• This broadside edition volume of the Meru Foundation Research Sampler
  includes full color versions of the illustrations in the Greyscale Edition volumes.
  Several graphic pages have not been previously available.

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.

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

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 

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 

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 

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

         OF THE MERU FOUNDATION

              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

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