Hi! Alan
Merry Christmas!
All the best
John

On 12/23/08, Alan Rayner (BU) <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> From: Alan Rayner (BU)
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> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 12:20 PM
> Subject: Admitting Inclusionality
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>
> Dear All,
>
> I wish you peace and joy in the days ahead!
>
> As I have been reflecting on recent conversations and experiences, aware of
> a gap that many people seem to feel - or that I seem to notice - between
> their implicit inclusional feelings/values and explicit rationalistic logic,
> language and mathematical foundations, the following thought has been
> recurring to me:
>
> Inclusionality has to be admitted, with deep humility, not declared, with
> proud presumption.
>
> Without admission, inclusionality cannot begin what I feel to be its healing
> and transformational work, as all that proud presumption continues to hold
> sway and get in the way of human understanding.
>
> So, what really needs to be admitted to transform rationalistic proud
> presumption into inclusional sense and sensibility?
>
> Nothing less, in my mind, than the infinite, receptive openness of space,
> which incorporates and permeates resistive, responsive substance over all
> structural scales in natural energy flow.  Space pervades substance, not
> vice versa. When we look at the 'Torriceli vacuum' above the column of
> mercury in a barometer tube, our eyes suggest that somehow the glass walls
> of the tube cut off the 'inner space' of the 'vacuum' from the 'outer space'
> surrounding the tube. Substance seems to have the power to cut and thereby
> partition space, and this apparent power is reinforced by the way we 'draw
> lines' to represent the limiting boundary that divides a 'foreground figure'
> from its 'spatial background'. It takes some 'pause for inclusional thought'
> to recognise - to admit - that the figure does not and cannot isolate its
> inner space from its outer space, because space cannot be cut and is
> therefore continuous throughout what appears visually to be inside, outside
> and boundary between.  With this pause, it becomes possible to recognise the
> 'figure' not as 'all alone', a self-standing entity of substance, but as a
> 'dynamic configuration of space'.
>
> With the admission of infinite, receptively open space throughout Nature,
> the upright 'I' self as a stand-alone figure or 'whole' that can be cut into
> fractional 'parts' is transfigured from a discrete subject/object driven by
> internal or external local centres of point-force, to a dynamic
> locality-in-non-locality, a dynamic relational place somewhere as an
> inclusion of everywhere through its focal point-influence centre.
>
> And with that admission, inclusional logic, language and mathematical
> foundation is allowed to come in to play its transformational role. What is
> truly irreducible, the source of quality, not quantity, which renders the
> paradoxical 'whole' of 'holism' 'more than the sum of its parts' through its
> 'emergent properties', is the infinite openness that the propositional and
> dialectic language and logic of discrete 'wholes and parts' denies entrance
> to in the first place, creating paradox as a way of life.
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>
> Warmest
>
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>
> Alan
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