Exploring Inclusionality

'From emptiness to openness'

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Why it matters - The Natural Philosophy of Compassion

Why does an understanding of inclusionality matter? Because acknowledging that we inhabit fluid and dynamic boundaries can transform the way that we live, love and learn. We recognise that self continuously flows into Nature as Nature flows into self, without exception. We breed love and tolerance instead of intolerance of natural variability and vulnerability.

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Through viewing space as openness, not emptiness, and accepting that we inhabit fluid, not fixed, boundaries, we move from opposition and conflict to dynamic, evolving co-creation

We understand that we are dynamic relational creatures within rich, complex, evolving communities, not isolated individuals in competition with each other

Individuals are character-full circulations of a limitless pool that relay energy from and to one another in a continual co-creative evolutionary process - they are neither free agencies nor characterless statistics

We cannot make absolute judgements of right and wrong that are independent of context. Circumstances vary and change, along with perceptions based upon individual or group experience

Personal experience is highly fluid and can change instantaneously. Conscious 'decisions' are underpinned by how we think about, and engage with, natural flow. If the way we think is out of tune with the surrounding flowspace, we experience tension and dissonance

When energy flows coincide in tune they sustain one another, and when out of tune they counteract. The ongoing dynamic tensions are the source of evolutionary balance and transformation

Every person and culture expresses ways of knowing and being relevant to its energetic contexts

The way we think shapes our attitudes and behaviour. And what we think emerges from nothing less than the flux of energy within a pre-existing, limitless ocean of receptive space that includes us

Power is focused energy from all around and not entirely within our individual selves, neither intrinsically constructive nor destructive, and given value only through informed experience

It is the receptive space throughout that is the natural source of dynamic influence, the infinite depth of being that inspires the creative expression of all forms of becoming

For many, fear of this depth as the 'void' or 'abyss' may make them shy away from inclusionality, seeking the safety of a sharp horizon where darkness ends and light begins, only for this imaginary discontinuity to suppress creativity and induce conflict.

Deep inclusional wisdom springs from the natural ability to include oneself dynamically in infinite depth and infinite depth in oneself. 

We can hence think of local bodily forms not as discrete 'particles of matter', but as fluid-lined 'capsules' and 'channels' of receptive space in receptive space