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Healing Effect of Living Structure

The idea that contact with living structure makes us more whole, human, and alive; a claim linking environment to well-being.

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living structure
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A built or natural form that possesses life, arising from morphogenetic adaptation, as opposed to blueprint designs.

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What is the impact of living structure on human life?question0.836
Opening question of the chapter.
Living structure and the process of creating it has a positive effect on the process of creation, similar to the Mozart effect.claim0.798
Living structure might even be defined as 'that which pleases us'—that which truly pleases us.claim0.792
A proposed operational definition of living structure in terms of genuine pleasure.
Such a process will not—in general—create living structure.claim0.791
Living structure will always rely on its connection to the same ground which underlay traditional forms of mysticism.claim0.790
A metaphysical assertion that the ground of all things is a necessary, permanent condition for creating living structure.
Healing Effect on the Makerconcept0.783
The nourishment and increased wholeness experienced by a maker when creating living structure.
Living structure can only be created by structure-preserving transformations.claim0.780
A strong normative claim from Book 2 recapitulated in the appendix as a verifiable and surprising conclusion.
The structure we know as living structure is just that kind of structure which has unfolded smoothly and naturally, arising step by step from what exists, preserving the structure of what exists.claim0.778
Defines living structure as the product of a truthful unfolding process that respects and preserves existing wholeness.