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Meru Foundation e-TORUS(tm) Newsletter Archive
Updated 3 November 2009 |
Current Issue:
eTorus No. 49
27 December 2009
Essay: A Theory of Healing
Single knot in a box, taken from Science Daily illustration of computer-generated drawings based on mathematical calculations.
(Original Credit: Dorian Raymer, UCSD)
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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 |
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A Theory of Healing
Essay by Stan Tenen
We've speculated broadly that consciousness has to do with the organization of the flow-through of negentropy in the neurons in our brain.
We've speculated that unlike the fact that one rotten apple can cause a barrel of apples to spoil, one (or a few) less-than-perfect people (aren't we all less than
perfect?) can be helped to grow and heal by being part of a Bose-Einstein
condensate-like assembly.
What we're proposing is, in a sense, that our neuroses and some of our other emotional limitations can be compared to knots in the flow-through of consciousness in our brain, that act as "stumbling blocks" to divert a healthy cascade of consciousness into a less healthy channel. (Even some serious problems, such as some forms of autism, might be accessible to healing.)
So the question becomes, how did these metaphoric (or possibly real) knots come to be, and how can they be released so that our minds can disentangle from non-productive paths and flow back to a healthier course?
Below are a few paragraphs from "Physicists Tackle Knotty Puzzle", a report in "Science Daily" for 8 Ocober 2007, that speaks to how knots can form spontaneously. The complete article is available at
The idea is that all it takes for a length of thread (or string of thought) to knot is to be confined in a box and shaken. (This could have been easily observed in the ancient world.) . . . |
Digital photos of knots with computer-generated drawings based on mathematical calculations.
(Original Credit: Dorian Raymer, UCSD) |
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Hypercube
courtesy Wikimedia Commons |
read the entire essay...
. . . If this is how knots can spontaneously form, then the question becomes, how can they be un-knotted?
The obvious starting place would be to remove the walls of the 3-D box. When we make knots out of
(quasi-)1-dimensional lines or threads, they stay knotted in 3-D. But when we move to a 4-dimensional
arena, all of our knots (all knotted strings) pull through each other via the extra dimension.
In fact, it's not possible to form knotted strings in 4-D (or higher). (It is possible to knot ribbon-surfaces in
4-D; it would take moving to 5-D to universally un-knot ribbons knotted in 4-D.) |
We have two hands, and we also have two eyes, two ears, and two nostrils. Yet we make (when we're
well) only one conscious choice at a time. The presence of left-right pairs is an indication that choices are
a single whole in the next dimension up. A left-right pair of cubes forms one hypercube.
So the fact that we have pairs of hands and pairs of our sense organs, points to the likelihood that our
consciousness is unified and operates in a 4-D arena.
read on... Go to eTorus 49 pdf |
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Journal
Index, 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
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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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