If living structure impacts inner freedom, then the physical world has impact on the most precious attribute of human existence.

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• The geometry of the physical world has the most profound impact on human inner freedom and sense of life.claim0.879
  Central thesis of the chapter.
• A physical environment with living structure nourishes freedom of the spirit; lacking it, freedom can be destroyed or weakened.claim0.838
  Key claim linking living structure to inner freedom.
• The impact of the geometry of the environment—its living or not-living structure—has a trace-like, catalytic effect on emotional, social, spiritual, and physical well-being.claim0.832
  Analogy to trace elements and enzymes.
• Life and living structure will appear in the world inevitably because the mathematical way space gives rise to structure necessarily reinforces wholeness as part of its most normal evolution.claim0.831
  Alexander's strongest ontological claim: living structure is not probabilistically improbable but mathematically necessary given the principle of unfolding wholeness
• Living structure will always rely on its connection to the same ground which underlay traditional forms of mysticism.claim0.823
  A metaphysical assertion that the ground of all things is a necessary, permanent condition for creating living structure.
• The profound wholeness of living structure, almost every time it has been done most profoundly, has been done in a mystical‑religious context.claim0.822
  A sweeping historical observation that grounds the claim that mystical context is a near‑universal condition for the highest living structure.
• The wholesomeness and integrity of a person's existence is directly dependent on the extent to which that person can sustain an inner relatedness with the world, which itself depends on the extent of living structure.hypothesis0.818
  Promised for Book 4, chapter 4 (Note 15).
• The inner landscape of living structure becomes part of you, and being in touch with it is being in touch with the I.claim0.816