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concept:blinding-light-in-profound-worksblinding light in profound works
A quality of intense, sublime radiance felt in the greatest living structure, from medieval Florence to Nolde's seascapes.
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- This chapter of 'The Luminous Ground' examines historical art to find clues for a cosmology that fuses self and matter, emphasizing that profound living structure consistently arises in a mystical-religious context and that we need a new vision of relatedness for our time.
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- Definition of a center as an aperture for the I-light.
- Tibetan Buddhist term for the ultimate reality, the naked immaculate Intellect like a translucent void, experienced at death.
- The essential quality of inner light: colors are both intense and muted, producing a calm, profound, glowing whole without garishness, like nature's brilliance.
- Alexander equates the faintly glowing quality with an immanent God shining through matter.
- Example of biological degeneracy: visual responses mediated by subcortical and brainstem nuclei independent of cortex; supports multiple realizability of cognitive functions.
- A location oriented toward natural light, which attracts people and defines the other half of a main center.