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CoRefining Healthy Conversations

Life as active love evolves toward more polycultural communication,
across both species and time,
within Earth’s Solar EcoSystemic Universe.

While this conversation includes human natured communicators,
we suboptimize our ecological balance
if endo-human discourse monopolizes our lifetime learning dialogue.

A life devoid of communicating with Earth’s diverse languages and dialects,
rhythms and patterns of development and decay,
consumption and root systemic production,
cannot optimally support sustained mental and physical health
of humane mindbodies.

Over-investing in our internal human natural and racing anthro-centric communicating systems
may have both caused and resulted in our atrophied RightBrain “yin” enculturation potential,
perhaps more richly rooted in temporal-neural norms
of RNA nature-therapeutic cousins,
bilateral
reverse-hierarchical nutrient fold-flow root-systemic
Elder Tree and Plant Forms with Organically Sustainable DiPolar Balance Function.

When we give thanks and praise
we already often remember to include our namastes and Amens!
for these our more inclusive nutritional conversations,
for Earth’s cooperative economic evolutionary transactions,
for our Open Solar EcoSystem’s sustainable climate Creation Stories,
for interdependent Great Transitions,
for crises CoArising courage to turn down our LeftBrain AnthroAlpha-language enculturation,
to tune back into our wider dialectic capacities
within Earth’s diurnal and perennial,
polycultural dialects,
as read thru (0)-EgoEco Balance
as Yang/Yin Prime Octave Temporal Frequency Harmonic Balance,
as Left/RightBrain BiCameral EcoPolitical Balance of EcoLogical Elders,
speaking DNA fractal-development fold-function open frequencies,
within octave primal 4D equivalent PolyNomial SpaceTime,
Prime-BiLateral CoOperative DiPolar CoArising NonDual ReLovingship
of Earth’s dualdark compost voices
singing Sun’s solar-elational polycultural octave frequencies
thru HumaneEarth’s evolving ecologic-dialectic
fractal-syntaxed,
reiteratively autonomic temporal-neural communication network,
WinWin self enlightenment,
self-perpetuating eco-polypathic.

Perhaps the difference between Positive Psychology mental health
and Earth-perpetuating regenerative evolution
is nothing,
Zeroism self-tautologically dipolar appositional-soul humane-structural defined,
as more cooperative political and economic dialogue networks,
now co-evolving,
Corising CoOperative WinWin Networks
following digital syntax-fractal rhythms
of reverse-nested octave-byte flow patterns
of healthy nutrient-social-political, and, soon,
even more cooperative WinWin economic digital languages
of PolyCultural ReGenesis REVolutions
as resolutions of multi-paradigmatic (0)-autonomic temporal/neural associated dissonance,
appositional dipolar with primal Tao-natured confluence.

Now, if you, like me, have yet to finish your first and last cup of decaffeined
quasi-guilty pleasure,

Allah knows that even ants consider this stuff, taken straight,
without any chaser,
toxic,
what kind of conversation with Earth’s Day am I starting
with this cup of decaf, skimmed milk and refined honey?
Tasty, but probably not self-optimizing mindbody behavior,
stirring up some dissonant caffeine grounds
for further dissonant lack of fluent conversations
if only due to my unceasing need to pee.

anyway, I’m back,
I think,
therefore we are,
this is a lot to take in through our eyes and ears
about our tastes and feels and smells
as Earth’s endosymbiotically evolving conversation
about how to Great Transition
from LeftBrain cultured imbalance,
back to those brief Golden Elixir Moments
in blissful primal EgoMemory,
of knowing love with Earth
as peaceful light and root communication
thru some primally nutritional health system,
possibly dualdark or “notnot” or dipolar yin-rooted
in Earth’s TransParent BlackHole BiLateral CoArising Future-as-Past Memory,
YinYin = WinWin Balancing Universal DiPolar DiaStatic Yang CoOperative ReGenerativity,
0)RiginalMega Point
of Time’s FlowYang with EbbYin-Fractal-Squared
Prime (0) PolyNomial CoArising Function.

For me,
it seems more ego-therapeutic,
and hopefully ecotherapeutic,
to listen to the stars,
the crickets, birds, frogs,
rivers, surf, wind, fire, rain
about this climatic dis-ecological pain we share
than to read the morning paper.

Sometimes I hear more about what my humane Ego truly craves
to see and feel and smell and taste
by listening to music
singing love
sometimes also speaking of love
as food for mutual enrichment,
life’s dialectic open gestalt,
co-evolution,
rather than listening to Presidential non-dialogues,
non-discernment,
competing rather than Both-And cooperative conversating,
rapacious word-weapons
rather than rhapsodies with harmonic,
even operatic,
CoArising Original Design Intent.

And, should mental health
Both-And Positive Psychology
have anything at all to do with steering clear of
LoseLose hierarchical-monoculture-exclusive power structures
of mutual competition,
the each EgoPlayer
must reiteratively choose to speak either Win or Lose
and is prohibited by Ego’s LeftBrain bicamerally self-blinding investments
to BusinessAsUsual repress,
become sad,
suffer from LeftBrain dissonant enculturation loss,
chronic stress unlikely to notice slower Win to CoWin BothAnd options,
regenerationg revolving Eco-RNA/DNA-Centric Solidarity,
political with eco-normic and logically rational LeftRight bicameral balance,
love as synergetic life
in RealTime co-incarnating healthy conversations
on co-vegetating EarthBound matters.

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Bending Nature’s Temporal Bow

The way of Heaven, and health,
for that matter,
Is it not like the bending of a bow?
The top comes down and the bottom-end goes up.
The extra is shorted, the insufficient is expanded.
(Laotse, “Bending the Bow,” pp. 305-6, 1942, Modern Library, Lin Yutang, ed.)

The way of economic paradise,
is it not like the bending of a therapeutic bow?
The top comes down as the poverty-end goes up.
The fattest are shortened,
as the insufficient expand.
It is the way of Beloved Community
to take away from those upstream, with too much,
by mutually investing with those without enough downstream.

Not so with human nature’s way:
We take away freedom and power from those without BusinessAsUsual value
And give them as tribute to those with too much.
Who can have enough and to spare to coredeem the entire world?
Only Wisdom.
Therefore the Sage acts and transacts,
but does not possess or dispossess,
Accomplishes but lays claim to no credit or deficit,
Because he has no wish to seem economically or ecologically superior to 0-soul value.
(Adapted from ibid)

Bending this permacultural bow of bilateral boundariesin time,
between host and client,
the bender and the bowed,
rich and poor,
stimulus and co-response,
self with eco-other,
YangYes as NotNotNo YinYin,
Left in sacred solidarity with Right,
full summer’s incubating copassionate heat
with deep winter’s decomposing cold compost,
until all four Seasons equivalently fulfill,
diastolically complete health management
and co-arising equitable investment,
trough naturally and mutually integrative functions.

When seen together,
through Left’s “both-and” ecological
as Right’s “not-not” logical dipolar landscapes,
through life’s therapeutic/pathological seasons
preferring well-fired water and airy subterranean soil,
C through F closed-fractal
as A through Guanine/Adenine RNA-regeneratively open pregnant octaves,
through annual win-win economic balancing life-health games
reflecting perennial win-lose ecological cycles
of (0)-sum slow revolutionary harmonic cosmic balance,
we can each and all shoot comprehensive conscious arrows
into fertile post-millennial enculturation,
drenched in eco-Earth’s self-Ego love.

Living,
bow-hunting each moment as my Tipping Point last
and our more polyculturally inclusive bilateral last octave step
toward ego death’s eco-ionic winterish rebirth.

This more fully organic mind-culture we are hunting
and farming and foresting,
a rich composting Holding SpaceTime
of (0)-centric positive polynomial values
appositively balancing,
tipping,
exchanging,
transporting negative not-not non-named,
ignored, neglected, dispossessed and undervalued Disvalues
of Anger and Fear of Time’s Great CoArising Departure,
lurking behind our Fractal-Crystal-TransParent Commons
for recycling cognitive dissonance,
slowly pulling into enlightening days and Transitioning ReGeneration
to explore harmonies of scale and pitch,
and developmental learning stages,
proportional polyculturing designs and cooperative guilds
to optimize Positive Systemic Teleology
by diminishing eisegetical “unconscious” dissonance
from our global cooperative orthopraxis–
jump-starting universal co-empathy.

Dynamic perennial understory,
regeneratively reseeding germination of Healthy SpaceTime’s
Zero-Sum eco-logical Four Seasons of growth and decay cycles;
too often confused with stagnant ego-serving Orthodoxy
degenerating Earth’s gasping Business-As-Usual breath.

Time optimizes sustainable Ego-Yang’s diastolic inhalation
through our Self-Subsidizing Eco-Yin-with-Yin cooperative exhalation.
Yin exhaling is Yang inhaling.
We find only 0-centric difference of identity.

Investing in Ego-reducing praxis for ContinuousQualityImprovement,
Bucky’s least dissonant way to improve failing systems
is to optimize their environmental ecosystems,
their ecological balance and holistic harmonious potential flow streams,
especially their root-systemic perennial enculturation environments
to grow more effective year-round economic health nutrients,
collateral correlational evidence for Positive Teleological Value,
and less cognitive dissonant Ways and Means toward profligate hope,
Truth and Consequences for regenerating inclusive faith,
in The Good Life and Death of synergetic coredeemer love,
a graceful co-messianic incarnation
of post-millennial Tao ReGenesis.

Balancing dia-praxis,
including comprehensive eco-consciousness dialogue,
grows from primally rooted regenerative fractal systemic health-practice.
Positive practice intent is not even possible to grow therapeutically
without a Positive Teleological Assumption,
too often attenuated as merely enthymematic empathic-wish fullness.

People harboring insanity, depression, opposition,
sociopathology,
high stressed over-populated anxiety,
are less well-oriented to Positive Teleological Orthopraxis
due to a lack of sufficient health-equity practice
unveiling contenting implications within contentious dissonance,
therapeutic relationships of mutual basic co-empathic attendance
and cooperatively active mentorship.

The way of Beloved Climax Community
and Communication,
is it not like the bending of a Full Four Season
permacultural bow facing bilateral namaste
for life as death reborn?

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Who Are You?

In the Work That Reconnects,
we have a dialogue exercise
in which Person A asks Person B
“Who are you?”
several times over a few minutes,
as it feels right to reprime this exploratory pump;
then person B does the same for person A.

The person hosting, facilitating, enabling
this reiterative question’s redundant possibilities
is merely an echo-present listener,
noticing diversity within these multiple responses,
without judging good, bad, ugly, or even indifferent,
quietly hearing rhythms of longing for love
between the crippling cracks of anger and fear,
compelling and compiling self with other hatred,
pathology.

The question,
Do all these diverse self-descriptions truly fit
this same love v. anger-fear polyculturing-multisystemic elephant?
does not usually arise.
Rather,
we accept all these scrabbling voices
and hats
and feelings
and ideas
and beliefs
co-occurring within one bilateral
positive-health v. negative-pathology mindbody ecosystem,
seeking diastatic fullness
richness,
poly-empathic
polymorphic communication,
design, development, investment,
and cooperative-integrative implementation outcomes,
at the end of this elephant’s rhetorical day,
if not sooner.

Why is this not always the case
when we ask our friends and families,
our public sector leaders
and financial sector investors,
“Who do you hope we are becoming?”

What loves are we preparing to invest in
and which past angers and future fears to divest of?

What indicators can I give
that I already invest in cooperatively regenerate health
agendas,
platforms,
designs and intentions,
co-mentoring therapeutic diapraxis
of which I preach so positively to others?

I know you support restoring regenerative health to our soil
and preserving clean water,
as I do.
So does it bother you,
as it does me,
that we still contaminate our water with poo and pee
instead of investing in nutrition-starved soil,
where both could be positive resources
countering past neglect and abuse,
rather than doubly-negative pathology?

We say we support cooperatively vibrant and healthy local economies
and empowering political vitality,
so does it bother you,
as it does me,
to so often hear “either-or” deductive reductivism
and wonder why not first cooperatively consider “both-and?”

I appreciate what you just said
and I wonder if adding X might make your idea
even better.
Do you agree,
or maybe you see concerns for yourself and others
new to me,
of which we might learn together?

Could a cooperative election or social change campaign
begin with compiling interdependent hopes and wishes
and loves of Who Are You?
thereby more smoothly avoiding stuckness-traps
of fear and anger and dissonant pathological outcomes.

Could investing both-and cooperative communication norms
better lead toward co-investing in healthy wealth,
politically strong-embraced policies,
procedural and dialogical transparency,
polyculturally inclusive design and development and discernment
of poli-eco-logical therapy
v. multi-morphic pathology;
co-arise local through global health outcome networks,
diastatic eco-normativity,
embracing each and every sacred Person A and B response
to Who are we?

 

For an interesting response, please also see, “Who I Am”, written by my son, Spencer Cole Dillenbeck

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Competing Voices

When two or more Yang Dominants
are in the same room,
noticing each other,
it may be time to leave that room.

We have issues curtailing our co-arising competition
to reveal who can win
our CoElational Presence Game.

All Yang-voices inside
and outside
clamoring for Ego as EcoRights
optimizing Elational Identity Light,
a smile of Namaste recognition,
we know each other from inside now,
but usually not from outside-past.

Then we go back to our CoElational Win-Lose political
and economic game of life,
but this despite that I-Thou moment,
or sustained cooperative co-arising relationship.

Even so,
more and more of us are slowing our competition
for Ego’s well-intended
but perhaps not always full-health and therapy-willed
hunger for love,
synergy,
integrity;

slow enough toward MidWay Tipping Point (0)-embrace
Other’s loving eco-lights and brights
and hugs and smiles,
knowing them for our own,
together.

Winning together
Yang/Yin Bicamerally balancing
Internal Ego Landscape
a bit too competitively dominant over
External EcoNormic Landscape,
YinYin’s full CoRelational ElationFlow
DoubleBinding Balance
Right as Yin,
Left as Yang,
breathing in Yang’s languaged yammering Universe
to breathe out YinYin’s in-out-ductive Prime CoElational Time
in TaoHarmonic two-faced fractal-octave +/(-,-)
WinWin co-reiterative Byte-frequencies
rooting reverse-hierarchical Tree of Live v. eviL
as Win v. LoseLose
as +1/(-,-)0 Bicameral InFormating CoElation Universe.

When Yang and Yin EcoDominants share a room, ecopolitical heaven.

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Plan A: Cosmological ReGeneration

Evolutionary theories have encultured this Post-Industrial Information Age with species as natural systems of self-regenerative intelligence. This is a level of informational organization, transition, change, multi-regenerational genetics that spans the gap between Buckminster Fuller’s Universal (synergetic) Intelligence, with a cosmological open-systemic frame, and Julian Jaynes’s ethological explanation of a phylogenic development of nondual Left+Right bicamerally dynamic health and harmony, an interior landscaped view of normative information-processing balance. Human nature reflects on self+other nondual co-arising entities, as natural dipolar systems within a cosmological-ecological normative order.

Fuller describes Universal Intelligence as Plan A for an ecological cooperative healthy and well-designed fractally syntaxed (RNA/DNA) Zero-Core Vectoral Physical Universe with an embryonic Vortex concave Metaphysical interior Universe. These two faces of one core double-bound and bilaterally evolving system have appeared in other natural and social science teleological theories of health v. decay and wealth v. purgative death. Research on split brain hemispheres supports a bifurcation of Left brain dominance associated with deductive, Win-Lose labeling assumptions deriving language, differentiating subjects from their interdependently relational objectives; while Right brain is Elder brain, performing more proportional and relational functions of inclusive discernment, without language as labels, although able to access language as functional correlatives, analogy, relationship of This+That, Here+Now. Confluently joining Left-brain’s exterior/convex formative explanation to Right-brain’s interior/concave metaphysical memory, rooted in DNA/RNA temporal-fractally organized codex, is our Interior Landscapes Plan A ecological health-wealth cooperative project. Our collective ReGenesis Project is also a ReExodus co-dependent co-arising of comprehensive consciousness; Fuller’s Universal Intelligence.

David Bohm appears to weigh-in quantum physics as the dia-uni-bi-versive fractal function of linguistic syntax. Plan A’s Implicate Order predicates, predicts, emerges, both internally and externally co-arising Explicating Order. Universe emerges and breathes in, expands explicately, which is implicately expressed, re-membered, nondually encoded, through dipolar apposition, internally submerging and breathing out, prime-relationally balanced across both faces of co-arising consciousness, sequentially synced through equivalent fractal-revolving syntax. Fuller imagined this fractal dynamic as reflecting, reiterating, regenerating a RNA in-formational-energetic revolving template.

Fuller’s interest in “viral” regenerative ethology within nature is often missed as an ecological corollary to his general Synergetics theory of mind, consciousness; his Metaphysical Universe. It did not help his own cultural regenerative potential to have missed Buddhist philosophy. Fuller observes that RNA/DNA’s fractal structure reiterates nondual co-arising intelligent “steerage”; essentially the evolution of a revolutionary genetic moment in time. RNA fuels the intelligence of every living cell.  In this sense, RNA is our Universal Intelligence ProGenitor, optimally co-functioning with double-elliptical dipolar balancing dynamics, like early iconic relationships of “Heavens” and “Earth,” and Yang with Yin, but also, from an ecto-symbiotic perspective, as if standing outside the universe’s, and Earth’s, embryonic function, consistently languaged and encultured as appositional dipolar contrasts, such as up and down, in and out, back and forth, left to right dominant clockwise revolution of time, WesternYang culture to EasternYin culture, western deductive-dominant language evolving from west/east balancing syntax roots, males emerging from female wombs, like cytosine emerging from uracil. Nondual co-arising intelligence, as mentored by ProGenitor RNA, appears to be as ubiquitous as the commodification of time.

Julian Jaynes’ evolutionary theory for the emergence of Left-brain dominant deductive labeling and language development is remarkably confluent with Fuller’s RNA as Plan A Universal Intelligence. The core prime self-optimizing function of Left to Right to Left reiterative dialogue and discernment produces communication strings of nondual co-arising memory and continuity of identity, self v. other consciousness. This capacity to distinguish between self-consciousness, or ego-consciousness, and other-awareness, or eco-consciousness, is, according to Jaynes’ Bicameral thesis, the ethological meaning, purpose, function for the emergence of Left-brain neural form in nondual Human Nature co-arising Bicameral Sapients.

Freud and Jung and Erikson, other psychological dynamic analysts, originally labeled these two prime consciousness functions as “ego” and “superego,” with the id being some form of survivalist RNA throwback, a leftover for whatever could not be explained by the two major parties.  Piaget developed a neural evolutionary theory of human brain/cognitive function development, which has phylogenic parallels  with Erikson’s social-psychological theory of human nature’s healthy maturation, as a symbiotic part of  RNA/DNA-regenerative nature. Putting all that together, perhaps it does not stretch Erikson’s developmental view of human culture to suggest that the U.S. is in the throes of a late-adolescent depression about joining a healthier polycultural world of balanced maturity, heading, should we not kill ourselves first, toward a global culture of wisdom.

We may more easily let go of Left-brain dominance to comprehend-embrace universal polypathic Left-Right balanced consciousness of Ego listening, and gratefully responsive to, SuperEco’s exegetical wisdom about spacetime and the unfolding of time’s natural systems. Jaynes might agree with this reworking of his bicameral evolutionary thesis, and further suggest that we are in the last cultural stages of letting go of false wealth, which has resulted in the under-valuing of health and well-being, and false anthro-centric religiosity, to embrace a deeper balanced confluent ecology of global eco-consciousness.

Why would Plan A evolve a Plan B that would grow dominant through the tools of deductive, reductive anthro-centric labeling and languaging? Perhaps  our First Permacultural Principle is that of RNA’s Thermodynamic Balance through nondual co-arising octave-frequency harmonics. Plan A’s regenerative encryption is to search for synergetic opportunities for co-arising Plan B/A = P/NP binomial = +1/(-)0 binary = +c/(-)c Commons Optimized Natural Enlightenment.

Earth’s Right-brain Plan A coded systemic frequencies evolved cultural-herstorical reinforced regenerate functions. Meanwhile, Left-brain Ego dominance reiteratively reflects, communicates, using confluent Left-Right spiral/fractal “mirror” nondual syntax, comprehending Right brain’s reverse-temporal (NP) consciousness inductive response to Left-brain’s “self” v. “other” experience as “my” nature v. EcoPolyenculturedHealthPower/Flow/Function; just as uracil/thymine when balanced with cytosine, produces universally confluent adenine dipolarly pulsating with synergetic/unitarian guanine.

Polypathic genius is polycultural Plan A intelligence. They co-arise into human consciousness and culture. Plan A sometimes feels alien to anthro-centric normative values and economics. Eco-logic regenerates natural systems through a wider teleological lens, anthro-centrically targeting our highest and best, most sustainable, use, health, well-being, but not within a stand-alone silo, a Win-Lose economic assumption of scarcity and competition with, dispossession of, our natural elders and RNA cousins. Plan B follows a Win-Win economic cooperative trail back to co-arise with Plan A’s regenerative bicameral balance. Our species, like all natural species, is (0) soul-rooted, id-entified, to repair Earth’s skin, nutrient flow of breath and water and peaceful dreams within the double-boundaries of Nature’s Originating Co-Arising Passion Story. EcoUs synergetically cooperate most effectively by hosting locally-scaled endosymbiotic health/wealth challenges that remain within Win-Win ectosymbiotic tolerance double-binding limits, excluding futures with the hubris of distinguishing inclusive health from anthro-wealth, as this imbalance repeatedly demonstrates long-term high risk of catastrophic failure.

Our cosmologically shared cooperative vocation appears to realign, individually and collectively, as a Plan A sapiently conscious species, by dynamically balancing healthy ego-centrism with (0)-sum ecojustice, regenerating, gifting each other, optimally sustainable Beloved Communities. Permaculturists define “Beloved Community” as healthy co-arising climax communion within an ecosystem. Buddhists and Taoists, and all sorts of other traditions throughout the ages, have called this nondualistic meditation and ecotherapeutic praxis.

Plan A: mentor co-arising meditation.

Plan B: Listen to Plan A.

Plan C: Repeat, as needed, toward our co-regenerative full-spectrum revolution.

 

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Dia-Language as Orthopraxis

What are some differences between casual conversation and more discernment-intended dialogue?

Dialogue may be rooted in diapraxis, in turn regeneratively learned through the primal orthopraxis of verbal patterns and rhythms, forms with functions and “right”-pitched frequencies.

Discussion and discernment seem difficult through merely written language symbols, iconic logos, because these words and their patterns emerged from our more richly “meme” composted praxis, practice, incarnation, being and becoming, both our Right and Left hemispheres are diapraxis progenitive.

Spatial and temporal delivered “story-telling” information contextualizes both the purpose of language as objective-nomial symbol-content but also emerges, evolves our shared context of intuited choice intention as verbal, verbed, active, action-becoming communication and information for us within this specific rhetorical context. Word choice, pitch frequencies, rhythm, pattern and flow, alliterative intention, metaphors of action and verb choice each contribute allegorical, analogical Information to our emergent positivist dynamic of language-stringing within this moment’s eco-logic; eco-logos lying both positively intended and enthymematically within dialogue’s continuing invitational potential.

Orthopraxis, as a regenerative replacement for facilitated discernment, derives from “orthopsychiatry,” prophylactic psychiatry concerned especially with incipient mental and behavioral disorders (Webster’s Collegiate). Diapraxis is an emergent culture of communication and information-gathering skill-sets with roots in multisystemic and integral therapy, skilled Dynamic Facilitators able to reflect and summarize ecological language patterns, Positive Deviance therapists, EcoMinisters and EcoTherapists.

Orthopraxis is an ecological and permacultural frame for fusing Right-hemispheric intuitive temporal orthodoxy with Left-hemispheric deductive, reflective, and octavely-patterned sensory  intent and practice. Diapraxis reiteratively and redundantly informs through what we do and do not do, in dialogue with what we say and do not say; a primal fractal frame for collectively imaging our emergent orthopraxis.

This communication and information-systemic transition from focused dialogue, expanding toward focused and disciplined diapraxis may culturally synergize with older, more religious philosophical paradigms and memes like “compassionate mindfulness” and “love.”

Buckminster Fuller understood and intended the dynamics and geometrics of “love” as analogically and ecologically equivalent to double-bound appositional flow of time-mutual awareness; synergy is dia-ergetic, mutually positively grateful and gravitational. Fuller’s synergy may be to Basic Positive Attendance as his comprehension is to compassionate mindfulness.

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EcoTherapy Farmhouse

I find my home

a rural agrarian kinda place

warmly displays across my eyes

and face,

peopled incarnation of shared dreams

from permacultural paradise.

 

All her places and spaces feel good,

smell perfectly like we

are meant to come together.

Home reveals her spousal face,

mutually active nurturing place

to grow secure plans

and plays,

designs and positive dialogues,

liturgies and reality off-screenplays

with peaceful justice love themes

scored for lyrical fractals

and (0)-sum cooperative economies,

well networked nest of compassionate intent

weaving mind-filling informational practice.

 

Our farm evolves herself as loving incubator

planting springs and strings and roots of hope

for regenerative farmers growing selves

with others solidarity,

composting mutual subsidiarity

to synergize love’s Earth Intelligence

for sustaining life

in permacultured bliss.

 

Summer’s weeds strain when pulled and plucked

to analyze which might mulch our flowering produce

of positive healthy affect, effect,

absorbing rich yeast nutrients

through open system skin and minds

bent toward cooperative confluence,

shunning cognitive dissonance,

both Yang’s triumphal passion

for Yin’s shy dexterity

and lightning speed of intuition

swimming swirls of morning fog

hugging Earth’s low slow places,

morning kiss warms sky and still-reclining Earth

goodbye til dusk falls once again

enclosing our permaculturing bed.

 

Ecologic falls like rain

saturating nature’s grounds for time-flow planning.

Harvest positive deviant seeds

through bicameral information systems

prehending nature’s dynamic revolutions

from inside polar balanced,

from outside revolving rooted trees,

both emerging up and down

embracing Earth’s core gravitas

our thermodynamically balanced compost

for incubating permacultured farmers

and other synergetic polycultural ingredients,

for creating this time and place

where spacetime spins in balance.

 

My permacultured farmhouse becomes me.

We either ride together

or walk separately,

remembering why we can’t go home again,

religioning how we might come home

where every farmhouse

evolves with ecotherapy.

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Our Not-So-Noisy Nest

We don’t sound right.

Too left-brained I hope

better balance might cool our home

relationships

lives

words

as richly dense Eternal Moment compost

feeds diversely rooted populations.

 

Lake’s surface ripples with

leaf blowers whining

jets roaring overhead

cars exhaustively streaming by

like cheerless tears of toxic bubbles.

 

Beneath

before

this vaporous high pitched system

still lives mountainous resonant joy.

Birds still tweet,

not just people,

rivers trickle and spray white noise

ocean surf still ebbs and flows

within our circulating systems.

 

Our hearts and lungs and minds

remember catholic lotus root systems

recall bisonic natural sync between

nature made commodious spirit lakes

reflecting

revealing

flowering

EarthTribe discovered Orthodox Tao mountain tops

natural tree-lined valleys in

regenerative systemed (0) core Prime Relationship

of left-brained Yang remembering

Yin’s true value as

polynomial is non-polynomial reversed

is binomially balanced

compassionately deep lake reflecting mindful mountain

dynamically harmonious dance of

peaceful twinkling

rippling

lapping

laughing thermonormative warm and slow relationship.

 

Communication,

positive discernment,

our bicameral vocation’s peaceful yeasty nest racing

embracing

evolving

revolving

rhythming

beating

breathing

thinking

choosing

soaring through humanity.

 

But, quietly, please?

Some of us are trying not to sleep.

 

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Following Revolutionary Dialogue

Back in the day, a “follower” was someone who had faith in the leadership of another person; a leader trusted, in part, due to their adherence to some faith in a solution to dissonance. Mystics and prophets, politicians and mobsters, tycoons and polymathic geniuses, teachers and ministers had a “following.” Since the internet, this Transitional Generation and their allied elders would add to this list: bloggers and on-line journalists.

I have been following the NCDD discernment strings pertaining to the desire for a global political revolution and the more technical desire to facilitate large-scale grassroots  discussions about what we do and what we do not want as a global human species. In several of the senses of being a “follower,” I have also been following Joanna Macy’s peaceful revolutionary strategy as it unfolds internationally.  While I do not have any authority to interpret, or speak for, someone I greatly respect, and would not want to exceed my place as a follower, rather than a mentor, I think the connection between Joanna Macy and the NCDD listserve is that both urgently desire an internationally sustainable Earth ecological economic design system.

That gold-standard “design system” must be resonant and a well-patterned, balanced, theorem. More than a conjecture about what might inspire this peaceful revolution. A conjecture says “isn’t this an interesting pattern, a dynamic analogy?”; while a theorem adds “we have a positive teleological function for that form-pattern.” Conjectures are not yet polynomial memes. Theorems are polynomial, and binomial, patterns.

Faith in “ecological economics” fits more comfortably into Macy’s (0)-Centric Zen Theorem than into the NCDD discussion and culture. However, probably every NCDD member recognizes that the term “faith community” has an internal redundancy just as the term “faithless community” sounds oxymoronic. There is no community, no dialogue, no communication, no ecologic, no probability of cooperative economic intent where there is no faith that we are all in this mess together, whatever it may be, and that the primordial rules of discernment are best attuned to a radically inclusive “Golden Rule” that we must always treat others, regardless of species, and regardless of whether currently living or not yet living, as we wish ourselves to be sustainably and confluently, even therapeutically, treated.

It seems to both the Macy and NCDD Revolutionaries that there not only already is a global consensus in this basic positive teleological faith, but further, this global consensus is quickly learning to find each other across traditional divides of borders, water, special interests, and language–all we need, which we now have, is a global information system. The discussion has well begun, now it is time to move that from a perhaps sometimes too free-wheeling, and polarizing, discussion, to a positive discernment process. In other words, as a species, we are moving from our already shared positive teleological conjecture toward a positive teleological discernment theorem.

Perhaps NCDD culture is evolving this positive discernment theorem. As I have said perhaps too often, if we look at Positive Deviance, Appreciate Inquiry, Nonviolent Communication, and Dynamic Facilitation as each establishing a mutual discernment event culture that is the opposite of Cognitive Dissonance Theory [we tend to not hear well what does not fit with our current learned landscape; on the other hand we tend to learn quickly from what we all agree we don’t want], perhaps this is our Positive Confluence Theorem:

We hear very well, and revolutionarily embrace, what does fit most abundantly with all of our current learned landscapes. When we mutually acknowledge that we each do trust that we live in a positive-trending teleological economy and ecology. when that is our mutual intent and practice, then we not only comprehend, but incarnate and mentor, this Positive Confluence Theorem.

This Positive Teleological Theorem predicts that we will, globally, increase our investment in cooperative economies and pedagogy and design systems as three faces of one cooperative ecology.  As we do so, our current over-reliance on competitive strategies for learning, making a living together, building a polyculture together, will fade away into our collective memory of “back in the pre-millennial day.”

 

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Positive Confluence Theorem for Optimizing Community Value Discernment

My work for the past couple of decades has veered away from group facilitation and detoured toward corporate grant and contract proposal writing, but I am struck by parallels between optimized proposal communication and community-building for wise discernment. Whether writing to public officials about policies and budgets, or to private sector philanthropists, the most effective way to open the doors of mutual communication are to show your constituency first that you understand, and share, our optimized outcome framework. If I start off advocating for a program, or a process, or a policy, or for money, then I am another “special interest lobbyist.” Not an effective way to start.
My still emerging theory about this dynamic is drawn from Positive Psychology and from Communication Theory.  Perhaps you are familiar with the Cognitive Dissonance Theorem: we tend to cognitively deflect messages that are dissonant to our salient gestalt. We just don’t build an iterative communication string off from messages that do not integrate with our existing gestalt very often. If we do start off dissonant and it works out, it is probably because of the appositional Positive Confluence Theorem [which doesn’t actually exist, except perhaps in Group Theory of Metric Structure–kind of a theoretical math thing] that we tend to consonantly resonate with messages that are intuitively synergetic with our Whole System value-gestalt. In Game Theory, this would be articulating the optimal and most inclusive Win-Win outcome accessible through compassionate, or appreciative, inquiry.
When the proposer of a choice-making process begins with where we most inclusively desire to Win-Win together, at the end of our rhetorical event [again, Communication Theory], then this establishes a broad, intentionally inclusive of both positive and negative deviance, framework. When the facilitator takes the additional step of proposing a rhetorical culture that values deviant inclusiveness and personal integrity, then this Win-Win Boundary Window begins to fill with the flow of a creative deep listening ecology. Individual monocultures in the room, or in the network, trend toward mutually nutrient-refining polycultures. We might think of this as the Permaculture Design’s Theory of Evolution. This requires design technology for iterative feedback loops that are accessible over time as  inclusively malleable communication strings. Positive-trending communication strings build communities of sustainable and inclusive discernment.
The theoretical limitation on Win-Win positive teleological culture-building, in anticipation of actually having the people in the room, or hooked up to each other on-line, is that procedural and normative values for mutual-flexibility [what Eastern cultures refer to as gratitude, and/or “namaste”] optimize when balanced with the value of personal integrity. We do not have an inclusive Win-Win positive framework for imagining long-term sustainable outcomes if we expect anyone to surrender integrity on behalf of flexibility, or flexibility on behalf of others’ integrity.
That last part, explicitly establishing a discernment culture that, in a sense, norms redemptive flexibility on behalf of others’ integrity typically, in Western cultures, falls prey to Cognitive Dissonance. We immediately get it that valuing mutual flexibility should not compromise personal integrity; we are fuzzier, with the possible exception of a feminist perspective, about the problem of valuing mutual integrity that compromises flexibility. If I yield to the Others’ need for personal integrity to the point that my flexibility is broken, then I have caved, lost. Flexibility will not tolerate the absence of mutual integrity, of establishing a relationship where we believe we have given at least as well as we have taken, and vice versa. The solution to both boundary issues may be to build an explicit discernment culture that holds the values of integrity-passion and flexibility-mindfulness in dynamic (diapraxis?) balance. This balance may be charted (I have not actually tried this), borrowing from Dynamic Facilitation, as a central vertical axis on each of four sheets:
Notice Concerns: how we are v. how we are not [shown appositionally on each side of the binary information axis]
Problems of Hope: what we think about v. what we don’t think about
Faithful ReSolutions: what we coincidentally say/create/design v. what we don’t say/create/design
Regenerative Data Harvest: what we have done v. what we have not done
The left side (bicameral-normative) is the Polynomial side; while the right side is the Non-Polynomial, or Reverse-Polynomial side, again, in information systems theory. The left side also emphasizes our collective integrity, while the right side emphasizes our collective flexibility to imagine what we might be together, but is not yet. In Taoism, the left side is the rhetorical event’s Yang trajectory, and the right side is this rhetorical event’s emergent Yin-balancing trajectory.
This emergent Positive Confluence Theorem predicts that when everyone can find themselves and each other within this holistically inclusive Win-Win Frame, we collectively begin noticing that the (0) Axials predict the most inclusively sustainable balance of both integrity and flexibility.

 

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