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If you intend to buy one video this year pertaining to a Pythagorean insight into nature (and the astonishing wisdom of the ancients) then consider Stan Tenen's groundbreaking video "Geometric Metaphors of Life" available from his Meru Foundation. This link leads to his new website, which has been beautifully created by Jim Fournier (Jim also has a fascinating website called Gaiamind). I must say, however, that Stan's website is unable to do Stan justice, despite Jim's best efforts. Stan is a natural teacher who is best *seen* in action. And even though his presentation at times can be mathematically demanding, you need not have his depth of mathematical awareness to grasp the glowing outlines of the essential beauty of his discovery.

I (Mark Alexander) was fortunate to spend some time last October with Stan and his wife Cynthia at Jim's home in San Francisco. Stan is remarkably humble and recognizes how important his continuing series of discoveries can prove to be.

Stan Tenen presents a masterful demonstration of how the opening verse of Genesis in Hebrew is derived from a universal mathematical model. He makes an excellent scholarly case that the Hebrew alphabet was originally derived from *shadowgrams* of this mathematical vortex. This is Sacred Geometry of the highest order.

If you find yourself as fascinated as I am with "Geometric Metaphors of Life", then be sure to get his remaining videos, especially "A Matrix of Meaning for Sacred Alphabets" and "The Alphabet in Our Hands" parts 1 & 2.

These amazing discoveries are well worth your time.

- Mark Alexander

I have finally received permission to post in its entirety Ernest G. McClain's essay "Musical Theory and Ancient Cosmology" which was published in the journal The World and I. This brilliant essay, which requires some time and effort, points out that the understanding attributed to Pythagoras is actually of a more ancient origin. The Greeks were not offering us original discoveries -- they were conveying a legacy.

- Mark Alexander

Daniel Shaw has a nice Sacred Geometry of the Earth and Planets site

A nice summary of Pythagoras' life and a bit about Orphism.

Compilation of info from the University of St Andrews'  History of Mathematics Archive.

Mark Newbold has a Rhombic Dodecahedron Page.

Jim Morey's java applet Interactive Proof of Pythagoras' Theorem