Hello Alan,
WHOW!!!!.........I've just been looking at some of
your paintings.....amazing colour and design.
I do so admire the way you explore and express
concepts that are so significant for you, and we hope
other people too!
Do you have experience of presenting artistic work to
academe as alternative paradigms of research?
Kind regards
Brian
--- Alan Rayner <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I have just sent the following response to someone
> called Chris Macrae,
> asking me to connect inclusionality with
> organizational management.
>
> You may find it relevant to recent conversations.
>
>
> Warmest
>
>
> Alan
>
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> Dear Chris,
>
> I think the poetry and art can contribute to the
> many ways in which we need
> to communicate with and bring a more fluid form of
> awareness to a prevalent
> 'concrete mindset', which is fixated upon what I
> view as the wrong logic,
> the wrong arithmetic, the wrong geometry, the wrong
> scientific method and
> mode of explication, the wrong theology, the wrong
> language, the wrong
> systems of governance, education and economic
> foundations etc. By 'wrong',
> here, I mean 'against the flow of natural
> evolutionary process and to the
> exclusion of love - in the deepest sense of agape -
> from our human
> neighbourhood'. There is a need to bring about an
> awareness both of 'what
> is wrong' with current theory and practice, AND how
> this theory and
> practice can be radically transformed by opening up
> new possibilities for
> receptive-responsive understanding.
>
> One of the routes to this awareness is to facilitate
> connection with our
> deep, compassionate sense of 'self' as 'non-locally
> sourced dynamic
> neighbourhood', which lies beyond the superficial
> definition of individuals
> (and organizations) as isolated local entities
> (discrete 'objects',
> 'singularities' or 'units') controlled by internal
> executive centres and
> pushed and pulled about by external force.
>
> In my work, I have therefore not only been
> endeavouring to help open up
> avenues to feelings of love, respect and compassion
> for all nature,
> including ourselves, but also to show the sound
> REASON why these feelings
> MAKE SENSE in a human community that has largely
> come, through flawed
> logic, to regard them as sentimental nonsense, a
> deviation from objective
> rationality. Whilst this flawed logic persists at
> the root of the prevalent
> concrete mindset, our culture will remain deep in
> conflict and unable to
> address issues related to our current global
> environmental, social and
> psychological sustainability crisis in a sensitive
> and realistic way that
> can alleviate rather than compound distress.
>
> Coming from my background as a biological scientist
> and ecologist, I have
> come to recognise that the contrast between the
> flawed logic of the
> concrete mindset (widely promulgated through MBA
> curricula amongst many
> other entrainment-not-education systems) and natural
> dynamics is epitomized
> by the contrast between views of evolution in terms
> of 'Natural Selection'
> (a contradiction in terms, implying, as Darwin put
> it, 'the preservation of
> favoured races in the struggle for life') and
> 'Natural Inclusion' (the
> creative, fluid dynamic transformation of all
> through all in receptive
> spatial context). Although I welcome Darwin's
> popularization of the idea of
> the 'relatedness of all life', I think the notion of
> 'selection', which
> effectively eliminates diversity whilst 'perfecting'
> the competitive
> prowess of individuals is diabolical nonsense, which
> has been incorporated
> consciously or unconsciously into all kinds of
> misdirected human endeavour
> (not to mention genocide). Evolution involves the
> complementary attunement
> of all in fluid dynamic attunement with all,
> 'immaterial space' included,
> not the perfection of 'one in isolation' (one all
> alone). We human beings
> cannot in our own executive right 'change' or 'save'
> the 'world'. But
> through a deeper awareness and understanding of how
> we can attune with
> complex dynamic processes, we may be able to help
> nature 'change' or 'save'
> us.
>
> The flawed logic of 'selection theory' is the same
> flawed logic that
> underpins the concrete mindset in general, which
> fails to take account of
> evidence implicit in modern relativity, quantum
> mechanics and non-linear
> theory. It is the logic of space-excluding objective
> definition, otherwise
> known as the 'law of the excluded middle',
> epitomized in Hamlet's
> soliloquy. 'To be OR not to be, that is the
> question; whether 'tis nobler
> in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of
> outrageous fortune OR to
> take ARMS AGAINST a SEA OF TROUBLES and by OPPOSING,
> END them.' It is the
> logic of opposition and conflict, which fails to
> embody immaterial space
> and so denies the creative receptivity of natural
> dynamic geometry. That is
> what fixes us in concrete, incapable of addressing
> our deep human ecology.
> To escape its constraints, we need to transform the
> fixed logic of the
> excluded middle (to be OR not to be) into the
> dynamic logic of the included
> middle (to be AND not to be), a logic that includes
> love, which I and a few
> others have called 'inclusionality' (to mark its
> distinction from objective
> rationality).
>
> Anyway, enough long-winded explanation. This
> incredibly simple
> understanding is incredibly difficult to communicate
> in words to a
> community mind set against it. I offer my personal
> expressions in my
> writings and artwork (see
> http://people.bath.ac.uk/bssadmr) to any who
> would like to use and share these as a resource
> pool. I am happy to
> converse (but not debate) with anyone and speak
> anywhere I feel welcome and
> can reach. No amount of technological or
> governmental 'fixing' can in my
> mind hope to work effectively without the support of
> a transformed mind set.
>
>
> Warmest
>
>
> Alan
>
>
>
>
>
> --On 10 January 2007 16:27 +0000 christopher macrae
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >
> > Alan R,M
> >
> > Alan R In general I wish you to connect on
> inclusionality where it might
> > change mindsets of hard MBA curricula or take us
> through nature's war
> > with man on why climate can never be globally
> operation alised top down
> >
>
Brian E. Wakeman
Education adviser
Dunstable
Beds
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