The Power of Fogginess for Change

Описание: Ordinary Consciousness as Trance: Gilligan, Mindell, Gendlin, and Structural Decoupling

Description:
This video unpacks a simple but disruptive premise: ordinary consciousness is itself a trance.

Drawing on:
– Stephen Gilligan (Trances People Live)
– Arnold Mindell (addiction to consensual reality)
– Eugene Gendlin (the “murky” felt sense)
– Don Ollsin’s concept of Structural Decoupling

the video maps how personal identity, social norms, and emergent meaning are all structured through trance-like patterns of attention.

Key ideas covered in the video:

1. Ordinary consciousness as trance (Gilligan)
Identity is not fixed. It is maintained by repetitive loops of attention, memory, belief, and emotion. Gilligan names these “trances” and shows how they narrow perception and stabilize a particular version of self and world.

2. Every society enforces a trance (Mindell)
Mindell’s core point is that our greatest addiction is to consensual reality. As summarized in the talk:

“Every society enforces a trance (Mindell).
Consensual reality is a collective trance—a field agreement about:
what’s real,
what’s allowed,
what’s ignored,
which channels are valid,
which experiences ar