A brief introduction to understanding evolution or the flow of life through the comprehensive situational awareness of natural inclusion.
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.
Abstract concepts of diversity fail to recognize the truly evolutionary process of natural inclusion, natural diversity and the sustainability of the fitting.
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
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
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
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
The Natural Inclusion of Each in the Otherness
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
The Essence of Regenerative Sustainability
The Comprehensive Situational Awareness of Natural Inclusionality
“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
combining science, art and spirituality through the mutually inclusive middle way of natural inclusion
why we need each other to be different, genes are not selfish and evolution is not a process of selective elimination
An All-around View of the Intangible Within and Beyond the Tangible
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,
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
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
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’,
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
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
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
‘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
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
Through Awareness of Natural Inclusion
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
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
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
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
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
How Rigid & Fluid Structures Affect Our Human Relationships and Sense of Self
How Awareness of Our Dynamic Inclusion in Unrestricted Space Dispels the Alienation of Objective Perception
Leading Co-creatively, From Love, The Receptive Middle Way
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
Melting the Loneliness of the Selfish Mind
Forget ‘The Environment’ and Love ‘Our Natural Neighbourhood’
But a New Sense of Self-Identity as a Natural Inclusion of Neighbourhood Can
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
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,
The Emergent Science, Art & Spirituality of Natural Inclusion
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
