Essays and Talks about 'Inclusionality' by Alan Rayner


*Inclusionality is an awareness that space, far from passively surrounding and isolating discrete massy objects, is a vital, dynamic inclusion within, around and permeating natural form across all scales of organization, allowing diverse possibilities for movement and communication. Correspondingly, boundaries are not fixed limits - smooth, space-excluding, Euclidean lines or planes - but rather are pivotal places comprising complex, dynamic arrays of voids and relief that both emerge from and pattern the co-creative togetherness of inner and outer domains, as in the banks of a river.

Two New Books, completed in 2006, available on CD (just ask me for a copy)


1. 'Inclusional Nature: Bringing Life and Love to Science'


This tells the story of how 'inclusionality' came to be expressed through me via my personal experiences, scientific observations, dreams, artwork and poetry. It includes many high resolution images of my paintings


2. 'Natural Inclusion: How To Evolve Good Neighbourhood'


This shows how 'natural inclusion' (the co-creative, fluid-dynamic transformation of all through all in receptive spatial context) provides a far deeper, more comprehensive, less paradoxical understanding of evolutionary creativity than 'natural selection' (the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life). It shows how evolution, nature and immanent divinity can all be regarded as synonymous, through the recognition that 'all form is flow-form, a dynamic inclusion, not an occupier, of space, which cannot be defined completely in an unfrozen world'. Based on my University course for final year undergraduates studying biology, natural sciences, psychology and management, it describes a fundamentally new approach to learning to live lovingly, respectfully, creatively and sustainably in tune, not at odds, with our natural dynamic neighbourhood. At its heart is a transformation in understanding of the complex, dynamic nature of self-identity. It reveals the fallacy underlying belief in the determination of outward form and behaviour by an independent, internal executive centre or 'ghost in the machine'. This fallacy lies at the heart of the wrong logic (objective rationality), the wrong arithmetic (discrete numbers), the wrong geometry (Euclidean), the wrong language (definitive), the wrong scientific method and mode of explication (definitive), the wrong theology (external object God), the wrong systems of governance, education and economics (impositional) with which to address the reality of our current global environmental, social and psychological crisis in a culture of discontent addicted to conflict. More natural understanding can be gained through the development of a dynamic geometry in which local form is an inseparable expression of non-local space and vice versa, in the same way that a hurricane is an inseparable local expression of atmosphere.



Three New e Books Now Available - (2004) see http://www.syncretist.co.uk/alanrayner




WRITINGS ON THE THEME OF INCLUSIONALITY