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Meru Foundation e-TORUS(tm) Newsletter Archive
Updated
28
March
2010
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Current Issue:
eTORUS
No.
50
28 March 2010
Excerpt from: Linguistic Cosmology
Geometric
interpretation of A Sun and a Shield
(Ps. 84:11) from Linguistic Cosmology
And featuring the essay: A
Personal God
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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 Personal God
Essay by Stan Tenen
There is a
cognitive dissonance in the Western traditions. On one hand, we're told
that God is transcendent, and has no properties or qualities that we
can know or understand, other than utter Singularity. On the other
hand, we're told that the God of the Bible is a personal God that
answers prayers, in contradistinction to the "mindless" and "lifeless"
idols of wood and metal and stone:
"Their idols are silver
and gold, made by human hands. They have mouths, but cannot speak,
eyes, but cannot see; they have ears, but cannot hear, nostrils
but cannot smell . . . Their makers becomes like them, and so do all
who put their trust in them."
Torah
tradition teaches that those who worship idols will become like them.
Worshipping inanimate objects, power, and the various "-isms" of the
world is a dead end.
The inner traditions teach that God is not a noun; God is a verb. God
is not a thing; God is process. And the process most often alluded to –
without detail and without understanding – is loving-kindness.
Here's how it works. Here's how we can pray to a personal God and get a
personal response, without God having to be a noun-name thing, a
humanlike great-granddad in the sky.
First of all, God actually is Love, expressed as the ongoing process of
loving-kindness. Love is the process of unqualified giving. God's Love
continuously rains on all of us, including the good, the not-so-good,
and everyone in between. This is a transcendental rain from the
Transcendent, but we understand it in terms of the rain we know that
descends on us from above. . .
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Journal
Index, 1999 -- 2006 (HTML)
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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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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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