All that remains
When all’s been said and done
Is what’s always been here
And always will be
.
The vast presence of absence
Endlessly calling for attention
Waiting to burst into life
At the strike of a light
.
Endlessly forgotten
By the clamour of inattention to innermost receptivity
Frothing over hidden depth
Carving initials
Into stone and bark
.
Claiming
‘I was here’
Meaning
‘I really mattered, didn’t I?’
Which could never have happened
In the first place
Without what remains
When all’s been said and done
.
We are but traces in eternity*
Flowing lines that gather…
The Essence of Regenerative Sustainability
What is natural organisation, how does it arise and how is it sustained or lost?
You might imagine that this is a question to which modern evolutionary, thermodynamic, social and complex systems theories would have the answer well sussed. There is, however, a simple life lesson — readily available to any of us from our personal experience — that these abstract theories have not learned:-
- All falls naturally into place when the receptive influence of continuous space and informative influence of dynamic local boundaries are taken into consideration.
- All falls paradoxically out of place when…
I have nothing to sell
No one to tell
No hidden agenda
No vested interests
No heroes to worship
No organization to manage
No empires to rule
No industries to serve
No institutional support
No salary to earn
No profit to turn
No money to burn
No self-belief
No clients to coach
No patients to cure
No therapy to seek
No books to promote
No courses to offer
No technologies to invent
No theories to present
No religious persuasion
No fan clubs to grow
No party-political allegiance
No magical tricks
No axes to grind
No alternatives to debate
No points to score
No games to win
No battles to lose
.
I am here for one sincere reason, alone
To open the door
.
For further exploration beyond the open door, please visit http://www.spanglefish.com/exploringnaturalinclusion
Have you seen or felt the vibrancy
That spirals in and spirals out
Responsively
To and from receptive calling
Within you and without you
Bringing life to love
In glistening spells of renewal
From there to here in everywhere?
The inner flare
That helps you dare
To dance amidst the silence
Spreading passion
Spreading joy
The gladness in the sadness
The bloom within the doom
Or do you cut it out
Along the dotted line
Between what’s added and subtracted
To and from your head and heart
In arithmetical reduction
From infinity to singularity
The lifeless tyranny of whole and fractured numbers
Isolated by definition
From what calls to light in dark
For further exploration of the vibrancy of ‘natural inclusion’, please visit http://www.spanglefish.com/exploringnaturalinclusion
Dynamic Boundaries; Continuous Space
***What is an Individual?***
That was the research question that ultimately led me to question everything I’d been told by conventional analytical science in general and evolutionary biology in particular. Because it has no definitive answer. As William Wordsworth put it:- ‘In nature, everything is distinct, yet nothing defined into absolute, independent singleness’.
The very idea that reality can be subdivided or aggregated into discrete numerical units that can be treated as independent ‘wholes’ acted upon by external ‘force’ is inconsistent with evidence and incapable of making consistent natural sense. It is an abstraction from nature…
It comes to all of us
I suppose
Who aspire
Perspire
Inspire
Expire
To be good
To do good
To feel good
In the eyes of our selves
In the eyes of others
In the eyes of mothers
Fathers
.
Only to flail
Slip and slither
To the base of a well
In our own private Hell
Where none can fathom
What depth there can be
Beneath what we see
Before where we started
And find in that place
A smidgeon of grace
Midst the vastness of space
Recalling us to life
…
For further exploration of the depth of ‘natural self-inclusion in neighbourhood’, please visit http://www.spanglefish.com/exploringnaturalinclusion
Evolution in Response to Receptive Invitation
Here, as in the above short video presentation, I want to ask a simple but ultimately deep and far-reaching question:-
“Who or what is your neighbourhood?”
Why do I ask this question? Why does it deserve your special attention when you are already so bombarded with so many other concerns in your modern everyday life? What difference could seeking an answer to it make to your life, my life, human life, life on Earth?
What thoughts, feelings, sensations and intuitions are aroused in you as you contemplate this question? Does it arouse your…
How we answer this question affects not only the way we understand life, but also the degree to which we hold ourselves responsible for what happens to us.
Here it may help us to take a step beyond our immediate human concerns and consider what a tree, for example can tell us about decision-making.
It’s a helpful example, because a tree actually records its life experience in its bodily form: its branching pattern, its leaf and bud scars, its growth rings, its healed and unhealed wounds.
When we examine this record, how do we interpret it?
Do we view it…
All arises from and all returns to silence.
All dynamically includes and is included within silence.
There can be no sound without silence.
Silence is in the depth of our souls and the tread of our soles.
Calling all into flow-formation
The everlasting grace of infinite, receptive space,
Ignored by Pride & Prejudice,
Adored by Sense & Sensibility*.
For further exploration of the silence within, throughout and all around us, please visit http://www.spanglefish.com/exploringnaturalinclusion
Alan Rayner
Alan Rayner is an evolutionary ecologist, writer and artist, who is pioneering the philosophy of natural inclusion
