Ch. II - The functional cycle (implying occurring)

In Chapter I, we explored different ways to think of the environment and of space. Now, in Chapter II, we'll start exploring new ways to think of time. Grab your books and join us for a reading and discussion that spans topics such as Focusing, the nature of reality (metaphysics), and how Gendlin's concepts keep pointing to the moon of our bodies' felt sense! And as always, feel free to drop us any APM questions on our form here: https://forms.gle/ydzoChYxv9AY76mf9. 00:00 - Episode begins 01:44 - Reading begins 07:37 - Linear time bits, 3 bits of force 11:41 - The whole string of en#2 is implied by... 17:38 - Feeling the string of en#2's, and implicit time 28:06 - "is" versus "implies" 41:00 - Living cannot well be thought of as unit events only 50:00 - Living context gives true knowledge and understanding 58:47 - A certain very special relation... 01:09:20 - "Being" vs. implying process 01:15:47 - Generating time, habitat-time 01:22:07 - To say that each bit of occurring is what the last bit implied... 01:26:59 - "To the things themselves" 01:33:48 - Implying is not the same as what will occur; not predetermined 01:41:54 - All occurring also implies; implying part of every occurring 01:44:36 - Implying is *not* an occurring that has not yet occurred; never just equal to occurring 01:52:29 - So we see that implying is not just what will occur... 01:59:34 - Whirling in deconstruction of occurring, implying, and en 02:06:32 - The most significant part of this chapter for Joey 02:08:06 - Something about how Focusing works (carrying forward) 02:13:07 - Final thoughts on chapter, and what's to come 02:20:33 - Going back to Footnote #1 02:29:01 - Thinking with patterns 02:35:26 - Gendlin is pointing at the luminous moon within our body 02:41:22 - Closed logical power, vs. opened experience: we can *always* re-open a theory 02:45:15 - The old conceptual pattern that can now imply more 02:50:42 - Let it be Open