Essential centers are those already latent in the existing field — they summarize and encapsulate the essence of the real life going on, not invented but discovered

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• Essential Centerconcept0.830
  Centers whose presence is already latent in the field — going to the heart of the living structure already there and encapsulating the real life going on
• Centers are the fundamental entities of which the world is made.claim0.814
  Ontological claim that centers, not particles or parts, are the building blocks of all phenomena.
• A center is a field of other centers.claim0.801
  The explicit recursive definition that underpins living structure.
• In discovering essential centers in any culture, one's own feelings — when one imaginatively inhabits the situation — are the most reliable measuring instrument availableclaim0.790
  Methodological claim derived from the Peru experience
• Each center is a field of other centers.quote0.786
  The explicit recursive definition that forms the foundation of living structure.
• There are no ultimate elementary components of the field of centers except the centers themselves.claim0.785
  The ontological claim that centers are the only primitives.
• The field of centers cannot be created as a by-product of some existing process; it comes about only when the entire process is organized and concentrated on creating a living field.claim0.781
  Focus on anything else yields something else.
• The life of any given center depends on the whole field of centers in which this center exists.claim0.779
  Key global property of the field of centers, making it non-local and unlike classical fields.