Dear Dianne,
Thank you!
Yes, your phrase 'chasing an elusive' came across to me as a very apt
description of the Sisyphean effort to 'capture' the flow of natural
inclusionality in abstract (definitive) language and logic. It cannot
succeed, any more than the effort to count in discrete numbers up to
infinity can succeed - fundamentally because infinity is a quality of
transfigural space, not an amount of matter. This is why the natural
inclusion of transfigural space in a living logic of the 'including middle'
makes all the difference to our understanding and explication of the
evolutionary creativity of 'self as neighbourhood' - an 'opening I'.
The following poem came to mind in response to your phrase:-
Child of Reason
I feel I cannot think
Of My Self alone
As wise
For there can be no wise One alone
I am not wise
I am a child of suffering
Whose childful yearning
Is to lighten the load
Imposed by those who goad
Us on our way
By means of fearful refutation
Of all that they might seek to find
I cannot grow up
For in that adulteration
I encounter devastating poverty
A desertion of the spirit
That pools us all together
In the recreative communion
Of our natural neighbourhood
Can our rational pursuit
Serve any better purpose
Than to chase what we seek
Further
And further
and further
Away?
If we were only to loosen
Those unforgiving means and ends
The hardline limits of denial
By which we close down on our prey
We could release the life that loves
Our child's play
Warmest
Alan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dianne Allen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 8:42 PM
Subject: Re: Being inclusive... an example...
> Thanks Alan, for refreshing my memory with your details on mycelium and
> mycelial networks
>
> .. now I am chasing an elusive ... wondering to what extent my engagement
> here represents something akin to 'natural inclusional', or whether, in
> the articulation of the idea of 'abductive thinking/reasoning/processes',
> I am helping 'solidify' something akin to 'disintegrating channels of
> communication' by insisting on (coercive) 'a fixed web of joined up dots'.
>
> Dianne
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alan Rayner" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 7:35 PM
> Subject: Re: Being inclusive... an example...
>
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> "Alan will love this mushroom connection!"
>>
>> Well, yes and no, actually.
>>
>> When speaking of connectedness, I think there is a need to understand the
>> radical difference between a versatile 'flow network' of emerging,
>> branching, fusing and disintegrating channels of communication, and a
>> fixed
>> web of joined up dots. This relates to Marie's non-coercive, natural
>> inclusional, understanding of 'respectful connectedness'in which 'each is
>> variably open to others' energetic influence'. There is a subtle but
>> fundamental distinction between the living logics of natural
>> inclusionality, and the abstract notion of connective inclusivity.
>>
>> See attached chapter from 'Inclusional Nature' (2006).
>>
>> Warmest
>>
>> Alan
>>
>>
>> --On 30 April 2010 18:50 +1000 Dianne Allen <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> ?
>>>
>>> Chris, Alan will love this mushroom connection! Dianne
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Christiaan Thomas Johannes De Beer
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 6:30 PM
>>> Subject: Re: Being inclusive... an example...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Dear Aga
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I think that initially there might be thoughts of an ?ultimate
>>> inspiration? but the more I make, the more I realise that it is about
>>> the network that is being built with the occasional rhizome that
>>> produces
>>> the mushroom when conditions are right.
>
>
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