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THE DOME OF MEETING
A spiritual experience @Burning Man
The Dome of Meeting receiving a beam of
Divine Light
The Dome of Meeting, which is a modern
metaphor for the Tent of Meeting(1), consists of a solar-powered
GEODESIC DOME(2) where a GIANT HEBREW text of The Bible(3) is
projected in a circular way on the inner walls, accompanied by a
“MUSIC from GOD”(4) created on the fly and connected to the
display of text. The generated music will activate an LED light
show(5) while incense is burning.
With a magical mixture of the surrounding
desert, dome effect, giant roving Hebrew letters, music, light
and incense, senses will be stimulated and visitors will be
enticed to connect spiritually. An experience conducive to
spiritual connection, transformation and healing.
1 - "What is the tent of meeting?"
The phrase “tent of meeting” is used in the Old Testament,
specifically in Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers, as another name
for the Tabernacle of Moses, which was built after Moses
descended from Mt. Sinai carrying the Law. In the Law, God gave
the Israelites specific instructions (Exodus 25–27) to build a
worshiping place that could be taken up and moved each time they
changed locations while wandering in the wilderness. The word
“tabernacle” is an English rendition of the Hebrew word mishkan,
or “dwelling place.”
When all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the
entrance of the tent, all the people would arise and worship
each at the entrance of his tent. Thus the LORD used to speak
to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend.
Interestingly, the word “tent” or
“tabernacle” is also used in the New Testament to draw profound
spiritual conclusions about salvation. Both Paul and the writer
of Hebrews make a distinction between a heavenly tent and an
earthly tent, between what was “built by human hands” and what
is “not part of this creation”
2 - Geodesic Dome shielded in a “Black Fire”
design covering
A geodesic dome is a sphere-like structure
composed of a complex network of triangles. The triangles create
a self-bracing framework that gives structural strength while
using a minimum of material. The term geodesic is from Latin,
meaning earth dividing. The idea of combining triangles with
the arch was pioneered by German engineer Dr. Walther Bauersfeld
when he designed the world's first projection planetarium, built
in Jena, Germany in 1922. However, it was Buckminster
Fuller ("Bucky") who popularized the concept of geodesic dome
and to use one of them in this project is a nod to “Bucky”. The
image of the geodesic dome is as futuristic a design in our
modern society as it was when Fuller first created it, is an
engineered structure which encloses space more efficiently than
any other structure: the maximum amount of space is enclosed
with a minimum of surface area and materials.
3 - Bible – Torah Text
According to Kabbalah, the primeval Bible
which preceded the creation of the world was written 'black fire
upon white fire.' It had no spaces between the words. Rather, it
was a long string of letters. The pristine Bible in its original
form had no spaces between the words -- it was just a string of
letters which could be broken up and interpreted in an infinite
variety of ways.
4 - MUSIC from GOD connected to the
display of Hebrew text
Ancient Tradition Speaks of Music in the Bible
For years, Uri Harel, an Israeli Hebrew teacher, was talking to
everyone who was willing to listen about his idea of music in
the Bible. Today, new evidence confirms the idea that the
original text of the Hebrew Bible is multi-layered and goes much
deeper than the surface story. Mysterious codes embedded in the
text contain information that could not have been written by
human hands. "Why," Uri asked himself, "would one of the layers
of this complex text not be music?" And if there is music in the
text, how would one find it? The answer Uri came up with was to
assign a musical note to each Hebrew letter and let the Bible
"play itself..." Each Hebrew letter was assigned a tonal value
according to a scheme grounded in Gematria (the science of the
numerical values of the Hebrew letters) and Hebrew tradition.
Then the text is 'translated' from a series of letters to a
series of musical notes. Very talented, well-known musicians,
with careful attention to sequence, phrasing, word breaks and
vowel-sounds, scored the melody found in the text, and then
produced a full-range musical piece from each one of the
chapters translated.http://www.musicfromgod.com/music_samples/psalm_23.html
5 - LIGHTS connected to MUSIC
LED’s flashing to a musical soundtrack
Nothing beats a light show to music, and
especially an LED light show. LEDs are light-emitting diodes
that run on a very small amount of power. When connected to an
audio source, such as a pair of computer speakers, the lights
will flash in response to the pulses in the music.
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