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It becomes visible when the structure of a strong field of centers gently raises the lid, lifts the veil, and through the partial opening, we see, or sense, the glow of the Blazing One beyond.

Description of the experiential effect of a strong field of centers.

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If you could accept it, it would finally make sense of all of that, because it finally answers these questions fully.
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The plenum model provides a unifying explanation for the beauty and life of centers.

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The Blazing One
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Chapter 6 of Volume 4, The Luminous Ground, by Christopher Alexander. The chapter introduces the I-hypothesis, the plenum of I, and the Blazing One as the ultimate source of life in architecture.

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What is the structure of this domain?
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Question about the inner structure of the plenum, leading to the answer that it is pure unity without structure.

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When the field of centers appears in something, its deep feeling appears and it is literally as though spirit is made manifest.claim0.813
First articulation of the identity between the field of centers and spirit.
The more whole it becomes, the more transparent, the more it seems to melt, the more it realizes itself and releases its own inner reality.claim0.800
New assumption #9: the melting transparency of increasing wholeness.
When I opened my eyes very wide to see only the whole, I could see where disunity occurs, where the seams occurred, and then realize—if I concentrated very hard—that a particular yellow had to be modified by a tiny fraction.claim0.793
The wide-open eyes state is a reliable diagnostic for locating disunity as gray spots.
The more it is alive, the more it seems faintly to shine.claim0.784
Alexander's introspective observation about the qualitative appearance of life in things.
When I look at a thing which has a living quality, sometimes I am aware of it, almost as if it is faintly glowing.quote0.782
Alexander's direct experience of the luminous quality in living things.
The feeling arises as an observation about the existing wholeness, and moves to an observation about some direction of formation which is indicated by the wholeness; it is where the wholeness itself leads the situation.claim0.781
Description of how feeling guides design steps from the existing wholeness of the site.
Inner light is directly linked to the field of centers: each color exists as a center and becomes more intense through the intensification by other centers.claim0.779
You can only get the profound multiple structure of centers by unfolding each bit from the previous state, allowing the next layer of structure to appear from the previously established layers.claim0.773
Explains why time and sequence are essential for generated complexity.