Meru Foundation eTorus Newsletter Archive Index

Meru Foundation e-TORUS(tm) Newsletter Archive
Updated 17 February 2012

Current Issue:
eTORUS No. 57
February 2012

Unity: The Inverted Unit -T

The poster in eTorus No. 57, excerpted below, UNITY: The Inverted Unit-T, presents examples of how abstraction (the reduction of the diverse Many, to One single principle) combined with geometric metaphor can help us to see relationships across a very broad spectrum of spiritual and physical principles.

The inverted unit-T is an expression of Psalm 84:12, which tells us that “Hashem-Elokim is a sun and a shield.” (The sun is at the top of the vertical line, an the shield is the horizontal line.) As seen in An Overview: The Two Golden Rules (below) it serves as a graphic representation of the golden rules. And in general, it represents the unity of complements.

Reading left to right, and down the excerpt above:
On the first row, The Tree of Abraham is seen as the seed of Judaism growing the tree of Christianity, on which grows the fruit of Islam. This is an organic whole and the manifesting principle, wherein a seed-idea grows a tree-of-effort-and-caring that leads to its fruition when we drop our ego. ... Read the rest of this eTorus: Go to eTORUS #57

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Announcing the publication of The Alphabet That Changed the World

Now available through http://www.tatctw.com

We have received some excellent and thoughtful reader reviews, most of which are posted both on Amazon.com and on our book’s own website, www.tatctw.com. If you have read and enjoyed The Alphabet That Changed the World, we invite you to post a review on Amazon.

eTorus™ archive links 2009 - Present
eTorus™ archive links 1999 - 2009
Featured articles from eTorus™

The e-TORUS Newsletter is ordinarily published 4-6 times per year. Typically it consists of timely announcements, updates on current projects, book reviews, pointers to articles pertinent to Meru research that are published elsewhere on the Internet, and/or an informal essay (or sometimes a pointer to a longer piece) by Stan Tenen, usually written specially for the newsletter. The list below includes content highlights for each issue, and includes links to complete essays referred to (but not fully included in) in the eTORUS.

Starting in 2007, eTORUS Newsletters have been produced in illustrated PDF format. The archive below includes all our eTORUS Newsletters, some longer essays and posters by Stan Tenen pointed to in eTORUS, and special announcements and articles by others that were sent to our eTORUS mailing list.

To subscribe to eTORUS, send an email to the editor:
Levanah Tenen <meru@meru.org>
Please include a bit about how you heard of Meru Foundation's work, and your particular interest. Thank you.

---Levanah Tenen, Editor
eTORUS Newsletter

Journal Index, 2010 -- Present (PDF):
	No. 57 -- February 2012 Unity: The Inverted Unit - T
	No. 56 -- November 2011 A graphic outline of the Meru hypothesis.
	No. 55 -- September 2011 Implications of the Meru Hyposthesis
	No. 54 -- June 2011 "The Alphabet That Changed the World" ready for release July 5, 2011 Excerpt from the book: Abraham, Monotheism, and the Alphabet
	No. 53 -- Spring 2011 Announcing the publication date for The Alphabet That Changed the World: July 7, 2011
	No. 52 -- 10 December 2010 Graphics adapted from The Alphabet that Changed the World, with added comments
	No. 51 -- Thanksgiving, November 2010 Excerpt from The Alphabet That Changed the World A New Book by Stan Tenen
	No. 50 -- 28 March 2010 Excerpt from Linguistic Cosmology Essay: A Personal God

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Journal Index 2008-2009 (pdf)

	No. 49 -- 27 December 2009 Essay: A Theory of Healing		No. 48 -- 3 November 2009 Essay: The Golden Rules - introducing the Golden Rule Geometry
	No. 47 -- 8 July 2009 Essay: Flow-Space: Seeing No Thing		No. 46 -- 4 June 2009 Guest Essay by Elliot Pines, Ph.D.: Clouds In My Coffee
	No. 45 -- 21 May 2009 Guest Essay by Gerald Schroeder, Ph.D.: Author's Introduction to his 2009 book, God According to God This book is available through Meru Foundation's reading list		No. 44 -- 27 March 2009 Essay: Fish do it -- Birds do it -- Bees do it: On Flocking, Swarming, and Schooling
	No. 43 -- 20 January 2009 Essay: Peace with Justice		No. 42 -- 29 December 2008 Announcement: The Alphabet that Changed the World Notes on The Fountain of Wisdom

Journal Index 2007 (pdf)

No. 41 -- 1 August 2007
Essay: The Unique Qualities of Gesture Letters Formed by a Single Model Hand (final version)

No. 40 -- 29 July 2007
Essay: Zohar, B'reshit, and the Meru Hypothesis

No. 39 -- 9 February 2007
Essay: A More Intelligent Designer

1999 -- 2006 (HTML)

No. 1 -- 7 November 1999
Introduction to eTORUS

No. 2 -- 25 February 2000
Notes on Gestures and the Origin of Language
Essay: Alternatives to Biblical Scholarship

No. 3 -- 18 April 2000
Essay: When is the Textual Approach Not Appropriate?

No. 4 -- 15 May 2000
Essay: On Immortality

No. 5 -- 8 June 2000
Announcing: First Hand(tm) Model Animations

No. 6 -- 6 October 2000
Essay: Which Way Up

No. 7 -- 27 December 2000
Essay: The Shape of Information (eTORUS has abstract only)

No. 8 -- 5 March 2001
Notes on the Hebrew letter Bet
DJFMAMJJASON: What do these letters say?

No. 9 -- 23 May 2001
Essay: The Three Pillars of Love

No.10 -- 8 November 2001
Notes on Sept. 11, 2001; Draft Architectural Proposal

No.11 -- 16 November 2001
Poem by Stan Tenen: Paradise
Book Review: The Mystery of the Aleph, by Amir Aczel

No.12 -- 21 July 2002
Poster and Poem: 22 Turns from Absolute to Adam Kadmon
Book Review: Constantine's Sword

No.13 -- 25 November 2002
     Announcing: First Sound(tm), The Music of Genesis CD
     Notes on Three New Posters: (Links to posters included in text)
        On the MNunZp'ok Order of the 5-Final Letters
        Tetrahelix Sculpture: English Measurement Proportions
        The Tree of Abraham: An Organic Model of Western Civlization

No.14 -- 3 April 2003
Announcing: Chapter on Meru Research in Beyond Measure, by Prof. Jay Kappraff

No. 15 -- 17 September 2003
Essay: Scientists and Wordsmiths

No. 16 -- 9 October 2003
Essay: Damning by Faint Praise

No. 17 -- 10 October 2003
Book Review: The Lost Secret of Death, by Peter Novak

No. 18 -- 30 November 2003
Essay: How do we read words?
Book Review: Sign Language of the Soul, by Dale Schusterman

No. 19 -- 28 February 2004
Essay: Eating Our Words (An Essay for Purim)

No. 20 -- 12 March 2004
    Notes on New Poster: The Shape of Shabbos--King and Queen
    Pointers to published research on language
    Book Review: The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown

No. 21 -- 30 April 2004
Essay: The Sounds of Hebrew

No. 22 -- 18 May 2004
Announcement: Legacy of Spirit Concert by Daniel S. Gil

No. 23 -- 28 July 2004
    Book Review: What Went Wrong:
        Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response, by Bernard Lewis
    Exhibition: Cyberangels of Peace, by Dr. Menahem Alexenberg

No. 24 -- 20 August 2004
    Essay: How to Encode Information
         Response to an essay by Paul Davies
    Essay: The Hebrew Letter-Text as Information

No. 25 -- 1 November 2004
    Essay: To Do Or Not To Do:
        Some Thoughts on the Golden Rule

No. 26 -- 1 December 2004
    New Meru Frequently Asked Questions

No. 27 -- 28 December 2004
    Notes on Essay by Arthur M. Young

No. 28 -- 4 August 2005
   Two Essays on Free Will:
        One Will -- Two Hands
        Determinism vs. Free Will

No. 29 -- 23 September 2005
Meru Research: Current Perspective and Focus

No. 30 -- 28 October 2005
Essay: Intelligent Design: Intelligence vs. Information

No. 31 -- 28 November 2005
    Book Review: The Universe in a Single Atom:
        The Convergence of Science and Spirituality,
         by HH Dalai Lama

No. 32 -- 14 February 2006
Essay: Church and State: The Golden Solution

No. 33 -- 6 April 2006
    Poems by Stan Tenen:
         Pick One
         Apology for One God

No. 34 -- 10 May 2006
Essay and Poster: Deborah, the Bee-Speaker
(Links to poster included in text)

No. 35 -- 27 November 2006
Book Review: The Future of Art in a Digital Age,
by Menahem (Mel) Alexenberg, Ph.D.

No. 36 -- 30 November 2006
Essay by Stan Tenen:
Author's Preface to The Alphabet in Genesis Books

No. 37 -- 5 December 2006
Essay (preliminary version): Notes on the Unique
Qualities of Gesture Letters

No. 38 -- 11 December 2006
Essay: Prison and the Big Dig

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Featured Articles and Posters:

From Issue #2:
Informal Essay by Stan Tenen: Alternatives to Biblical Scholarship
Originally written for the e-list Meta-Reiterations
How our assumptions about the origins of the Hebrew Bible profoundly affect what we see as its meaning and purpose.

From Issue #3:
Informal Essay by Stan Tenen: When is the Textual Approach Not Appropriate?
Originally written for the e-list Meta-Reiterations
Should the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Bible be studied using the same tools and assumptions?

From Issue #4:
Informal Essay by Stan Tenen: On Immortality
Originally written for the e-list Meta-Reiterations
A possible mechanism for survival of certain aspects of the soul beyond physical death.

From Issue #6:
Informal Essay by Stan Tenen: Which Way Up
We want to grow, spiritually and emotionally. How do we recover from distraction, and renew our focus?

From Issue #9:
Informal Essay by Stan Tenen: The Three Pillars of Love
Is "unconditional love" really unconditional? What are the components of higher love?

From Issue #10:
September 11, 2001: An Architectural Proposal for the World Trade Center Site
Any plans for the World Trade Center in Manhattan must provide for the city's commercial needs, and at the same time both acknowledge people's grief, and affirm life and a hope for peace. Here is a verbal description of our vision, incorporating elements of Meru Foundation's research and designs.

Special Edition: 6 August 2002
First Sound -- The background behind Meru Foundation's Music of Genesis

Special Edition: 12 June 2003
A New Islamic Map for Peace -- Essay by Dr. Mel Alexenberg
How the esthetics of Islamic art provide a way to "put Israel on the map".

Special Announcement: 25 August 2004
Stan Tenen to be Featured Guest on "Coast to Coast AM" Radio
Wednesday Sept 1-Thursday Sept 2, 2004

From Issue #34:
Poster: Deborah, the Bee-Speaker

From Issue #36:
AUTHOR'S PREFACE from The Alphabet in Genesis
(c)2006 Stan Tenen

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