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Civilizing Savages

I stumbled over Paul Tillich’s reflection
on the Messiah’s other Great Commission.

The Great Commission we learned in Sunday School
was to go out and convert the barbarians
and savages to Christianity.

Yet this other Great Commission feels like a necessary prerequisite,
like requiring Statistics 1
before wandering on into the further abstractions
of long-term probabilities
and improbabilities
that savages could become barbarians
and barbarians become pagans
and pagans become animated civilians
of pantheistic inter-religious wildness,
as recovered by anthropocentric
monotheistic Statistics 2.

Tillich’s version of St Matthew (5:48) reads
“You must be all-inclusive as your heavenly Father is all-inclusive.”

Jesus has been exegeting perfect love
as favorably contrasted against not-so-perfect love,
and Their conclusion summarizes with
YHWH is Earth’s perfection of all-inclusive love

So this is also our humane divining destiny,
this profound all-inclusiveness,
which would seem to necessarily include
nature worshipping wildness
and MightMakesRight barbarians
within us all.

But, what I wonder,
from my flawed redemptive perspective,
is how could becoming all-inclusive perfection of love
progress anything less than taught by God the enlightening Father
and engaged by Gaia the co-empowering Mother?

These two faces
co-arising nondual all-inclusive love
of hunters and gatherers,
the competitive Patriarchal
and the cooperative Matriarchal
barbarians

Universal-Yang/unitarian-Yin
win/win
bicamerally civilizing Left cognitive minds
inside Right intuitive wilderness bodies.

To perceive oneself as one of the holy civilized
rather than barbaric unwashed
seems to deny indigenous adaptation,
pantheistic adoption,
co-opting cooperative co-passion
extracting from what was polyculturally peaceful
all-inclusively before anthropocentric civilization.

To comprehend myself as civilizing
speaks first to maturing all-inclusive love,
including all the YangNature and YinSpirit
of my wilderness heritage

Embracing my own TerribleTwos savagery,
remembering adolescent hormonal waves
of public supremacy v private intimacy.

To this day,
I must eat when I am hunger,
drink when I am thirst,
sleep when I feel tired
of all disintegrating opportunities.

This healthy development of all-inclusive love
includes the first clue
how to share good co-redeeming news
to be found within every organic tradition,
every rhythmed transition
of which we are each a necessary muse,
but never emotionally sufficient
apart,
in our savage through civil maturation,
co-passionately extending acclimation.

Holistic spirited, growing pantheistically inclusive,
holonic co-redemption excludes prejudicial partiality

A process
in which every interdependent sequence
(stage, frame, network, co-acclimating set)
and inter-relational sample
re-presents the organic whole
of all-inclusive sacred holiness.

A synergetic progress
toward 100% domesticated Yang non-zero probability
that any dynamic state (stage, frame, paradigm) will recur
AND
zero-sum improbabiity
that any co-acclimating organic state
will recur empty of Yintegrity.

Perfectly all-inclusive bilateral passion
like YHWH’s win/win
Gaia Hypothesis

Holy co-acclimation,
from RightElder brain stem savage
Either LeftYang wealth
or RightYin health

Out-caste or in-caste
dissociative identity disformation,
through barbaric LeftBrain verbal monotheistic dominance
versus Elder RightBrain nonverbal pantheistic prominence
of adolescent coming of bicamerally intelligent age

Open to belonging
in longing
for more redemptive cooperations,
all-inclusive polyamorous acclimations

Organically responsive animists
long before
reactive irreligious monotheists

Maturing toward more all-inclusive Left/Right
co-arising Sage/Muse nonduality
of profoundly integral Win/Win love,
within as without,
ego-ethotic as eco-erotic.

Reuniting wilderness-loving civilians
with universally divine inspirations,
organically indigenous acclimations
becoming even healthier democratic news
about both private and public co-passion trends
and co-investment probabilities.

From this view,
it seems curious that culture influencers,
like Popes,
would look back through vast histories of spirited experience
and recover only platonic memories
of God’s priestly invisible hand
and mind
within peak experience Sage passioned heads
but not Muse pleasured bodies

Especially within our long co-acclimating history
of mother-wombs nurturing perfect all-inclusive love,
maturing indigenous infants into savage two year olds

Then letting maturation go
through barbarically wild
hormone-drenched adolescence
pregnantly predicating co-redemptive adulthood
of all-inclusive genders
and polyamorous gender preferences.

What could be more priestly stewardship,
and yet also prophetic promise,
than redeeming blood-baptism’s wilderness birth?

Nurturing healthy animistic support
through all our holy all-inclusive
neurodiverse stages
within WinLeft-WinRight

Bicamerally co-arising
barbarically savage peak experiences
extending all-inclusive love,
transforming the Bodhisattva’s non-othering
Great Inclusive Commission.

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