The similarity of different mystical teachings—Christian, Zen, Mahayana, Tibetan, Tantric, Hopi, Cabalistic, Islamic, Taoist, Sufi—has been emphasized many times, and all point to a nameless ground.

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• Mystical tradition, by asking the believer to concentrate on God—the ground of all things, in pure humility—helped the artist dissolve images and focus on reality as it is, thereby enabling structure‑preserving steps.claim0.779
  A more detailed version of the practical‑mechanism claim, positioning mysticism as a cognitive tool.
• The works of Nolde, Matisse, Bonnard, van Gogh and a few modern buildings touch a modern wellspring that is almost the same as the mystical wellspring that inspired historical works, yet in a non‑religious form.claim0.761
  The observation that non‑religious modern works can still achieve a comparable spiritual quality, showing the rootstock is not confined to traditional religion.
• Living structure will always rely on its connection to the same ground which underlay traditional forms of mysticism.claim0.756
  A metaphysical assertion that the ground of all things is a necessary, permanent condition for creating living structure.
• Buddhist philosophy, by its very nature, is well placed to adapt to the advent of AI-generated sacred texts.claim0.752
  Asserted in the abstract and concluding thoughts.
• Although a scientific conception of universal life does not yet exist, traditional Buddhism and animistic religions treat each part of the world as having life.claim0.751
  Acknowledges precursors in non‑Western traditions.
• The profound wholeness of living structure, almost every time it has been done most profoundly, has been done in a mystical‑religious context.claim0.749
  A sweeping historical observation that grounds the claim that mystical context is a near‑universal condition for the highest living structure.
• Buddhist phenomenology's careful attention to dependent origination makes tanha-like building blocks particularly likely to have simple, elegant neural implementations.claim0.748
  Argues that Buddhist analysis primes us to find clean neural mechanisms.
• The old forms of mysticism that we know as religious cannot provide us with this 'something'; it is too late.claim0.747
  A clear rejection of simply reviving traditional religion; the modern mind cannot inhabit it authentically.