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THE ALPHABET: FIRST-HAND
WITH STAN TENEN
Sunday, July 19, 12- 3 pm
Members: $20; Non-Members: $25
Science calls it the "theory of mind", and tells us that this is what makes us human.
Tradition calls this the Golden Rule, and "Torah on one foot". Our discussion will center on the Golden Rule as the basis of a Theory of Everything, and a science of consciousness expressed in a truly natural universal gesture alphabet.
We will demonstrate that all of the great traditions, and in particular the Abrahamic traditions, and all of our modern sciences including the foundations of the ideas of Newton, Einstein, and Planck stand on this "one foot".
Stan Tenen
Born in Newark, NJ in 1942, Tenen grew up in Brooklyn, NY in a nonreligious Jewish family. Tenen attended Brooklyn Polytech and earned a BS in physics, eventually working as a senior physicist for Block Engineering in Cambridge, Mass.
A 1967 trip to Jerusalem became a turning point in his life: Standing in front of the western wall of the Temple, the 'scientist with no particular connection to religion' was moved by a scene he describes as 'surreal' - "Palestinians looking very unhappy, and Israelis, and Israeli soldiers,
looking surprised and proud - I spontaneously started crying and prayed that if there was anything I could do to help, let me know."
In 1968 Stan Tenen discovered a pattern in the arrangement of letters in the first verse of the Hebrew text of Genesis - the text "literally folds itself up into a model which generates the letters in which it's written, and does so in such a way that you can read the text as a meditational dance".
Tenen took as meaningful the traditional teaching that the text of Genesis is the template of Creation. The patterns in the Hebrew Bible are the same as those in the heavens.
He has a degree in physics, holds numerous patents, has produced optical and electronic equipment for doctors and surgeons, and can visualize complex concepts in four dimensions. Tenen's work has gained attention from a broad spectrum of mathematicians, physicists and philosophers.
He notes wryly that it sometimes seems " 'too Jewish' to non-Jewish audiences, 'too Christian' for my Jewish friends, 'too mathematical' for my religions friends, and 'too religious' for my scientific friends." Yet, if Tenen could sum up in a sentence what he would like his work to convey, it would probably encompass the idea of unity within diversity.