We need to understand space as a material which is capable of awakening. This is what I shall later refer to as 'the ground'.

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

• Matter-space must be potentially living, center-making, possibly even conscious stuff.claim0.819
  A key proposition for the new cosmology: space-matter has the inherent capacity for life and self-connection when centers intensify.
• 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.claim0.812
• the ground (ground material of the universe)concept0.811
  The ineffable substrate of all things, identified in many mystical traditions as what artists reach in devotion; synonymous with the Void, God, and the self.
• Space is a material whose most important feature is its capacity to form centers.claim0.809
  Reiteration of a key premise from Book 1 within the new metaphysical framework.
• When something works, or is functional, its space is awakened to a very high degree. It becomes alive. The space itself becomes alive.claim0.800
  Core thesis of the chapter: function is an awakening of the spatial medium.
• "It is this substance which permits — OR DOES NOT PERMIT — the emergence of living centers in the material, and the adaptation of fine structure that is needed to bring the larger whole to life."quote0.800
  Alexander's foundational assertion connecting material substance directly to living structure.
• The structure of wholeness, the more you encounter it, makes you more and more able to feel the reality and existence of the Ground.claim0.799
• When we experience this one, either in the act of building, or in the act of enjoying what someone else has built, we somehow ourselves come more closely into relation with the underlying ground-stuff of the universe.claim0.795
  The experience of living structure brings us closer to the ground.