Dear all,
Here is a message I've just sent to the 'inclusional research' discussion
group, with respect to a conversation about Darwinism and the true meaning
of 'natural' science.
"Yes, just to try to summarize what I feel is the significance of this and
recent conversations, regarding what it means to transform from a
fundamentalist to an inclusional scientific understanding of evolutionary
process, in terms of how we live and view our human place in the natural
world:
We are not independent survival machines, here to compete to be best in a
struggle for self-preservation, in which our departure from the line of best
fit is mortal sin. We are dynamic inclusions of natural energy flow, here to
live, love and be loved, whose variability and perishability is vital to our
complementary, co-creative evolutionary relationship."
Warmest
Alan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Rayner (BU)" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "BERA Practitioner-Researcher"
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Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 8:21 AM
Subject: Re: Borderlands
> Dear Anthony and Jacques,
>
> On the question of 'gift flow' I recently found the following a very
> inspiring read, which contributed significantly to some of my most recent
> writings:
>
> Lewis Hyde (2006): 'The Gift - How the Creative Spirit Transforms the
> World' Canongate Books.
>
> Although not written within the context of 'an inclusional paradigm' (the
> first edition was published in 1983), there are very clear resonances with
> themes of deep generosity, vulnerability and mortality, death feeding
> life, complex self-identity as natural neighbourhood, beyond purely
> transactional exchange, energy flow and blockage etc.
>
>
> Warmest
>
> Alan
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anthony McCann" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 8:00 AM
> Subject: Borderlands
>
>
> Hi Jacques,
> Thanks for the word about the Borderlands community. I was wondering how
> you started the cooperative? and what you find the key challenges to be?
> I'd love to know more about your mixed economies approach. I've looked at
> the notion of gift, and I got quite frustrated by the almost exclusive
> emphasis in the literature on exchange relations, which I feel are nowhere
> near as subtle as relationships in which generosity happens. Putting it
> into practice formally I would imagine calls for a lot of awareness and
> vulnerability?
> Beannachtaí,
> Anthony
>
>
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