Golem resources and links on the Internet

Throughout history, just about every culture has its own representation of the golem- an android, robot, computer, doplanger, Frankenstein, humunculus, living statue, tulpa, etc. These beings are usually capable of independent existence from its creator's control.

Instructions to bring this creature to life are suggested to be found within the mysterious words of the Sefer Yetzirah, The Book of Creation. But to connect the puzzling phrases of letters, vowels and details of the Universe to the creation of a golem is one of the elusive mysteries of the Universe.

There are many techniques and "authoritative" instructions on how to create a golem, or bring a golem to life. But, many lack the details needed to know how to construct the golem. Most of the techniques are described in books about Rabbi Lowe of Prague and his creation of a golem. But, these stories are just stores from the authors and may not have much substance. Read about the different methods used to create a Golem.

There are many Kabbalah websites with information on the golem, how to make a golem and the Book of Creation, or Book of Formation (Sefer Yetzirah in Hebrew). This page lists links I found useful in my studies. Also, see links and information on Sefer Yetzirah, The Book of Creation. Learn more about Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism.

If some of these inks are outdated or do not work, please let me know at bob@emol.org.

• Life from clay theory

• How to Create a Golem

• Golem techniques & instructions

• Mystical Letter Combinations
  (Gematria, Notariqon, Tzeruf)

• Links to websites on the golem

• "Sefer Yetzirah"- the Book of Formation Book or Creation) the manual to create a golem

• Ushabti -Egyptian golems (shabtis)

• Teraphim

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Golem Legends

• The Golem Legend
• Legend of the golem
• The Golem Page
• Golem.plush.org
• Golem: wikiverse http://golem.wikiverse.org/
• The Golem Gazzette: http://www.golem.tv/gazette/index.asp
• The Golem
• Golem
• Defense of Anthropomorphism:
  http://www.tauzero.com/Brenda_Laurel/Severed_
• Heads/DefenseOfAnthropomorphism.html
• Jewish Magazine:
  http://www.jewishmag.com/26mag/golem/golem.htm
• The Golem- A study into a Jewish Myth

Rava's Golem

• Rava's Golem (On the Jewish magical tradition and legends of creating a Golem with Sefer Yetzirah) 1996
• Study of the Golem by David Wisniewski
• History and Psychology of the Golem/ Centre for Jewish Studies University of Manchester:
  http://www.mucjs.org/Lancaster.htm
• Golem Links: http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/golem/golemwebsites.html
• Golem Summary: http://www.umich.edu/~engb415/literature/pontee/Golem/Glmsmry.html
• Prague Post: 21st Century Golem: http://www.praguepost.com/P03/2002/Art/1002/calen2.php

Read Books online (from Google)

• The Golem by Gustav Meyrink
• Sefer Yetzirah The Book of Creation In Theory and Pratice by Aryeh Kaplan
• Golem: Jewish Magical and Mystical Traditions
  on the Artifical Anthropoid by Moshe Idel. Read this book below.

Golem and Psychological Issues

• Golem as a transpersonal image, Lancaster:
• Part 1: http://members.tripod.com/~TheHOPE/GOLEM1.htm
• Part 2: http://members.tripod.com/~TheHOPE/GOLEM2.htm
• A STUDY OF THE GOLEM, ILLUSTRATED BY DAVID WISNIEWSKI, Kay E. Vandergrift
• The Creator and the Computer: Sefer Yetsirah
• An anomalous Genesis: metaphor and implication in the creation of
• the golem
• An Encounter with the Computational Unconscious: Questioning Automatic Drama
• Growth and Development of the Golem:
  http://www.israel.net/raikhlin/social_
  dynamics/myengbook/chapter3/chapter3.htm
• Digital Imaginary, A Procreative Tendency:
  http://www.culture.com.au/techtonic/self/procreative.htm

Golem Personality

• Qualities of the Golem
• Holistic Theory of Behavior of the Golem: http://www.angelfire.com/sc3/holistic/INDEX.HTM
• Psychology of the Golem:
  http://www.israel.net/raikhlin/social_
  dynamics/myengbook/chapter4/chapter4.htm

Jewish Thinking and the Golem

• Yedid Nefesh: http://www.yedidnefesh.com/kaballah/kol-hator/3.htm
• Virtual Reality Minyon Question:
  http://www.cckollel.org/html/heritage/questions/question11.shtml
• Soshana Tekhelot: http://www.koshertorah.com/treeknowledge.html
• The Names of G-d: http://members.aol.com/fegele/letters03.html
• Simcha Kuritzky: http://www.hollyfeld.org/heaven/Text/QBL/rpgqbl.html
• Adam, Golem, Robot a dialogue: http://www.mishkan.com/agr.html

Various Golem Stories

• Jewish Golem Stories A STUDY OF THE GOLEM, ILLUSTRATED BY
  DAVID WISNIEWSKI
  http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/golem/index.html
• 21st Century Golem: http://www.praguepost.com/P03/2002/Art/1002/calen2.php
• The Golem and Rabbi Shmutzkopf:
  http://ape_hatorah.tripod.com/apespirit/thegolem.html
• The Gargoles Golem: http://www.dracandros.com/Jebgarg/tge/golem.htm
• The Night Watchman and the Hundred Thousand Golems by Jay Michaelson:
  http://www.metatronics.net/words/golem.html
• David Wisneiski's Golem: http://www.the-looking-glass.net/rabbit/3.1/academy.html

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

• http://pup.princeton.edu/chapters/s6933.html
• http://theosophy.org/tlodocs/teachers/SolomonIbnGabirol.htm

X-Files golem episode

• http://www.thex-files.com/episodes/season4/4x12.html

Techniques to Create a Golem

• Abulafia's technique to create a golem http://www.pd.org/topos/perforations/perf12/golem/abulafia.html
• On Constructing a Golem: Wheel of Joseph:
  http://members.fortunecity.com/patrickm/231golem2.htm
• http://www.atomick.net/fayelevine/pk/golem02.shtml
• Lesson4 Thanatropism:
  http://www.electricapocalypse.com/thanatropism/four.html
• Chaiyam Bloch: Excerpts, The Making of a Golem:
  http://pnews.org/bio/2golem.shtml
• Kabalah for Simpletons: How to Create a Golem: http://kabbalahclub.com/prevarticles/golem.html
• Technique
• http://golem.plush.org/
• Molding the Golem:
  http://users.lmi.net/sonyarap/redeeming/pages/golemP
  /moldingthegolem.html
• http://members.aol.com/fegele/golem02.html
• www.sy231theory.com/bookofcreation.html
• http://golem.plush.org/links/
• http://www.templesanjose.org/JudaismInfo/tradition/Golem.htm
• Eleazar of Worms Techniques
• The Rhombi-Cadeusus and the letters: http://members.aol.com/AJRoberti/math/rc.htm
• FRATERNITAS SATURNI Nosferatu's Baby (Much too much) Too hot to handle, by Peter-R. Koenig
  http://www.cyberlink.ch/~koenig/fs2.htm (égregore is by definition a created soul- psychogon)
• The Golem: History, Techniques & Uses: http://members.aol.com/fegele/golem00.html
• Building a Golem: http://www.barbelith.com/underground/topic.php?id=5956

Transmigration/Metepsychosis/Gilgulim

The Gates of Reincarnation from the teachings of Rabbi Yitzchak Luria :
http://www.thirtysevenbooks.com/ShaarGilgul/Chap03Sec02.htm

JewishEncyclopedia.com description: http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=298&letter=T

Transmigration of the Life Atoms by H.P. Blavatsky: http://www.blavatsky.net/blavatsky/arts/TransmigrationOfTheLifeAtoms.htm

What is Rebirth? http://www.tapp14.freeserve.co.uk/introbudd/whatisrebirth.html

Transmigration of Souls Part 1
http://hasidicstories.com/Articles/Themes_In_Hasidic_Stories/nigal_1transf.html

"My Golem"

http://www.sixsixfive.com/309.html

Unusual Golem Topics (some may be content restrictive to minors)

Deeper Insights into Illuminate Formula: http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/Deeper.htm

Nosferatu's Baby (Much too much) Too hot to handle by Peter-R. Koenig:
http://www.cyberlink.ch/~koenig/fs2.htm

Golem in Film and Music

"The Golem" Live music by Gary Lucas and Walter Horn

Computer Gaming and the Golem

Cantrap Magical Technique: http://www.cantrap.net/technique/golem.html

Card Game= RhinoGolem: http://www.rhinoventures.com/golem/

Van Richten's Guide to the Created:
http://www.darkside.gr/guests/add/ravenloft/
Van%20Richten's%20Guides/vr03_03.htm

GOLEM robot project.
http://www.demo.cs.brandeis.edu/golem/ completing the Maharal's dream of artificial life does not require humanoid shape, you know! At GOLEM (Genetically Organized Lifelike Electro Mechanics), they conducted a set of experiments in which simple electro-mechanical systems evolved from scratch to yield physical locomoting machines.

Misc. Golem Links

Temple San Jose: The Golem

Parshat Behar-Behukotai - Moshe Sokolow

The Golem- A study into a Jewish Myth

Medieval Sourcebook

Golem

http://www.umich.edu/~engb415/literature/pontee/Golem/Glmsmry.html

Golem web site links

Golem Links

Louis Ginzberg, The Legends of the Jews, Vol. VI -
From Moses in the Wilderness to Esther, The Jewish Publication Society of America, U.S., 1946

http://www.levity.com/alchemy/golem.html

http://www.padedu.com/golem.html

Introductory Note to the Golem, Contemporary Interpretations
Nathan Ausubel

Angelo S. Rappoport, The Folklore of the Jews

Golem: golem.plush.org

Golem On Line

Frequently Asked Questions About Golems: http://www.everwyrd.com/golems.htm

GolemHead.com: http://www.golemhead.com/still_rab_html/rab_2.html

Phosphene Thresholds

Phosphenique Phosphene: stimulation of the optic nerve or retina producing a flashing sensation in the eye. They are a result of rapidly changing magnetic fields and occur at threshold field changes of 2­5 T/s which, at the edge of the gradient field can just about be reached with the modern high slew rate gradient systems. GvS The Encyclopaedia of Medical Imaging

• http://www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/publication.html?publ=949
• http://www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/publication.html?publ=1571
• Phosphene thresholds evoked by transcranial magnetic stimulation are insensitive to short-lasting variations in ambient light: http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00221/contents/02/01160/
• Design for a phosphene visual prothesis: http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~minerva1/publications/design/design.html
• Phosphene Images of Thalamic Sleep Rhythms Induced by Self-Hypnosis:
  http://www.issseem.org/V7N2Abs.html
• Matter from light: http://www.zayra.de/soulcom/moroni/
• TMS and phosphenes: http://216.239.39.100/search?q=
• cache:ZVBYHGQ83UgC:www.ists.unibe.ch/Lit/2002_
  Fitzgerald.pdf+phosphene+%2BREM&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
• Rough Phosphene Exhibit: http://crac.lr.free.fr/rouge/indexengl.html
• Artifical Vision for the Blind: http://www.seeingwithsound.com/etumble.htm
• Phosphenes Association: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/phosphenic/
• Phosphenic Center: http://www.phosphenic-center.com/

Egregores

• See Chaos Magick listings
• Egregore CDefination Compilation: http://www.chaosmatrix.org/library/chaos/texts/gegregor.html
• Chaos Theory : http://www.chaosmatrix.org/library/chaos/texts/egregore.html

'GOTOS' an égregore or group-spirit.

• FRATERNITAS SATURNI Nosferatu's Baby (Much too much) Too hot to handle by Peter-R. Koenig:
  http://www.cyberlink.ch/~koenig/fs2.htm

Golem and Cloning Issues

• Dolly and the Golem
• Jewish Law - Articles ("Cloning People and Jewish Law"): http://www.jlaw.com/Articles/cloning.html

Aibo

History of the Aibo: http://www.phm.gov.au/hsc/aibo/origins.ht

Virtual Humans

• A.L.I.C.E. Foundation: http://alicebot.org
• BotSpot: http://www.botspot.com/
• V-Bot examples:
• LauraBot: http://www.ecimarketingalliances.com/conversdemo.htm#
• http://www.ecimarketingalliances.com/conversdemo.htm#
• KurzweilAI.net
• StarLogo from MIT: OS9: http://education.mit.edu/starlogo/macos9.html
• Di-o-matics 3d characters: http://www.di-o-matic.com/
• PandoraBots: http://www.pandorabots.com/botmaster/en/home
• Virtual Humans: http://www.ordinarymagic.com/v-people/

Animating a body

• The animation principle: http://www.culture.com.au/techtonic/self/principle2.htm

Automata/Human Simulacra

• Ancient Automatons: http://www.ancient-automatons.com/
• http://www.automata.co.uk/mainpage.html

Robots

• Adam, Golem, Robot - A Dialogue between Ken Goldberg and Ovid Jacob
• Robo-lab: http://campus.murraystate.edu/academic/
  faculty/bob.pilgrim/scsw_2002/robo_lab.html
• Getting Started in Robotics: http://www.robots.org/GettingStarted.htm
• Humanoid Robotics Group: http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/humanoid-robotics-group/
• Jeff's All Things Robot Links: http://www.many-realms.net/LTBSA/index.html
• Robot 2003 Links: http://www.popfiction.com/SF2003/robot/
• RoboRevolution: http://www.abc.net.au/science/slab/robo/friend.htm

Chaos Magick

• Writing of Austin Osman Spare: http://www.hermetic.com/spare/
• a5e at the edge of chaos- Phil Hine: http://www.phhine.ndirect.co.uk
• Astral Simulacra: http://www.phhine.ndirect.co.uk/archives/rit_simulacra.htm
• Basicks of Choas Magick: http://invisableilluminati.chaosmagic.com/custom.html
• Guide of Chaos Magick in Germany: http://www.ax.boudicca.de/
• http://www.chaosmatrix.org/
• http://invisableilluminati.chaosmagic.com/
• http://www.chaostatic.com/
• http://www.cthulhu.org/
• Chaos Magick: http://www.chaosmagic.com/
• Chaos Magick Text: http://www.textfiles.com/occult/ERIS/cc.txt
• Chaos Never Dies: http://www.kaaos.org/chaos/
• Defining Chaos: http://www.kaaos.org/chaos/definingchaos.php
• How and Why Subliminal Influence Works: http://www.toolband-sucks.com/tool4.htm
• Spiral Nature Chaos Magick: http://www.spiralnature.com/magick/chaos/

Servitors

• Golems as Servitors: http://www.angelfire.com/space/inominandum/servitors.html
• Avatar and Golem: http://www.culture.com.au/techtonic/flux6/godngolem.html
• Eight Magicks by Pete Carroll: http://www.sacred-texts.com/bos/bos359.htm
• DeathandHell.com, creating a servitor: http://www.deathandhell.com/corpus/servitors_index.html
• General purpose servitor: http://www.phhine.ndirect.co.uk/archives/sp_genpurpose.htm
• The Living Servitor: The Frankenstein Syndrome: www.chaosmatrix.org/library/chaos/texts/frank.html
• Shape Shifting: http://www.btinternet.com/~lilith.kaos/shape.html
• Sigils, servitors and godforms: http://www.chaosmatrix.org/library/chaos/texts/servitors.html
• Summoning a Soggoth: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/9879/necshog.htm
• http://www.shoggoth.net/

Creation and the Created

• The Animating Principle: http://www.culture.com.au/techtonic/self/principle.htm
• Frankenstein and the Golem from jewishgothic.com
• Valkyrie: http://students.hhsweb.com/z971592/novels/night/nw_16.htm

Androids

Building Androids

• XXX ToyTech: text to speech, talking head and more:
  http://ca.geocities.com/xxxtoytech/index.html
• Androids and Robots Sci Fi: http://ca.geocities.com/xxxtoytech/fiction.html

Androids and TV

• "Small Wonder" series: http://smallwonder.hispeed.com/COC.html
• Why Moms Love V.I.C.I.: http://smallwonder.hispeed.com/SWonTV/Mothers.html
• Nuts and bolts of V.I.C.I: http://smallwonder.hispeed.com/NutsBolts/NutsBolts.html
• Android World: http://www.androidworld.com/
• Robopolis by Rotwang: http://www.geocities.com/rotwang2000/
• Android Links: http://winterrose.web1000.com/Links_an_Such/links_an_such.html
• Android Addiction: http://www.philipkdick.com/pkdweb/AndroidAddict.htm
• Valerie, the domestic android: http://www.androidworld.com/prod19.htm
• Congratulations, it's a Bot!: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.09/robobaby_pr.html

Scientific Development of Humanoid Robots

• Robosapians: http://robosapiens.mit.edu/etl.htm
• ALICEbot: http://alicebot.org/
• Sony's AIBO Robot: http://www.sony.net/Products/aibo/home/index.html
• Humoid Robotics: http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/humanoid-robotics-group/
• Homepage to Loebner's Prize for the first to pass the Turing Test:
  http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html

Programming an Android

• Java 3SDK download: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/download.html
• Java Script tutorial: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/getStarted/index.html
• RIAN the Chatbot: http://www.strout.net/info/science/ai/brian/
• Tutorials, Artificial Life Depot: http://ai-depot.com/Features/Tutorials.html
• RoboPC: http://www.freewebs.com/robopc/weblinks.htm
• Robots.net: http://robots.net/
• Robby the Houshold Robot: http://www.anice.net.ar/intsyst/robby.htm
• Animations and Androids: http://www.medonis.com/maxwell_howto1.html
• Zabaware Hal: http://www.zabaware.com/home.html
• Sorceforge, Katiebot the Emotional chatbot: http://sourceforge.net/projects/katiebot/

AIBO:

• Sony's AIBO: www.SonyStyle.com
• AIBO Home Page: http://www.us.aibo.com/clubaibo/news.php?view=archive_view&text_id=3

Building an Android (mostly Macinstosh as noted):

Speech

• Sony SRS-RF90RK Wireless Speaker with Transmitter: http://www.smarthomepro.com/8214.html

Apple Computers: Speech

• speech.apple.com
• OSX: http://www.apple.com/macosx/jaguar/speech.html
• Mac and OSX Speech Technologies: http://developer.apple.com/ue/speech/ 
• Speech Synthesis Manager:
• http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Carbon/multimedia/
  SpeechSynthesisManager/speechsynthesis.html
• comp.speech FAQ. Master links to resources and documents:
  http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/comp.speech/
• Speech Synthesis Links (PC and Mac):
  http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/synthesizers.html
• Speech Synthesis Software (PC and Mac): http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/comp.speech/Section5/Q5.5.html
• Kevin Lenzo's Mac Speech Software Links (new URL): http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~lenzo/mac/speech/
• Speech Technology Links Around the World: http://www.loria.fr/equipes/parole/Html/anglais_liens_utiles.html
• More Speech Technology Links Lists: http://dmoz.org/Computers/Speech_Technology/Speech_Synthesis/
• MacSpeech: http://www.macspeech.com/
• MacYak Pro: http://www.lowtek.com/macyack/
• Macromedia Chatbot (Windows and Mac0S):
  http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/multiuser/chat_bot/
• Chatterbot FAQ: http://www.abenteuermedien.de/jabberwock/faq_en.html
• Chompy: java code: http://members.tripod.com/~SoftBlue/chompy_home_page.htm
• Natural Language Translation Engine and Chatterbot links:
  http://www.robotwisdom.com/ai/nlp.html
• Jabberwock, Creating your own chatbot: http://www.agentland.com/cgi-bin/relocation.cgi?http://www.agentland.com/pages
  /learn/chatterbox_challenge/pirner.html
• Voice Recognition in Education Links: http://webtools.cityu.edu.hk/news/newslett/voicerecognition.htm
• Robotopia Chatterbots: http://cyberlewis.com/a/robots.shtml
• Simon Laven's Home Page: http://www.simonlaven.com
• Aqua Human Interface: Speech:
  http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/
  Essentials/AquaHIGuidelines/AHIGSpeech/index.html
• Mac Speech Synthesis: http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/comp.speech/Section5/Synth/macintosh.html
• Designing Learning Environments: Speech recognition:
  http://www.stanford.edu/~dmiller/speech/dwtspeech.html

Macintosh and Androids:

• MacRobotics: http://www.macrobotics.com/macrobotics.html
• AppleScript Sourcebook: http://www.applescriptsourcebook.com/
• Artificial Intelligence Mark Up Language
• AIML Overview: http://www.pandorabots.com/pandora/pics/wallaceaimltutorial.html
• Pandorabots- Convert text to AIML: http://www.pandorabots.com/pandora
• ALICEBOT on Mac OSX: http://www.noendpress.com/caleb/ALICE101_MacOSX/

Cloning

• Dolly and the Golem: http://www.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/Shokel/970407_Golem.html

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