Dear Karen and Pip,
Thank you so much!
There are two 'electronic' books of poetry and paintings, 'Natural Communion' and 'Limitless Pool', which can be downloaded from www.inclusional-research.org.
A real paper book, 'NaturesScope' (see attached flier), should hopefully by published by O books by the end of this year.
Getting any of my work published in paper form has been, and continues to be, a real struggle, so it has been good to have the Internet available, noisy as it is. Poetry is especially difficult, unless you're already well known (the usual 'Catch 22', but especially true in this case).
Thank you too, Pip, for your comment. My observations of autoacatalytic 'path-making' were fundamental to my ideas about dynamic boundaries, first expressed in 'Degrees of Freedom', which in turn were fundamental to the eventual development of my understanding of 'natural inclusionality'. I realized that if you know how to look for it, you can find riverine path-making everywhere in Nature. These paths are dynamically bounded 'channels of intra-space', which provide for varying degrees of communication ('intra-connectedness'), depending on how they form. They are of a very different character from the 'ties that bind' in modern 'network theory', which neglects the vital inclusion of receptive (non-resistive) space, as outlined in the attached chapter from 'Inclusional Nature'.
Warmest
Alan
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From: Karen Thompson
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Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: Inclusional Currency
Dear Alan
Have you had your poetry published as book? If not you should - its all so relevant, so inspirational and so wonderfully summative, descriptive and sensory. I really felt this poem in the true sense of the word - it had my senses going.
Publish - Please - if you hadn't already!!
Kindest Regards
Karen
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From: Alan Rayner (BU) <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 8:33
Subject: Fw: Inclusional Currency
Dear All,
I have completed the first draft of my paper for 'Environmental Economics', and attach it herewith. I hope to submit it to the journal soon. Please let me know of any way in which you think it could be improved [NB it is already close to word limit]. It is, of course, unconventional, and I don't know whether the journal's referees/editors will swallow some of its extravagances, but I guess it's worth trying. I can always publish it at 'Best Thinking' if they don't want it.
Meanwhile, I wrote a poem yesterday concerning the evolutionary contrast between 'striving for supremacy' through independent growth and 'seeking sustainability' through autocatalytic flow (where flow of current decreases resistance to further flow). I've pasted it below. I hope it brings some pleasure and, maybe, insight.
Warmest
Alan
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Following Each Other’s Footsteps
Some might aspire
To climb on other’s shoulders
Whence to gain an elevated view
Atop a stack of figures
Perched precariously
From pinnacle to ground
Where ground is All below
Lost from near in sight
By far out of sight
Distanced from feeling
The thick of life
Where down to Earth
The dew hangs heavy
Grass grows tall
The humid forest yawns
Smelling of humus
Blanketed by mosses
Bedecked with ferns
Pervaded by slithering, rustling, stamping
Resounding with squawks, barks, twitters
One feels so small
Within it all
Seeking safe passage
From here to there in everywhere
Trampling over undergrowth
Tunnelling under overgrowth
Revealing the space
Of no resistance
Waiting quietly
Throughout and about us all
So we follow
In each other’s footsteps
Easing the path
Others can take
Through striding the wake
From lonely foot fall
Made by the first brave sole
Bumped off course
By those coming
Thicker and faster
From behind
Our river flows
Drawing through tributaries
Passing through deltas
Meandering sleepily
Supplied in torrents
Etching the landscape
Rebuilding banks
Never ever ending
Beginning
Continuously
With infinity in sight
No, nothing to lose
From standing Proud and Tall
Above them all
