Meru Foundation findings have strong
philosophical
implications which can shed light in many fields – approaches to
science,
spirituality, and even social and political issues. Inspiration for
these
articles can come from halacha, philosophy, and even mathematical
functions.
(Material inspired by Dini's Surface can be found
here.)
Essays on Learning and
Literalism
Philosophical and
Mathematical
Essays
Spirals as Metaphors
Bible Codes
Informal Essays and
e-list
Postings
Jewish-Interest Essays and
e-list Postings
Essays
on Learning and Literalism:
How the method by which we learn affects what we learn.
Philosophical
and Mathematical Essays
- Damning By Faint Praise
©2003
Stan Tenen
What Meru Foundation research is good for -- and what it's not proposing -- and why.
8 October 2003
- Man Bites Dog
©1996
Stan Tenen
An Essay on the Unusual
26 Feb 1997
- The Purpose of Prayer
©1997 Stan Tenen
13 July 1997
- The Foundations of Jewish Survival ©1997 Stan Tenen
Each organ in the body politic
is necessary
for the survival of the whole
13 July 1997
- Determinism
vs. Free Will ©2003 Stan Tenen
Email excerpt: Comments on the classic question
3 August 2005
- The Dirac String Trick – First Hand
Graphical essay on the Dirac
String
Trick and the First Hand model
depicted as connections between
an in-sphere and an out-sphere
7 December 1997
- The Most
Asymmetrical
Spiral ©1997 Stan Tenen
What does it mean to search for
the most extreme contrast
between symmetry and asymmetry?
27 April 1999
- Dini's
Surface, Mt. Sinai, and the Human in the Gorilla Suit ©1997 Stan
Tenen
Comments on Dini's Surface,
Generational
Unfurlment,
and Speculations on the Spiritual
Nature of Evolution
13 October 1997
- Who Wrote the Bible? ©1994 Stan
Tenen
9 Dec 1996
An outline of one implication of Meru Foundation
findings
- Index:
Squaring the Circle: A Philosophical Solution
24
February 2000
One method for constructing the Meru Foundation
First Hand model provides insight and answers to the ancient riddle of
"squaring the circle."
Material in this section was compiled in conjunction
with Mr. Tenen's March 1999 lecture at the 3220 Gallery
in San Francisco, California.
- The Three Abrahamic Covenants and the Car Passing Trick
18 Dec 1996
–An Experiment in Reality–
A Science of Consciousness must be tested
- Making Peace with Geometry - Index
June 2003
In
this section, we present essays and illustrations of new models for
organic, healthy, and
life-affirming relationships among the three Abrahamic faiths --
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Spirals as Metaphors
Bible Codes
- Index:
Collected
Articles and other materials
on the "Bible Codes"
Articles on the "Bible Codes," or Equidistant
Letter-Skip Patterns.
Includes complete article by Dr. Jeffrey Satinover, Divine
Authorship?, originally published
in Bible Review magazine and reprinted with
permission. Also includes unpublished letter by
Stan Tenen to the Editors of Bible Review in
response to Dr. Satinover's article, and links to articles
by other authors, including statistician Prof.
A.Y. Hasofer and Barry McKay, which are critical of the "Codes".
3 February 2000
Informal
Essays and e-list Postings
The Meru Foundation participates in a number of electronic discussion
lists focused on science and consciousness, or science and
spirituality.
From time to time, in process of responding to questions posed on these
lists, Mr. Tenen writes impromptu mini-essays, discussing focused
aspects
of our work in greater depth than is possible in a more general essay.
- Alternatives
to Biblical Scholarship
e-list posting, December 1999
This essay was first published in the e-list Meta-Reiterations,
in December 1999, as part of a discussion of
the methods and assumptions of current academic
Biblical
scholarship. Specifically, Stan Tenen argues against the assumption that the Hebrew Biblical text was edited
together over centuries. He offers an alternative thesis, and presents examples of meaning that can be uncovered
once the scholarly assumptions of an edited, redacted text are set
aside. This alternative way of examining the Biblical text --
as one whole unit, where each letter and word has meaning in its place
-- is central to the Meru thesis about the origin and
nature
of the Hebrew alphabet and the Biblical text.
- When is
the Textual Approach Not Appropriate?
e-list posting, April 2000
This essay was first published in the e-list
Meta-Reiterations,
in April 2000, as part of a discussion of the methods and assumptions of current academic Biblical
scholarship.
In this piece, Stan Tenen argues that the Five Books of Moses should be analyzed using different tools than those
used
to study other writings which are considered to be Western sacred texts, because the nature, and structure, of
those
Books differs in a profound and fundamental way.
- On Immortality
e-list posting, May 2000
The essay below was first published in the e-list
Meta-Reiterations,
in May 2000. In this piece, Stan Tenen introduces a possible mechanism for the
survival
of aspects of the soul beyond physical death.
- Which Way Up?
Informal Essay, September 2000
We want to grow, spiritually and emotionally. How
do we recover from distraction, and renew our focus?
- The Three Pillars of Love
Informal Essay, May 2001
Is "unconditional love" really unconditional?
What
are the components of higher love?
Jewish-Interest
Essays and e-list Postings
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