meru foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational foundation established in 1983 to support the ongoing research begun by stan tenen, meru's research director. the meru project has discovered an extraordinary and unexpected geometric metaphor in the letter-sequence of the hebrew text of genesis that underlies and is held in common by the spiritual traditions of the ancient world. this metaphor models embryonic growth and self-organization. it applies to all whole systems, including those as seemingly diverse as meditational practices and the mathematics fundamental to physics and cosmology...meru project findings demonstrate that the relationship between physical theory and consciousness, expressed in explicit geometric metaphor, was understood and developed several thousand years ago.