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What if the only physics you knew was nature? And what if you understood the natural world and its processes through a set of symbols that didn’t just represent those processes, but actually formed and directed them? What would your relationship to the world be like? To the cosmos? To the creator? What if you communicated in a language that utilized those symbols? For those ancient Hebrews who experienced this language of life, their alphabet was archetype, physical substance, and cosmic consciousness, spiraling out as the life-breath of God to embrace and sustain the universe. Above, the twenty-seven letters (including five finals) of the Hebrew alphabet are arrayed on a spiral galaxy in an attempt to express the alphabet as a living, integral system that underlies and generates all things. The first nine letters (archetypal) are black; the second nine (existential) are red; the remaining nine letters (cosmic) are light blue. This organization of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet comes, most recently, from the work of Carlo Suares, a twentieth century Qabalist and mentor to quantum physicist Fred Wolf. Please join us as we explore a living language of creation; may it inform, enrich, and expand your experience of the Jewish story. |
Milt Markewitz
Ken Roffmann
Welcome to our website. To a large degree it’s a rewrite of a chapter in a work-book I'm authoring, "Appreciative Sustainability: A Principled Approach". One section of the book, 'Archetypes of Sustainability', leads us to the understanding that there is much to be learned from Shamanic wisdom, and much of their wisdom is directly attributable to their symbolic languages and oral traditions.
If you are familiar with the story "The Binding of Isaac," you may want go directly there and then read the rest of the text; otherwise, you will probably want to read the text first.
It is a pleasure to be collaborating with my colleague Ken Roffmann who introduced me to Hebrew as a symbolic language.
