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Honesty, Reasonableness & Kindness
In this short essay, I want to show how three core human values all arise from a central principle of Nature, which I call natural…
Essence in Appearance
When I was very young, so much younger than I am today, I discovered to my delight that I could identify fungal fruit bodies by…
RAiSE & Natural Inclusion Community Visit 2025
Back in July, I had the pleasure of traveling to France and the U.K. to attend the Rural Arts in Science & Sustainability Education (RAiSE) Residential Field Ecology Module and visit Dr. Alan Rayner for his 75th birthday. Being among
Blinding LED Headlights: An appreciative appraisal by Alan Rayner
I find this book exemplary of the kind of care, concern and clarity that is…
Nature’s Reality Is De-light-full!
We hold a more comprehensive view of what is both truly ‘natural’ and ‘scientific’ than is…
From External Administration to Internal Influence
Charles Darwin postulated that biological evolution results from a mechanistic driving…
Natural Inclusionality: From Self Recovery to Self Discovery
Have you ever felt utterly alien, alone and excluded from the natural world…
Natural Diversity of Unique People and Group Identities
Diversity, a buzzword of recent decades, has become a concept with many meanings…
How Did I Become Aware of Natural Inclusion?
The first 48 years of my life took me along a course that became devoted to the study…
How Can Awareness of Natural Inclusion Help Us Through and Beyond Self-Isolation?
Awareness of what I call ‘natural inclusion’ enables us readily to understand just how…
The Carer Self
An individual self-identity that is both a dynamic inclusion within and of its neighbourhood…
Living, Learning, Evolving
How do we as human beings come to know and understand the complexities…
What On Earth Is or Isn’t ‘The Web of Life’?
I have long been both puzzled and disconcerted by the popular conception of ‘The Web of Life’…
Somethingness and Nothingness
In reality, neither the receptivity of space nor the responsiveness of energetic motion can be…
