James Tripp – Transforming Realities with The TetralemmaBeliefs, Understandings and Meanings are the foundation of our experienced reality and our everyday problem and resource trances…Hi, James Tripp here…If you follow my blogging (both HWT and beyond) you’ll know I often speak of how our experience of reality is shaped from the inside out, how we live our lives through a series of hypnotic loops or ‘trances’ and how our ‘worldview’ is what underpins all of that.This is why in the coaching and developmental hypnosis work I do I always emphasise making changes at this level – working with the embodied semantics and conceptual structures. Essentially, if a person doesn’t shift the embodied understandings that hold a problem in place, they will never shift the problem.In my work I use a lot of tools, but one that is a little more unusual AND is very effective for working at the level of understanding/worldview is The Tetralemma.As stated in the video (please watch the video, it has a lot more detail than I am sharing here), The Tetralemma is an ancient Indian ‘non-aristotalian’ logical formula that is very powerful for shifting people into a ‘right brain’ (generative trance) space and utilising the capabilities of that space to loosen the semantic underpinnings of a problem state or identity. It can be used as a map for both a powerful spatial anchoring process OR as the underpinning for conversationally based hypnotic changework.This video programme is a recording of a one day workshop where I taught not just The Tetralemma as a formal process, but also the principles and understandings that underpin it in such a way as they can inform your changework and coaching on multiple levels.Trance and Transcendence…One of the things I would like to point out here is that, beyond The Tetralemma, I am introducing my currently evolving model of ‘Trance and Transcendence’ – this is the conceptualisation that underpins my entire approach to self-evolution, developing personal adaptedness and general ‘Reality Shaping’.Within this video programme you will not only see me outlining (perhaps ‘installing’) the Trance and Transcendence model but also, if you ‘listen between the lines’ notice that I am indirectly working to get powerful personal mindshifts for the people in the room.Specific ContentThere is a lot of material covered in this programme! The above videos and information are good to get the overall gist and philosophy, but if you like specific details…Part 1People and who they are becomingWorking on the level of the self vs the level of the problemReplacetive vs Transformative Approaches – Evolving Beyond ProblemsLove, Hate and Transformative Relationships“I want change but I don’t want to changeâ€Process Vs UnderstandingUniqueness Vs CommonalityKnowing yourself as a creator and shaper of your own experienceIntellectual Understanding Vs Embodied UnderstandingYou WILL communicate from where you are atHypnosis and Breaking Social Conventions to ‘Go Psychoactive’Stepping Outside of you Loops – Subject/object RelationsLoops – Self Reinforcing RealitiesThe Map is not the Territory… But there IS a territoryAristotalian Logic vs The TetralemmaShifting Mode of Mind Exemplar – The Tetralemma Delivered Conversationallymetaphor – Half empty IS half fullA Brief Overview of Robert Kegan’s Developmental LevelsThe Physical World Vs The Psycho-social WorldThe Coin Toss DeviceBeing Happy Vs Being RightWe wall want to know that we are OK – The Blessing!Part 2The Allure of the Self Sovereign MindPhases of Evolution Serve you Until They Don’tThe Trade offs of Self EvolutionEvolving Consciousness Evolves Desires and GoalsWhat is Consciousness?Distinctions create choice… richness of map!Trances, Tunnels and SemanticsTrance as a narrowing of BandwidthTrances tend to perpetuate – you get what you rehearseThe Reality LoopMindflow, Imagination and RealityJorgen Rasmussen’s ‘Burning Room’ ExerciseThe Reconstructive Nature of MemoryReality Loop Trance AnalysisSocial Anxiety Mapped via the LoopDisembedding from TrancesDescription Versus PrescriptionIntroducing Expansion into MindflowHow imagination becomes a reality – mistaking thoughts for factsWaking Up and Osho’s Bag of RocksAttachment and IdentityScope of TranceTrances are not ‘good’ or ‘bad’ – check functionalityMilitary Trances‘Thoughts are Reality’ Versus ‘Thoughts are Thoughts’Part 3What your feelings are telling you!Habituated Thinking Vs Fresh Thinking1st Purpose – Freeing/dissolving rigid semantic structures2nd Purpose – Shifting Mode of Mind (Opening Bandwidth)3rd Purpose – Evolving the Transcendent SelfThe Two Modes of Mind as Found in Different TraditionsThe Trance of Too Much To Do and The Structure of OverwhelmThree Levels of Leverage – Content, Structure and Relationship/NatureUnderstanding ‘Key Operational Concepts’There are no ‘linguistic magic bullets’Essentialism Versus OperationalismIdentity StatementsCapability Statements‘Mustabatory’ StatementsFinding where it hits the sense of selfArm Catalepsy to illustrate conceptual framing and backwards sensemakingPart 4Uncovering Key Operational Concepts – Live DemoSpatially Mapped Tetralemma (Full Process) – Live DemoPush/Pull and Enfolding Opposites2 point focus and the space betweenExpansiveness Vs CollapseSemantic EngineeringPosition 1: Affirmation – Depersonalise, Humanise, CelebratePosition 2: Negation/Opposite – Reframing and Evidence GatheringBridging from experience and behaviour to identityCompensation and Trying to fix problems in the wrong placePosition 3: Both/And – Expansiveness and TransendanceEnfolding Opposites Ericksonian stylePosition 4: Neither/Not – Whatever you say it is… you’re wrong!You are not your thoughts and your thoughts are not realityThinking, Feeling and IntuitionProduction Notes!This programme was recorded at a live event with a small group of just 12 participants. Due to a technical issue there is a brief portion (about 10 minutes) during the first video where, due to the main microphone picking up radio interference for a time, the sound is switched to source from the ambient room microphone. This means that for this period there is an unavoidable but minor drop is audio quality where the sound becomes a little echoey and ‘roomy’. However, despite this it is still clear what I am saying throughout this section (a large part of this section is a conversational hypnosis piece to shape the engagement of the people in the room – an interesting thing in and of itself but aside from the main content).
