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!

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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