The ground

The ultimate non-material reality behind matter, experienced when living structure opens a window to the I.

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Aldous Huxley
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Author of 'The Perennial Philosophy', cited as a source on mystical traditions and the quality of life.

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The I (ground)
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The fundamental self, ground, or substratum underlying all existence; a real thing, a blinding unity, accessible through inner light.
the ground (ground material of the universe)
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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.
Simplicity and Inner Calm
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The property that living wholes have a geometrical simplicity and purity with a certain slowness, majesty, and quietness; everything unnecessary is removed—all centers not actively supporting other centers are stripped out
The Void
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The property that the most profound centers have at their heart a void like water, infinite in depth, surrounded by and contrasted with the clutter around it; the calm emptiness needed by every center to give it the basis of its strength
Awakening of Space
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The idea that when centers are created, space itself becomes alive, like a bud opening.
plenum of I
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A proposed single underlying substance, not part of Cartesian space-time, that is the I-stuff connecting all matter.
clear light
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Tibetan Buddhist term for the ultimate reality, the naked immaculate Intellect like a translucent void, experienced at death.

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The Blazing One
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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.
Chapter 11: The Face Of God
introduces
This chapter argues that the quality without a name is literally God appearing, and that a necessary state of mind for making living things is to offer them as a gift to God.

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

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

I-stuff / The I / Groundconcept0.808
The spiritual self or ground of all existence that can be felt in living things.
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.claim0.807
We need to understand space as a material which is capable of awakening. This is what I shall later refer to as 'the ground'.claim0.777
Introduces the concept of the ground as the innately alive substrate of reality.
Symbol Groundingconcept0.775
The capacity for 'true understanding' located in living tissue; invoked when discussing hybrid systems and what living tissue contributes that pure machines may lack
Sameness as ground for uniquenessconcept0.767
The idea that a shared structural language makes individual variations more apparent and lovable.
Gutterconcept0.753
The inner margin essential for book structure, a site of containment and potential intervention.
The wholeconcept0.752
The overarching coherence and unity that must be enhanced at every step; the target of all living process.
Grounding Criterionconcept0.746
Criterion requiring that description of internal state causally depend on that state; tested via concept injection to establish causal link.