11 The archetypal character of the collective vision which will inevitably emerge

The collective vision which emerges from a true unfolding process will not be just any vision. It would be absurd, for example, for a group of people to decide on the latest image from Time Magazine, and then to declare that this was their collective vision.
If the vision arrived at from the fundamental process is a true one — truly a vision — it will unfold from the people themselves, from their inner desires, from their own true nature. That means it will be a real thing, a real wholeness that is expressedL and insofar as it is a real thing, a true wholeness.
That means, the collective vision will be a truthful and accurate vision of a living structure, which really is a living structure for these people in that place. It is not merely declared to be a living structure. It captures, seizes, the essence of being human there and then, in that place, for those people. It is, if you like, humanity embodied.

As such, this collective inspired vision will be recognizable — related, probably, to the material in A Pattern Language. It is more likely that it will have the truly living structure which causes people — when in the presence of this structure — to be more deeply conscious of their own feelings, of their own inner aspirations.

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