{"id":663,"date":"2012-08-26T12:10:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T20:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=663"},"modified":"2012-08-26T12:10:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T20:10:21","slug":"natural-inclusionality-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=663","title":{"rendered":"Natural Inclusionality Approved"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been corresponding with some acquaintances who in my estimate are really very bright, and I\u2019m honored to be included in their circle. One Alan Rayner, is a retired professor of biology in England who evolved a theory of what he calls \u201cNatural Inclusionality<\/a>,\u201d an approach that he thinks (and I agree in general) is needed today to move us into the better realms of post-post-modern thought.<\/p>\n

Prof. Rayner\u2014Alan\u2014has been valiant in trying to express this mixture of compelling intuition and good reasoning, and in dialog (in which, I confess, I did not always make it easy for him), he has helped me to see a bit more fully what he\u2019s been talking about.<\/p>\n

Part of the problem has been trying to bridge two world-views: I discern a number of people pushing at the figurative membrane of the past, a more positivist philosophical base that is relatively more materialistic and objective. A number of other pioneers such as Gadamer, Whitehead, and others have challenged this, and in the 19th century this was in a sense the argument of the intellectuals who represented the Romantic movement\u2014and now I am adding to this by arguing also from depth psychology\u2014that what we call reality is significantly co-created by our minds and their world-views.<\/p>\n

Rayner\u2019s \u201cNatural Inclusionality\u201d  (or NI for short) ventures in many directions, noting the ways that compartments, definitions, are not only not as tight and crisp as we thought, but that they cannot be\u2014that there are blurry overlaps in many dimensions and that\u2019s the way it really is. His point is that we might cope with an increasingly rapidly changing world more effectively is we let go of the old, illusory world-view\u2014though it served in many ways as a frame for making certain kinds of technical advances\u2014and embracing a more fluid and open new worldview. I recommend his website http:\/\/www.inclusionality.org\/ for further contemplation, and apologize in advance for failing to do justice to the fullness of his theories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been corresponding with some acquaintances who in my estimate are really very bright, and I\u2019m honored to be included in their circle. One Alan Rayner, is a retired professor of biology in England who evolved a theory of what he calls \u201cNatural Inclusionality,\u201d an approach that he thinks (and I agree in general) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-spirituality-and-philosophy","category-wisdom-ing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}