I’m a fairly active charter member of Connecticut’s Medical Marijuana Program, qualifying because I’m also one of the oldest HIV+ survivors in the U.S.
In fact, not a single cell within my entire organism would have been brought to you today without the miracles of chemistry.
So blame Big Pharma, you would not be the first but perhaps could become the last. You never know
We might recreate a cooperative bottom-line engaging an international profiting me corporation prepared to listen to prophetic angry people as if we might become wealthier prescribers for healthier climates and cultures, rather than mere consumers of contentious therapies.
Anyway, I’ve been sick off and on, mostly on, since the beginning of November so I’ve also been pretty much stoned.
Unfortunately, or fortunately, I’m not sure Probably both. I’m also may be the oldest HIV+ Taoist survivor and Taoists annoyingly need to pretend both sides of the mirror might have worthwhile reflective potential.
WuWei quasi-fortunately, rather than being too sick to get stoned, I’m too stoned to imagine I’m sick.
Despite being retired, and increasingly tired, I don’t have time to be sick anyway, in large part because my youngest of four kids is a girl with wicked Oppositional Defiant disorders; a label she defies
Not because she’s opposed to orderly labels, but because she thinks she is perfectly ordered when the rest of us losers get with her program.
She likes President Trump’s redness and orangeness and the whole MAGA culture because he looks and sounds familiar enough to eat
Like red meat grabby economic sinners and prehensile political leaders make the greatest bottom feeders.
For my young teenage daughter, defiance is not a disorder, it is a counter-cultural religion (practiced at Make America White Again rallies by evangelical nationalists) into which she was baptized by Fetal Alcohol full immersion at a first trimester young embryonic age.
From her I have learned there fortunately is no wimpy God, but we do have one hell of a fire-breathing feminist Goddess when we refuse to help her clean her nightmare she calls her imperial White House, but I call what’s left of her bedroom.
I tried to point out the inconsistency of supporting a President who refuses to help us clean our planet, or even avoid mutually terrorizing civility destruction, but this, apparently, is like the voice of a wimpy God who does not, and should not, keep on defying the Fire Goddess right might hand of your life doesn’t matter much.
This morning I was helping her get ready for school, combing out her spiky hair. She’s part dark porcupine. We were standing in front of a large wood-framed, beveled mirror that looks, perhaps only because I’m stoned, like something out of Snow White, associated with her StepMom, the witchy queen with Make Me Great Again oppositional defiant disorder.
My daughter appreciates Snow White, probably because she bossed around the seven dwarfs in their own domestically peaceful home, (a politically incorrect position we might best not even think of trying to get away with) and forced them to listen to her own crappy music preferences at a full amphitheater range of ear-splitting volume.
Be that as it too loudly may, I asked her if she ever talks to her mirror, asking, Who is the fairest of them all?
Yes.
And, does the mirror talk back?
Yes. It says, You need to fix them!
That’s strange. My mirror has been saying the same thing ever since the last oppositionally defiant election.
Herein, this evolutionary positive psychologist’s voice is not that of +1 ethos enlightening Source dominating +/-(0) eros empowering Resource
Positive neuropsychological progression does not support monotheistic ethos +1 overpowering +/-(0) panentheistic eros original dispassionate sin preservation
Dissociative anti-pantheistic eros bias leaning toward the anthro-ethos privileged side, while bodhisattva ecologicians balance +1 ethos = +/-(0) eros symbiotically equi-valent choice
In which neurosystemic organisms virtuously integrate our health-caring cobinary best to play Win/Win +1 CrownEthos MonoCulturing safe and belonging within +/-(0) RootEros PolyCulturing caste-abolishing co-redemption.
MisBehavior Management: The safest AnthroCrown enlightened survival strategy requires relearning to mind ethotic +1 mono-humanistic consciousness
AND
Compassionate Communication EcoTherapy: Our most resilient EarthRoot empowering thrival strategy regenerates embodied +/-(0) erotic pan/en-theistic felt awareness
Ethos requires a discipline that often sees a seizing mindless ritual to acquire integrative eros flow, at first climax feeling overwhelming joy rich with amusing nuanced truths, senses, expressions, analogies, integrity, vibrancy, androgyny, buoyancy, bliss, even peak crown-rooting loss of clear-cut ego boundaries.
Together, these CrownEthos with RootEros conversations, about ecologically healthy love, slow-grow uniting integrity
Deductive-vertical crown-mind enlightening root-body bi-lateral oppositional thoughts and Inductive-horizontal root-body empowering crown-mind to recognize, and appreciate, elder right bi-cameral appositional feelings
As each maturing person learns to fluidly refocus Here/Now universal compassion, we can, together, co-redeem bodhisattva resilient pleasure
And, as we all learn, through ecologically healthy relationships to fluidly focus and verbally communicate Crown/Root harmonic ethos/eros win/win wokeness, our Anthropocene challenges will turn EarthTribe’s flowing tide toward universally resonant compassion uniting integrally resilient peaceful pleasure within our shared interdependent Crown/Root climatic web of love-life healthy flow
CrownPassion v RootPleasure business as anthro-privileged usual continues severance of economically dispassionate ethos from politically dissociative eros
Nor will we know how to positively progress evolution toward greater polyculturing complexity unless our ethotic consciousness becomes more pleasure co-empathic
Nor will we polypathically feel how to therapeutically flow toward greater regenerative depolarization away from greater degenerative polarization without comprehensively engaging our crown/root co-energetic balance to become more integratively extended ethos strong Sages favoring eros flow Muses
Wu-wei dancing safe midway belonging love songs.
As monotheistic anthropocentric individuals we can less easily advocate a certain preference for complexity or accommodate discontinuous opportunities to help healthy and wealthy evolution along
As panentheistic interdependent neurosystemic organisms we can more fully occupy our regenerative cooperative AnthroCrown/EarthRoot transformative polypathy
Transforming primal cobinary relations in-between neurological compassionate minds within ecological embodied pleasure in universal love ethos and unitarian health eros
Note: Some positive psychology statements are drawn from Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, as is the title of this piece, pp 169-170, The Evolving Self: A Psychology for the Third Millennium, 1993. With deep ecological appreciation.
A caste preservationist favors separation of White from NonWhite races.
Racists come in two varieties, but both behaviorally support White privileged apartheid, if not in what we liberally say about capitalism’s free and irresponsible speech marketing way then in what we conservatively do
Too comfortable with neighbor-hooded apartheid school and patriarchal church historical monoculturing segregation practicing our habitual systemic trauma combative politics of xenophobic mistrust.
Racists favor separation of positive light v negative dark eumemic cultures to perpetuate economic and political partisan praxis of ChosenPeople irreligious superiority
An ongoing “upper-self” v “lower-othered” disempowering unenlightened “winner” v “loser” systemic trauma narrative.
There is no authentic empowerment side of love in this history of racist segregation because we are all apartheid losers when we prefer to fly apart
And stronger when we fly together more polyculturally inter-religious deep listening enriched
By our choices for inclusive community investment, when and where we seek divine empowerment of MotherNature’s cooperative multicultured purse? rather than monotheistic business as win v lose 0-sum northern light v southern dark anthro-privileged bipolar oppositionally defiant caste-preserving usual
Competing to defend birthright v birthwrong long separated standing in life’s lesser survivalist v greater thrivalist apartheid pecking order
A dull monoculturing defensive position within Win v Lose strategic oppositions, entirely inappropriate for organic Gaia’s WinAnthroWealth/WinEarthHealth polyculturing positive eumemic pronoia
Healthier and wealthier and wiser resonant opportunities together than dissonantly risky xenophobic paranoid behavior caste apart.
2025 Congregational Study Action Issue, Unitarian Universalist Association
When democratic gratitude performs with politically positive caste-transformative attitude
Then autocratic certitude and kleptocratic magnitude do not negatively deform with unenlightened and disempowering caste-preserving platitudes.
The U.S. inter-religious sector seeks caste-abolishing strategies through deep embodied listening and multicultural learning experiences. This inter-religious theological reflection intentionally includes, and gives deferential voice, to Earth’s dissociated constituents, acutely targeted, and chronically triggered, by caste-preserving harm.
These trauma-informed relationships have led many people of faith to believe our global religious associations must be transformed, not merely reformed, by dismantling systemic trauma endemic to an upper-caste dissociative “prison-industrial complex.” To this progressively resilient end, humanity actively hopes for a caste-abolishing, compassionately communicating, “more perfect union.”
Those wounded by “lesser-than” trauma histories challenge the inter-religious sector’s integrity. Sacred ecology invites democratizing intention to transform caste-preserving trauma with caste-abolishing compassionate communication strategies; words and ways to restore universal Earth Justice, and unitarian anthropocentric peace.
What is our theology of sin and redemption? Of repentance and repair?
The Gaia Hypothesis proposes that living organisms and their inorganic surroundings on Earth form a self-regulating, complex system that maintains conditions for life. (Wikipedia.org)
Original sin, like a crack bifurcating the Taoist symbol of sacred synergy, severs Gaia’s Original Yang/Yin symbiotic relationship, thereby dividing what composed Gaia’s therapeutic co-redeeming system. Wounded womb pain and loss, loneliness and dissociation, dissonance and chaos, present negative feelings of dispassion. So too, pleasure and gain, belonging and association, resonance and polycultural complexity present positive feelings. Together, these dark negatives and light positives potentially balance sacred Gaia-regulating ecological and neurological compassion, reconnection, revival, re-ligion, re-associative healing.
Throughout indigenous wisdom Origin Stories, original sin is iconically represented by disempowering risks of a traumatically severing crack, and enlightened opportunity in co-redemptive Prime CoBinary Relationship. Light and dark, full and empty, top and bottom, iconic in the Taoist bihemispheric black/white symbol. Both of these, survival risk and thrival opportunity, held paradoxically together within a cosmic GaiaMother’s nurturing, yet nutritionally wounded, egg-womb.
With dispassioned, unpleasant risks of losing healthy interdependence comes integrity’s reverse compassioned, pleasing potential. Symbiotic Gaia reweaves, restores, redeems cosmic cobinary balance, Yang/Yin synergy. This regenerative double-bind restores wellbeing to a fragmented bipolar, anthropological v ecological, crack. This primordial “crack” was pantheistically perceived through experiencing regenerative fertility, and degenerative futility.
These two, caste apart competition and caste together cooperation, present a multisensory co-arising trauma-cause v therapy-effect reiteratively unresolved communication cycle. Caste together as a dipolar prime relationship (e.g. Taoism’s YangMountain and YinValley), each re-associative worldview encompasses, but is not limited to, a felt awareness of risk aversion. Averting risky feelings anticipates opportunity conversion; exhaling dis-formation to inhale transformation. Caste-abolition strategies engage co-redemptive ideations.
PassionateMind/PleasureBody symbiotic transformative consciousness articulates nondualistic Buddha “I-I”, expanding outward to include nonviolent Sangha “We,” AnthroMind/EarthBody engages verbal-Crown/nonverbal-Root communing Dharma.
Definitions: Monotheism–the belief that there is only one God and humanity was created in His image Polytheism–belief in more than one god Pantheism–belief that “god” does not refer to a person, place, or thing; and does refer to all interdependent relationships within a self-regulating universe Panentheism–belief that “god” transcends a polyculturally regulated natural universe (e.g. Gaia) and also immanently includes interdependent relationships within this self-regulating universe Animism–belief that all regenerative life-systems are interdependently produced by a synergetic spiritual (metaphysical) intent that empowers physical interdependent relationships. Animism and Panentheism are commensurable belief systems. Humanism–belief that human nature, dignity, intelligence, and metaphysical ideals are sufficient for self-regulation, without recourse to theistic supernaturalism. This often includes the belief that “God” was created in an anthropocentric image.
2. How does centering love ask us to respond to a public theology that is based on punishment, revenge, violence, coercion, and dehumanization?
An anthropomorphic SunFather God, creator of Man, is made in His own, monotheistic, upper-caste Chosen People image. By cosmological comparison, a pantheistic EarthMother Gaia compassionately pleases SunFather’s universally cooperative enlightenment. Yang-God’s transcendent orthodoxy prevailing upon indigenous Yin-Gaia’s indigenous orthopraxis.
Reflecting on this question’s list of stressful, anxious, depressing trauma triggers, these fear- and/or anger-embodied strategies defend YangSelf v YinOther dispassion and non-communication. I feel anxious, neurologically ‘bad’ experiences that happen to at-risk Us v in-power Them,” multigenerational historic remembering. This multigenerational re-connecting engages strategies to avoid unhealthy, unloving, dissociative wants and dispassionate needs. Dispassionate intent, as evinced by anthropocentric history, contributes to perpetuating Winner-Us v Loser-Them systemic trauma. Transgenerational experiences of inward-neurosystemic and outward-ecosystemic trauma further disintegrate therapeutic hope for transformative love reconnections. Mindful commitment to pantheistically polyamorous association experiences transforms upper v lower, lighter v darker caste dissociative ideation. Sacred EarthTribe communion experiences restore polyculturally healthy communication and organically felt belonging.
Picture the Taoist Yang/Yin circle, with Yang on your right, caste in enlightening White, and Yin caste on your left, in empowering Black. Notice that Yang is crown-upper dominant and Yin is root-lower prominent.
A bi-polarized win v lose, monotheistic caste-preserving, Yang-Crown orthodox chakra oppositionally competes against a dipolar win/win, panentheistic caste-abolishing Yin-Root orthopraxis chakra. In reverse turn, our pantheistic awareness of safe MotherGaia belonging is appositionally unopposed to a cobinary symbiotic relationship with FatherSun, as two-dimensionally pictured above.
Robust compassion unconditionally extends warm panentheistic feelings of organically belonging together. Organic root-bodies with sacred crown-minds co-redemptively respond to caste-preserving displeasure/dispassion trauma. This systemic trauma includes past neurosystemically felt unsafe and unwoke “lesser-than” harm, scapegoating. Sacred Us v Sinner Them political views derive from irreligious dissociation, paranoia, conspiracy theories, rabidity, fear-anger-freeze dissonant miscommunications. From a monotheistically universal view, Anthropocene caste preservation is necessarily anti-polytheistic, anti-polycultural belonging, anti-healthy multicultural democracy, anti-holistic wellbeing. Light CrownPassion v Dark RootPleasure repeats a binary caste-segregating original dissociative sin.
3. How do we live our covenant declaration that “every person is inherently worthy and has the right to flourish with dignity, love, and compassion?”
David Bohm, in On Dialogue, concerned with “We” (Sangha) practices observes, “the world is in the dire state it is because of too much self-centered, fractured, fragmented thinking, and a new way of thinking [communicating?], driven by dialogue, where we suspend assumptions and judgments, participate honestly and transparently, and stay connected, would open the door to more authentic, real, creative thinking [regenerative living?] capable of dealing with the world crisis.” (Wilbur, The Religion of Tomorrow, p. 617)
Natural law and natural order values expressed by authentically religious (reconnecting) declarations universally agree that every individual sentient organism flourishes in loving and compassionate relationships. The reverse corollary, no individual sentient organism can optimally flourish in unloving and dispassionate absence of healthy interdependent relationships.
Our most ancient indigenous wisdom, including universal-yangMind and unitarian-yinBody Taoism, supports this religiously held experience, that each individual sentient organism (person, being), lives spiritual-mind/natural-body values when we communicate, verbally and nonverbally, on the side of loving, compassionately listening, co-empathic interrelationships. All individual sentient beings and species voice and act unnatural and dispassionate disvalues when we dis-communicate on the “upper” caste-preserving side, triggering fear, anger, chronic stress, heightened anxiety, neurosystemic and ecosystemic bipolarizing rabidity.
By systemic theological extension, monotheistic HumanNature concepts are antithetical to polyamorous DivineSpirit “worthy” cognitive voices. By contrast, pantheistically inclusive, intuitive Me/We body choices (cobinary root-pleasure) reconcile cooperatively interdependent “woke-hope” persons.
Stepping into a panentheistic sacred ecology worldview, we might ask how we can heal “upper” mind-caste v “lower” body-caste competitive dissociation, personally and politically. This felt need for integrity invokes indigenous desire to effectively and profusely reconnect RootBody v CrownMind Original Sin perennial issues. Upper v lower, winner v loser, caste-segregation. Neuro-sensory reproductive organisms normatively experience a universal need for belonging, a unitarian want to feel health safety.
We might imagine, and continuously re-imagine, a more expansively resonant, thriving caste-abolishing covenant. We might remember our constitutional commitment to a more inclusively democratic crown/root re-association. We could regenerate YangPassion/YinPleasure, enlightening and empowering win/win inter-religious strategies. These are pantheistic nonviolent communications reviving, thriving, flourishing, dignifying an internal health-climate of love, and an environmental wealth-culture of compassionate belonging.
4. What does Universalism–the notion that we are all saved by being reconciled with a love greater than our sins–mean in the 21st century? How do we live this part of our faith heritage?
“For the first time in history, virtually all of our truly serious and wicked problems are global in nature. Even fifty years ago, if a nation were facing seerious problems, it could take actions itself to ameliorate them. Today, most serious problems are such that actions taken by any single nation are largely worthless–almost all nationa have to participate: the problem is global, the solution must be global.” (Wilbur, The Religion of Tomorrow, p. 622)
Universal Salvation is historically, and more specifically, UU associated with the crown-jewel notion that we are all saved through reconciliation with a MONOTHEISTIC love greater than our sins. Monotheism and anthropocentrism are two faces of the “man is made in God’s image,” so it logically follows that GodTalk images a divinely inspired “upper-caste” man. This transcendent salvation position is in hierarchical contrast to all othered, “lower-caste” dissociated, organic beings. In this emergent 21st century of the Great Turning Anthropocene, original Chosen People sin more clearly stands us apart from our Whole GaiaEarth panentheistic roots, in Unitarian Co-Redemption.
To paraphrase Albert Einstein: “We cannot solve our [upper-caste preservation] problems with the same thinking we used when we created [lower-caste dissociation] problems.”
Polytheistic WE integrity transforms our universal monotheistic trauma history by abolishing dissociative upper-monotheistic Us v lower-polytheistic Them. Monocultural climate trauma awakens restorative win/win polycultural opportunities. Just as natural body pleasures multigenerationally inform spiritual mind passions, so too pantheistic root chakra’s intuitive feelings preverbally inform crown chakra’s monotheistic cognitions. Unitarian felt Roots feed universal Crown dialogue; nondualistic, nonviolent, verbal/nonverbal therapeutic communication strategies.
Within UU polytheistic intention, this might feel like giving more weight to our Unitarian notion that we are bodhisattva healed through appropriately sharing peak associative-felt experiences, both public and personal, both sacred and organic, both impassioned and pleasing, both enlightened and empowering. In this unprecedented critical Anthropocene climate event, we are urgently and integrally called to primordial compassionate caste-transforming communication, and not anthropocentric “caste-preserving” dispassionate dis-communication.
5. What does it mean to proclaim a theology that no one–no matter what they have done or been accused of doing–is disposable? [without adverse neurological and ecological consequences]
If malevolent roses were blue passioned red
And malicious violets were red pleasing blue
Then contentious autocracy would have a whole lot less malgovernance to do.
Peter Morales’s essay “Religious Hospitality” (UUA of Congregations, 2006) offers a theological perspective that we are challenged to practice radically inclusive hospitality. From a bodhisattva perspective, the welfare of all sentient beings is immanent and interdependent. No one can achieve the fullness of compassion, pleasure, resilient peace, until this is the explicit therapeutic intent of everyone. The Christian gospels ask, if we only actively love those we do not perceive as our adversaries, without intent to practice radically democratic hospitality, then how are religious people fully engaging Gaia’s panentheistic potential for caste-abolishing integrity, and beauty, grace, peace–all the fruits of our Holy Nature/Spirit.
Morales describes hospitality as a spiritual discipline, verbally and nonverbally communicated with, and not against, others. Hospitality expresses spiritual health within those who feel empowered and perceive compassionately enlightened practice in host and guest (not parasite) co-empathic intelligence.
“If I feel angry, hurt, unloved, or alienated I cannot offer a[n unconditional] warm welcome. Conversely, if I am at peace, filled with joy at being alive, aware of those around me with compassion in my heart, then hospitality flows naturally and inevitably from the depths of my being.”
The challenge of resiliently and unconditionally loving those who may react against us as if we were disposable, as if our lives matter less than their own, as if irreligious, dissociative behavior and attitudes were reasonable and healthy, too often perpetuates systemic Us v Them, Winner v Loser, Upper v Lower trauma.
Compassionate communications, unlike dispassionate dis-communications, strengthen win/win caste-abolishing messages to and from interdependent persons, associations, states and nations, and species. Reaching out with co-redemptive intention “frees us from individualism and narcissism,” and evangelical nationalism, monoculturally anthropocentric capitalism, and the caste-preserving exceptionalism of our rabidly polarizing Anthropocene.
6. How do we teach children about Unitarian Universalist theological claims and work with them to embody them?
From a Taoist–UU theological perspective, we all most deeply learn, especially preverbal infants and toddlers, from embodied experience. More mature spiritual/sexual bodies, also more expansively learn from compassionately communicating with other trusted and trusting sentient beings about their own upper v lower caste dissonance, and lower/upper resonant experiences, including peak multisensory crown/root-tpanentheistic pleasures in synergetic climax experiences.
Taoist metaphysics, an indigenous wisdom tradition, is nondualistic. Paradoxical “midway” wisdom sonnets advocate Yin/Yang Win/Win co-arising dipolarity, which stands in cooperative contrast to Yang v Yin, Win-Upper v Lose-Lower co-reactive bipolar dissonance.
If panentheistic (spirit-transcendent/nature-immanent) wisdom distinguishes between sexual eros feelings and sensitive ethos thoughts, this may be an artifact of translating neurosensory nonverbal experiences into verbalizable constructs. In Origin Narratives, sexually safe and gender belonging feelings normatively integrate love-passion/health-pleasure at the sacrum-sacral core of root-chakra integrity. This win/win interdependent web of neuro-sexual spiritual life, is in remarkable nondualistic contrast to a monotheistic-anthropocentric dissociative mortal-body v immortal-mind. The Original Sin of YangCrown v YinRoot, like flawed human-nature v perfect divine-spirit, defends and preserves “lower” v “upper” caste carnality v sanctity.
In monotheistic prehistoric traditions, children were on the out-caste side of “lesser,” with women, especially unfertile women, un-sacred but sexualized capital-producing slave property, “disabled” neurodiverse people, “wild” animals, weeds, vermin, unfertile soil. Survivalist evolutionary theory forecasts a “higher”-caste hierarchy ruling-over those who are “lower”-caste. A thrivalist transformative Tao reweaves a beneficent (graced, blessed, virtuous) panentheistic ruling-with polyamorous neuro/ecotherapeutic culture.
Universal monotheism positively correlates with anthropocentric caste-privileged, stable, unchanging GodThesis orthodoxy. This transcendent messianic God is made in man’s exceptionally privileged image, and vice-versa. Prosperous patriarchy is virtuously made in God’s omnisciently pervasive, caste-conserving, entitled autocratic ruler, retributively jealous judge images.
Unitarian polytheism positively correlates with Gaia Hypothesis caste-abolishing, polyamorously fluid ecotherapeutic orthopraxis. This immanent bodhisattva Goddess gives natural/spiritual birth, and rebirth, to all organically neuro-sexsensory, sacredly synergetic, inter-religious crown/root-chakra, caste-liberating, healthy democratic, restorative healing Earth Tribes.
Compassionate communication, verbally resonant and nonverbally resilient, about cobinary nature spirituality grows polytheistically and polyculturally confluent. Passion sensitive and pleasure sensory communication integrates essential teaching and learning. Embodied spiritual connection engages humanity’s authentically religious EarthCentered unitarian life force. While talking about complex ethotic/erotic neurosensory experience, in a safe-and-belonging trust environment, is useful for sharing and expanding individual cobinary comprehension, we know from too much irreligiously dissociative experience, that talking the pleasure talk, without also walking the whole, holy, and holistic ecotherapeutic compassion walk, will not resiliently transform our upper v lower caste issues, personally or politically, locally or globally.
Those who have substantial chronic trauma histories living in the over-caste monotheistic shadow of disregard for cobinary depolarizing passion/pleasure win/win cooperative power analysis may benefit from group explorations of Yang transcendent and Yin-immanent lists.
First, explore how these concepts are often dissociated as polarizing, caste-preserving win v lose universal oppositions.
Second, discuss how these same concepts might also form a double-binding list of caste-abolishing win/win unitarian appositions.
Yang Animus Form
Yin Anima Flow
SunFather
EarthMother
1-man
0-woman
Mountain
Valley
Crown
Root
Sage-cognitive perception
Muse-intuitive reception
Heaven
Earth
Transcendent Messiah
Immanent Bodhisattva
Patriarchal enlightenment
Matriarchal empowerment
Left Hemisphere—verbal thought
Right Hemisphere—nonverbal feeling
Discontinuous articulation
Continuous integration
Monotheistic/Monoculture
Polytheistic/Polyculture
Anthropocentric
EarthCentric
Bipolar competition
Dipolar cooperation
Caste dissociation-vertical
Caste association-horizontal
Sacred-spiritual orthodoxy
Organic-natural orthopraxis
Mind Passion
Body Pleasure
God MonoThesis
Gaia HypoThesis
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I was in Nazareth the other day waiting for a visit with my ecotherapist.
The waiting room is minimalist-zen, I suppose. While waiting to be invited inside, rather than waiting to be disinvited outside, I took a chair with a table in front displaying two magazines, one to my left and one to my right.
The one on my religious left was about the Democrats’ ProLife Policy, advertising titles like Earth’s CoOperative PolyCulturalism, Climate Health Economic Opportunities LongTerm Public Health and Personal Safety Becoming Caste-Abolishing Organic Communities.
The magazine on my right was what appeared to be an irreligiously wrong Republican ProApartheid Position, as iconically represented by MonoPolizing Wealth as Trump-Ace cards, with titles like Aborting Future Life Preserving Stinky Air, Filthy Water, BurnedOut Soil Production Denying UnInsurable Public Health Risks Canceling Healthy Democracy.
I chose the Health Development magazine on my left because I thought it would be more consistently redundantly multiculturally ecologically regeneratively positively pro-life, while Aborting Future Life seemed more likely to just be another long advertisement for negative degenerative anti-ecological anti-Earth Sciences anti-HealthyWealthy Creation Stories of Paradise Still Becoming
Rather like a No! magazine, cancelling Earth’s future polyculturing pronoia health to conserve a monoculturally plutocratic impoverished life I suppose was being advocated in the magazine on my Right.
Anyway, I will never truly know. Just as I picked up the ProLife Left choice my ecotherapist invited me in for our appointment, during which s/he told me I should feel better for the next four years knowing I did the best I could to defend against further pathologies, and to just continue choosing Positive Health Values of ProLife MultiCulturing ReGenerators
Which are not negative disvalues of unhealthy MonoCulturing DeGenerators, pain-in-the-neck and considerably lower, condemning future potential generations to abort as an interdependent organic EarthLife species in denial of untimely death by anti-ecological Upper Caste v Lower Caste anthropocentric game players against caring for trauma-informed health resources of future babies and cubs and puppies and kittens and joeys
All the little ones that to Him/Her belong cooperative healthcare compassionate reassurance.
When you’re on top already, proclaiming King of the US Mountain
When you hope and have faith and love that you are among God’s caste-up elite in stark contrast to those sinners you would remain forever separated from, then your separatist position is also a defense-against-change position to maintain or increase your upper-caste supremacy.
Only if you were a klan of black feminist lesbians and transgender benders, and dark-skinned magnificently chiseled queers, who don’t want anything to do with you either, can you offer an authentic mission statement favoring increased separation without also taking a position of wanting to sustain and potentially strengthen lower-caste absence of supremacist over-lording intent.
Assuming you are still evangelical protesting white males under those closeted Chosen People MAGA masks, I believe you are mistaken in believing you only advocate continuing current “natural” and “spiritual” separation between light-caste v dark-caste races while falsely claiming you are not also committed to preserving your upper-caste “divinely appointed” economic and political privileges
And, conservatively speaking from your monotheistic StraightWhiteGod worldview, reversing past traumatic changes against what any polytheist pantheist indigenously wise panentheist and/or animist exercising constitutional religious rights to freedom’s compassionate speech
Recognizing and celebrating man- and woman-fest PolyCultural Creator destiny inevitably progressing toward multicultural integrity, sacred mind-full democratic compassion, and organically embodied non-violent communication pleasures
Not MAGA accessible without decreasing your upper-caste hubris with the help of TrumPublican niceties like making disenfranchised political and disempowering economic apartheid great again.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, Chosen People privilege is antithetically against Jesus’s Prince of Peace intentionally born in a lower-caste manger Good News.
On the other hand, perhaps if you could recruit more broadly, diversify your Make America MonoTheistic Again Klandestine assets to include black feminist lesbians, and invite what you need to learn from transgender benders, and welcome divinely-endowed queers to receive more economic and political grace than our historically traumatic unfair share of this healthy democracy’s goods
Then polycultural wealth could help your public image in the racist-homophobic-misogynistic supremacist trauma-informed not-very-Christian BadNews Great Again MAGA cognitive dissonance unenlightened dissociative pathology department
Anticipating a world class Joyful PeaceMaking Christmas.
“Bestow a blessing on a person you’ve considered to be beneath you or alien to you.”
Donald, may your future communications engage deeper ecological listening and more widely embrace democratically cooperative economicl learning
“Who and what will you pray for as you’re making love?”
What: For this to never end Who: For whom we are erotically becoming together in this eternal moment’s flow of agapic Earth’s pronoia becoming.
“May you get what you want and still want it”
May you gain integrity you feel you need and also gain what you authentically want for all of us.
BiLateral ConVexing Systemic Formations.
“Give examples to illustrate the differences between dumb, trivial pleasure and smart, life-exalting pleasure.”
Passive perception of performance-oriented entertainments v Actively cooperative play and win/win co-engaging exchanges. Less autocratic solo performances; more democratic group sing alongs.
“Arguments with God is the only organization on the planet that specializes in the art of debating with the Creator. Our trained Prayer Warriors are standing by, ready to deliver the protests and complaints that you want to convey…. Write your first draft here.”
Hey! Straight White Patriarchal God! Why not come out of your transgenderal organisms of all Earth colors Matriarchal Goddess Closet?
“A dissident wing of the Beauty and Truth Lab (the “Uproaries”) defines happiness as ‘the state of mind that results from cultivating interesting, useful problems.’ See if you can make that definition work for you.”
AT EROTIC ROOT RISK: PolyVagal power of Win/Win CoPleasing Communication REDEFINE AGAPIC CROWN OPPORTUNITY: PolyTheistic light of NotWin and NotLose compassionate caste-abolishing sacred communion
“Do something that you will remember with pride and passion until the end of your days. Report your results here.”
Successfully defending, even cooperatively singing and dancing while cooperatively writing our political theosophy, entitled Our PolyVagal Designers’ Opera, erotically written in agapic inter-religious libretto.
“Tell about the moment you finally realized who exactly you are– or imagine the time you’ll do so in the future.”
In this eternal moment I am transubstantiating this transgenderal manifestation polyvagally win/win polyculturing neuro/ecological regenesis; so my budda-sattvaness is also our indigenous eco-sattva, now in a bit of an anthro-partisan mess.
“‘Each person is a story that the Soul of the World wants to tell to itself,’ says Michael Meade. What does the Soul of the World want to say through you?”
We are our multiculturally ecological developing world, cooperating at and into our best Golden Rule outcome performances within a Polyculture Designing Opera of collective pro-recreation indigenous stories, where panentheistic deeper is also monotheistic richer and more erotic/agapic ecological crown/root win/win mind/body yummy.
HealthCare evolution is about WinAnthro/WinEarthTribe revolution; not a caste-preserving sacred crown v organic root theory of sacred thrival and revival through organic denial and repression of desecrating devolution.
Throughout 2016 I have been reading Rob Brezsny’s Pronoia Is The Antidote For Paranoia now ending before I reach 2017.
This postmillennial bible of multiculturalism ends with several questions or statements with space to write in my responses.
I am about half through these end pages. Here is a condensed version of this conversation, to date:
“Imagine that you get three wishes on one condition: They can’t benefit you directly; they have to be wished on behalf of someone else. What would they be?”
Peace and justice throughout sacred Earth’s more cooperative organic Tribes.
And economic and political goodwill for ecofeminists, matriarchs of Earth’s extending families.
And all Gaia’s (0)riginally Sinless win/win newborns.
“Comment on this thought: Imagination is more important than knowledge and play is more interesting than belief.”
And imagination is not accessible without memory and play feels more accessible with trust than distrust.
And role-play is better for deep learning cooperative v competing beliefs about how to become a more peacefully communicating multiculturally-adept adult.
“Pronoia is a gnostic art. Everyone is potentially a visionary capable of revealing more of its mysteries Write your oracles and definitions of pronoia here.”
Pronoia co-passioning designs rather than paranoid conspiracies of autocratic anthropocentrism engage indigenous wisdom of restorative justice and resilient peace.
“‘When I grow up,’ wrote Ramona McNabb, ‘I want to be a river.’ What impossible magnificence would YOU like to be when you grow up?”
A two-headed tornado bilaterally communicating mirror reverse-revolving co-powering funnels ingesting Earth’s complexity exhaling anthropocentric chaos through appositionally equi-valent dipolar tails feeding on and off each other’s co-impassioned bicameral synergy.
“Tell what techniques you’ve discovered about feeding honey to crocodiles.”
Waste of sacred time and organic space. Like feeding pearls to swine who would much prefer to eat me.
“What would you have to do in order to keep getting smarter and smarter?”
Invite my egocentric, and anthro-centric, hubris to become humbler and humbler, until entirely co-passioned to keep becoming trauma-informed polyamorous integrity and feeling polyvagal painless peace.
“What’s the single most important question you’d like to resolve before you die many years hence?”
Why didn’t Me v We paranoia die sooner so Me+We could pronoia thrive sooner?
“‘Bodhisattva’ is a term used by Buddhists to describe a saint who has developed spiritual equanimity and a consistent ability to act with wisdom and kindness but who nevertheless postpones his [sic] ascension into nirvana in order to help free all other beings from their suffering. In Beauty and Truth Lab parlance, a ‘dissident bodhisattva’ believes that existing political and cultural institutions must be overthrown and replaced in order to liberate all beings from their suffering and achieve spiritual equanimity. Write a story in which you are a dissident bodhisattva.”
Better to resonantly love this deeply resilient co-passionate communication of truly felt compassion and beautifully peaceful pleasures. Bring non-violent communication to Whole EarthSystem incarnation.
Although, before pronoia imagining our healthiest and richest and deepest bodhisattva incarnation, I suppose it’s always good to prepare our most co-intelligent PolyCulturing ReGenerative Design.
So, perhaps positively deviant co-messiahs of cooperative economic and political bodhisattva (0)-zone polypaths might passionately begin with writing down how I would like to feel 0/1-prime cobinary indigenously wise nondualistic dipolar relationship over the next 12 AnthroMind/EarthBody Passion/Pleasure years
I could anticipate having sufficiently (0)-woke left before I 1-Whole EarthBody right retire, when I will hope to learn why I didn’t retire now, before I co-passionately sing and coitally dance while rewriting ecotherapeutic EarthTribe’s BodhiSattva ReCreation Story.
“You are Ruler Of The World. What three decrees will you immediately issue to begin the mass healing?”
All public and private investments, both impassioned time and pleasing money, currently supporting competitive WinnerCasteWe v LoserCasteThey preservation of monoculturing monopolistic monotheistic grandeur and corrupting wealth, rather than multicultural health and polycultural wealth, are now democratically, yet not officiously, reinvested in cooperative WinWin ecopolitically viral and virtuous EarthTribe Climate HealthCare Games, and other forms of nutritionally recreative deep learning inter-religious passion play, ecopolitically green transformative partying.
All Patriotic and Paternalistically dominant anthrocultures are now officially, yet not autrocratically, also Matriotic and Maternalistically prominent Earth as SacredMother Golden Rule nurturing meritocracy.
All males and females, heteros and homos, upper and lower castes, conservators and liberators are now virtuously positive, and not viciously negative, on the EarthTribal full-transgenderal Octave Spectrum of multiculturing polyamorous panentheistic indigenously wise polypaths toward deeply exotic/erotic prime peak experienced wealthy neuro/ecological cobinary prime 1 SunGod MonoThesis = 0 EarthGaia HypoThesis compassionately communing upper/lower recaste transformational relationship.
Images of God as active dynamic process have evolved through theological circles, and marched through anthro-centric upper-caste political squares,
But, integrally engaging upper-caste monotheistic and lower-caste pantheistic polypathic transforming unity re-membering faithful pasts and re-ligioning hopeful futures extends a regeneratively democratizing healthy wealth-management Process
Newer to other evolving SystemicProcess models, Including psychological, economic, political and environmental sciences, and other paradigms of and for Earth’s more humane health v inhumane pathology values and disvalues against academic and theoretical and conjectural dissociative discommunication devolving further entropic chaotic dissonance, where our Ps and Qs no longer appositionally balance our not timed not spaced PolyMathic UnProcessed Questions.
Newer to natural and social systemic trauma sciences, as compared to Original Sin theology, evolves this ReGenerative/Degenerative Process God of compassionate enlightenment and pleasure in peace empowerment through our more humanely uprising and divinely devising yang+yin, not yang v yin, revolutionary transformations.
At least in our primal eco- and geo-systemic ways, Organic/Sacred Unitive Process may be ancient as retold through nature-spirit nondual Origin Stories not quite so indigenously ancient as recombinant acid strings of redeveloping fractal-organic time investments in future healthy bright-light/dark-power caste appositions and past/now/future hypostatic positive faith/hope rebalancing divinely progressive regenerations.
It is to this profoundly radical God of nondual systemic Sacred-AnthroMind/Organic-EarthBody co-binary Process, of and for bilaterally democratic revolving health/wealthy co-balancing wu-wei Process
That I can Left verbally pray and Right nonverbally worship within nature’s ecologically sacred awe, wonder, Promise
Bliss of 1 AlphaSun divine humane (0) Mega Earth polyculturing viral vital integrity, democratic health recaste from 1 v 0 competitive to 1+0 cooperative Process
LeftYang spiritual speaking and RightYintegral natural listening appositionally co-arising NotLight/NotDark uni-temporal Now in-between NotPast/NotFuture unitarian spatial Here peak pregnant climaxing compassionate communication.
Let us sacred passion pray and organic pleasure play:
Parents, Investors in vibrantly nutritional outcomes, Politically empowered public policy leaders, All residents of Left-Enlightened AnthroMinds and bicameral Right-Empowered EarthBodies
Please do not ever invite me to Process right now political situations with shame and condemning blame about what I should have valued and reprioritized more upper wealthy caste back before this here/now opportunity not too late for learning from lower casting health risks
To open this active hope remaining Process to do my best to help nurture freedom’s right now sacred Associative opportunities with lowest anti-organic Dissociative risks.
It is not of our divinely valued Wisdom to become my shaming/blaming judge, or your retributive judge, except democratically restoring what we judge best to Process together non-violently communicating PersonallyHere/ExperiencingNow
Mind crowned and Body rooted in past light and dark experiences longing and belonging dissociated and associated dissonant and resonant dispassioned and compassioned displeasured and co-pleasured
Imagining how we would yet love to belong therapeutically upcaste instead of stuck in systemic trauma downcaste longing to be other than we are becoming Now, which is together Here
Letting go of dissociative violent Left thoughts to grab up re-associative nonviolent Right feelings
Health Processed value intentions to redeem our severed parts on behalf of compassion opportunities more polyvagally regenerating our wealthier polyculturing futures.
Cobinary neuro-mind/eco-body systems are those who ecologically thrive through polypathic neurological synergy by ecotherapeutically purging anthropocentric LeftBrain dissociative upper-caste monotheistic dispassionate displeasure.
May we no longer dispassionately continue to settle for Anger-Fear disvalue Process management, and kinda’ self-condemning bad-faith trauma systems leading to chronically anxious and rabidly critical paranoia
When bilateral upper-crown/lower-root caste sacred/organic AnthroMind/EarthBody cobinary co-passion invites co-empathic pronoia
If you have a favorite Messiah Story, one that makes your sweetest Ego swell, and stay that way, then you also have a favorite political narrative about how you would prefer your wealthiest power development to optimize our healthiest ecological abundance.
For example, for Christians, is the Messianic re-creation story merely redemptive grace coming down and inbound?
Or also bodhisattva co-redemptive, where grace, like money, flows more abundantly when everybody has more than enough gift-it-forward compassion to also gift outwardly, abound around town?
So, which still ReGenerating Story you powerfully embody to co-invest , inhaling and exhaling, extends or shrinks your primally significant economic choice
Wholesome Sacred Earth’s outside health or whole-sum Organic HomoSapient inside wealth or co-invested co-redemptive both?
Still empowering Messianic salvation raining down grace like light radiates regenerating power love irradiates interdependent life systems
Authentically interreligious Messiahs are not known for Win v Lose divide and separate demonically dark cultic powers of ego investment in overpowering Othered outcaste-preserving players
Instead more challenging love your sad gift-hoarding enemies too wisely knowing no one wins salvation until every sapient species co-invests in-down caste/out-up caste transformational co-redemption of sacred EarthMother’s ecologically committed polyculturing WholeEarth Peace
Climate paradise perfected for MessiahPassion/BodhisattvaPleasure spiritual/natural co-investors.
How was original organic EarthTribe life created? to ecologically love abundant WinAnthro/WinEarth political reform
Speaking only from my own Ego experiences cooperatively engaging as much outside and outbound regenerative freedom from degenerative inside and downcast gift-hoarding as Anthropocene possible
For all sentient crownMessiah/rootBodhisattva species of co-intelligent cobinary polyvagal design living co-passion here loving co-pleasing now life-love’s universal trust, unitarian grace
Peace-full belonging feels like neurosystemic Messiahs past still flowing through Bodhisattva future co-redeeming ecosystems
In and out ego/eco-logical up-caste and down-caste AnthroCrowning and EarthRooting SunFather and GaiaMother primal co-relationship of transforming grace recaste to further future co-redeemers
Inter-religiously messianic saviors liberally graced and conservatively gifted by sentient polyculturing bodhisattvas
Pantheistic GaiaMother inside empowered listening long before monotheistic GodFather outside enlightened speaking
Like every healthy newborn wealth reborn peace restoring messiah.
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