‘Knowledge of many things is not wisdom’, said Heraclitus. Wisdom is understanding the essence of things, we can all recognise.
Nature is not made of snippets of information that combine together to make a permanent ‘whole’, complete in its self. The essence of things is that Nature is made from continuous informational flow around and between receptive centres of continuous space.
To be wise, you don’t have to know everything, be super-intelligent or be super-equipped with technological wizardry. You only need to be aware that no body can exist without volume, and for this to be so, form and formlessness must be distinct, not mutually exclusive or one and the same thing. You can then appreciate the simple receptive-responsive relationship between spatial stillness and energetic motion that in-forms the diversity of all material expression.
Form and Formlessness
And the Natural Inclusion of Each in the Other
It’s All so very Simple
Really
There is Form
&
There is Formlessness
.
Split Apart
Neither Alone can make Sense of Life
But Each included in the Other
Falls naturally into Place
.
Form Flows into and out
From Formless Existence
Formlessness Flows into Life
In Form
.
Form pulls its own Weight
While Formlessness is Weightless
Until its two Great Architects –
Space & Light
Come Together
In Silent Stillness & Lively Motion
.
Every Night & Every Day
In Every Body
Every Now & Every Then
Everywhere
….
Coming Together, Drifting Apart
When All is disparate
Nothing works
To bring what passes
Into confluence
Around its self
In tangible formation
From intangible diffusion
For a while
Before returning whence it came
Ready to reconfigure
Afresh
But not without learning
From past experience
….
Further Reading:
Rayner, A.D. (2011). Space Cannot Be Cut—Why Self-Identity Naturally Includes Neighbourhood. Integrative Psychological and Behavioural Science, 45, 161–184.
Rayner ADM (2011). NaturesScope: Unlocking our natural empathy and creativity. Winchester, UK; Washington USA: O Books.
Rayner, A. (2012). What are natural systems, actually? Advances in System Science and Application 12, 328–347.
Rayner, A (2017). The Origin of Life Patterns: In the Natural Inclusion of Space in Flux. Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer.
Rayner, A (2018). The Vitality of the Intangible: crossing the threshold from abstract materialism to natural reality. Human Arenas 1 pp 9–20.
Rayner, A (2022). Honesty, Reasonableness & Kindness
Rayner, A (2020). From Abstract Freeze-Frame to Natural Kinship
Rayner, A (2020). Cold & Warm Geometry
Rayner, A (2020). The Natural Inclusion of Difference
Rayner, A (accepted for publication) The natural inclusion of diversity in community. A preprint is privately available on application to the author.
Rayner, A (2020). Evolutionary Flow
Rayner, A (2020). Simplicity & Entanglement
Rayner, A (2020). Permafrost & Fertile Ground
Rayner, A (2020). Beyond Objectification
Rayner, A (2020). How Can Awareness of Natural Inclusion Help Us Through and Beyond Self-Isolation?
Rayner, A (2020). Inner Motivation
Rayner, A (2020). From Cultural Tyranny to Co-Creative Community
