Thinking about change…
…and changing….
The Mereon Legacy, CIC, Hereford, England, United Kingdom
The Mereon Legacy CIC is a Community Interest Company based in the United Kingdom, founded 20 December 2013 by Lynnclaire Dennis, Peter McNair, and Louis H. Kauffman. As the home for all intellectual property rights related to the Mereon Matrix, the organization serves as a hub for ongoing transdisciplinary research and educational applications. Since its inception, directors have not received compensation, their investment in time and resources all being connected to their unequivocal Calling.
Our Focus
The Mereon Legacy advances understanding of dynamic universal systems through peer-reviewed scientific research and practical educational tools. Our work demonstrates how the Mereon Matrix—a geometric framework revealing natural patterns of connection and growth—applies across domains from classroom management to organizational development.
Research & Education
The organization bridges rigorous scientific inquiry with accessible learning experiences. Publications include The Mereon Matrix: Everything Connected through (K)nothing) (World Scientific, 2018) and research applying the Matrix's eleven First Principles to natural and social systems. Educational initiatives include facilitator training programs, the Belonging project for teachers and young learners, and partnerships for graduate degrees in Dynamic Universal Systems.
Our Approach
Every application of our work reinforces how diversity generates unity—showing that what benefits one truly benefits all.
Directors
Managing Director, Peter A. McNair
Visionary Director, Lynnclaire Dennis
Director of Development, Natalie Van der Voort, Antwerp, Belgium
Natalie Van der Voort, Antwerp, Belgium
I see life as an unfolding adventure — a journey of creating, playing, and becoming through conscious evolution.
As an entrepreneurial igniter, I’m bringing focus, energy, and initiative to projects that are connecting people and generating lasting, positive impact. A strong sense of shared purpose is fueling my work — building bridges between passion, innovation, and meaningful progress.
A curious generalist by nature, I draw on a background that spans technology, international business development, education, and coaching, combining strategic clarity with genuine human understanding to spark transformation and sustainable growth. Together with the team, I am seeking partnerships that are inspiring, creative, and grow with the flow.
Each of us is a tone in the universe — a unique vibration contributing to the greater harmony of life. What matters is realizing that everything is revolving around the Music we create together: the rhythm of growing; the resonance of shared values; and the art of harmonizing our shared purpose.
Within the Mereon CIC Legacy, my role is to help bring its universal wisdom to life through education and the go-to-market development of innovative products grounded in its principles. Guided by purpose and deep gratitude, I’m fulfilling this calling with my heart, committed to carrying the Legacy forward — transforming possibility into potential, expanding its vision, strengthening collaborations, and ensuring that its light continues to inspire generations to come.
An Investigation & An Invitation
The 30+ year transdisciplinary investigation itself is profound evidence of how unity arises through diversity. This knowledge is coherent, knowable, and applicable due to the tenacious commitment of many open-hearted, open-minded individuals. Only those who have been active members of the team are pictured here. We envision sharing this new knowledge in ways where benefits transcend profits, ensuring that what benefits one benefits everyone. If you’re interested in joining us in this High Play send us an EMAIL sharing your work in the world and how your vision, values, and competence align with what we're doing!
Knowing that change is, and changing is possible at any age, Lynnclaire has created educational programs that empower both children and adults to grow intentionally. Her philosophy is rooted in the perspective that personal transformation begins with courage, self-reflection, and a willingness to challenge existing perspectives. At the heart of her work is a profound belief in human potential: by identifying core values, opening our hearts, and embracing diversity, we can resolve personal and global challenges. She sees every individual as capable of being a positive catalyst for change.
Lynnclaire resides on the beautiful western slopes of the Sierra Tejeda in Andalucia, Spain, sharing her home with her loyal companion, Sibi(san), an adorable Yorkshire Terrier. From this small piece of paradise she continues to fulfill her Promise to remember, inspiring healing and making intentional connections. Learn more about her work in eduction under Projects or at https://belonging.life You may also enjoy walking through her art gallery, https://starstuffglitter.com
Lynnclaire Dennis, Andalucia, Spain
As co-founder of The Mereon Legacy CIC, Lynnclaire developed a unique approach to using this logic to facilitate personal and collective transformation. This dynamic universal system is the foundation for a profound method that helps individuals reconnect their core values with their deepest purpose. Through her initiatives like DiscoveringWholeness.life and Peace by Piece, she guides lifelong learners as they bridge their "why" and "what" - transforming insight through this ‘HOW’ into meaningful action.
Louis H. Kauffman, Chicago, Illinois
Lou is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He joined this work in 1994, and is director of the Scientific Advisory Board of The Mereon Legacy CIC and a board member.
Lou’s mathematical specialty is theoretic topology and more generally, the study of form, pattern, logic and cybernetics. He is the founding editor and a managing editor of “The Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications”; and editor of the World Scientific Book Series, “Knots and Everything”.
He writes a column entitled “Virtual Logic” for the Journal Cybernetics and Human Knowing. From 2005 to 2008 Lou served as president of the American Society for Cybernetics, and plays a mean clarinet in "The Chicken Fat Klezmer Orchestra" in Chicago where he lives with his wife Dianne.
Robert W. Gray, Rochester, New York
Bob has been a Principle Investigator of the Mereon Matrix since 1998, and without his remarkable expertise in geometry and computer modelling this work would not be what it is, or where it is today. A polymath in every sense, he has an insatiable curiosity which makes him a lifelong learner. This trait is clearly observable in his passion to explore how the universe works and to use that knowledge to make a positive difference in the world.
Bob sees the problem of electrical energy generation, along with energy in general, as the most critical issue facing the human race as everything— the world economy, standards of living, national security, health, environmental issues, and species extinction— all come down to energy generation and usage.
Bob completed his PhD in Optics in 2015, his dissertation on monochromatic wavefront aberration theory and nodal aberration theory. He and his wife Yevgenia live in Rochester, NY, USA
Jytte Brender McNair, Copenhagen, Denmark
Jytte's R & D background provides her with a unique opportunity to cross-fertilise her expertise with a M.Sc. in biochemistry, a M.Sc. in computer science and a European Doctorate and a PhD in Medical Informatics. Working on the Mereon Matrix since 2000, her expertise covers the breadth of organisational change and evolution over the theoretical aspects of the quality of semantic aspects of medical knowledge.
She understood the need to and helped apply this modelling to the architectural logic of organisations. A computer scientist at the anthropocentric end of the scale, all things human-centred interest Jytte as does the multifaceted realm of asymmetric abstraction. Her 2006 book, ‘A Handbook of Evaluation Methods for Health Informatics’ is considered a ‘bible’ for methods of constructive evaluation of IT-based solutions.
Jytte is the mother of two daughters, and grandmother to six, and lives with her husband Peter outside of Copenhagen, Denmark.
He states, “My experience and that of other colleagues affirm that there is a tremendous need for means to support all levels of staff in safely attending to change. Lynnclaire’s unique and rigorous model of organisational development has more than once helped me grasp the wholeness of a situation, enabling me to attend to it in a constructive fashion, assuring employees’ confidence before and during the change process. With her assistance, I have applied this process in several organizational settings, as well as using it to make significant personal career transitions. I strongly support this work, and will continue my engagement both personally and professionally. This work has demonstrated benefits, and make taking it to ‘the next level’ worth striving, doing so for the sake of the future.”
Peter’s passion is sailing, being ‘Bestefar’ —grandpa— to six amazing kids, and living life with his wife Jytte on a beautiful lake outside Copenhagen, Denmark.
Peter A.McNair, Copenhagen, Denmark
Peter is co-Founder and Managing Director [Administration] of the Mereon Legacy CIC. He has been involved with this work since 2001, and became a principle investigator in2011. His background is as a physician with 30 years of management in medium-size, health organisations with responsibility for 100-200 employees performing mission-critical services 24-hours a day in a university hospital with 1,000 beds. During this time he witnessed and was affected by poorly implemented organisational change and technological challenges.
Annette Grathoff, Vienna, Austria
Annette’s quest for a universal and sound model for estimating what threatens as well as what perpetuates or even benefits life in general brought her to this work. In addition to her participation in the investigation into the Mereon Matrix, she is managing a literature review project considering knowledge about how stability develops and is lost in evolutionary processes. Her education is in Biology, Chemical Ecology, following traces in Chemistry and Physics. Information Theory as the Study of Information functions as theoretical superstructure.
Annette resides in Vienna, Austria.
Vasileios Basios, Brussels, Belgium
Vasileios Basios is a senior researcher in the Department of Physics of Complex Systems at the University of Brussels. His research focuses on self-organization, emergence and the foundations of complex systems. He was mentored by Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine at the renowned Solvay Institutes. Vasileios is a proponent of a transformative shift in science towards a post-materialistic paradigm.
The objective of this initiative is to promote introspection within the scientific community and to cultivate robust and adaptable networks, thereby facilitating the realization of this transformative vision. He serves as an adviser to the Galileo Commission and curates its working group, known as 'oREGano'. He is an ICRL researcher and trustee. He has previously served on the board of the Scientific and Medical Network, as well as its co-Chair and is a member of AAPs, "The Academy for the Advancement of Post-materialist Sciences".
Vasileios and his wife Martha live in Brussels.
Wolfhardt Janu, Vienna, Austria
As a scientist Wolfhardt Janu is a founding member of the oREGano research team, which focuses on research projects using paired Random Event generators (REG) coupled to several analysis techniques to investigate the process of dying, emotionally charged group events and bee hives. He is also affiliated to Wyrd research which focuses on research projects to investigate non local connectedness in a more broader sense.
Wolf is the inventor the paired REG method, which fully automatically searches for correlated patterns in 2 REG data streams. As a developer he works as CTO of Wyrd Technologies focused on firmware developing and proto-type building of devices based on the paired REG technology. Further he is core faculty member of the course “Science and Consciousness of the world” at Ubiquity university.
He holds a PhD in chemistry from the Viennese University of Technology (Austria) and worked for 10 years in academic research leading as responsible scientist several projects in analytical and biochemistry. Among others the first civil mobile LC-MS laboratory in Europe was built under his supervision.
He then moved as a freelancer to software and hardware development for customized laboratory solutions and is now employed as global LIMS (Laboratory Management System) administrator and project manager by an international chemical company. Beside that he set up his own private laboratory to investigate the relationship between matter and consciousness which is his (secret) main scientific interest for 25 years. Together with his colleagues and friends he developed a new method to scan the output of two random number event generators (REG’s) for correlations, which enables one to detect with high precision changes in a non-local field, mainly known as field of consciousness.
On his journey, he has been practising Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu for 19 years, came in touch with African Shamanism (Sangoma) and (co-)led several private scientific teams investigating the “paranormal” in theory and practise. In 2007 he came in touch with the work of Ken Wilber and since then he and his team(s) are using the AQUAL map as the main tool to navigate and communicate on the margins of the so-called “unknown”.
Wolfhardt and his wife Barbara have two children and live in Austria.
He was appointed also as scientific officer at the CNR Liaison Office in Brussels for the support to policy decisions. He has been involved in the JPI Oceans secretariat and coordinated two joint actions on ammunitions in the sea and on the scientific approach to the marine Good Environmental status. He has been vice-chair of the Research Working Party of the EU Competitiveness Council during the Italian Presidency of the European Union. He designed and coordinates an innovative training course for decision and negotiation processes (school4sid.cnr.it) and a foresight initiative for the development of a new generation of materials. Recently, he proposed an observing strategy and an experimental set-up for the acquisition and analysis of underwater acoustic signals and their role in the equilibrium of the ecosystems. See also https://pierfrancescomoretti.eu
Pier Francesco Moretti, Rome, Italy
Pier Francesco Moretti is a physicist with two PhDs, more than 90 international publications in helioseismology, material, marine and political sciences. His skills in research were mainly focused in spectroscopy, data analysis and innovative technologies. He has been involved in many international projects and Governmental Boards, working also in USA, Antarctica, Austria and Belgium. He has been responsible of the Office for the International Activities of the CNR Department of Earth and Environment.
Bradford Hansen Smith, Portland, Oregon
“It appears everything we know about pattern in mathematics, the sciences, the arts, in nature, are in the circle and can be revealed through a principled, ordered, and sequential process of folding, reconfiguring and joining multiple circles.
The circle appears to be the most direct, comprehensive, hands-on, experiential modeling tool we have and we do not know this because we only fold squares and draw pictures of circles.
To cut the circle is to destroy unity, limiting ourselves to the separation of fragmented construction. My intention is to simply demonstrate by revealing some of the enormous amount of in-formation inherent in the circle that we have no idea about.”
Ashton Hawkins, Venice, Italy
Aston is the youngest team member! A wizard-in-training on every imaginable computer and software programme, he’s heard and known about Mereon since birth! Now 14, he’s a whiz on Blender, one of the most confounding programs around. He has recently taken on a task to do something we’ve been unable to accomplish: animate the entire system.
Join us in celebrating his completing the first task, animating the Jitterbug! Next: putting the system together! Stay tuned!
John Stuart Reid, UK
In 2012 and 2013, UK-based acoustics researcher, John Stuart Reid worked with the principle investigators to explore frequencies related to the Matrix. His technological competence and contribution led to cymatic experimental evidence that is shown across this site. John was invited to a co-author a chapter in the Elsevier 2013 book, now an addendum in the World Scientific book, where readers find an introduction to the history of cymatics, and the CymaScope’s emergence as a scientific tool.
John and his wife Annaliese live in England’s beautiful Lake District.
Diahann has been directly and indirectly involved in this work since 2001, her original interest based on how the dynamic geometry Mereon Matrix related to ancient wisdom traditions. As the mother of two, Aston being one, Zara, the other her vision for the transformation of education, dynamically linking modern science and ancient wisdom, is met in the all the Belonging projects. In 2025, she is focusing on a task few others want or have the competence to do: unfolding specific numbers related to the Mereon Matrix, making connection to mathematics, geometry, and ancient wisdom.
Diahann, an American expat, lives with her husband Caius at Kinnersley Castle in Herefordshire, England with their children, Zara, who’s persuaded that living in a castle makes her a princess, and Aston who think and acts like a noble knight!
Diahann Hughes Hawkins, Venice, Italy
Bodil Larsen-Ledet, Denmark
In 2001, Bodil met Lynnclaire, and hearing the description of Mereon realised this was a universal perspective that resonated deep within her. Bodil completed a Master of Arts Philosophy and Culture & Communication, her focus natural science, particularly quantum physics and biology, and how the history of scientific development generated ideas that influenced global cultures What she found in Mereon was a logical and meaningful worldview that reflected everything she’d not found in other books or her university curriculum.
Bodil has taken on the task of identifying concepts obvious in the Mereon Matrix and aligning them with cross cultural traditions.
It came as no surprise to her that a decade later Mereon was published as a unifying template shown to connect what appear to so many as oppositional perspectives. In November 2020, Bodil joined the Mereon Legacy CIC board, an expression of her commitment to share the knowledge of BeLonging with the world, making it known that this logic of love shows us why and how everyone matters and everyone counts.
Bodil, lives with her husband Mikkel and their children Andreas and Lea in Southern Denmark, a historical area close to the German border.
Sameer Zavery, Marbella, Spain
Sameer is a multi-disciplined Design Director at Astralize Design & Animation, and is the director of branding and design for the Mereon Legacy and Mereon Solutions. His creative skills are in great demand by clients needing a comprehensive image makeover. His ability to move seamlessly between the screen, print and web, creates consistent and fully-immersive brand experiences.
With an international background and a passion for traveling, his design solutions have a global perspective that are in-tune with today’s worldwide trends. His innate understanding of spiritual principals and the metaphysical world helps him inspire others on his quest to design a better tomorrow and makes him an amazing member of this team. He lives on the Costa del Sol with his amazing wife Mariana, and their daughters Anya and Zaya.
He immediately began working in parallel with the team to help identify keywords for the sequential functions through an exploration of the Mereon Matrix. Nick was the driving force behind the team’s first peer-reviewed article, published in 'Foundations of Science' [Dennis et al. 2009].
This article outlined the fundamental processes underpinning Mereon’s functional logic and illustrated the way this process can be applied to diverse systems by identifying common process denominators that match those found in the system.
In 2011, Woolf presented his first version of the origin of life, “Living and non-living dissipative systems”, using the process described by the Mereon Matrix as a foundation for mapping the formation of life and a living system beginning with the Big Bang. Woolf has presented his perspective on this work to audiences at Carnegie Institute, NASA and the SETI Institute. Chapter 12 of The Mereon Matrix: Everything Connected through (K)nothing, “The Origin of Matter: Life, Learning and Survival” is a synopsis of his presentations.
Nick was emeritus at UA Tucson, where he resided with his wife, Pat.
In Memorium
Neville “Nick” Woolf, Tuscon, Arizona
Wednesday, 23 October 2024, our beloved Nick completed his amazing journey, living a remarkable life.
Nick joined the team in 2007 after he and Lynnclaire met at a NASA conference entitled, “The Future of Intelligence”.
H. Pierre Noyes, Stanford, California
December 10, 1923 - September 30, 2016Pierre, theoretic physicist at Stanford’s SLAC, was a dearest friend, Principle Investigator (from 2007-2017), and brilliant colleague. A social rebel and intellectual rabble-rouser, for years he was the first to sign up and show up for meetings, traveling the world to join in the dialogues, while admitting he came to put a stop to an investigation that was so different from his perspective even though it was so aligned with his personal values.
Time and again his beloved wife Mary entrusted him to our care, big promises made even though bantam secrets were kept, a little top off to his favorite glass of red wine, a tiny pat of butter, and maybe even a small desert, but never the salt! Grace was ours when Pierre’s opinion turned with the millennium, and in 2000 he concluded —and had the courage to announce— that Mereon was what he had long sought, and had also resolved a lifelong paradox, providing the link between the “No” and the “Yes” in his name.
Pierre taught us all with his love and wisdom, earning deep respect as he proved time and again that ‘wise old dogs’ can learn, unlearn and relearn. In all his transformation and his ultimate transition he was and remains one of Mereon’s most steadfast champions. His strong presence and Mary’s softness made an impression on all of our lives, a mark of love that endures.
Since the day we met in 1997, ‘E’ was directly involved in all things Mereon, and the light he brought to life for me and the team are immeasurable. An exquisite host, his capacity for receiving and returning love, his wry sense of humour, clear intellect, and deep wisdom was long a stabilising force. His spirit remains loved, appreciated and cherished by all.
Elmer served on the Board of the Mereon Legacy CIC from its inception. He was the founder and Chairman of the Board of Devansoy Inc., a company he built as a demonstration of his lifelong focus on health and value-added agriculture.
An ‘Apple’ aficionado, connoisseur of coffee, great wine and gourmet food, Elmer was a pilot who was as at home on the ground as he was in the air. But the grand love of his life was his soul mate, Anne. Together, they called Pagosa Springs, Colorado, home, their wisdom reflected in their taillights as they headed south to Sedona, Arizona for the winters.
Elmer “E” Joseph Schettler
February 1943 - November 2015
By Lynnclaire Dennis
On 15 November 2015, Elmer J. Schettler, my best-man and ‘guy friend, left this world. Since his transition to the Grand Unknown ‘Next’, while my heart overflows with richly textured memories, there is an empty space in my heart engraved with his name.
John Ceres Amson & son, Chris
John Ceres Amson, Anstruther, Scotland
14 April 1927 - 14 March 2023
Appointed a senior lectureship in mathematics at St Andrews in 1965, John was introduced to the Mereon Matrix in 1998. He was ‘hooked’ until his passing in 2023. John was a brilliant innovator and came up with adjustable sundials, differential gears for tidal clocks, and geological research for tidal range lagoons in Scotland.
His love for exploring mathematics made him a perfect fit to work and play with the Mereon team on its relationship to math and physics. The entire team looked forward to a week at the Old Manse in Anstruther every year, spending time with John and his beloved wife, Christine. Hours in the garden sipping wee drams of Lagavulin ‘98, and swimming in the Firth are as sorely missed as John was loved. LD