Natural Inclusion/glossary of terms

Glossary

This glossary includes terms from the Natural Inclusion course that are new, unusual, or that are being used in unusual ways. It is provided here to help students grasp the course content more easily.

• Abstract Rationality — synonym for definitive rationality. Refers to a form of reasoning which assumes discontinuity between material things and space and so divides or integrates reality into isolated units or portions (wholes and parts; integers and fractions).
• Boundaries—energetic interfacings. Boundaries identify a shift between inner and outer contexts; boundaries face both ways. The permeability, deformability, continuity, receptivity, responsiveness and conductivity determine how energy flows across the boundary, and how the boundary changes shape.^[1]
• Definitive rationality—not Natural Inclusion, the other (perhaps traditional, or mainstream) way of looking at the world that emphasizes boundaries, distinctions, dichotomies, and static representations of the world.
• Dispersions—complex flows distributed in space and time.
• Each in the Other — recognizing that space permeates boundaries. Rejection of false dichotomies.
• Energy—the presence of mobility
• formlessness—
• Flow—continuous change in locality
• Flow-forms—localities of flow. Form that arises naturally as a co-expression of mobile, informative presence (energy) and still, receptive presence (space).
• informational rigidity—
• formings—
• Natural Inclusion—the co-creative, fluid dynamic transformation of all through all in receptive spatial context^[2]
• Neighborhood is neither entirely ‘the space around a discrete entity’ nor entirely ‘all the entities within a discrete space’, but rather a nesting togetherness of local(inner) included within non-local (everywhere) through dynamic intermediary (bodily) realms.^[1]
• Receptivity—openness to inclusion.
• receptive-responsive channels—
• Space—the continuous, immobile, intangible presence that becomes configured and reconfigured into distinctive localities by natural energy flow. Space is the presence of absence, not the absence of presence. Please consult this in-depth discussion of space for a deeper understanding of the nature of space.
• spatial relaxation—

A Brief Glossary of Natural Inclusion

Many more terms are defined this Brief Glossary of Natural Inclusion, by Alan Rayner. This more extensive glossary includes descriptions of terms that are:

1. important to understanding the meaning of NI and how it differs from abstract perceptions and representations of reality
2. based on abstract perceptions of reality and need to be substituted with other terms more consistent with NI.
3. consistent with NI and can be used as substitutes for abstract terms.
4. used differently in NI

References

1. 1 2 Inclusional Nature, Bringing Life and Love to Science, by Alan Rayner. Page 187
2. ↑ Rayner, A. D. M. (2006). Natural inclusion: How to evolve good neighbourhood. Available from http://www.inclusional-research.org/naturalinclusion.php