Catch Hold Of The Alphabet That Changed The World: How Genesis Preserves A Science Of Consciousness In Geometry And Gesture Invented By Stan Tenen In Print

I'm studying this book continuously, Incredible and stunning in its implications as to the development of mankind, Very interesting book. A friend reminded me that I read it, "So Many Words Flood Me When Thinking About This Book, . . I Love Stan Tenen And His Wife For Their Work, May They Rejoice In "The Fountain Of Wisdom, Life, NegEntropy, Syntropy, . . Some Of The Authors That Brought Me Here Are : Buckminster Fuller, Arthur M, Young, Gregory Bateson, "!" Such A Great Cloud Of Witnesses And Great Pillar Of Fire! In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth, Genesis:

Magical words, to be sure, but perhaps we are just now uncovering how magical! Bet you never thought a research book could be written about the first verse of the Bible!

This is a deep look into the possible origins of the Hebrew alphabet, presenting its construction of letters as based on universal hand gestures, with meaning inherent in each and every letter.
The Torah the first five books of the Bible, Tenen surmises, was first written as a series of figures with no intent for them to form spoken words, The “letters” are a choreograph of manual/somatic gestures, which constituted a language in its own right, Each letter becomes intimate, in the shape of the idealized human hand seen inD projection, This language, says Tenen, possibly predates the evolution of our species, as a communicative practice of higher primates! Performed properly, the handdance has spiritual and experiential significance, leading the performer to a personal experience of the Transcendent.


Tradition says that the Torah is a template for Creation, so lets read the first verse of the Bible again, dancing letterbyletter, rather than wordbyword Tenens interpretation:

The primary distinction, expressed by the topological relationship between inside and outside initiates everything by the expression of a singularity and all of its internal and external symmetries.
The primary distinction between inside and outside reaches out into everything everything abstracts back to a point, framing and/or connecting a single choice to the bulkthe plenum of all choices All of the internal and external reflections symmetries connecting/framing the expression of the expansion of a single choice among all choices and all the internal and external reflections connecting/framing everything from the initiating principle endlessly.


Hmmm. As an explanation of how God created the heaven and the earth, its a bit disjointed, but of course the translation may not yet be perfected, But, really, now: could the ancients who wrote the Bible have possibly been this astute Tenen finds unexpected evidence of ancient wisdom hidden in the alphabet through a myriad of mathematical models, and founded the Meru Foundation into further explore these patterns.


What makes the book fascinating is that Tenen does not merely present his findings he leads us on a visually pleasing journey of discovery, blind alleys and all.
His story of learning how to wear the Hebrew arm tefillin, and the insight it brought, made me smile, This book is a mathematicians playground, roaming through simple pattern matching to basenumbering through various topological equivalents, The Torus plays a key role, Along the way, we examine colorcoded rubics cubes with Cartesian coordinates itsxxstructure accounts for theletters of the Hebrew alphabet, a pictorial golden rule, and an inverted T diagram of the relation between Yahweh and Elohim.
I hold a B. S. in mathematics, though Im very rusty, so Im glad Tenen chose to present everything in diagrams rather than stale formulasbeautiful, color diagrams, mind youand it awakened within me that old fire to communicate through the most common of languages: mathematics.
Topology enthusiasts: youve just found heaven,

Tenen is well aware that his hypothesis contradicts common scholarly opinion, in the development of both language and the Torah, For example, it precludes the Documentary Hypothesis, because it assumes construction of the Torah as a single unit, The Documentary Hypothesis states that the Torah contains the writings of at least four different authors or communities, carefully spliced together by a later redactor, One way scholars tell one Torah author from another is by how the writer refers to God: one calls God “Elohim,” another “Yahweh, ” Tenen notes this distinction, and explains that the one creator of the Torah did this not by accident his purpose being to conflate and highlight the two forms of God, as YHVH “Lord” and Elokim “God,” the eternal.
The One and the Many, Singularity and Wholeness.

I should pause at this point to explain that The Mura Foundation is an ongoing project, This book presents a mostly unexamined hypothesis, when extended beyond its analysis of the alphabet and the first verse of the Bible, Extrapolating from the first verse to a belief that the entire Torah contains the same magic seems to me, as yet, unfounded, How and when, for example, did we begin to read the Torah in its more shallow wordbyword interpretation, leading to the stories our children learn in Sunday School This storytelling overlay is no accident, Tenen explains it is a means of clothing the Torahs more intellectual/meditative message to hold the attention and gain the loyalty of a nation, so that its inner significance would be revered and preserved.
How this happened, however, is not well explained, Perhaps rabbinic tradition provides the explanation, in the story of how Ezra restored the “original” form of the letters By the time of Ezra, all the events recorded in the Torah had long since taken place, so dividing the string of the letters up into words and supplying the vowelization required for pronunciation was then possible.
From then on, the fact that the “real” Torah consisted of the undivided string of letters was no longer obvious from looking at the text, Nevertheless, caution is required, for if you change the text by even “a jot or a tittle,” that is, if you add or remove even the crown on a single letter, or any other mark, the consequence would be disastrous! The hand dance would fall apart.


So do I think Tenen is on his way to discovering a key to the scriptures, through his theory of how the alphabet developed Im naturally skeptical, Ive reviewed similar books before, by authors looking for a hidden code in the Bible: The Bible Code and From Adam To Noah, The first flopped horribly, while the second was much more interesting but still, in my opinion, overstated its thesis, The first was fun with word puzzles, the second fun with numbers, Tenens approach transcends the two, though its still quite fantastic,

At the very least, this is a kaleidoscopic journey deep into the mystery and beauty that is the ancient Hebrew alphabet, At most, it is a discovery that rocks the world of the Abrahamic religions, uniting them as one, For me, because I cant so easily let go of scholarly

research that reads the Torah as a spliced collection of unique writings, its somewhere in the middle, As the author of this book, I'll leave rating it, and reviewing it, to others, However, I want to draw attention via my facebook page to the review already posted on Goodreads by Lee Harmon, and my response to some of the questions he brings up about the Meru Research.
Stan Tenen Rabbinic tradition asserts that every letter of every word of the Torah is a word in itself, Author Stan Tenen demonstrates that each letter is also a hand gesture, and it is at this level that Hebrew forms a natural universal language, All people, including children before they speak and people without sight, make natural use of these gestures,
 
In The Alphabet That Changed the World, Tenen examines the Hebrew text of Genesis and its relationship to the alphabet, He shows how each letter is both concept and gesture, with the form of the gesture matching the function of the concept, There is thus an implicit relationship between the physical world of function and the conscious world of concept, Using overcolor illustrations, Tenen demonstrates geometric metaphor as the best framework for understanding the deepest meaning of the text,
 
Such geometry models embryonic growth and selforganization and the core of many healing and meditative practices, Many subjects in contemporary science were derived from the methods and means available to the ancients The Alphabet That Changed the World makes this authoritative recovery of the “science of consciousness” in Genesis accessible for the first time to the contemporary reading public.
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