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
Learning by Copying vs. Learning by Reading
©1997 Stan Tenen
Hands-on vs. text-based learning -- how does this
affect
our perspective?
2 Jan 1998
Scientists and Wordsmiths ©2003 Stan
Tenen
Natural sciences, and humanities: different
approaches to learning,
and their consequences for our culture and our world
A Few Notes on Literalism ©1994 Stan
Tenen
What does it really mean to take the teachings
of our religious traditions literally?
13 July 1997
A Purloined Letter: The Evidence
is Not Hidden ©1999 Stan Tenen
How the Geometric Metaphor has been missed by
textually-based study
March 1999
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
Some
Notes
on the Logarithmic and Golden
Mean Spirals
and their relationship to "Sacred
Geometry"
Addendum,
September 1997
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?
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