Numinous places give a direct relationship between self and place, connecting us to all things and the universe.

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• There is a direct connection between the living structure of the world and the achieved person-ness we experience in ourselves.claim0.798
• All these works stand out because we experience in them a special quality of relatedness—relatedness of ourselves to the universe.claim0.784
  The core experiential signature of great works, which holds a clue to the process of creation.
• The degree of life of each center is correlated with the degree to which that center is a picture of the self, and this holds for all people, not just individuals.claim0.767
  Proposition 2 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the claim that self-likeness is a universal, species-wide measure of life.
• Places have the capacity to deny us permission to be ourselves; even in our own apartments, we may not be able to attain the blissful state without the right adapted geometry.claim0.767
  A stronger assertion about the power of physical environment over psychological state.
• Order, beauty, and architecture are empirically verifiable and connected to Godclaim0.767
  Alexander's late-life position (c. 2016) claiming empirical verification of connection between Christian God and architectural order; Steenson explicitly rejects this as dangerous.
• The feeling a place presents to us is a measure of its life.claim0.766
  Epistemological claim that phenomenological response is the primary yardstick for evaluating living structure.
• The relation between a person's own wholeness and the wholeness of things in their environment is a direct consequence of the nature of wholeness itself.claim0.764
• Only a deliberate process of creating being-like centers in built structure throughout the world encourages the world to become more alive.claim0.763
  Proposition 4 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the normative and practical conclusion tying individual search for the true self to the creation of a living world.