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Relationship to Core Wave
How does someone communicate an internal experience (of say infinity or the divine) when that experience is beyond human comprehension? Would you need to recreate the entire experience? What kind of vessel would be necessary to preserve the
experience and pass it down from generation to generation? Do claims by the ancients that certain languages are sacred have
some validity? -- Robert C. Cohen
How does the relationship of inside to outside, and vice versa, define our reality? Can we re-discover how this was expressed by
the great minds of the ancient world? --
Cynthia Tenen
Connection Tunnels
Alien Dreamtime
The Big Bang Never Happened
The Infinite Game
Mind Altering Substances
The Primary Distinction / CoreWave Game One
Science vs. Mysticism
The Bridge
Highlight Quotes
"For thousands of years, spiritual teachers of the Jewish and Christian
traditions have claimed that the Hebrew alphabet is composed of "holy" letters of special significance and superhuman origin. With
the recent publication of Michael Drosnin's book The Bible Code, the release of Jodie Foster's film Contact and Fred Alan Wolfe's
work on The Spiritual Universe, attention is fixed on the potential fusion of science and religion. A perfect time for Stan Tenen, a
physicist and Director of the Meru Foundation, to take the stage."
-- Cynthia Gage, Secrets of the Hebrew Letters
"Tenen's work has also gained attention from a broad spectrum of mathematicians, theoretical physicists and philosophers. He notes wryly that it 'sometimes seems "too Jewish" to non-Jewish audiences, "too Christian" for my Jewish friends, "too mathematical" for my religions friends, and "too religious" for my scientific friends.' Yet, if Tenen could sum up in a sentence what he would like his work to convey, it would probably encompass the idea of unity within diversity.
He puts it this way: 'Like each of the letters of the alphabet, each culture has a vital contribution to make to the ecology and survival of the planet. The model found in the Hebrew text of Genesis is intrinsic to human consciousness-a science of consciousness like pi, not owned by anybody. The meditational dance has been preserved intact; it shows us how we can relate to each other in an elegant, coherent manner. This is truly a tree of life for those who grasp it.'"
-- Cynthia Gage, Secrets of the
Hebrew Letters
"Archetypal asymmetry can be represented by a dynamic form that continuously breaks symmetries as it unfurls. Meru Foundation research suggests that this form is a particular, explicit vortex, which we call 'Naked Recursion' ('naked' in the mathematical sense - unadorned, without any other quality) and which has been traditionally associated with 'the flame of consciousness', the archetypal living process of a 'fruit tree yielding fruit whose seed is inside itself' (Genesis I.11.), and with its
highest human embodiment - our hands."
From "The God of Abraham, A Mathematician's View,"
(c)1993, 1996 by Stan Tenen.
"Traditionally mystics and Kabbalists have referred to the asymmetry vs. symmetry model of highest contrast as 'Flame and Coal'
(Absolute Unity can only exist when the 'flame' is wedded to the 'coal'), the 'Light in the Meeting Tent,' or, perhaps, in Plato as
the 'same (symmetric) and the different (asymmetric)' (although many other interpretations have been given for this phrase)."
From "The God of Abraham, A Mathematician's View,"
(c)1993, 1996 by Stan Tenen.
In the Talmud, the phrase "Toku K'varo," meaning "inside like outside," is used as a definition of integrity, and describes a fully
righteous person.
-- Stan Tenen
Geographic Location
Hmm. Tricky. No really knows for sure where Mt. Sinai really is. I don't know for sure where
Abraham lived. Even if the ideas originated long before, they were certainly developed while the Jews were in Egypt. So I think I'd
like to place the Meru move in the King's chamber of the Great Pyramid in Cairo, certainly the greatest geometric construction on
Earth. So I put the meru flame shaped vortex as a light inside the biggest meeting tent in the world.
-- Robert C. Cohen
Images and Clips
All the Meru images and shapes can be seen at the: Meru Web Site. Graphic
images © S. Tenen
Access and Distribution
All the Meru writings can be seen and video tapes ordered from the : Meru Web Site
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Main Submission
Helping this work to grow and blossom, in my own family, in my own living room, for the past 20 years, has
profoundly affected my life. It has answered, and continues to answer, burning questions I once asked when I was a small child,
and then forgot that I had asked until those answers had already become a part of my life.
-Cynthia Tenen
Cynthia was kind enough to submit the work of the Meru Foundation and her husband Stan Tenen to the first Glass Bead Game at
my request. She related Meru to Game One's core wave: "the primary distinction between inside and outside." There was not
enough time to include that submission to the first Game's Inner structure, so I discussed the move with Erik, the current Game
Master, and decided it would be best to submit Meru myself to Game Two. It relates to the Game two core wave "ancient ideas in
modern times," as well and could work as a minor bridge between the two games.
In 1995, I had just started a documentary production company with my friend Tom Bates. We were looking for ideas for our first
project. One day I was home sick as a dog when I put on a video lecture by Stan Tenen that I had borrowed from Tom. As the
lecture went on my jaw dropped lower and lower. Everything I had ever wanted in an introduction to Kabbalah and ancient sacred
sciences was coming out fast as a whip - because that's how Stan talks (and thinks).
Within a few days Tom and I had contacted Stan and Meru and we had begun the process of making a documentary about Meru
research (ie. geometry and math in sacred texts.) With the use of high end computer animations it is our hope that this program will
eloquently communicate complex concepts and reveal a much broader playing field than most people are aware of in relationship
to our major spiritual traditions.
My time with Meru research and the Tenen's has greatly influenced my life and it played a significant role in the design of Core
Wave and the Game One core wave.
-- Robert C. Cohen
Deeper
The Hebrew letters of the first verse in Genesis, repeat in patterns when they are counted in base three. Stan Tenen the head of
Meru Research discovered and has studied this pattern for twenty plus years. The pattern indicates a weaving of the letters into a
torus (donut) shape, a section of which makes a vortex shape which Meru shows to model in both scientific and spiritual terms the
recursive nature of life. There is much evidence to support the view that the pattern continues through the text. This needs and
deserves to be the focus of much greater research and resources.
The vortex starts at a point which is related to a "seed" of unity. As it unfurls upward it is related to a tree of life and as it opens all
the way around the model is related to a fruit which contains the "seed" of itself and the whole thing starts over again.
This is certainly a poetic model but not so much in the modern sense which views poetry as nebulous. Meru relates this model to
historic and modern views of spirit, science, consciousness and language, with an intense internal coherence that is closer to
ancient ideas of the poetry in geometry, harmony, and proportion.
Further (Stan does an excellent and rigorous job of explaining all this so bear with my gross generalizations), the vortex shape fits
directly into the palm of our hands. Our hands are the easiest thing to visualize in our minds eye. Close your eyes and move your
hands to any position and you can instantly visualize your hands position. The same part of the brain that controls your hands
controls our speech and language centers.
Well the vortex, which models the recursive nature of life, also projects a shadow which can make all the letters of the Hebrew
alphabet when you hold it in different positions. So as you hold your hand in different positions you can see in your minds eye all the
letters of the alphabet as directions in space.
"Since letters generated by the hand gestures can represent directions of conscious focus in our minds, a sequence of these letters
can be used to specify and reconstruct a meditation. This may explain why certain Scriptural texts were canonized and why these
letters are rightly called "sacred." Thus the same letter-signs are elements of both cosmology and consciousness at the same time.
Meru research suggests that Abraham didn't see the icons of other religions as simply false, he saw the one underlying truth behind
all the icons of different cultures, "seeing through each example to a Singular archetype, [and] DEFINED the One-God as the
Unity underlying all of them.
"Abraham, in this view, acts as a mathematician: he postulates a meaningful and functional definition of Unity. The mathematician's model makes use of none of the "garments" of the many different cultural embodiments... This perspective suggests why the Abrahamic faiths absolutely prohibit "graven images" of God. Any "graven image" would be a physical representation of only one culture's iconography during one historic period - it could never be a timeless model of a universal underlying Unity."
"Although it is bound to be considered insulting (and thus to have no validity) by those who do not understand geometry and who
therefore adhere to exclusively literal literary understandings of spiritual traditions, there may in fact be no possible way to describe
Exquisite Singularity without mathematics.
"Although some sources insist that it is anecdotal, it is generally believed that over the enterence to the Platonic Acadamy it was
written that: 'Only he who is familiar with geometry shall be admitted here.'
"Our spiritual traditions are the vessels of our faiths. The function of these vessels [for example the Hebrew bible], like nut-shells or
seed husks, is to protect the kernel with its germ of life, the flame, the hand of the transcendent, inside. If these vessels had not
survived, there would be no hope for the rebirth of the germ - the 'light' - they carry.
"Perhaps our presumption that our sages of the past were not really knowledgeable or wise has blinded us from seeing their
knowledge and wisdom. The Abrahamic claim of an exclusive, Singular and Unique One-God only appears to be prideful puffery
when our sight is overly narrow and literal. We misinterpret our partial view of the "vessel." Once we are aware of the ditinction
between Inside and Outside, between "vessel" and "light," we can appreciate the true significance of the use of a real model of
Singularity for the definition of the Oneness of God."
(-- all quotes from "The God of Abraham: A Mathematician's View" by Stan Tenen. www.meru.org)
Albert Einstein asserted that you can not judge a theory by its individual components, it must be judged by its internal coherence.
Whether the Meru models were deliberately placed in the Hebrew bible or not, the internal coherence and beauty of Stan's
research demands more research and resources.
-- Robert C. Cohen
Hebrew, Greek, and perhaps Arabic, are known in the Western tradition as "sacred alphabets." Meru Foundation's research
indicates that the Western sacred alphabets are a formal notation, each letter designating a specific operation or process that can
operate in both consciousness (inside) and physics (outside). Ancient texts written in these alphabets thus are more than stories;
they are (we hypothesize) specific and detailed expositions of how these 27 archetypal processes (flow, one into the other, and
interact -- in us. (There are 27 letters in the full Hebrew alphabet, and in Greek as it was used for counting and "gematria". We also
believe that Sanskrit may have a similar function, but we have not done this work.)
-- Cynthia Tenen
Follow Ups
The submission Lurianic Kabbalah - 1492 AD, was submitted by Ted Fitzpatrick on July 9, 1998. It created its own thread on the discussion board. The discussion included The Meru Project and so it was decided to add this submission and thread as a follow up to The Meru Project.
Lurianic Kabbalah - 1492 AD
Tsimsum - The Fragments created when God's light was so intense that
the "vessel" broke -- and we all contain a part of those fragments - so as God created
the Universe - so WE must recreate the Universe back again with God as co-creator of this
process.
The Restitution of the Divine Sparks - Das Glasperlinspiel as blueprint for
such inner-connectivity of the vessel - unshattered - and whole. - Ted Fitzpatrick
Interesting submission. I like the connection
with the Glass Bead Game. I am curious if Ted
would see this as a seperate idea bead or
part of the same idea / bead I submitted
earlier in this Game on the Meru Foundation.
Both moves really do have to do with Kabbalah
and the nature of reality.
Ted describes the Kabbalistic ideas about
the broken vessel and the return to the source
well I think. Does this perspective on reality
transcend time though? Is the fall and the climb
tied to a linear model of time? Are there
non-linear time transcendent aspects between
the lines? -- Robert C. Cohen
Speaking about QBL, this game seems to be fully set within the sephiroth of Tiferet.
Not only is is about optimism, ritual, etc, but Tiferet is the sephiroth of the sun, and also the
6th sephiroth (6 is the number of 'slices' the sun symbol is cut into). It's color is yellow, the
same as the game.
It is seen as a place to sweat out all your ambitions, and then set about doing the Great Work.
6 is the number of holism, harmony, beauty and love. Which seem to be closely related to the
guiding principles of this game.
As Ian mentions in Feutility, this game may be degrading. If that is so, it is then appropriate,
as it is another ambition to be sweated out of the system before being able to accomplish the
'Great Work'
Tiphereth ----- http://www.digital-brilliance.com/kab/nok/q7.txt
-- Enoch
Very interesting and very COOL.
I am currently reading Foucault's Pendulum and
the chapters are broken up into the names of the
sephrot. The book is also about connecting everything in a Game
like a Glass Bead Game. It is also about ideas preseved through time. Enoch, have you
seen my submission on the Meru Project? What is your connection to the "Tiphereth" web site
you gave? -- Robert C. Cohen.
i've just now read over the Meru move. Very interesting. i'll have to spend more time
reading the Meru site..
i've read Foucault's Pendulum, and liked it a lot. i'd say more but i'm afeared that i'd spoil
something.
Hm. Maybe Foucault's Pendulum would be a good move somehow...
i didn't have anything to do with the web page, but it is where i got started learning Kabbalah
from. Colin Low's Notes on Kabbalah (Hermetic).
i think his text is very readable, and a good start for beginners. Hermetic Kabbalah seems to
come from the occult side of Kabbalah (and there are many sides to Kabbalah it seems, the
mathematical (Gematria), occult (magic that can be done with it, and Tarot
correspondences), religious, and probably more)
He mentions what each sephira means, goes into the virtues of them and a bit of philosophy
and what it is used for in magic practices.
In case you're wondering, no, i'm not a practitioner, just very interested in these things.
i have some QBL links on my page, and a brief description of each:
http://members.xoom.com/EnochDS/links.html
BTW: Sefirot is plural, sefira is singular, and i messed that up :) besides screwing up my
email address so many times ---Enoch
"As long as you remain in your private vacuum, you can pretend you are in harmony with
the One. But the moment you pick up the clay, electronic or otherwise, you become a
demiurge, and he who embarks on the creation of worlds is already tainted with corruption
and evil."
_Foucault's Pendulum_ Umberto Eco
Thanks for the follow ups - unexpected and sweet.
Lurianic Kabbalah, as I understand it, appears to be a linear notation of events re: creation-
but if perhaps understood from creation itself - is trans-temporal
-a temporal, i.e. "nonlinear"
If "God" brings back the "sparks" from the broken vessel
then "eternity" is "rescued" - a glass bead is a spark -
a game is like evolution on the Galapagos Islands - a
neverending story of "creation" - hence eternal -
as we must participate as a " restitution" of the divine
spark ( ie. ourself) Essentially - Luria presented the Western World
with a non-linear version of Japanese Shintoism - just get rid of the
Sephirot symbolism - like Mount Sinai on Mount Fuji.
Luria saw linear - ism as a myth - and broke through to the essence
of "creation" being essentially "timeless".
I also read Foucault's Pendulum -- a good book By Umberto Eco -
it is flawed by it's emphasis on conspiracy theories taken
to the extreme as a literary genre. Otherwise it is an intelligent
reading -- but Jorge Luis Borges is better -- and Michel Foucault would have
laughed all the way to the "Order of Things"
Thanks ! e-mail me at thetedster@aol.com -- Ted Fitzpatrick
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