Aviation, Economy, Globalism and Localism

Aviation, more than anything else, emphasized the relationship between national aspirations and technological advancement. Because It promised military advantage along with controlling the forces of nature, aviation became obvious criterion, best and most effective sign of success, personal, social and national. Aviation systems are heavily dependent on other services, chaining the whole defense and civil system. Financial cost of air weapons is enormous.

Aviation is equally inextricably involved with personal existential dimension. There is relationship between the development of aviation and human development. This is due to the importance of the experience of flying in the reality of creative imagination. ‘Flight of ideas’ is not a worn phrase. Flight is the engine of our thoughts and aviation is a tangible expression of it, much like the flight of birds in the past. Aviation images were very popular during the first half of the 20th century because they expressed ability and opportunity. World of Aviation was perceived as being rich in resources, so everyone could find his own world in it. The airplane expressed desire to control the physical world and thinkers of the Golden Age of Aviation treated it as a superb political machine. Working class can breathe a sigh of relief, said Bertolt Brecht because aviation heralded a better future for him. Russia made the airplane almost religious icon. It represented G-d and the salvation of man. Aviation was designed to release the Russian nation from the shackles of the past, when most Russians were slaves and serfs of the emperor and nobility. Underdeveloped society expected a quick transition to the level of most advanced and powerful nation in the world.

Nowadays the dramatic impact of airplanes as technological innovation largely faded, but in the second half of the 20th century airplanes, and even more the missile, had decisive impact on the international political system. It is very difficult to estimate the economic return resulting from investments in aviation development. Means of modern aviation usually finish their use after several years as junk and give way to a new generation. Preliminary decisions may turn out to be mistaken, and changing them costs a fortune. Every decision in this area is a strategic military, economic and political decision that affects deeply the nerves of any state.

Here are two examples:

‘Lavi’ fighter project of Israel was canceled in advanced stage, because it was considered too expensive. Critics argued that Israel will turn into 'airplane that has a state’. This economic decision weakened the political status of Israel as an independent state. Corruption scandal uncovered at the time led to increased prices of fighter planes from U.S.A. Savings achieved eventually by cancelling the project were minimal. Cancellation of the Lavi was thought by enemies of Israel as expression of mind weakness. Some time later a wave of suicide terrorism started.

Sweden faced similar dilemma. Despite financial burdens, it decided to develop its own fighter plane. Following this decision Sweden is considered now days more independent politically and economically. All technologically related industries, such as electronics and automobiles, continued keeping competitive advantage.

High costs of developing modern means of aviation, along with the ability to move with airplanes high above physical obstacles, contributed much to utopian vision of united world. Aviation did so probably a lot more than any other idea or technological innovation in history. First pilots expressed utopian ideas and intentions, but failed to prevent two world wars in 20th century.

Space flight too caused a shift in public perception of the world. Earth from space looks as magical oasis, green and blue, small and fragile against black space that surround it. Astronauts impressions gradually filtered into international public consciousness, particularly after constructing of International Space Station .

Today, economy of the world is greatly global. Economic benefits win national aspirations. But globalization does not guarantee economic rationality. It may create a sense of economic dizziness, similar to that prior the Great Depression of the 1930th. Chronological proximity of the Great Depression with Golden Age of Aviation is indicative of the relations between them. Spiritual vision is the dream of every individual, and aviation is vital for securing the skies.

Greatest ordeal of a any state is whether it is capable of holding aviation strategy, using the appropriate resources, including personnel, media etc., by understanding the nature and vulnerability of itself. Successes and failures of air forces throughout history were resulted not on account of date but due to circumstances. Not technology, but foresight and understanding of aviation management equation correctly, recognition of the importance of supporting factors, played a major role. It created great opportunity for personal interpretation.

Swinging 1920th were age of euphoria, a result of eliminating physical limits thanks to airplane and radio. Economic behaviour became greedy. Financial pyramid schemes were popular and so were baseless acquisitions of real estates. The law of prohibition in U.S.A was ignored and the number of bars had more than doubled over the period. Sports stars salaries became imaginary. But the real sport was buying and selling of stocks. Stock market surge in the 1920th was psychological. Public followed it eagerly. It was popular as popular sports. Speculations were amazing. It was unbelievable. Everybody engaged in speculation and speculation only. People hovered in the air, losing ground underfoot. No one cared. Market created a fake, made ​​fake prosperity, finding its expert commentators. High-tech stocks took an important part in the stock market soaring. They prompted speculators to raise the stocks to extreme level.

It is possible to link between the financial crisis of 2008 to the existence of the International Space Station, expansion of cheap air travel and rapid development of personal aviation. They all create a sense of global utopia, but do not guarantee robust economy and society.

Aviation does not guarantee real rational behavior as normal trade does. Regular trade is an equation where two sides benefits equally and it is a Win-Win game. Aviation as a trade give unique advantages to its operators.

Nobody is interested in a global vision in which he does not have full equality. Globalization is controlled by giant corporations, based in developed countries. These corporations control the civil life in their countries. Developed countries span technological and economic umbrella over developing countries.

Any individual in modern society suffers from stresses: personal, professional, economic, political and more. When pressures are local, the individual finds easy ways to relax. When pressures arise from a remote source, the result is often alienation, helplessness and exhaustion. Today, communication satellites network circle planet earth. The most common broadcasting channels are small local stations.

Economy has not yet found the mechanism for fair competition in globalization. Competition is sacred value of human society. It highlights the best over the worst. After World War I few stagnated European empires disintegrated into dozens of small vivid nation states.

There are unique problems in aviation itself:

Pilot training is a dangerous activity. During World War I most pilot casualties were a result of accidents. To be suspended between heaven and earth is not trivial. Particularly dangerous is landing, which is the transition from transparent and divine sky to the tough ground. What appear initially as a calm activity is actually totally engaging, with multi challenges, of many options and many risks. Pilots are required to adjust to a new 3D aerial orientation perception which vary greatly from that of normal human 2D on earth.

Airlines passengers often experience a sense of loss in flight. Fast distance leaps stress and epidemic dangers, fear of heights, jet lags resulting from disruption of biological clock, boredom of being for long hours in air desert and more, cause significant increase of weakness and depression. Depression and fatigue are common nowadays more than any time.

There is no better cure for depression than coming home to supportive environment. There is an African proverb: 'It take a village to raise a child’. This wise proverb describe the strong forces pushing people towards Localism.

There is therefore uncertainty and rotation between global and local visions. This cycle which individuals are passing influence also countries with great powers. Each country debate on the subject.

Good examples of the conflict between Globalism and Localism are:

Continuing debate about Colonialism in the 19th century.

Political divide between left and right in modern countries. Wiemar Republic failed because its leaders failed to express German Localism compared to the Nazis who emphasized and highlighted it by violating the Treaty of Versailles and investing of large part of the national budget in aviation.

Wars in Iraq and other developed countries. Major players in the international arena fails to impose order in developed countries, because there is a persistent minority who still prefer local interests, which are usually that of familial and ethnic groups.

The result of this conflict is that we live in partial Globalism. The international system is a conflict between few partners competing for hegemony in world markets.

This competition is best reflected in the aerospace industry:

Space industry of the Soviet Union didn’t allocate enough resources to develop the Soviet space shuttle when it was slightly behind the American space program. The result of stopping the project was a huge deterioration in international prestige of the Soviet Union, which led ultimately to its collapse. Russia, which emerged out of the collapse; was in deep economic recession and found international markets almost blocked to the many products of its aerospace industry. Russians are now working hard to return to international markets.

Americans collaborate in building the international space station 'Freedom' with many other countries and especially Russia. This step is essentially economic, but has far-reaching political implications. It maintain world peace, but at the same time open a doorway for Russia's return to the status of the Soviet Union together with the Cold War.

Europe is currently a political and economic union. European Union invest in some aerospace programs, knowing that this is the key to continued stability development. Airbus company, which manufactures advanced passenger airplanes all over Europe, is one of the flagships of the Union. EU has serious economic and social problems, particularly in light of the technological and economic gap between North to South states. Having a brilliant showcase space program of its own may change the situation.

China's economy depends on export of its goods worldwide. Yet the Chinese are developing independent space industry targeted for man made missions, in purpose of creating a much needed sense of identity, authenticity, originality and national prestige, prestige that each successful space mission brings.

India sends probes to Moon and Mars, in order to create the image of technologically advanced superpower. Competition with China is a major consideration in investing many resources in this race.

Japan was defeated in the technology intensive competition on world markets against cheap China. Economic strategy chosen by Japan is printing money to the markets in order to rescue its economy from ongoing recession. This policy mimics the economic rescue measures of the United States. Japan's space policy too favors more international cooperation, through the International Space Station partnership where it has a separate unit.

Clumsiness of the crystallization of Globalism nowadays shows that it can become huge conflict, in light of the individual's dependence on his family, community and ethnic group in which he grew up and was developed. Globalism failed again and again throughout history because it had always a central control mechanism, liberal but authoritative.

Many empires rose and declined while representing the world’s best of their time.

Huns defeated the Romans, Mongols defeated the Chinese, Indians defeated the British. The fate of the Jewish people in the diaspora is proof of that. They always paid the highest price for the faith in united world. German Jews are the best example.

Aviation development highlighted excessively, in a demagogic style, any social gap. For many radical groups aviation was a symbolic primary weapon, legitimate in their eyes, vital and destructive.

It was used for radical change by unsatisfied political movements, such as Nazism or Islamic terrorism. Its high profile made any aviation operation successful eventually, even if it failed. Governments attention for it only fueled the conflicts.

Spiritual flying experience is the secret dream of every individual. It involves natural and organic connection with many life aspects and systems. During maturation of the Aviation Age, when airplanes became the primary means of war and flight became, in parallel, mass experience, there was dramatic shift in the expectations of many people. They experienced frustration, loss of control, lack of social balance, euphoria and crash out of hopes. Disappointment was much stronger than the hope at the beginning of the era.

1960s are perhaps the best example of the gap that the global aviation program for personal flying experience. Although this period mankind has reached its peak in flight, through launching man to the moon, on earth drug culture was developed and youth were on recreational drugs, looking this way for personal flying experience with mind expansion. It may be concluded that Western countries reached maturity in aviation development with the understanding that there is no link between the psychological flying experience and the fascinating experience of flying in airplanes which became more boring than bus travelling, but it was rather that the youth felt frustrated as a result the aviation experience in space, with all the advantage economic and technological that it gave to narrow elite only.

Use of passenger planes by terrorists in September 2001 attack and the decisive response of the United States indicates that aviation remain, locally and globally alike, in the forefront of the human soul and that the relationship between spiritual flight experience mechanical flying experience will stay forever.

Description of the intense conflict between globalization and Localism produced by aviation development was brought by famous science fiction writer HG Wells. In 1907 Wells published a book: "War in the Air". The book describe the destruction of the world as a result of global air war between the superpowers. War begins as personal war mongering by a German airship captain. The result is the rapid spread of war throughout the world, a global destruction of civilian population centers, after which the economy get back to a primordial status, as well as non ending of the war, which continues somewhere else after the hero returns to his destroyed native village.

Few more books of Wells are: "Shape of Things to Come" from 1936. This book describe the collapse of the international political system after World War I, ending in devastating global air war. After the world is destroyed, somewhere few pilots survived, with airplanes that the use fore trade transport connection from place to place. Their transportation monopoly encourage them to establish the 'Dictatorship of Aviation'. This is global association of airlines which

manage wisely the world as a whole. The organization's first conference is held in the city of Basra. The book became a movie in 1938. UK viewers view on screen swarms of bombers bombing London. The public reaction was that this is pure science fiction that there is no chance that it will materialize.

Wells described in his the book "world Set Free" the atomic holocaust , and in "Island of Dr. Moreau" the abominations of genetic modifications on the basis of race theory. He won the honor of kings after World War II, as his most visions realized.

Wells was a believer in global government, composed of the educated elite. Yet full realization of the vision seems very difficult today, because of the question 'who will be the boss' and ongoing struggle between globalization and Localism in many places around the world, particularly Arab and Muslim world where the extended family institution is dominant. 

Historical experience shows that during the thousands of years of human culture adolescence experience remained similar. Each generation strive to re-invent the world. Humanity has evolved through leaps of thought, derived largely as a result of enlightenment experience of individuals. Enlightenment is momentary flash of inspiration and insight in which a solution pops up for existing problem. Enlightenment may be derived or developed, in many cases, in connection to the experience of spiritual flight, which is momentary disengagement from the shackles of gravity and hovering over reality. So Aviation, which is the realistic expression of spiritual flight, is appropriate activity to stimulate enlightenments. It is the arena were enlightrnment can be found, developed and approved. In absence of appropriate cultural heritage for aviation transportation revolution, polarity between Globalism and Localism may continue for the foreseeable future, especially as means of aviation will increase. The more there will be there will be more people who will be interested in personal spiritual flight. The wish of flight is in the base of mankind's consciousness.

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Holocaust and Aviation

Nazi Germany Aviation as Major Cause for the Holocaust

Poetic and Healing Research

Part A – Chapter 2

Aviation importance to humanity

Author: Avinoam Amizan

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Gaston Bachelard and his book Air and Dreams

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Like any previous transportation revolution, from the wheel up to the steamer, Aviation gave its masters the tools for world conquest. But unlike land and sea which are the cradle of human activity, Air is a completely new field of activity. Humanity lacks the cultural background to connect the imaginary vision of flight, central for mental development, to practical aviation activity. The dialectic between flight and airplane is vague and destructive. Problematic relationship between aviation and flight were prominent in the case of Nazi efforts to become world rulers while accelerating aviation development with Racialism.

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Famous French philosopher Gaston Bachelard [1884-1962] specialized in the role of imagination. His concept of ‘Dynamic Imagination’ is valuable to anyone interested in developing creative abilities.

According to Bachelard, Imagination is created by any movement. Human will is to integrate with that movement. Thought is the search for way how to do it in practice. Philosopher who wishes to understand mankind must concentrate on learning the poets.

Bachelard described the benefits for the imagination as a result of being united with a one of the four material elements. These elements are good conductors of all that is real and provide continuity to the imaginative mind. World of phenomena present in this way primary examples of change and movement. ‘Poetic End’ is a precursor to the practical end needed by the organism.

In his book ‘Air and Dreams’, published in 1942, Bachelard describes the psychological concepts of flying experience.

Any element which the imagination practice is capable of producing special sublimation, purification and clarification. Aerial sublimation is of the purest type. It is carried on with a light dialectical clarification.

It looks as the flying creature moves beyond the actual atmosphere in which it is flying. There's always room to rise further and the Absolute is the final stage of the consciousness of freedom created in this way. The adjective linked most to the noun ‘Air’ is ‘Free’! Natural air is free air.

The aerial phenomena are the most obvious and regular. They give us guidelines to very important psychological feelings: standing up, growth, climbing, flying and purification. These feelings are the basic principles of Developmental Psychology that can be called ‘Flight Psychology’.

In the heart of every psychological phenomenon there is a real sense of verticality. This verticality is not empty rhetoric. It is a principle of order, scale over which a person can experience various degrees of emotions. Mental life, all delicate and subtle feelings, hopes and fears, moral forces involved in our future, have vertical differential, in the full geometrical meaning of the word. Especially notable are the images and thoughts associated with the fundamental values of the soul: freedom, joy, lightness, sublimation.

Elevation, depth, decline, fall, etc., are axiomatic metaphors par excellence. Nothing explain them and they explain everything. In simple language, if a person wishes to live them, feel them, and above all combine them with real life, he realizes their primary quality and naturalness. It is impossible to express moral values ​​without reference to the vertical axis. Every nerve in the body is a vertical transmitter. The imaginary air is a mental growth hormone for mankind.

If we want to really know how things evolve, the first thing to do is to determine the extent of which they make us heavier or lighter. The positive or negative vertical differential indicates well their impact and purpose for the mind.

First principle of the ‘Ascending Imagination’ is: of all metaphors, the vertical metaphors, such as light, height, elevation, depth, decline, fall, are consensus metaphors above all else. Nothing explain them and they explain everything. More simply, if a person wants to live, feel and above all compare them, he realizes that they have primary quality and are more natural than all others. They are the best expressions of almighty Gravity. Man has to learn to weight them in order to know their value for him.

Although this intangible aerial metaphors concerns us more than substantial metaphors, our language is not adapted to them specifically. Language is conditioned by forms and cannot easily make the picturesque images of dynamic height.

Nevertheless, these images have extraordinary power. They control the dialectic of enthusiasm and despair. Vertical boldness is so vital and clear. Its superiority can not be disputed. The mind can not turn away from it after recognizing its immediate and direct meaning. It is unable to express moral values ​​without regard to vertical axis. After studying the physics of poetry and physics of ethics we believe that any courage is vertical.

Individual images are the effective way to define vertical orientation. The focus on individual expressions allows us to experience a unique tonal quality of the aerial hopes, hopes that are not disappointing us because they are not heavy. These hopes are associated with words of hope, words of the inner immediate future which let us discover new ideas, exciting and fresh, original ideas that are our new treasure.

Aerial imagination imagery evaporate or freeze quickly. We therefore always capture them between constantly active two poles.

The words 'wing' and 'cloud' provide evidence for the bi-polar quality within a single aerial image. They may be a mirror or an illusion, a drawing or a dream. They carry the ambivalence of grim reality or soft imaginary. They are metaphors before being analyzed as nouns and adjectives. But only for a short moment we capture their exact meaning for us. We trust these poetic images which are too non-physical, but does it willingly.

Aerial imagery impact the entire entity. After we got very high and far we certainly find ourselves in a state of open imagination. Images of freedom present a problem if their various stages are not tested one by one. Same difficulty exist with truths delivered in open and liberating air. In the Infinite Air dimensions are deleted and we come into contact with non-dimension material that gives us a sense of total internal purification. We are in a state of repose and movement at the same time.

After we arrived by air so far and high the mind is carried away out of control as by drug. Eager to try the upper air reality, the imagination will double any impression by adding any new available image to it. In its new different form, the mind express a resemblance between ambiguous contradictory images, which blur the colors of good and evil and violate the most stable laws governing the values ​​of humanity. The end result of this yearning may be ambivalent moral significance.

There is, naturally, the journey down. Fall, even before moral metaphors intervene, is constant psychic reality. But the images of dynamic falling are few and poor, in contrast to the numerous images of ascension. Psychological downfall is simple, negative, short, scary, meaningless, isolated, nothing, emptiness. It has poetic and moral value only when it is connected to the positive dynamic verticality which is clear and rich in images and contribute to rising up.

Mental slope is constantly changing. If the slope increases, the person straighten up. Paths to greatness are created among us in this task. Everything in the mind is a path. Each path encourages us to soar.

Indeed things are growing. The way of energies, in imagination and reality, is to expand too much. Will is always a wish for power that does not exist at the present. Superman, who arrived by air so far and high, has no equal rivals. He is sentenced, without being able to go back, to existence full of pride in the legendary pantheon of heroes, even though he may never admit it, even to himself.

Folklore fits well with the images of flight. Great images hidden inside legends suddenly get wings, blooming with new meanings. Allegedly meaningless, they has psychological benefits after being analyzed.

The German tales became a catalyst in the development of German nationalism in the 19th century. German soul absorbed and implemented them as an ideology that attributes special qualities to this nation at the expense of ethics.

Airplanes at the beginning of the 20th century, the early era of aviation, were too appealing to be simply integrated into the hierarchy of human needs only.

In addition to the innovation of technological power tool, the airplane is very similar to a man spanning his arms and therefore it can be easily be personified. The plane is a ‘Medium Became Message’, like all the basic primordial aerial metaphors which Bachelard described.

Aerial Consciousness is a term meaning the use of the general public interest regarding aviation to the purpose of creating a complete world view.

In the first half of the twentieth century various thinkers and ideologies combined the airplane with the Ascent Psychology, in several countries seeking a modern definition, leading to the establishment of a Dictatorship of the Air.

Aerial Consciousness shaped the political stage and life of Nazi dictatorship.


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Holocaust and Aviation

Nazi Germany Aviation as Major Cause for the Holocaust

Poetic and Healing Research

Part A – Chapter 1

Gaston Bachelard and his book Air and Dreams

Author: Avinoam Amizan

DEEP MEDITATION MUSIC | Expand Your Consciousness !!!

Tolerance and Estimation

Many political leaders in Israel celebrate the value of "Tolerance" almost to the level of a religion. Politicians preach citizens  "Tolerance"for others, especially if they belong to any minority. Is not this important request also a request to be tolerant for mistakes of the politicians themselves. If "Tolerance" is so important and they preach it vigorously, why not allow them from our hearts an overdose of "Tolerance" and not expect anything in return?

It is therefore important to understand the origin of the term "Tolerance" in modern society. Although "Tolerance" is an ancient value, its philosophical meaning in modern politic was developed by the philosopher John Locke in the 17th century, in his influential book "Essay on Human Understanding", in which he explores the wisdom of the human mind and human behavior in society.

"Essay on Human Understanding" was in competition with corresponding Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan". Hobbes described a nature where the big fish swallow the little fish, and that natural behavior require a state of absolute monarchy or a dictatorship.

John Locke, unlike Hobbes, described a society in which the value of collaboration with others is before it's all-out war. The reason for the existence of a natural community is the need for constant learning together to overcome common challenges. Constant need for learning and collaboration to achieve quality goals, which are inherently beyond the power of the individual, naturally creates a "Tolerance" value - as the basis for cooperation between people who are different from one another, and so it is promoted as a supreme value.

Value of "Tolerance" as described by John Locke has become the cornerstone of modern society: liberalism, democracy, free markets, social help, and more, were all right. The concept also became popularized and often cited by every politician.

But it is  important to remember that "Tolerance" exists in the community to achieve common goals, and above all learning together. Power of it is important only when community members can learn from one another more easily.

To explain how "Tolerance" helps us learn from one another John Locke coined the term "Estimation"', which has close meaning to the concept of 'probability'.

We can not know everything on our own. This is evident today, in the era of knowledge revolution and knowledge economy. But it was also the same in the past. We were always depend on others to get most information and knowledge we needed for our survival and development. We humans are warm-blooded mammals that live in groups, and imitate very well as a developed skill. We do not work individually, or automatically play a role, such as with reptiles and insects. We are constantly changing depending on the circumstances, and exchange roles and places all of our lives, along with other people around us, and always it is rooted in us that under certain circumstances and efforts, we can fulfill any place in the social hierarchy.

We humans are able to do so because we do not need much time to store all the information necessary for our existence, but we are satisfied with the storage and processing of only a small part. The main part we find around us without thinking. We are able to perform so many actions, even when we have learned very little, because the total amount of information is found in those around us.

We are part of the 'Universal Mind', a concept coined by the French philosopher Chardin, and we find in society at any time the ability to connect to that mind and draw from it to our needs.

We sometimes call this ability 'faith', 'inspiration', 'recollection' or 'revelation'. But in reality it is the most common behaviour. It is an integral part of everyday life, but we tend not to pay attention to it because of inconvenience.

Of course the phenomenon is more common in more intimate settings, such as family life, children environment and the like. In children "Estimation"' is the strongest and most successful way of learning. They really swallow large pieces of knowledge without adults noticing.

To the ability to draw a conclusion in emotional way rather than by dry logic, by the common human experience, large or small, John Locke called indeed  "Estimation". It is the basis in our lives, through which we discover the surrounding in natural faith and act on the basis of mutual trust. It is developed in us to the concept of 'learning something out of something else' in daily life.

Of course "Estimation"' has many limitations and restrictions. We can easily misuse mutual trust, but this are considered 'the exception that proves the rule'. Society founded on the principles of Hobbes put a lot of resources to maintain order, and has much trouble with understanding others, because of the secrecy and suspicion Kafka described so well. This society collapses quickly as a bad memory. However society based on mutual trust devote much less resources for maintaining social order, and therefore it is much more efficient. This is also what teaches us the historical experience: democracies defeated dictatorships and the free thinker always win his dogmatic rival.

"Estimation"' is therefore equally important to "Tolerance", but what its political application?

While politicians are waving about "Tolerance" they forget the value of the "Estimation". They impose on citizens rigid rules, authoritarianism and limited individual freedom, which does not allow to fully form economic and civil spheres.

Worse yet is that without an understanding of the concept "Estimation" politicians tend to be short-sighted regarding the long-term vision of the state and city management.

"Estimation" requires flexible thinking and the use of imagination and creativity when making any important decision. You can not be "Tolerant" and in parallel design a city or country, social or physical plane, according to conservative planning principles, limited and short-sighted.

Who is showcasing the flag of "Tolerance" must also use the tool "Estimation" in its fullest creative applications. When one releases himself from strict rules and narrow considerations, he discovers the ability to connect with the general human spirit in full, with all sources in the world, learn from the experience of others and imitate their blessed labor. Politicians must see the future not for short-term political end, but also for future generations. With  "Estimation" parallel to "Tolerance", they will look straight ahead through two observation tools and will have important insights as with powerful binoculars.

Sabbath day according to the Golden Ratio

Saturday is celebrated every seventh day a week, regardless of season and special events in Judaism, unlike various holidays and festivals that are always related to various events.

The seventh day is all light. It is there 52 times a year and yet every time we feel the light. Although on this day we do almost nothing. Inaction on Saturday has a taste of holiness, compared with weekdays inaction which is often tedious.

What is the source of strength of the Sabbath, if not all of the many laws involved to explain this.

It is possible to explain the intensity of the Sabbath through the wisdom of the numbers of the Golden Ratio, and find through that numbers series direct connection between the Sabbath to G-d.

As we know the number most associated with G-d except 1 is 13 - the most important prayer in Judaism is "Prayer Thirteen".

In Hebrew numerology the sum of the word 'love' is 13, which is half of 26 which is the sum of the letters of the word "G-d".

130 is the sum of letters of the word "Sinai".

Mount Sinai is where G-d gave the 10 Commandments which are 10 times 13.

Number 13 has many more important expressions of Judaism and is the most important number in it. 
How to connect between it and the numeral 7 of Saturday?

You can do this by using the series of numbers of the Golden Ratio, in which 13  is an organ.

The Golden Ratio is a set of numbers with special features. It appears in nature in a variety of phenomena, including the relationship within and between many organs in the human body. Religions of the ancient world, Egyptian and Greek mainly, used the Golden Ratio as a means to build temples and religious worship, and thus for controlling the masses.

The series is built on the principle that any organ number is added to the number that precedes it. 
Add 1 to 1 and get 2. 
Add 1 to 2 and get 3. 
Add 2 to 3 and get 5. 
Add 3 to 5 and get 8. 
Add 5 to 8 and get 13.

The series continues so on to infinity, but always maintain a constant ratio of 0.618... between two adjacent organs in the series, and this ratio is called the Golden Ratio.

If you count the number of operations performed in the series until you reach number 13 you find that the number of steps is 7. The number 13 is the 7th organ:

1. 1
2. 1
3. 2
4. 3
5. 5
6. 8
7. 13

You can associate each day of the week with the number of its 
Golden Ratio:

• Sunday = 1
• Monday = 1
• Tuesday = 2
• Wednesday = 3
• Thursday = 5
• Friday = 8
• Saturday = 13

Every day in the week is getting this way interesting original meaning.

By using the connection between the seventh day and number 13 the Jewish religion changed the Golden Ratio control of crowds by priests to internal essence of free man.

Golden Wave Circles of Love

Golden Triangle - Initial connection between the Golden Ratio and the Holy Land

The Human form of the Holy Land is personification which nature has created.

It invites to try and connect it with the precise scientific measurements of the Golden Ratio.

The form is without limbs, and the sizes and distances of its organs are different than in the human body, to one degree or another.

Therefore any attempt to apply the conventional divisions in the human body according to the Golden Ratio is impossible.


One possible way to try and bridge, however, between the natural human appearance and the scientific instrument is to use the Golden Triangle.

This classic expression of the Golden Ratio is known generally as a prism used for observing reality.

Golden Triangle appears in many known works of art.

The Golden Triangle is created via two lines that the ratio between them is the Golden Ratio.

It is an equilateral triangle with interesting features.

This triangle top angle is 36 degrees. The base angles are 72 degrees each.

Five combined Golden Triangles form the Golden Star, which symbolizes good fortune in many cultures.

The inverted triangle shape of Sinai peninsula - torso of human form of the Holy Land, invites the testing of correlation between this region and the Golden Triangle.

The top of the inverted triangle of Sinai Peninsula is facing exactly to the south.

The Continuation of the right side of this triangle is a straight line up to the Arava Valley and the Dead Sea.

The Angle formed between this line and the North-South line which touch the southern top of Sinai Peninsula is a 18-degree angle, the half top angle of the Golden Triangle.

Time Equal Amendment Second

The formula 'Time Equal Amendment Second' describes a temporary combination between the psychological and objective realities.
It is a magic rose, a point of imagination. Therefore it is easy to relate its qualities to different fields: Scientific, emotional, artistic and more.

The Human mind evolution is created by leaps and sudden changes.

The internal development leaps has many names: Inspirations, enlightenments, insights and more.

A particular significance exists in preparing the soul for enlightenments in our modern society, where the motivated thinking became refined. The modern man places goals for himself by creating a central image of them in his mind, for their fulfillment step by step. A dream palace in the mind's core may produce random, unplanned creative directions of thought.

Any inspiration is created with in a short flash of time. At the same time it refutes all that existed before. Thus, it creates the need to be experienced fully for all its potential.


A. Clock

We all live by the rhythm of time. The ticking clock arranges our life. Time's concept, continuity and experience, receives attention in Philosophy and Literature. It is known nowadays, according to Relativity Theory, that there is no universal form of time. It is dependant on the subject's movement. Its sense is different from one human being to another.

In the modern novel, the difference of Time's experience between characters is, in many cases, emphasized. The literary realism pretends to describe mental states and not an outward world. Writers from the 'Stream of Consciousness' deal in length with the differences between the internal subjective sense of time and external objective time. They create worlds where the instant turns into a long time and vice versa.

Louis Carroll was an author who went to the edge of Logic in describing the subjective nature of Time. In his book 'Alice in the Wonderland' there is a passage which describes 'Time' as a personality.
Alice mocks about a clock with only one pointer as a funny object.
The Mad Hatter, offended, replies: "If you knew Time like me, you would treat him as a celebrity. He and I were once close friends. We served together the Empire in a remote army base."

Time's personality can be developed, according to Sigmund Freud's system, into Super Ego, Ego and Id.
The simple clock can be described in this way:
The slow hours' pointer is the severe Super Ego.
The tempered minutes' pointer is the restrained Ego.
The rapid seconds' pointer as the light headed Id.


B. Amendment

Mind distortions of the external Time's moves create sometimes a new perception of reality. People happen to get into situations of stress or elation where what they know is not enough for solving problems. They stop thinking according to the objective time. They look after the subjective time inside them.
The phrase: "There are moments which seems like infinity", describes it.
So does the biblical verse in Genesis chapter 9, verse 20: "Jacob worked for Rachel Seven Years, which were to him as few days".

This lack of harmony between external time and the soul's necessities can create particular thoughts. These are unclear durations, where experiences become long or short according to their contribution to the mental peace.
Slowly, the external and internal time unite again to a recovery synthesis. But the exit from the crisis can be to new unfamiliar world definitions.

The move of the internal time which searches after its reconnection to reality can be called: Amendment. ['Tikun' in Hebrew].
During the amendment process, pieces of experience move in partial chaos and create mazes, where the soul moves apparently with no way out. The soul reconstructs in this way new possibilities.
When this process is completed, the mazes turn into a new model which suggests a solution.

Amendment is a life experience for almost any modern man. All religions offer ways for amendments through study of morality, abstention or asceticism.
In Judaism, amendment is the central concept of Kabala, mystical interpretation of the Scriptures developed into a structure of spiritual values.

The amendment concept is rooted in the secular way of life through concepts such as 'amending experience', which is an event, sometime traumatic, that suggest change in thoughts and behavior.

Regularly the choice for Amendment practice is because of the desperate need of finding answers to questions of personal identity, in a permissive world where many do not know which way to choose.
Seldom, the choice of the Amendment way is for answering more focused questions.


C. Enlightenment

Sometimes, while staying deep in the amendment mazes, the external time is sensed only in the consciousness' edges. When the solution comes, it is sudden and unexpected. It is named many times: Enlightenment.

One night, sitting on bed before sleep, a question came suddenly into my mind: "What is Time"?

At that moment I paid attention also for other internal happenings: The reveries of time and the amendment process intermingled. Thinking simultaneously about inner and outer reality, an insight flashed in my mind:

The formula exists as a whole perception of reality.

It turned, for a moment, to be my magic rose. I could observe the entire universe, but only for a short time. I felt as in a rocket launched into space. I didn't have the means to preserve it. It was an immediate flash of light in the darkness and was going to fade away very soon. It created the need to be experienced fully for all its potential.

D. Integration between subjective and objective

The formula 'Time Equal Amendment Second' describes an integration between the objective and subjective reality.

In the moment of enlightenment there are two entities in the mind: The initial entity which holds to the conservative past and the new born one which holds to the revolutionary future.

In true reality, there is no division of time to past, present or future. There is only one eternal situation of things and events. You cannot describe the universe just with ordinary Time.
Time is a cube and time periods are sides of that cube. People see usually only one side, which is in front of them. But in the state of enlightenment, it is possible to go around the cube and see it from behind too.

Discoveries through a flash of insight are possible in any area of human activity. Personal problems can also be solved that way. An insight in these fields can be stronger and clearer, since it deals with real characters and not abstract subjects.

From a scientific view point, according to the doctrine of the general relativity, any massive body in movement drags the space with it. Distortion like this is likely also near revolving bodies, which convolute the expanding space in their proximity. The more the body is massive, the more the phenomenon is significant.
Close to Planet Earth, the field of gravitation is strong enough to the point of convulting slightly the space.
This supposed phenomenon will stand to the tryout with a satellite experiment.


E. Interpretations of the word 'second'

The word 'second' has four meanings:

A. in Mathematics, it is the serial position after 1 and before 3.
B. in Mathematics it is also the multiplying of a number by itself.
C. in Time measurement, it is precisely 1/60 of a minute.
D. In common language it is used for describing a short and undefined time.

This multiple meaning can cause misunderstanding. It suggest the existance of a vast field of the unknown.

F. Experiencing Time Equal Amendment Second

The feeling of experiencing 'Time Equal Amendment Seond' is similar to the inner feeling that two people sense when they calibrate their clocks against each other.

Visually, this experience is like a slow motion examination of a phenomenon, for example a water drop.

Unification of the objective and subjective Time is common in works of art more than is commonly thought.

Meir Shalev, in his book 'As in few days', brings many wonderful paragraphs about the impressions of the relationship between the objective and subjective times:
Page 97: "My mother showed me the shade of the eucalyptus tree, That in its size, direction and coolness said 'nine in the morning', the red leaves of the pomegranate that said 'middle March', the tooth that tottered my mouth and said 'six years old', and the little creases in the angles her eyes, that flickered and said 'forty'.
''You see", she said, "like that you are amid the time. If they will provide you a clock you will be only near it".

A wonderful emotional depiction of the deep experience of alliance between the objective and subjective times is of a boy who observes the watchmaker in his work:
"The craftsman, a Hungarian watchmaker from the old generation, started my instructions when I was in the age of four. He promised me the right to sit beside him when he repaired wristwatches and clocks. My first happy lesson was to sit quietly, without disturbing him from his delicate repairs. To my surprise, I succeeded almost without a try, because when the craftsman worked something marvelous took place. Tremendous Love and tranquility filled the space of the workshop, and I sank in the absolute silence that surrounded him. When I concentrated in his work, the exterior silence that I sensed was reflected immediately in the inner hush. All the feelings of misfortune, the pressures and the wretchedness, dissolved."


But most of all, the formula 'Time Equal Amendment Second' is intended for adapting the idea of thinking outside the common order, for growing freedom of perception and thought that until now were not known.

These are possible through quantum uncertainty, where neurological processes and changes in perception may change the reality in the wake of every thought.

Unique Distortions in the Holy Land Map

The relation between any two following numbers in the Golden Ratio mathematical series is always a permanent number: 1.618…

This relation is not an integer. It is irrational. It continues into infinity with numbers after the point.

This is one of the reasons why a systematic thinking of the Golden Ratio brings the philosopher to thoughts of constant change, chaos, randomaliy, and the origins of the universe.

At the same time that it creates harmonies, the Golden Ratio creates change, restlessness, obsession, and search.

One of the attributes of people who lead life of constant change is their ability to dream and imagine.
In order to live a satisfying life it is necessary to imagine and dream, and arrange the will and thoughts according to this.

The Holy Land Map is not an exact duplicate of the human body.

The comparison between Geography and Anatomy reveal many distortions against the model of an adult human figure.

These distortions are unique and can inspire.

They can teach us a lot about ourselves.


Here are some of the distortions in the Holy Land Map:

Fetus
When following the exact lines of the landscape, the human figure which comes as a result resembles that of a fetus.
This is of course very interesting, but can be repulsive for representation.
So the final drawing is much more stately.

Jordan Valley
Jordan Valley's Sea of Galilee and Dead Sea are the eye and the ear in the map.
Together with Jordan River, these three water bodies can form an independent shape which reminds of an entire human figure, or at least a living creature with head, neck and body.
This personification drew the attention of poets and a special article is dedicated to it.
The eyes' nerves are about quarter of the brain, and the ears' bones are completed in the fetus.

Their being in the map as small organs and as an independent body is very interesting.
It gives the map its balance between right and left.

Face and Torso
The face in the map, the land between the river to the sea, is in an elongated, skinny form.
The Torso, Sinai Peninsula, is much more wide and fatty.
The face of the Holy Land Map appears in its external appearance: You can see the eye, ear, cheek, nose, mouth, etc.
The torso appears in its interior appearance: You can see the internal organ systems of the heart-lungs, liver-stomach, and intestines.
This double dissonance is according to the biblical descriptions of the fertile land–face as a narrow passing-through place, where the observation of the rules is dominant.
Sinai-desert is a vast and empty space where the direct inspiration of the Lord is much more feasible.

Hair
East Jordan Mountains, or the Red Mountains, are the hair because of their relative place and shape, and their appearance from the Jordan Valley.

These mountains create a wall between Land of Israel and Jordan deserts. They mark the path for countless scouting birds in their yearly migrations.
The biblical related story is that of Esau, twin of Jacob, the hairy guy who inherited part of this land.
The hair of the map-character is bountiful. It suggest that God is not a male nor a female but both.

Angel Rays
Hermon and Lebanon mountains have a V shape. Their snowy peaks are more then two kilometers above sea level and form between them the misty Baaka valley.

These ranges continue north to Asia Minor.
The stories about them are related to the tribe of Dan, whose land was in their southern intersection.
The meaning of the name 'Dan' in Hebrew is 'Judge'. The intersection a focal point, a logical optimum.
Abraham had his covenant with God at this point.

Energy Lines
Seven powerful energy lines cross the Land of Israel, in accord with the human body's energy lines.
The primary and strongest line is vertical, along the Jordan Valley.
The other six lines are horizontal, meridians, crossing from east to west along major mountain passes.
These seven lines reminds of the six days of the week and Shabbat, or the Divine lamp with the seven stems.
The distance along the Jordan Valley between each mountain pass is almost exactly 100 kilometers.

This precision can integrate between Healing and Geography.

Skin

The need to add colors and textures on order to enrich the character with details made it necessary to rely on the landscape as the human skin.

The primary lines-skeleton of the human shape of the Holy Land where covered with earth-skin in the Biblical sense of man's creation in the sixth day.

The Holy Land Map is a source of inspiration for the imagination. It encourages living according to dreaming.
It is a physical reality engraved in the soul to raise it from earth to heaven.

Holy Land Map: Anatomy - Geography Correlations

Correlations between the human body and the Geographic regions of Israel

The map of the Human Shape of the Land of Israel was created and refined through a long creation process.

The correlations between the human body and the geography of Israel were developed according to the well known principle that there is a continuous dialogue between mankind, his landscape and Nature.

This is a dynamic sublimation processes which create an image in practice.

A complicated metamorphosis process was needed to change the topographic map into a human shape.

This is naturally an infinite process of the imagination, which act to disintegrate obsolete formal images and reshape them as fresh dynamic ones.


The main tool in creating the map was comparing aerial photographs and maps with anatomy drawings and models.

Art and cultural sources were also used to expand the associations.


The level of correlation in this map is much higher then that in other anthropomorphic maps.

It is a correlation which calls for a scientific research.


Many viewers of the Holy Land Map find it difficult to identify the human figure which is hidden in the landscape.

They believe that they look at an ordinary map of the Land of Israel and do not see the human figure that has a shape parallel to that of the landscape.

The reason is the numerous Geographical details of the picture, which force the eyes to focus on them and loose the hidden view.

The aim of the map is to be clear at a first glance.

The visual features of the connection between the landscape of Israel and the human shape are intersting enough and there is no need to complicate them by Optical Illusions.


The major correlations in the Map of the Human Shape of the Holy Land are:
Head - From Mt. Hermon to Negev Plateau and from Jordan River to Mediterannean Sea
Neck – Negev Plateau
Torso – Sinai Peninsula


List of correlations:

Head - From Mt. Hermon to Negev Plateau and from Jordan River to Mediterannean Sea
Head Top - Litany River
Forhead Top - Tyre
Brain - Galillee Mountains
Eyebrow - Acre
Eye - Lake Kinneret
Nose – Carmel Mountain
Dead Sea – ear
Mouth, back - Jerusalem
Samaria – upper cheek
Judea – lower cheek
Mouth, front - Ayalon, Shorek, and Haela Streams
Lip, rear - Vadi Hevron
Lip, upper - Ayalon Stream
Lip, lower - Bsor Stream
Chin - Gaza
Chin edge - Vadi El-Arish estuary

Neck – Negev Plateau
Thyroid Gland - South Dead Sea
Nape - Arava Basin to Eilat
Trachea - Kadesh Barnea
Esophagus - Ramon Crater and Vadi Faraan
Vertebra - Vadi Zin

Torso – Sinai Peninsula
Ribs - Negev to Sinai parralel north-east to south-west mountains ranges
Heart and lungs system - Vadi El-Arish Basin
Liver and Stomach System - A-Tia Plateau
Horizontal Colon - A-Tia Cliffs
Intenstinal System - High Mountains of Sinai
Pelvis bottom - Sharm-a-Shech
Spinal column - Eilat Bay Mountains
Kidneys - Nueiba
Spinal column curve - Dahab
Sternum - Rus Sudar


There are also spiritual Geography - Anatomy correlations:

Spiritual organs around Israel
Angel Rays - Mount Hermon and Lebanon mountains
Hair - Golan and East Jordan mountains
Fear Chakra - Red Sea
Balancing Aura - Mediterannean Sea

Human Shape of the Holy Land

Human Shape of the Holy Land

God had created man in his shape.

in his spiritual life man tries to get closer to god's virtues.

At the same time, Man's body proportions are according to the Golden Ratio, the Divine Proportions.


How can the Holy Land combine this?

What is the reason for the longings to the Land of Israel in all Monotheistic cultures, longings that find their expression as a strong physical and emotional experience in religious hymns throughout history.

The connection in this hymns between the geography and the celestial is much stronger then in a simple metaphor.


The answer is amazing:

The Land of Israel has a Shape Similar to that of the Human Body

It is a physical reality with a particular relief, which engraves and raises the spirit.

The correlation between the Land of Israel and the human body is accurate.

The landscape can almost serve for anatomy lessons.

The figure includes:

The land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea as faceת

The Negev Plateau as neck.

Sinai Peninsula as the torso.

It is a commentary of the Bible, Judaism and the borders of Israel.

The map is a message of social Humanism, global progress and personal freedom.


In the process of creating the map, the landscape was examined with photographs and maps, in relation to the human anatomy and other figures.

The level of correlation is much higher then that in other anthropomorphic maps.

It is a correlation which calls for a scientific examination.


The idea of the correlation human body and the geography of Israel was developed according to the principle that there is continuous dialogue between mankind and landscape, as a dynamic sublimation process, and as an image in practice.

Judaism and the Golden Ratio

Judaism in its initial, biblical form, emphasized the connection between man and nature.

Relationship between God, human society, individuals and Land of Israel in the Torah scrolls are woven into one system of religous order.

The Holy Land is the promised land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Sabbatical law is one of the most important in the Torah.
It allow exile punishment to the people, to complete the Sabbatical years not been fulfilled properly.

In the Jewish holiday of Sukot people live in huts for seven days, to be close to nature.
This is to celebrate the renewed reading of the Torah from Jenesis.

In Pagan religons priests established a similar religous system, linking man's behavior to that of nature.

But the Golden Ratio, which was used widly for aesthetics, and imposing a combination of natural and religous order, almost does not appear in the entire Torah, which is full of numbers and measures.

This is in contrast to the Pyramids, Parthenon and Pantheon, with their sophisticated Golden Ratios.

These were the temples of the enemies of the Jewish people in ancient times, and enemies of the rising monotheistic belief.

Yet Judaism and early Christianity were percieved as more advanced and capble of handling human life.

How could that be without the science of Golden Ratio?

Surely the religous scholers were aware of its importance, even in times of religous persecution and times of change to urban life style.

Judaism had to adjust to modern life its tradition of man's links with natue, but instead a sparation process started.

The immense interpretations of the Torah’s laws didn’t recall the Golden Ratio or even nature's importance.

In the Diaspora, the concept of ignoring nature, and aesthetics, had become even stronger as a central motif for Jewish scholars.

The only imortant thing were moral values and the detailed religous laws.

Human Beings in their flash and blood, with their full neuances, captured the imagination.

Imagination refute formal images and recreate them as dynamic ones.

People were considered brothers and friends, illuminated by God's light and capable of moral attributes, and this was the only important thing.

They asked for Resurgence as a dynamic sublimation process, in an unceasing dialogue between Mankind, God and Earth.

How could Judaism and early Christianity detach themselves so confidently from the values of nature, science, and aesthetics?

There isn't any inherent contradiction between monotheism and the Golden Ratio.

Morality and science should co-exist as vital bricks for building society.

Truth and beauty are simply two differnet ends for the same people.

Perhaps Land of Israel, the original geographical base of Judaism and Christianity, had special properties which allowed scholars to extend their range of interpretation of human life, to a degree uncommon in the Pagan world.

The Golden Ratio

Leonardo's Human Golden Ratio

Fibonacci, the greatest Mathematician of the Middle-Ages, was a genius who reached the summits of thought and dream. He described a Mathematical series: the Golden Ratio, known also as the Divine Proportion.

In this series any number is the sum of the two previous numbers. It goes on: 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144,233,377,610, 987, 1597, and so on.

The ratio 1.618… is a constant between each two following numbers.
It is always an irrational number without an end.

This series has fantastic qualities, mathematical and accordingly geometrical.

The occupation with the Golden Ratio is so exiting, the formed harmonies so wonderful, that it can create a full world perception.


The Golden Ratio is credited as having great influence on the development of human history and knowledge.

The architects of the pyramids in Egypt proportioned it with a Golden Ratio between the mast and the side lengths.

In the Parthenon in Athens the front is a Golden Rectangle, one of the best manifestations of the Golden Ratio.

The holiest shrine of the Roman Empire, The Pantheon, was also designed according to the Golden Ratio.

Renaissance men like Leonardo de Vinci and Michelangelo used it in their famous works of art.

Composers like Mozart, and modern artists like the architect Le-Corbusier, created their works of art using the Golden Ratio.


The importance of the Golden Ratio in Nature is even bigger.

This ratio appears in countless natural phenomena, which are amazingly different in their outlook appearance.

Few examples are:
The D.N.A shape, the numbers of leafs in plants, the sub divisions of mountains ranges and rivers, the distances between the solar system planets.


The human body organs are proportioned according to the Golden Ratio.

It appears in many of the facial, body and limbs proportions.

This was one of the foundations of Classic Hellenistic sculpture.

Le-Corbusier designed the 'Modular', a drawing of a man with Golden Ratio proportions as a base for his Architectonic plans.

The Holy Land and world culture

Gustave Dore - New Jerusalem

The people of Israel had re-established their state in Land of Israel after two thousand years of exile and the Holocaust. One of the lessons of the Holocaust is that a strong Israel is a moral obligation of the free world.
But the Promised Land borders are not defined precisely in the Bible. The Bible says that God, the people of Israel, and Land of Israel, are a consolidated entity. This definition has already decided the fate of the Jewish people. But unlike the people's clear concrete rules, the boundaries were vague and undefined.

Research has determined that there are different border settings of Greater Israel. These territorial definitions were created at different times by different people, and caused absolute misunderstanding. There are also those who claim that the country's borders expand and contract as needed.

Lack of clear map has always been an obstacle for the Zionist idea. Jerusalem became abstract term, one that reflects value and is intangible, in the eyes of the Jews themselves in the Diaspora, from the destruction of the first temple and later.

In modern times, the lack of a map defining the boundaries of Greater Israel influenced crucial political decisions. For example, Sinai Peninsula was given to Egypt casually, because it was not considered by the government of Menachem Begin as part of Greater Israel.

The Catholic Church announced a few years ago, based on an Israeli scholar's research, that Mount Sinai is in the Negev plateau.


In contrast to its mental cancellation as a tangible object, the Land of Israel has always evoked the deepest feelings in all Western and Monotheistic cultures. Longings to Israel, the Holy land, find their expression as a strong physical and emotional experience in prayers, hymns, and works of religious art throughout history.

Gospel songs expressing longing to the Holy Land are major assets of Western Culture. They are earthy level of religious poetry. In them, religious and folk poetry is combined in an inseparable connection.


An American Gospel song:

I'm a Pilgrim

I am a pilgrim and a stranger,
Travelling through this wearisome land,
got a home in that yonder city, oh Lord,
and it's not, not made by hands.

I got a mother, sister and a brother,
who have gone to that sweet land.
I am determined to go and see them
oh Lord,
all over on that distant shore.

As I go down to that river of Jordan,
just to bathe my weary soul.
If I could touch but the hem of his garment,
oh Lord, well, I believe it would make me whole.


A philosophy that deals with human beings must adjust to the images of poems and continue their flow. Philosophy must learn poems honestly, because poetry is the peak of contemplation and expression, the climax of thought and dream.

The connection in this poem between the physical Jordan River and the abstract celestial city is too clear and strong then required for a simple metaphor.
It arouses questions regarding the intimacy between religious and material experiences.

The consistant relationship between the personal religious experience and the physical Holy Land calls for examining its sources.