Resurgence from Crisis Through Awareness of Natural Inclusion

Abstract

For millennia, the Western mindset has been predisposed to the inherited custom to split mind and matter, emotion and cognition, art and science, the spiritual and the intellectual, the inner and outer, contemplation and objective inquiry. Our contemporary sense of dislocation from nature has arisen from this objectivistic perception. The current societal, economic and environmental crises urge us to break down the pervasive conceptual boundaries and binary distinctions and rethink what science is or what it can become. Covid 19 has exposed the iniquities and deep fault lines in the political and economic structure of globalized modern society founded on false division or unification of individual from or with group. We see Natural Inclusionality as the path to begin to resurrect and cultivate a new normal of co-creative community from the wreckage of the old normal of cultural tyranny (Rayner, 2020). The most ground-breaking dimension of the NI perception lies in its rejection of both extremes of dualism: the narrow objectivistic view of the world as dividable into discrete entities and the equally limiting monistic view of the world as some sort of uniform oneness. We propose to unpack these insights through dialogue: an ongoing professional dialogue between two authors, between two philosophical orientations, between natural and social sciences and between science and art. Our intentions are to show Natural Inclusional awareness as humanity’s ultimate resource for a resurgence from crisis—breaching the Great Lie that isolates individual from common good. In particular, we discuss the significance of these considerations in the context of educational science and practice.