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A 21st-century cosmology needed to replace traditional religion, one that unites self and matter through a physical and intellectual grasp of the universe's nature, in order to create living structure.
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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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- Alexander's proposal that nature is living structure with objective degrees of value, not a mechanistic, value-neutral system.
- The central challenge of the chapter: we need a new cosmology with the same existential weight as historical religion.
- The positive program of the chapter: a cosmology that makes sense of architecture and self.
- Hawking's statement of the ambition of physics, which Alexander uses to show that a theory of everything that omits self is incomplete.
- Alexander equates the faintly glowing quality with an immanent God shining through matter.
- The moment when the ground reveals itself in a made thing, experienced as a pale gleam of the transcendent.
- The personal God of historical religions, whose unshakable belief focused attention on wholeness and enabled the creation of living structure.