Standard linguistic theory maintains these words are unrelated, but Dr. Greenberg's work shows a scientific basis for their real relationship. This article, titled The Role of the Hand in the Evolution of Language , by the late Prof. Ullin T. Place, is yet another recent report indicating the primacy of gesture language. In recent months, Stan has been participating in a number of electronic discussion lists on the topic of science and consciousness, or science and spirituality. For the Winter issue, I've chosen an essay on the topic of how the way we look at the Hebrew Bible, and what we presume its history to be, profoundly affects what we see in it. Obviously, writing a story doesn't solve the problem.
Meditational exercises are notoriously impossible to convey in word-descriptions.
This is what I'm suggesting as the origin of the Hebrew alphabet as a gesture-language. But recording a series of gestures would be of no interest to the general public. If the clear-text is an attractive or fascinating cultural history, then those reading it would have sufficient reason to maintain it, even if they didn't know of or couldn't perform the meditations. It makes no sense to read the stories of the Bible in a way that makes them oppose history. That would lower their credibility, and consequently their survivability.