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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…
Surface Tension and the Natural Flow-Geometry of Place-Time
Quite a few years ago, now, I became aware that it doesn’t make sense to regard matter-energy…
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 help me out
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
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, when I asked
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 fundamental difference between
