Meru
Foundation eTORUS(tm) Newsletter
Number 4 - 15 May 2000
Copyright 2000 Meru Foundation
Written by Cynthia Tenen
NEWS
Stan and Cynthia have returned to Massachusetts, after a successful
three-month visit to the West Coast. Our project for this coming
summer is to make substantial progress on a book Stan is writing to introduce
the Meru research, tentatively titled The Geometry
of Genesis. This book will be published by North Atlantic/Frog
Books in Berkeley, California, and hopefully will be ready by early 2001.
We will publish updates to this publication schedule here, as our book
takes shape.
On our way from California to Massachusetts, we stopped in Bloomington,
Indiana, the home of Robert Amick, who is producing animations of the Meru First
HandTM form for the Meru
website. Robert and his partner Jill Taylor run the Circle Institute,
founded in 1997 to "focus development of three quarters hectare of land
into an example of a sustainable lifestyle which will enrich the land and
the people who dwell on it." (Quote from Circle Institute literature.)
Robert is working on updates to the two animations currently on our website;
when they're ready, I'll announce them here. The current animations
can be found at: <http://www.meru.org/compuimages/3-10knot.html>
and <http://www.meru.org/compuimages/3-10dance.html>.
NEW LOOK FOR MERU VIDEOTAPES
Those of you who are ordering Meru Foundation videotapes may soon notice
a "new look" to our packaging. We are now selling our videos in professionally
produced slip-cases, with artwork originally designed by Stan to present
a single, elegant, and unified look for our entire set of seven Meru videos.
(Previews of these cases are shown on our distribution website, <http://www.meetingtent.com>.)
Why does this matter? Of course, the esthetics are important (we
think these cases are beautiful). But even more important to Meru
Foundation, our new professional packaging means that Meru videos are now
convenient for wholesale distribution to major video stores and specialty
catalogs. Since the major sustaining support for our research over
the years has been sales of our videotaped lectures, we who are involved
in the day-to-day running of Meru Foundation are more than pleased to be
able to offer our videotapes in packaging appropriate for this large and
growing market. If you are a video retailer or distributor who would
like more information about Meru video sets in the new, standard-sized
slip-cases, please contact Bill Haber at <service@meru.org>.
MEETING WITH DRS. GARY SCHWARTZ AND LINDA G. RUSSEK
As mentioned in last month's eTORUS Newsletter,
two weeks ago we met with Drs. Gary Schwartz and Linda Russek of the University
of Arizona at Tucson; Schwartz and Russek are prominent figures in the
field of consciousness research, and authors of the new book, "The Living
Energy Universe." We spent an entire day with them, visiting their
lab and exchanging views and ideas on our respective goals, ideals, and
methods. Both we, and Drs. Schwartz and Russek, hold a deeply-felt
goal in common -- to contribute to improving the quality of spiritual,
emotional, and psychological health for all those who wish it. Our
first meeting with them was both personally rewarding and professionally
productive, and Stan and I look forward to a continued interplay of ideas,
and ideally, to the opportunity to work together with Drs. Schwartz and
Russek on concrete projects which would advance both their work and our
own.
PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS BY STAN TENEN
Apropos of our meeting with Gary Schwartz and Linda Russek, one of
the topics which Stan has recently touched on in his e-list contributions
concerns the nature of immortality -- what is there of us, if anything,
which can survive physical death -- and how might this take place?
Discussion of this topic, as it happens, is prominently featured in Schwartz'
and Russek's recently published book, "The Living Energy Universe," and
it was on our minds as we spoke with them. But this issue's essay,
"On Immortality," was written after our return to Massachusetts, again
as a contribution to the e-list Meta-Reiterations. Here is an excerpt:
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"...[S]ince Eden, we [humans] have a dual
nature which is comparable to the dual nature of the electron. While
our ego structures, which are identified with our bodies, cannot cross
the barrier, the rest of our being which is not ego-centric, such as our
character and our altruism and our honesty, and our ability to yield, can,
like the wave-like aspect of the electron, cross physical barriers.
I don't know of any religious tradition that does not advocate character
building and altruistic, non-ego-centric behavior. Persons who have
not had personal transcendent experiences are admonished to be loving,
honest, and egoless, and persons who have had personal transcendent experiences
have these traits naturally as a result of their experience.
"If our religious traditions embody an objective
science of consciousness, then their teaching of love and honesty and selflessness
may be evidence of that science, because objectively (at least in the case
of the electron) this is how to cross an impossible/impassable physical
barrier and gain immortality..."
(Essay excerpt copyright 2000 Stan Tenen)
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Stan's complete essay is posted online on the Meru Foundation website
at <http://www.meru.org/Newsletter/immortality.html>
I hope you enjoy this Meru Foundation eTORUS(tm)
Newsletter. We welcome your feedback; if you have questions,
or suggestions, please don't hesitate to write me at:
Cynthia Tenen <meru@meru.org>
Thank you for your interest in the work of the Meru Foundation.
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