Additional Resources for Meru's DVD Lecture Series and Research on the Hebrew Alphabet

Each of Meru Foundation's seven DVD Lectures was designed to be supplemented by printed material, including both essays and graphics.  In most cases, since these videos are primarily of live lectures by Stan Tenen, this supplemental material was distributed to the audience, or (in the case of poster-sized graphics) was viewable by the audience during the lecture.

Much of this material is already available on the Meru Foundation website. 

Below is an index to this material, keyed by DVD.

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Click on the links below for links to materials related to the DVD Lectures:
DVD 1: Geometric Metaphors of Life (1989)
DVD 2: A Matrix of Meaning for Sacred Alphabets (1991)
DVD 3: The Alphabet in our Hands, Part 1 (1992)
DVD 4: The Alphabet in our Hands, Part 2 (1994)
DVD 5: Squaring the Circle (1999)

 

DVD 1: GEOMETRIC METAPHORS OF LIFE

POSTER GRAPHICS:

• The "Lah" Swath
• Unity and Wholeness
• A Woven Pattern of Symmetrical Letter Pairs in the First Verse of Genesis
• The Menorah as an Autocorrelation of the Hebrew Text of Genesis I,3
• The Shushon Flower Arrangement of the 27-Letters of the Hebrew Alphabet
• Shushon Autocorrelation of the Hebrew Text of Genesis I,1

 

DVD 2: A MATRIX OF MEANING FOR SACRED ALPHABETS

POSTER GRAPHICS 

• An Idealized Embryonic Fruit and a Dancer's Exchange of Angular Momentum
• Three-Fold Symmetry in the Hebrew Alphabet Matches the Front-Back / Base-3 Symmetry Groups
       "Three-lobed" arrangement of the letters in the four symmetry groups
• Front-Back and Base-3 Symmetry Groups in the Hebrew Alphabet
       The "At-Bash / Base-3 'Snake'" arrangement
• Enneagram View of the 3-Levels of the Hebrew Alphabet
• Rubik Cube Hebrew Alphabet Matrix
• Enneagram Rubik-Cube Hebrew Alphabet Matrix
• Continuous FLAME / Discrete VESSEL Mirror in the Meaning Structure of the Hebrew Alphabet
• Individual Letter-Portraits of the Hebrew Letters
       Each letter has its own intrinsic meaning, as defined by the letter-matrix. This link takes you to an entire section on the Meru Foundation website,  an updated version of the printed material distributed at this 1991 lecture, where these individual letter-meanings are explored.

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DVD 3: THE ALPHABET IN OUR HANDS, PART 1

• The God of Abraham: A Mathematician's View This keynote essay outlines the philosophical basis for the Meru Foundation research.
• The Geometry of Rumi's Description of the Mevlevi Sufi Round Dance

 

 

DVD 4: THE ALPHABET IN OUR HANDS, PART 2

• Continuous Creation: A General Projective Principle
  This graphic is the central "geometric metaphor" for Meru Foundation research.
  
• Graphic Essay: Symmetry Woven into the First Verse of the Hebrew Text of Genesis

 

 

 

DVD 5: SQUARING THE CIRCLE: The One and the Many; Mind and World

• Squaring the Circle with a Straight Edge and a Compass
• Poster Graphic: Hebrew Alphabet Hand Gestures
• The Hand Aims the Spotlight in the Theater of Consciousness
• Man Bites Dog
• A Purloined Letter: The Evidence is Not Hidden
• Background Sources on "The Circle and the Line," Quadrature, and "Squaring the Circle:"
• Excerpts from Why People Gesture When They Speak,©1998 Dr. Jana Iverson & Dr. Susan Goldin-Meadow

 

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Material from videos now posted to YouTube:

THE DANCE OF THE HEBREW LETTERS

• Essay: The Hebrew Letters: Tefillin in Hand
• The Hebrew Alphabet Hand Gestures
  This poster includes both the "At-Bash Meaning Pairs for the 22-Letter Alphabet" and graphics of the letter-gesture positions