Book 4 cliff notes

I experiment with different note taking techniques and switch with each book. This is not (yet) a collection of the key concepts of book 4 and rather my unprocessed cliff notes in raw form, structured as in the book, with a note per section of each chapter.

• Author’s note
• Preface
  1. Introduction
  2. Background
  3. The Personal
  4. That exists in me, and before me, and after me
  5. Changes in our idea of matter
• Part 1
  1. Our present picture of the universe
     1. Cosmology
     2. The strength of the present scientific world-picture
     3. The weakness of the present world-picture
     4. The needs of architecture
     5. Scientific efforts to build an improved world-picture
     6. The continuing lack of a unifying cosmology
     7. Ten tacit assumptions which underlie our present picture of the universe
     8. Inspiration for a future physics
     9. The confrontation of art and science
     10. A fusion of self and matter
  2. Clues from the history of art
     1. Introduction
     2. An observation
     3. Relatedness
     4. A possible explanation
     5. A connection to the self
     6. What of our modern works?
     7. More on the problem of our era
     8. The black plaster
     9. Footnote
  3. The existence of an “I”
     1. A dewdrop
     2. Relatedness
     3. The mirror-of-the-self experiments
     4. The real relatedness existing underneath the skin
     5. The ancient and eternal truth of the relatedness
     6. The numinous experience
     7. True meaning of relatedness
     8. A jump to speaking about the existence of an I
     9. An experiment to determine the extension of the I
     10. The I of our experience originating with the I in things
     11. A hypothesis
     12. Mobilizing the storm
  4. The ten thousand beings
     1. Introduction
     2. Consider the possibility of viewing all living centers as beings
     3. The jewel net of Indra
     4. What it means for a center to be being-like
     5. A corner of a farmer’s field
     6. A shipyard
     7. Looking at Chartres
     8. Each living center is a being
     9. Pure unity
     10. The fundamental process
     11. The difficulty of the task
     12. Innocence
     13. The vision of Matisse and Bonnard
     14. In our own era
     15. A new vision of building: making living structure in our brutal world
     16. The life of the environment
  5. The practical matter of forging a living center
     1. Intensifying shape
     2. Unity achieved in a great blossom
     3. Emergence of a being from the field of centers
     4. Beings in arches, spaces, and columns: the example of West Dean
     5. Emergence of the arches
     6. Detailed design of the structural columns
     7. A wall
     8. Catching a being in color
     9. The haunting melody
• Mid-book appendix: Recapitulation of the argument
  1. Introduction
  2. The possibility of a coherent verifiable theory
  3. The argument from verifiable details
  4. The argument from coherence
• Part 2
  1. The Blazing One
     1. The unity that speaks of I
     2. The faintly glowing quality which can be seen in a thing which has life
     3. A psychological explanation
     4. Possible existence of a single underlying substance
     5. The blazing one
     6. What, then, is a center?
     7. Though a strange model, it provides a viable explanation
     8. Which I-hypothesis is true?
     9. A non-material view of matter
  2. Color and Inner Light
     1. Introduction: A direct glimpse of the I
     2. Color as an essential feature of reality
     3. Inner light
     4. The unfolding which produces inner light
     5. The eleven color properties
     6. Hierarchy of colors
     7. Colors create light together
     8. Contrast of dark and light
     9. Mutual embedding
     10. Sequence of linked color pairs
     11. Boundaries and hairlines
     12. Families of color
     13. Color variation
     14. Intensity and clarity of individual colors
     15. Subdued brilliance
     16. Color depends on geometry
     17. Color and the field of centers
     18. Inner light as a glimpse of the I which lies behind the field of centers
     19. The hint of a transcendent unity
     20. Transcendent wholeness as a kind of light
     21. Conclusion
  3. The Goal of Tears
     1. Why unity and sadness are connected
     2. Sadness
     3. Getting sadness in the flesh of the building
     4. Sadness of color and geometry
     5. Unity and sadness in a group of buildings
     6. Unity and sadness of life in a back yard
     7. The ground
     8. Concluding section
  4. Making Wholeness Heals the Maker
     1. Introduction
     2. The impact of making beauty on the maker’s life
     3. The healing process
     4. Making wholeness heals the maker
     5. Life made creates life in the maker
     6. The source of the healing effect
     7. Human growth: the movement of the self towards its origin
     8. Towards full knowledge of the self which can arise in us
     9. Drawing sadness from your most vulnerable self
     10. Do not ask for whom the bell tolls
  5. Pleasing Yourself
     1. Introduction
     2. Recapitulation of books 1 to 4 as “pleasing yourself”
     3. Veronica’s blue chair
     4. The heart-stopping quality
     5. The thought police
     6. Not pleasing yourself
     7. A group of architecture students who were not pleasing themselves
     8. A Mexicali story about the thought police
     9. Pleasing yourself
     10. The effort it took to get the stark geometry of West Dean to a state where it really pleases me
     11. Emil Nolde’s sunset and Paul Gauguin’s cow
     12. A significantly large structure
     13. Being modern and being true
     14. The childlike
     15. There is nothing greater
     16. Pure innocence and deep order — the message of St. Francis
  6. The Face of God
     1. This is God
     2. Spirit made manifest
     3. The practical results of this knowledge
     4. A necessary state of mind
     5. The world beyond a given thing
     6. Not-separateness
     7. Making a gift for God
     8. The face of God
• A Modified Picture of the Universe (Conclusion to the four books)
  1. Introduction
  2. The nature of space and matter
  3. Wholeness as a physical structure in the universe
  4. Consciousness as a physical feature of the universe
  5. A modified physics
  6. Summary of the modified physics
  7. A new picture of the world
  8. A physical basis for religious awe
  9. Essential awe
• Epilogue: Empirical Certainty and Enduring Doubt
  1. An extension of the scientific idea of what can be known
  2. A new method of observation at the core of the world-picture
  3. Enduring skepticism as a source of certainty