Publications Archive

From External Administration to Internal Influence
A brief introduction to understanding evolution or the flow of life through the comprehensive situational awareness of natural inclusion.

Natural Inclusionality: From Self Recovery to Self Discovery
Natural Inclusionality helped Matthew reimagine his relationship with others and the world around him. Find inspiration from the Mathew’s journey and discover a new perspective on life, environment and people.

Natural Diversity of Unique People and Group Identities
Abstract concepts of diversity fail to recognize the truly evolutionary process of natural inclusion, natural diversity and the sustainability of the fitting.

How Did I Become Aware of Natural Inclusion?
It’s a question I’ve been asked It’s a question I’ve asked myself It’s not a straightforward question for me to answer In incremental steps from beginning to end Because although it has entailed passing through a number

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 and why it is that our individual self-identity is both a dynamic inclusion and expression of the spatial and energetic neighbourhood that our


Living, Learning, Evolving
How do we as human beings come to know and understand the complexities of the natural world in which we are situated? And how does the way in which we do this affect the way in which

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’. It is not at all clear to me what this is really supposed to mean. What does it mean to you, I

Somethingness and Nothingness
The Natural Inclusion of Each in the Otherness

Surface Tension and the Natural Flow-Geometry of Place-Time
A manifestation of the mutually inclusive relationship between receptive spatial influence and energetic current in all material forms What is it that holds together What would otherwise drift apart If not an innermost receptive call To all

Dissipative and Conservative Organisation
The Essence of Regenerative Sustainability


Self-in-Neighbourhood; Neighbourhood-in-Self
The Comprehensive Situational Awareness of Natural Inclusionality


Self-Insufficiency and the Evolution of Social Organization
“No man is an island entire of it self” (John Donne) I have never felt self-sufficient. Very far from it. I am acutely aware of my own fallibility and consequent need for trusting companionship with others who can

Confluence
combining science, art and spirituality through the mutually inclusive middle way of natural inclusion

Natural Companionship
why we need each other to be different, genes are not selfish and evolution is not a process of selective elimination

Soaring Vision
An All-around View of the Intangible Within and Beyond the Tangible

Contemplation — A Lost Art?
It’s been brought home to me, again and again recently. Somehow ‘thinking’ has acquired a bad reputation. People dislike thinking. ‘It makes my head hurt — more than my pay scale warrants’ someone said to me recently,


The Hole Story and the Whole Story
O! As Robert Frost put it:- ‘Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.’ This is why I often speak of the

Nature as a Source of Moral Guidance
The idea that Nature is at best amoral and at worst totally immoral — an indiscriminate rag bag of good and bad, or cesspit of bad behaviour — has long been embedded in the human psyche. It

Discerning the Difference between Natural and Fictional Occurrence
Recognition has been increasing in recent years, and especially in recent months, that a great many of the problems we face in modern culture arise from a confrontational human relationship with the natural world. Calls to ‘connect’,

Sentient Evolution
A short introductory essay based on the work of Doug Marman and Alan Rayner There is a clear and present difference between living organisms and machines. Living organisms are internally motivated manifestations of biological evolution whereas machines


An Education in Natural Inclusion
For much of my working life I was a teacher and researcher in biology at the University of Bath. As is the way in Academia, it was my research that counted when it came to promotion, but

The (New) Natural Evolutionary Science & Philosophy of Inclusive Flow: Natural Inclusionality
Fundamental Principles Material form is intrinsically dynamic — a product of natural flow, which arises from the relationship between space and energy. Space plays a receptive, inviting role and energy plays a responsive, informative role in this relationship, which distinguishes material bodies

Breaching the ‘Great Lie’ That Isolates Individual Good from Common Good
‘The deep perceptual and cultural roots of corrupt leadership and how this differs from receptive-responsive companionship’ For much of recorded human history, much of humanity has to this day been living under the influence of a ‘Great

Coming Together & Drifting Apart
From Knowledge to Wisdom & Wisdom to Knowledge ‘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

From Cultural Tyranny to Co-Creative Community
Through Awareness of Natural Inclusion

Avoiding the Void
plus a critical appreciation of ‘His Dark Materials’ Nature abhors a vacuum And seeks to fill it So the presumption of abstract rationalisation Claims to be true . Nature is a vacuum Which it loves to

The Cage, The Climbing Frame and The Swimming Pool
How Real Life Bends the Rules of Intangible Mathematical Structure Much of my privileged early childhood was spent playing in a Kenyan garden, which sloped down to the River Nairobi at its bottom. There were trees to

The Natural Inclusion of Difference
Swirls within Swirls and Variations Around a Central Theme How do you feel about the uniqueness of your self-identity? Do you feel pride or shame? Do you feel ‘special’ in some way, or ‘not good enough and

Evolutionary Flow
Nature is not selective She fluidly includes all possibilities Man is selective And, to be so, He rigidly constructs Hard lines, boxes and pyramids Which should we pay attention to? (with appreciation of Emily Dickinson and Robert

Beyond Objectification
A mutual inclusion of strength and weakness. We will get nowhere fast in our efforts to develop a more loving and sustainable way of life until and unless we STOP objectifying one another and Nature. As Michael

Cold & Warm Geometry
How Rigid & Fluid Structures Affect Our Human Relationships and Sense of Self

From Abstract Freeze-Frame to Natural Kinship
How Awareness of Our Dynamic Inclusion in Unrestricted Space Dispels the Alienation of Objective Perception

Ringleadership
Leading Co-creatively, From Love, The Receptive Middle Way

Beyond Interconnectedness
In an egocentric world where people feel increasingly at odds with one another and Nature, the call to find ways to ‘connect’ and ‘reconnect’ has become very strong. Have you heard this call? If so, how do

Loving Natural Neighbourhood as Self
Melting the Loneliness of the Selfish Mind

The Natural Pilgrim’s Way
Forget ‘The Environment’ and Love ‘Our Natural Neighbourhood’

Why Technology, Legislation and Military Action Cannot Save Our Souls
But a New Sense of Self-Identity as a Natural Inclusion of Neighbourhood Can

Elective Tyranny is not True Democracy
How many times have we heard it? A government wins an election based upon presenting a binary choice to an electorate, and then proceeds to claim that it has a mandate to do what it likes regardless

Reason to Love
How Natural Inclusionality Heals the Rift Between Rationality and Emotion Long ago in human history, the seed of a dangerous idea was planted. As this seed germinated and took root, it grew into a Tree of Knowledge,


Essence in Appearance
The Emergent Science, Art & Spirituality of Natural Inclusion

Honesty, Reasonableness & Kindness
The Three Core values of natural inclusionality 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 inclusion. These values are known by