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We identified the centers by getting so deeply into the situation that we could feel, in our own bodies, just which ones needed to be there.

Methodological distillation of the Peru empathic immersion technique

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In discovering essential centers in any culture, one's own feelings — when one imaginatively inhabits the situation — are the most reliable measuring instrument available
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Methodological claim derived from the Peru experience

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What reason might there be that the centers which appear in natural things, created by apparently mechanical processes of nature unfolding, would also resemble your self, and my self?question0.799
The deepest question driving Proposition 3: natural unfolding produces I-like centers, but why should a mathematical process care about self?
The more centers are packed and overlapped, each helping and intensifying the others, the more an object comes to life.claim0.794
The formula for profound life, as seen in the Temple of Hera.
In what sense then are these living experiences also centers or caused by centers?question0.791
Question linking experience to geometry.
In hundreds of examples, our ability to see the field of centers and to produce the centers indicated geometrically tends to produce an object which works better.claim0.791
Empirical generalisation from built examples, with no counterexample found.
The degree of life of each center is correlated with the degree to which that center is a picture of the self, and this holds for all people, not just individuals.claim0.790
Proposition 2 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the claim that self-likeness is a universal, species-wide measure of life.
The newly created centers work best, if they are based on something, some trace, that is there already.claim0.789
The principle of preserving and intensifying existing centers, key to the fundamental process.
Centers are labile foci of wholeness, not things, and are ideally suited to enhance and enlarge the whole while being fused into it.claim0.789
Definitional claim about the nature of centers and their role in unfolding.
Centers become most intense when the centers they are made of help each other.claim0.788
The condition for maximum life in a center.