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If there were indeed a realm of I, an actual self in the material universe, then we could understand the nourishment as the creation of living centers increasing this I in those who have contact with it.

Speculative explanatory framework linking the I to the healing effect.

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The creation of living centers in the world increases the I in those who have contact with it.
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If self or I is woken up whenever living structure appears in matter, what we think of as value may then be described as the protection, preservation, nourishment, of the precious self of the universe.claim0.829
New assumption #8: value as protection of the universal self.
To create living structure we must find our own contemporary version of the I—a new vision of the universe in which meaning exists, relatedness and self have a primary place, and which is as real for us as God was in Mozart's heart.claim0.796
The central challenge of the chapter: we need a new cosmology with the same existential weight as historical religion.
In this universe, the human self, yours and mine, are indistinguishable, in their substance, from the space and matter where the play of forms occurs.quote0.793
The radical identity of self and matter.
There is a direct connection between the living structure of the world and the achieved person-ness we experience in ourselves.claim0.789
Each person is nourished, made more whole, by making something which has life.claim0.789
The making of a living world cannot be separated from each person's search for the true self.claim0.788
The enigmatic conclusion that the most personal, inward search yields the most public, functional harmony.
We may then arrive at a picture of the world which includes the self, and which clearly recognizes the personal nature of the universe.claim0.784
The outcome of using both methods together.
Every living center in the matter of the universe—even the smallest center which is induced in space—starts this kind of tunneling towards the I-stuff.claim0.784
Generalization that all living centers initiate a connection to the I.