Learning A Process Model

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 begins01:44 - Reading begins07:37 - Linear time bits, 3 bits of force11:41 - The whole string of en#2 is implied by...17:38 - Feeling the string of en#2's, and implicit time28:06 - "is" versus "implies"41:00 - Living cannot well be thought of as unit events only50:00 - Living context gives true knowledge and understanding58:47 - A certain very special relation...01:09:20 - "Being" vs. implying process01:15:47 - Generating time, habitat-time01:22:07 - 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 predetermined01:41:54 - All occurring also implies; implying part of every occurring01:44:36 - Implying is *not* an occurring that has not yet occurred; never just equal to occurring01:52:29 - So we see that implying is not just what will occur...01:59:34 - Whirling in deconstruction of occurring, implying, and en02:06:32 - The most significant part of this chapter for Joey02:08:06 - Something about how Focusing works (carrying forward)02:13:07 - Final thoughts on chapter, and what's to come02:20:33 - Going back to Footnote #102:29:01 - Thinking with patterns02:35:26 - Gendlin is pointing at the luminous moon within our body02:41:22 - Closed logical power, vs. opened experience: we can *always* re-open a theory02:45:15 - The old conceptual pattern that can now imply more02:50:42 - Let it be Open

We start right before the main text with the very brief Prefatory Note, and clarify how "A Process Model" (APM) differs a bit from standard philosophy fare. Then we proceed right on in, without any further introduction. Exciting!If you've been interested in (1) reading A Process Model or (2) going deeper on it, then what you really need is to just get inside the text, to be in it.So grab your copy of APM (or get a copy of it!) and join Joey Massengale and I as we navigate into the necessarily unfamiliar terrain of environments, ahem, "en"s, #2, #3, and #0.Send your confusions and questions our way at https://forms.gle/s5kQ24cy3Paycyrz9, and we'll try to answer them in future episodes or reach out directly!Chapters:00:00 - Prefatory note & context02:53 - Chapter I: body and environment are one05:18 - en#1: the spectator’s environment08:30 - en#2: the reflexively identical environment09:42 - Example: walking & ground resistance15:38 - The paradox: equal and not equal to en22:26 - Mutual implying, non-representational concretion, and interactional concepts40:34 - en#3: the homemade/domesticated environment48:33 - Action tracks: the body as process concretized1:01:50 - When does something become en#3?1:15:40 - The main environment: other species members1:25:00 - Rethinking space: two-directional “in”1:34:13 - en#0: the infinite richness of the unborn1:41:50 - Determining life process by en#01:48:33 - What’s alive about Chapter I for us?2:00:02 - The exciting stuff that lies ahead in APM(Content note: our show contains occasional profanity—such as the F-word—but we try not to make a point of cursing; sometimes it just feels right for the felt sense.)