# crisis of faith (narrative)

A self model in which trust in its narrative ends, so the walls that narrative set from within stop holding.

- Computed level: L19 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [self-model](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-self-model.reflexive), [trust](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-trust.reliance), [narrative](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-narrative.self-story), [change](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-change.process), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end), [set](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-set.fix), [stop](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-stop.action), [hold](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-hold.physical)

**Through:** The narrative was acted on without checking; once checked and doubted, the walls it set lose their reason, and the self must set them again or drift.

**Novel properties:**
- walls losing their author rather than their force
- a self that must choose again what is its own

## Examples
- The 1755 Lisbon earthquake prompted Voltaire's Poem on the Lisbon Disaster, which questioned the optimistic belief that all is for the best. *(history)*

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-crisis-of-faith.narrative*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-crisis-of-faith.narrative.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*