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Book 1	The Phenomenon of Life
	Prologue to Books 1-4
	The Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe	1
	Preface	5
Part 1
1.	The Phenomenon of Life	27
2.	Degrees of Life	63
3.	Wholeness and the Theory of Centers	79
4.	How Life Comes From Wholeness	109
5.	Fifteen Fundamental Properties	143
6.	The Fifteen Properties in Nature	243
Part 2
7.	The Personal Nature of Order	299
8.	The Mirror of the Self	313
9.	Beyond Descartes: A New Form of Scientific Observation	351
10.	The Impact of Living Structure on Human Life	371
11.	The Awakening of Space	403
	Conclusion	441
Appendices	Mathematical Aspects of Wholeness and Living Structure	445
Book 2	The Process of Creating Life
	Preface: On Process	1
Part 1	Structure-Preserving Transformations
1.	The Principle of Unfolding Wholeness	15
2.	Structure-Preserving Transformations	51
3.	Structure-Preserving Transformations in Traditional Society	79
4.	Structure-Destroying Transformations in Modern Society	101
	Interlude
5.	Living Process in the Modern Era: Twentieth-Century Cases Where Living Process Did Occur	131
Part 2	Living Processes
6.	Generated Structures	169
7.	A Fundamental Differentiating Process	193
8.	Step-by-Step Adaptation	217
9.	Always Helping to Enhance the Whole	237
10.	Always Making Centers	253
11.	The Sequence of Unfolding	287
12.	Every Part Unique	311
13.	Patterns: Rules for Making Centers	329
14.	Deep Feeling	357
15.	Emergence of Formal Geometry	387
16.	Form Language	415
17.	Simplicity	439
Part 3	A New Paradigm for Process in Society
18.	The Character of Process in Society	473
19.	Massive Process Difficulties	489
20.	The Spread of Living Processes Throughout Society	511
21.	The Architect in the Third Millenium	531
	Conclusion	541
Appendix	An Example of a Living Process: Building a House	547
Book 3	A Vision of a Living World
	Preface: The Fundamental Process Repeated Ten Million Times	1
Part 1
1.	Our Belonging to the World	21
2.	Our Belonging to the World: Part Two	39
Part 2
3.	The Hulls of Public Space	65
4.	The Form of Public Buildings	99
5.	Production of Giant Projects	147
6.	The Positive Pattern of Space and Volume in Three Dimensions on the Land	165
7.	Positive Space in Structure and Materials	199
8.	The Character of Gardens	239
Part 3
9.	Forming a Collective Vision for a Neighborhood	267
10.	Reconstruction of an Urban Neighborhood	291
11.	High Density Housing	323
12.	Further Dynamics of a Growing Neighborhood	343
Part 4
13.	The Uniqueness of People's Individual Worlds	365
14.	The Character of Rooms	405
Part 5
15.	Construction Elements as Living Centers	439
16.	All Building as Making	473
17.	Active Invention of New Building Techniques	507
Part 6
18.	Ornament as a Part of All Unfolding	543
19.	Color Which Unfolds From the Configuration	577
	Epilogue: The Morphology of Living Architecture Archetypal Form	601
	Conclusion: The World Created and Transformed	637
Book 4	The Luminous Ground
	Preface: Towards a New Conception of the Nature of Matter	1
Part 1
1.	Our Present Picture of the Universe	11
2.	Clues From the History of Art	29
3.	The Existence of an "I"	49
4.	The Ten Thousand Beings	73
5.	The Practical Matter of Forging a Living Center	111
	Mid-Book Appendix: Recapitulation of the Argument	135
Part 2
6.	The Blazing One	145
7.	Color and Inner Light	157
8.	The Goal of Tears	241
9.	Making Wholeness Heals the Maker	261
10.	Pleasing Yourself	271
11.	The Face of God	301
	Conclusion to the Four Books
	A Modified Picture of the Universe	317
	Epilogue: Empirical Certainty and Enduring Doubt	339
	Acknowledgements	347