The Investigation

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 making this new knowledge known in ways where benefits transcend profits, ensuring that what benefits one benefits everyone.

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Principal Investigators 

lynnclaire dennis 

Lynnclaire has been walking the bleeding edge for three decades, working with a remarkable international team to identify the Pattern that connects natural and social sciences. As the co-founder and visionary of The Mereon Legacy CIC, a nonprofit Community Interest Company based in the UK, she's a lifelong learner who knows that living authentically requires learning, unlearning, and relearning. She considers Time her most valuable resource and invests every minute in the ongoing exploration of the dynamic universal system known as the Mereon Matrix. Her focus has been using this universal method as a natural approach to growing intrapersonal and interpersonal relationships. She is the primary facilitator for DiscoveringWholeness.life, Peace by Piece, an experience where lifelong learners find the HOW that lets them connect their 'why' and 'what', and actually do it.

Lynnclaire knows that living on Purpose is seldom easy and has designed a project for teachers and young learners that lets them intentionally grow with the Flow. If a 3-year-old can intentionally change, so can you. Learn how at https://belonging.life

No matter how deep the chaos, Lynnclaire continues to invest in the belief that everything can change when even a small group of individuals chooses to harness courage and be the positive change they want to see in the world. She suggests that it begins with surrendering the notions of 'The Truth' and the idea of 'speaking truth to power'. When one identifies their core values, opens their heart, and reconsiders their perspectives, attitudes shift, and they put their hands to work and speak what is true for them with power.

Lynnclaire's life is an investment in helping others empower and heal themselves. The first step is turning on their inner light, extinguishing the darkness born of ignorance and ignoring. This dynamic universal template reveals why and how diversity is essential to unity, and it is precisely what's needed to resolve personal, local, and global challenges. It's Time to do so.

Lynnclaire and her little menagerie—a Yorkshire Terrier named Sibi and a feline named Pisa—are at home on the glorious western slopes of the Sierra Tejeda in Andalucia, Spain.

Louis H. Kauffman 

Lou is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Illinois at Chicago and joined this work in 1994. He 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”, and 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.

Lou plays a mean clarinet in "The Chicken Fat Klezmer Orchestra" in Chicago where he lives with his wife Diane.

Robert W. Gray 

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 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 

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.

Peter A.McNair 

Peter is co-Founder and Director of Administration for 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.

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.

Ashton Hawkins

Aston is our newest and youngest team member! A wizard-in-training on every imaginable computer and software programme, he’s heard and known about Mereon since birth!

Now 13, he’s a whiz on Blender, one of the most confounding programmes 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!

Board Members

Diahann Hughes Hawkins

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.

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! 

Bodil Larsen Ledet

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. It came as no surprise to her that a decade later Mereon was published as a unifying template that connected 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, her husband Mikkel and their children Andreas and Lea live in Southern Denmark, a historical area close to the German border.

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.

Designer & Dreamer 

Sameer Zavery 

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 todays worldwide trends.

Sameer's 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.

In Memorium

Neville “Nick” Woolf

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'“ 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.

H. Pierre Noyes     

December 10, 1923 - September 30, 2016

Pierre, 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 lovely wife Mary entrusted him to our care, big promises made even though bantam secrets were kept, a little top off to his favourite 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.

Elmer 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 that is engraved with his name. Since the day we met in 1997, ‘E’ was directly involved in multiple aspects of my life and 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.  Elmer, your spirit remains loved, appreciated and cherished by all.

Elmer served on the Board of the Mereon Legacy CIC from its inception, and 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. 

 John Ceres Amson

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.