabbi Dr. Meir Sendor on Meru Foundation Research (1999)...................... 7.13

Selected Letters of Evaluation...................................................................................................... 7.18

Stan Tenen: Curriculum Vitae....................................................................................................... 7.22


VIII.  AN INTRODUCTION TO THE RESEARCH

         OF THE MERU FOUNDATION (Vol. 3)

              by Jay Kappraff, Ph.D.

The Flame-Hand Letters of the Hebrew Alphabet.................................................................. 8.261

        by Jay Kappraff, Ph.D. (Mathematics, New Jersey Institute of Technology)

        Also including Prof. Kappraff's Acknowledgements. Page numbering is from original publication.

Originally published as Chapter 12 of Prof. Kappraff's book:

BEYOND MEASURE: A Guided Tour through Nature, Myth, and Number
        World Scientific Series on Knots and Everything -- Vol. 28
        Series edited by Louis Kauffman, Ph.D. (Math., U. of Illinois at Chicago, Perimeter Institute)
        Beyond Measure is ©2000 World Scientific Publishing Co., Ltd., Singapore
        Reprinted With Permission

IX.  SUPPLEMENTARY ESSAYS (Vol. 3)

Meru Foundation eTORUS Newsletter Compendium (1999-2006).......................................... 9.1

Short essays, updates, and related posters, including:

Damning by Faint Praise (2003)........................................................................................... 9.18

The Hebrew Letter-Text as Information (2004)................................................................... 9.38

To Do or Not To Do: Some Thoughts on the Golden Rule (2004)......................................... 9.40

Meru FAQ (2004)................................................................................................................. 9.42

Determinism and Free Will (2003) ....................................................................................... 9.45

On Intelligent Design (2005)................................................................................................. 9.47

Church and State: The Golden Solution (2006)................................................................... 9.53

Deborah, the Bee-Speaker.................................................................................................. 9.58


Philosophical Essays:
Eating our Words (2004) ................................................................................................................. 9.61

Paradise: A Poem (2001) ................................................................................................................ 9.65

The Foundations of Jewish Survival (1997) ............................................................................... 9.67

The Purpose of Prayer (1997) ....................................................................................................... 9.71

Levites (2005) ................................................................................................................................... 9.72

Which Way Up (2000)........................................................................................................................ 9.73

Reconciling the Irreconcilable (2000)........................................................................................... 9.75

An Architectural Proposal for the World Trade Center (2001)................................................ 9.80

 
From Meru Foundation's Archives:
One Will -- Two Hands (1986) ......................................................................................................... 9.87

Rhythmic Traverse (1985) .............................................................................................................. 9.92


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