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A Process Model (English)
Prof. Eugene Gendlin offers a different model for understanding our world. In particular, he addresses the “riddle of life.”
What is life? What is the nature of the life process? How does the life process evolve from beings without perception (for example, plants), to beings with developed consciousness, thought, and language (humans), and ultimately to the capacity for focusing?
This is a collection of essays on the ideas and concepts in the book, arranged in chronological order.
Everything written here is the result of my study and repeated readings of A Process Model. However, the text reflects my own learning and understanding, and does not necessarily capture all the layers of Gendlin’s writing. Its purpose is to make complex and innovative ideas more accessible and to support their understanding—but it is not a substitute for reading the original, Gendlin’s book.
Blog posts for chapters of A Process Model, by Eugene Gendlin:
A Process Model – Introduction
The book A Process Model is the last book written by Prof. Eugene Gendlin. It offers a different model for understanding life. It approaches the “riddle of life” in a new way, bringing clarity and insights into life processes.
Body-Environment – Environments #1 #2
Chapter 1 is called “Body-Environment”. Gendlin presents four environments—En1, En2, En3, En0. This post presents the environment of the observer—En1—and Environment En2, in which body and environment are one event.
Generated Environment – En #3
Note: Everything written here is the result of many years of study and repeated readings of Gendlin’s book A Process Model. However, what’s written here
En #0 – Not Yet Environment
סביבה #0 היא הסביבה שמפתיעה אותנו, זו שאף פעם לא היתה כאן, ולא יכולנו אפילו לדמיין אותה, ואז היא מגיעה ומשנה את תהליך חיינו באופן טרנספורמטיבי.
Time Develops from the Life Process
In this chapter, Gendlin introduces two important concepts: implying and occurring, which drive the life process and give rise to a new formulation of time.
What does the implying imply?
“What does the implying want?”
It “wants,” asks, strives, hints, strives for something that has not yet occurred. But does it want a specific thing? What are the relations between the implying and the occurring? It is with these particular relations that this post is concerned.
A Stoppage
Chapter 3 of A Process Model presents the idea of the stoppage. It addresses what happens when a process comes to a halt—when something is missing and does not allow the process to continue. The food does not arrive and we remain hungry; the breath is stopped; or a story is cut off when we are right in the middle of it…
