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claim:the-i-itself-this-thing-which-seems-so-rarified-so-philosophical-and-which-somehow-has-a-religious-origin-is-also-entirely-personal-in-nature

The I itself—this thing which seems so rarified, so philosophical and which somehow has a religious origin—is also entirely personal in nature.

The claim that the transcendent ground of existence is accessed through the most direct, childish, personal making.

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The I (Great Self)
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The transcendent ground of all existence, the eternal self within each person, to which we appeal when judging living structure and which is revealed when we truly please ourselves.
Childlike Innocence
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The state of pure, unselfconscious making where one pleases oneself absolutely, free from rules and concepts—the closest we can come to the egoless state.

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The objective oneness of space which I have identified as the field of centers is also entirely personal in nature.
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The startling conclusion that the deep structure of space is simultaneously the most intimate, vulnerable, personal thing.

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

The I is at once the most personal, intimate thing and a single universal entity — it is personal-of-you and of-me but there is only one of it.claim0.827
The three qualities of the I: personal, one, suffused with relatedness.
The I or ground is a real thing, something which exists in the world, perhaps attached to matter, and forms a necessary substratum to all that exists.claim0.797
The I, in some form, exists.claim0.786
Minimal conclusion that at least one of the two versions of the I-hypothesis must be true.
There is only one I, a personal universal presence that underlies all living structure and manifests as the feeling of relatedness.claim0.784
Alexander's core metaphysical proposal introduced in §8.
What, physically, is this unity which seems to speak to us of I?question0.778
Opening question of the chapter, seeking the physical nature of the experienced unity.
The I—that blazing one—is something which I reach only to the extent that I experience, and make manifest, my feeling.claim0.777
Access to the deepest self is dependent on the maker expressing their own feeling, not intellectual concepts.
The I / ultimate selfconcept0.768
The single blinding unity, the ground of being, which living centers connect us to.
The I (eternal self)concept0.760
Central metaphysical concept of the chapter: the universal ground of selfhood that living centers reflect and connect to; what makers must yearn toward to produce living structure.