# The Trickster Inquiry

Curiosity survives the rabbit hole when pattern recognition is paired with disconfirmation, tolerance for ambiguity, and revision.

- Type: curated historical and symbolic lineage
- Inquiry Domain: mind-consciousness

## Path

1. **Wonder** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-forces-wonder--sfoc-forces-synchronicity`
2. **Synchronicity** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-forces-synchronicity--sfoc-forces-apophenia`
3. **Apophenia** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-forces-apophenia--sfoc-states-rabbit-hole`
4. **Rabbit Hole** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-states-rabbit-hole--sfoc-states-chapel-perilous`
5. **Chapel Perilous** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-states-chapel-perilous--sfoc-states-cognitive-dissonance`
6. **Cognitive Dissonance** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-states-cognitive-dissonance--sfoc-forces-discernment`
7. **Discernment** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-forces-discernment--sfoc-states-skeptical-suspension`
8. **Skeptical Suspension** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-states-skeptical-suspension--sfoc-forces-meaning-making`
9. **Meaning-Making**

## Reading

- Forward: Read as an unfolding sequence in which each threshold creates the problem addressed by the next.
- Reverse: Read as an integration path that traces a present condition back toward its enabling assumptions.
- Diagnostic: Stop where the sequence first feels implausible; that seam names the contested transition.
