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The Meru Project
Intro & FAQ |
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The Research of the Meru Foundation
©1990 Virginia Meyer |
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Virginia Meyer, MAT – Master of Art for Teachers – is a Washington State resident
and retired mental health professional and author. |
MERU Foundation, a small research and educational foundation in Sharon,
Mass., recently released some of its 20 years of research on the first
verse of Genesis. Based on Director of Research Stan Tenen's discovery
of geometric forms and mathematical symbols in the text, this astonishing
research supports an ancient Jewish belief that the Hebrew alphabet is
"sacred." According to Joseph Schultz, professor of Judaic Studies at the
University of Missouri-Kansas City, this discovery "could equal the importance
of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls and perhaps even surpass it."
Alphabets such as Greek, Hebrew and Arabic have been claimed as sacred,
but in modern times no one agrees on what that means. According to Tenen,
"If we take seriously traditional claims that some alphabets are sacred
in a meaningful way and that sacred alphabets and sacred literature are
actually, somehow, different than ordinary alphabets and literature, then
we need to consider the possibility that our predecessors acted similarly
to ourselves when they needed a special formal alphabet to record conditions
and processes called sacred."
Present-day Western alphabets historically have been used for commercial
and everyday use. They developed from pictographic, hieroglyphic, and finally
phonetic images, and serve to record common speech and real-world information.
Sacred alphabets, Tenen has found, evolved differently. They are formal
languages, in the sense that computer languages and music are formal languages.
"They record," he says, "not ordinary information, but fundamental states
or conditions and fundamental processes that have to be used to formally
navigate in a formal context." Many such sacred languages developed side-by-side
with normal phonetic languages, making use of phonetic symbols, but with
an operational rather than an idiomatic meaning. This means that while
ordinary letters of ordinary alphabets point to a particular sound, sacred
letters point to meaning in personal consciousness, like a process or a
state of being. When, as in Hebrew, the language is used for both common
and sacred purposes, any letter can indicate meaning both in physical reality
and in personal consciousness.
BASIC, a formal computer language, is a good example of such joint use
of an alphabet. Programs are written in ordinary English. However, unless
readers know they are looking at a computer program, the message would
be unintelligible or appear to be some very esoteric kind of poetry. A
programmer would understand that every word or letter indicated a whole
or partial process which could generate, in a computer, visual images,
complex problem-solving, and other screen and keyboard magic seemingly
unrelated to the programming language which created the program.
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The Hebrew alphabet contains such dual level meanings, according to
the findings of MERU. The common meanings give us the story line of Biblical
texts, but the sacred meanings generate something more subtle on the computer
screen of the reader's consciousness.
This secondary meaning was discovered because of a visual pattern in
Genesis 1:1 which Tenen, a mathematician with the gift of pattern-recognition,
saw when he was 26. He did not know Hebrew, so therefore was only aware
of the visual appearance of the line of text. That pattern defined the
formula for a geometric shape from which Tenen mathematically derived an
unusual vortex many years later. When this vortex is held in 27 different
positions between a lamp and a screen, it produces the shadows of the 27
letters of the Hebrew alphabet (and with slight modification, Greek and
Arabic alphabets). This discovery led to further developments in which
universal meanings could be ascribed to the individual letters based on
their relative positions in the alphabet. These letter-level meanings,
beneath the familiar words, appear to represent an experiential stratum
of the text.
Research is currently focused on the connection between the vortex,
the human hand, and the language centers of the brain, and their relationship
to human consciousness. The vortex made to the size of a hand fits on a
hand like a glove, allowing the wearer to tip the hand in 27 different
directions to see each letter. He or she can then spell out the letters
of the text, internalize the sacred meanings, and under some circumstances,
may be able to re-experience, for example, Moses' encounter with the burning
bush.
Since the vortex also generates Greek and Arabic, and possibly Sanskrit,
MERU believes it may have discovered the elements of a natural universal
language, the pre-Babel language. However, Hebrew is the only modern language
whose sacred texts still retain the original purity of form, from which
the letter-vortex can mathematically be generated. MERU believes that this
sacred alphabet, which is common to the three Abrahamic religions, can
help promote unity and peace among the peoples of those three faiths.
For further information the reader is invited to contact MERU Foundation
directly at P.O. Box 503, Sharon, MA 02067; 781-784-8902. |
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Meru Foundation
P.O. Box 503
Sharon, MA 02067 USA
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Phone: +1-781-784-3462
Fax:+1-253-663-9273
Email: meru@meru.org
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