A community project
Help Build NT and the RBP
Naturalistic Theory and the Relational Being Project began with one person’s work, but they should not become closed systems belonging to one person. Ideas become more useful when other people test them against evidence, experience and ways of seeing that the original author may have missed.
This is an invitation to help extend, question and improve the work. You do not need to be an academic, and you do not need to agree with the theory. A contribution may begin with a new concept, an objection, an ethnographic example, a personal experience, a connection to another field, or simply a question that exposes something requiring further thought.
What might you contribute?
Propose language that helps explain NT, RB, Civilization or the suppression of relational being.
Share scholarship, ethnography, history or scientific findings that strengthen, complicate or challenge the theory.
Describe an experience of relational being—or of the forces that interrupt and suppress it.
Identify a contradiction, missing connection, doubtful claim or question that deserves a serious response.
Suggest a project, practice or form of collective action through which people might rebuild RB.
Show how the theory intersects with a field, place or way of life not yet represented here.
Write your contribution here
How to contribute
Send us what you have
It does not need to be a finished essay. A paragraph, question, example or link is enough to begin. Tell us how it connects to NT or the RBP and whether you want your name—or a pseudonym—used if the contribution is eventually published.
Submissions will be read and considered, but sending something does not guarantee publication. We will ask before editing, quoting or publishing your contribution. Your work remains your own.
Or write directly to KNelsonian@gmail.com.
Recent developments
As NT and the RBP develop, new concepts and significant revisions will be noted here. Readers are invited to respond while ideas are still developing—not only after they have hardened into finished formulations.