Virato dialogues with Dr. Alan Rayner at The University
of Bath in England
Dr. Rayner is an ecological thinker who brings together scientific, artistic
and spiritual perspectives in a radical new way of understanding evolutionary
creativity, which he calls ‘inclusionality’. This understanding is based
on an awareness of all form as flow-form, a dynamic relational inclusion
- not an occupier - of space. It takes us beyond the divisive ‘to be or not
to be’ logic of independent objects that alienates humanity from our natural
neighbourhood. It liberates us from the self-imposed barriers that entrap
us in all kinds of conflicts, obsessions, compulsions and addictions borne
of our incompatible and insatiable desires for complete freedom and complete
security in an uncertain, ever-changing world without fixed corners. It sees
nature, divinity and evolution as synonymous and so finds no need for contest
between neo-Darwinian and religious perceptions of our human place in the
natural world. It dissolves the ‘clot’ between ‘head’ and ‘heart’ - intellect
and emotion - and so opens up possibility for the creative and lovingly receptive-responsive
transformation that could enable us to live in sustainable, compassionate
relationship with one another and our living space. This possibility is angrily
rejected, however, by those most deeply attached to concrete notions of individual
or collective free agency, power and control. Alan is author of Inclusional
Nature: Bringing Life and Love to Science. Many of his writings and artworks
can be found at http://people.bath.ac.uk/bssadmr.
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