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concept:immanent-god

immanent God

The idea that God is present in all matter, and that this shining forth is more visible in some things than others.

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  • the self (or 'I')
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    An eternal, impersonal yet intensely personal core within each person, also called the Void, the ground, or the great Self; the core of every living center.

Chapters (1)

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  • Chapter 6 of Volume 4, The Luminous Ground, by Christopher Alexander. The chapter introduces the I-hypothesis, the plenum of I, and the Blazing One as the ultimate source of life in architecture.

Related by similarity (8)

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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 personal God of historical religions, whose unshakable belief focused attention on wholeness and enabled the creation of living structure.
  • Embodimentconcept0.706
    The idea that intelligence requires a body to interact with the world; expands beyond physical 3D bodies to virtual and interface-mediated forms.
  • The personal experience of being a self, which is left out of the mechanistic world-picture but is central to the new wholeness-based view.
  • unityconcept0.698
    The indivisible oneness, meltedness that is the source of life; it cannot be described as a structure because it is pure one.
  • Impermanenceconcept0.697
  • Gift to Godconcept0.693
    The intention to make something humble and free of self-aggrandizement, as an offering to the divine.
  • Identityconcept0.692
    Extended identity and sense of self; in Mahāyāna Buddhism, perceived as permeable and co-constituted with others.
  • Incommensurabilityconcept0.691
    Kuhn's concept: the inability of ideas from one paradigm to be translated into the terms of another, causing communication breakdowns.