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Dear Permacultured Salvation Army

I would so appreciate an invitation to co-mentor Permacultural EcoTherapy with others sharing gratitude for mutual caretaking while stepping into a salvific place to synergetically develop ecological consciousness, which I believe is rooted in mutually subsidiary, positive teleological, and multisystemic economic values.

That is a lot of words requiring rather precise definitions, which also tend to have a lot of those same other words; analogical phrases reflecting each other through interdependent paradigmatic lenses. For me, salvation is something we do together,

  • that permaculturalists think of as therapeutic for what ails our ecosystems and biosystems, both internal and external,
  • that compassionate caretakers, with some ecoystemic theoretical background, understand as Basic Multisystemic Attendance,
  • that neuroscientists understand as molecular, neural, cellular, and organic RNA/DNA-generated mutually-balancing fractal memory-code intelligence, or mutual-intuitive ecoconsciousness,
  • that polyculturally optimized “climax communities” understand as positive meaning explicating negatively dissonant, irrationally implicating purpose, just as positive doubles negative, convex transduces concave, light transforms dark.

Multisystemic, enthymematic, communicators predicate past salvation into their future vocational orthopraxis, just as our permaculturally sustained future implicates past meaningful eco-nomial optimization intent.

Group Theorists believe that positive economials are polynomials, implicately, and reverse-corollary, predicated by non-polynomial spacetime informating trends.

It would be so helpful to think out loud about how my past incarnates into our optimized future orthopraxis together, just as imagined potential permacultural futures imply past intentional experience with ecological optimization,

  • how past production builds future consumption, as future consumption implies former production,
  • how past prey lead to future predators, and future predators imply potential prey,
  • how “pay-it-forward” hosts lead to cooperative, and sometimes troublesome, parasites, and  sustainable parasitic economic behavior implies the continued wellbeing of our benign Commons host.

Our past permacultural intentions transform into future orthopraxis, just as our economic future transduces past ecological optimization intent, winnowing, evolving memory of value-balancing outcomes.

We can develop residential and vocational cooperatives, consumer and production and recycling cooperatives, with mutual polycultural mentoring, an orthopraxis of multisystemic nutritional communication, design, planning, to facilitate regenerative solutions to identity, vocational, environmental, economic, and residential challenges, issues, tensions, intentions for optimally sustaining our Beloved Community.

The Salvation Army’s ReGenesis Project.

 

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Hospitality Economics

Never give up.

Always give down,

downstream,

only what you would hope to receive

from upstream.

 

Ego identity only exists now.

A moment ago,

and a moment from now,

you ecologically individuate,

balancing self-identity with environmental messages

and memory string revolving through your seasons

and imagination,

both hopes and fears,

values and disvalues

back to doubly-bound DNA,

maternally and paternally balanced.

 

What you received downstream

evolves what ego invests upstream.

Karma hosts time’s regeneration,

your ecological investment,

sometimes dislodging revolutionary synergy

when space and time reveal themselves

as yang and yin,

polymorphic positive physics

hosting -(-) meta-fractal fold

flying binomial time.

 

We submerge spatial out

with temporal echoing in.

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Earth Rights, and Lefts

Earth’s Solar Economy

 

The sun can bathe filth with its light

But the sunlight will never be tarnished

Rumi (trans. Margam Mafi, 2014)

 

Client: Earth

 

Evolutionary Project: Passive/Active Solar Economic Incubator

 

My Permaculture Design Certificate came from Shutesbury, MA, last year, with Kay Cafasso, hosted by Sirius Eco-Village, where, indeed, things can become serious, especially in January, when we started. Later last year, I was ordained as an EcoMinister, by the Order of Universal Interfaith (OUnI), to co-facilitate and mutually-mentor with my “client” Earth.

 

Now I realize how silly that sounds. I mean I don’t really think of Earth as my client, but I do think of her as my vocational, and residential, host. I like this better than client, for reasons that are transparent to anyone who has wrestled with our parasitic infestation of Earth’s warmly embracing natural economy. And, host reminds me of Renaissance artisan and design economies, when a wealthy sponsor would requisition a project for his (too occasionally her) habitat.

 

There is another problem up there in that first paragraph. I thought I was ordained, but then Rev. Miner (no, seriously, that’s his real name—I know, I can hear all those “mining for Earth’s ecological riches” metaphors going through your analogy-drenched consciousness) couldn’t host the ordination scheduled for a gorgeous early October Sunday afternoon, embedded in an 8-day Work That Reconnects training with Joanna Macy, in Rowe, MA. Although I have no OUnI credential, I still hold that time as when I stepped into this Permaculture Design and Development vocational stewardship with Earth.

 

The first step, as you all know better than I, is to visit the site and notice. If you have the leisure to string this noticing stage through all four seasons, so much the better. In that Earth happens to be my sit-spot, my cooperative intentional community, as well as my vocational host, I have been keeping my journal for a full year now.

 

As I understand it, which is a significant caveat, Earth chose me for this Solar Incubator project because of my commitment to cooperative economic development. So I am tailoring my sit-spot host interview questions toward what I notice about Earth’s ecological, and sometimes not quite so logical, economic system.

 

I turn to my Questions for Client Interviews and skip past the first section, Questions About Use, because the second section, Questions About the Client (aka Host) seems more urgent.

 

I see no question like “what is your gender” because I suppose that isn’t germane or, if it does matter, the answer will be self-evident. But, I’m new at this, so it takes me a minute to realize that the answer is either bisexual, or perhaps polysexual. I think there is some kind of virus or bacteria that has eight distinguishable sexes, which seems like a confusingly ambiguous way to procreate but apparently it’s working out for them, so who am I to judge, right?

 

Going through the questions, the first few don’t seem to apply to Earth. Or do they?

 

How many family members now, ages and interests. Future growth of family.

 

Earth has a dense polycultural diversity of species. Most act like family most of the time, except one, kind of adolescent, one might even say tantrum-prone toddler, species with precociously competitive, acquisitive, extractive, ego-centric interests.

 

Human economic systems have been a chronic risk to the future growth of Earth’s family since Left-brained dominance replaced LeftYang/RightYin hemispheric balance, maybe. Family history is not my strength. But, from an economic perspective, risk to future development seems to have started with the extraction-fuelled economy, ramped up later with our capital-drenched value enculturation, now becoming linguistically monopolistic over what once was solar multisystemic ecological consciousness, awareness, maybe even Buckminster Fuller’s Universal Intelligence.

 

Where did you grow up?

 

Earth evolved out of regenerative plasmatic stardust; kind of an immaculately informative co-receptive conception, like the regenerative fertility emerging from unions of sunlight and Earth. Solar radiant sperm gratefully received by Earth’s ribonucleic parasites, perceived as light and warmth and energy, magnetic waves and functional balance, dynamic yeast absorbing into Earth’s revolving polycultural skin, pores, ciliating succulent dynamic solidarity. Earth emerges as a reiteratively evolving, cooperatively regenerative home; and host, in this case.

 

What was your last home like?

 

Hmmm. OK, just move on, maybe that’s a question for our future generations. And I certainly hope they have a more generous answer than my adult kids have for that question.

 

How long do you plan to live here?

 

Well, the long-term strategy appears to continue regenerative system development as long as we have sufficient light and heat, and not too much light or heat.

 

What occupations?

 

Regenerative Multisystemic Designer, Developer, Processor, Facilitator, Host, Incubator, working within a subsidiary and primally dynamic solar economic system. In other words, Earth enjoys a revolving ecology that distributes light and dark energy with both electromagnetic and thermodynamic balance. This balancing vocation may be threatened by extracting weight from Earth’s core faster than it can be reabsorbed and by unbalancing the weight and/or speed of appositive polarities, like the North and South Poles.

Describe your neighbor relations.

 

Cordial. We all tend to stay in our own interdependent orbits around the sun, except our moon, of course, but that relationship is the exception that seems to prove the mutual subsidiary ecological rules within our planetary neighborhood.

 

Do you have any allergies?

 

Earth’s natural systems appear to be allergic to dissonance; defining dissonance as dysfunctional frequencies, flow disruption and turbulence, anomalous arrhythmic loss of pattern articulation and boundaries. These economically incarnate as deviations from a (0)-sum balanced Win-Win strategy, with small investment risk, sustained slow growth, ecological exchanges of time, language, energy, information, resources, nutrients, fuel, and, sure, capital too, why not?

 

Eating habits

 

Diverse polycultural form and function. More economically nutritious during light exposure, leaving plenty of time to digest deep dreams in more reflective, and redactive, moonlight frequencies. Prefer abundantly positive banquet style with a seat and place setting for everyone, all species, all generations including those no longer reconciliating and incarnating with the rest of us, and those who are with us only in more DNA/RNA encoded future form.

 

No one gets seconds until everybody has had a balanced sustainable intake of positive nutrients. No table is served twice until all tables on Earth have sustainably balanced nutrient delivery sufficient for all species at all tables.

 

Unfortunately this nutrient exchange economy has slipped away with the onslaught of TV dinners, and instant breakfasts.

 

How self-reliant do you want to be? In what ways?

 

Finally, an economic question. I was wondering if we would ever get to the nutritional investment and value exchange question.

 

Earth most certainly does NOT hope to ever become self-reliant, any more than she would deliberately choose to be an impoverished, orphaned, single-parent with way too many hungry moon dependents that she is doing her best to mentor in the ways of regenerative economic balance—all of which requires actively cooperative interdependence, or synergy.

 

If Earth did not have her moon to worry about, then the natural rhythms and patterns of her light and dark nutritional, fuel, and relational economies would be considerably less complex, sometimes even disturbing. That said, she seems to love Elder Moon, and the gravitational and luminary atmospheric anomalies need not detain us from our focus on Earth’s primary dynamic vocation, to interdependently continue, with her Solar Systemic Family, orbiting around the sun with gravitational polar and circumferential balanced frequencies and positive, clockwise, spin trajectory, to optimize Permacultural Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Ecological and Economic Standards.

 

This evolutionary project is not about self-reliance, Earth’s permacultural design vision is optimized cooperative, inclusive, life-sustaining abundance; all made possible because of her ongoing synergetic romance with Sun.

 

Pets livestock, wildlife enhancement?

 

Well, duh, yes! This is Earth we are talking about here. We’re all residents at the same Solar Systemic address. The Golden Rule of ethics applies globally. No way Earth wants to lose any of her DNA/RNA regenerative investment in life’s future.

 

So, OK, now I think maybe I should skip ahead to the Priorities questions, because I just have too many unanswered “sit-spot” questions remaining About Use of Property and maybe going to what stands out as the main patterns I noticed will help me sort out my own priorities.

 

Worst problems? Why?

 

Earth’s prime economic problem is the evolution of a competitive capital-dominant monopoly in human-nature’s economic value system. Why doesn’t human nature notice that Earth’s prime natural systemic economy is cooperatively nutrient-driven and polyculturally regenerative?

 

Solar energy grows Earth’s photosynthetic breath and warms her atmosphere, solids, liquids, atoms, molecules, cells, organs, communities, species, food, both prey and predators, subsidiary parasitic populations, and ecosystemic hosts. Any gardener knows this stuff.

 

Earth has passive and active solar energy. Active solar energy is designed and developed to serve the nutritional and other fuel needs of humaned nature. I don’t know, maybe its hu-maimed nature. Again, I get confused when I start thinking outside my “sit-spot” perspective, which is populated by deer and turkeys and hawks, an occasional eagle overhead, squirrels, sparrows, trees, grasses…but only occasionally by humans, and dogs.

 

Earth’s solar economy is renewable, I think, or hope so anyway. The sunlight falls on everybody, every form, creating the very possibility of information and a system, rather than chaotic absence of relationship. Earth is our economic Commons because Sun radiates light with pay-it-forward investment in the production of consumable nutrients, absorbable energy, breathable air, drinkable water, listenable octave sound and perceivable octave sight frequencies.

 

To date, Sun has not given Earth notice that transferring solar values within this cooperative organic economy will result in loss of light or solar energy, so the Commons economy is indefinitely regenerative, contingent upon Sun continuing to radiate frequency and functional values that synergetically balance Earth’s ecological design and development.

 

Earth’s primary economic development problem is human nature’s competitive, Left-brain dominant, and therefore ecologically imbalanced, blindness to our permaculturally dominant passive, and pacific, solar energy, nutrition and wellness economy. Radiant light grows natural systemic Basic Attendance. Solar energy develops Earth’s prime economic values and relationships, forms and functions, through her balancing natural frequencies.

 

Where on your site do you like the most? Why?

 

Earth’s solar economic sweet-spot is what a Game Theorist, blended with a Group Theorist, like Gregori Perelman and his 0-soul Theorem, might understand as a (0)-sum Win-Win inclusive cooperative gaming strategy. Earth does best being able to absorb all of Sun’s radiance, feeding and heating and regenerating her DNA/RNA value-cells, without any loss of balanced and harmonious atmosphere. Everybody’s end-game goal is to win together, or nobody ultimately wins. Every organic system’s ego goal is to end play with no more and no less than when play started, back with the egg and sperm event, speaking of DNA.

 

Some passive solar economic techniques to consider:

 

  • Reorient Earth’s human nature toward (0)-sum solar cooperative economics. Go full passive solar cooperative across all paradigms and value exchanges.

 

  • Select nutritional options for optimizing informational absorption, depth, density, thermal mass.

 

  • Reflect light’s reiterative and regenerative, and reflective, properties when developing inclusive polycultural value-optimization design. Cognitive dissonance theory, and a little too much experience, tells me that if I don’t mentor my own cooperative ecological hopes and dreams, if all I do is write in my sit-spot journal about them, then that is just not pay-it-forward enough for optimizing economic outcomes.

 

  • Design comprehensive spaces that naturally circulate ecologically balancing values, like information and energy and air.

 

  • Solar value absorption purifies, and pacifies, salves, conciliates what we feel without becoming ego-competitively contaminated.

 

As to the question of why Earth likes this (0) sum Win-Win strategic game best, as plain as the sun on my face, I suppose she really likes her unique Solar Systemic role as a passive solar revolutionary economic incubator, flawlessly spinning out Permacultural CQI Optimization Standards, except for that over-populating, extractive, Right-brain oppressing, human DNA species.

 

But, that’s OK, the problem is the solution. I learned that in my permaculture class.

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Tao of Strategic Challenges

There is the maxim of military strategists;

I dare not be the first to invade, but rather be the invaded.

Dare not press forward an inch, but rather retreat a foot.

That is, to march without formations,

To roll not up the sleeves,…

There is no greater catastrophe than to underestimate the enemy

(Laotse, #69)

 The word military does not fit with Laotse’s overall intent to talk about dispute resolution. Clearly he sites territorial and proprietary issues, so maybe this is a “maxim of ownership strategists,” which would include defensive and offensive strategies to maintain and re-establish natural balance.

Not being the first to invade goes back to a wu wei principle of mutually cooperative subsidiarity as an ecological systemic norm. Think and act like an eco-cell within a healthy organism; not a cancerous ego-center. To invade is to challenge existing ego/eco value balance. To be the invaded might more fully translate as “become empathetically focused on the challenger’s perspective, values, positions—try to find them within yourself until they have resonance.” Maybe try some reverse role play, like preparing for a debate team.

 “Dare not press forward an inch” means do not even appear to react with ego-resistance. Ask for nothing that might lead to ecological imbalance, “but rather retreat” might look like inviting your challenger to agree with you to an equitable Win-Win resolution, defined as no one allows the other to walk away while feeling they have just lost a positive opportunity to incarnate wisdom.

 “March without formations” may have some reference to Laotse’s primary attraction to natural flow functions. Solid forms lack the flexible flow functionality for evolutionary economic change that one might find in a river, or even a tornado, if you have something more revolutionary in mind.

The title of this poem, Camouflage, is what a Buddhist might think of as Basic Attendance, which has a mutual gratitude understory, or gestalt, understanding each moment as having positive opportunity potential. Basic Attendance, in oppositional and other forms of dissonant, wild, crazy environments, begins with exposing our vulnerability, our fluidity, our confluent intention, a disciplined humility of balanced ego/ecological consciousness.

 “To roll not up the sleeves” reminds us to never show our fist even to our own internal need for self-passion. Laotse mentors non-violent multisystemic communication praxis; most certainly not aggression. He explores the paradoxical orthopraxis of breathing in comprehensive natural-systemic information and breathing out toward our mutually cooperative future.

“Enemy” is just wrong here. Enemies are created through lack of wise response. The word here should be challenger. In Permaculture Design we confront many challenges to optimizing Continuous Quality Improvement, ecologically balanced polycultures that show promise for sustaining regenerative life cycles. The only strong candidate for enemy status might be time, but the seasons and scales of development and design approach permacultural standards with humane ecocentric humility and reverence for the progenitive sacredness of time’s nutritionally absorbent dimensions.

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Cooperative Party Platform for Diving into Clean Warm (but not too warm) Water

The Tao Te Ching guides rulers, whether we are rulers of only our own selves, or caregivers for children and elderly family members, or a Governor, or CEO of the Ford Foundation or Ford Motor Corporation, the Prime TrimTab Principle of wu wei optimizes confluence, or contentment, by minimizing dissonant interference. A great deal has been said already about wu wei’s incarnating as a laissez-faire self- and other-governing practice. But, “laissez-faire” is to non-violence as mutually subsidizing subsidiarity is to well-integrated pacifism.

We have active non-violence (Yang) and passive non-violence (Yin). Active non-violence is to be practiced only as Positively Deviant from our eco-dislogical systemic norms. Active non-violence responds only to unnatural ego-eruptions into our cultural DNA environment and economy. When and where ego-normics conflict with balanced eco-logic, then active non-violence is an appropriate wu wei response.

Ecological, or permacultural, candidates for Cooperative Party endorsement want balanced DNA enculturation for regenerative governing intent and practice. Strong candidates will stand out as Positive Deviants within an overly competitive ego-normic culture, economic systems, and political processes. Positive Deviant Cooperative Party nominees will demonstrate well-balanced DNA permacultural practice for themselves, and intent for those they care for.

Some questions that we might all ask ourselves before considering public office, or even private regenerative capacity:

Am I more concerned about building a better regulatory and investment environment for self-composting toilets and humanure, or for corporate profiteering banks?

Am I more concerned about keeping my non-blue trash can as empty as possible or about keeping my checking account as full as possible?

If I don’t compost, how do I feel and think about that? Same thing for gardening.

Do I live in a place that would be more comfortable in an exclusive gated community, or in a diversely polycultured forest? Why?

What are my personal nutrition and self-care practices and concerns, issues for myself and for my family and community?

What is my transportation procedure, policy, practice and intent? How does this intersect with my (0) carbon balanced aspirations?

What and where are my financial investments? How much of my portfolio, and/or time, is invested in cooperative ecological enterprises and vocations and service networks and training and schools? Is any of it invested locally, or within my own bioregion? If not, why not? What are my barriers to smart ecological investment of resources?

What have I done to participate in and support cooperative ecological employment and residential and learning economies?

You will undoubtedly come up with your own better questions, but these were enough to reassure me that our Cooperative Party will not be nominating me for any embarrassing public exposure. I am just not Positive Deviant enough.

 

The Cooperative Party drew up a character profile of their ideal candidates for elected office.

Cooperative Party candidates run their campaigns the way they hope to generate public policy and inclusive procedural justice. We are looking for excellent ecological economists and regenerative system analysts, mentors, and facilitators.  If you cannot demonstrate at least moderate levels of accomplishment as regenerative ecologists within your personal, familial, and community life, then please do not come to our Cooperative Party, we will all be miserable in your depressing company.

 Important regenerative ecological indicators, for your self-assessment:

Personal Health Care

You exercise and feed your mind and body with nutritious choices, promoting well-being of taste, feelings, balanced eco/ego intentions, sounds, sights, and smells, and relationships, too, as possible while retaining positive environmental goals for including diversity of cultural and economic values within your daily and weekly formation.

Familial/Kinship Care

Your approach to primary relationships demonstrates profoundly inclusive peaceful-loving intention and compassionate mindfulness. Disagreements about values and priorities are recognized as important teachers, mutual learning opportunities for growing in understanding and potential confluence. Flexibility in positively framing and managing internally competing values, ages, gender identities and preferences, access to resources, security ,integral integrity, recreation and rest, learning and mentoring praxis are all germane experience for sustainable outcomes within the Cooperative Party.

Community Vocational Experience

If you have no experience within a cooperative vocational culture, then you are not yet ready for legislative design projects. If you have never mentored a regenerative development system, demonstrating facility as a mutual feedback coordinator and summarizer and analyzer, then you have not yet legislated policy and procedure for installing a perennial garden, much less an ecosystem or nation. Ideal mature wisdom experience within shared vocational relationships would cover the full range of cooperative development from community research and inclusive project planning experience, through implementation, maintenance, evaluation, and strategic comprehensive review for further synergetic optimization, meeting Permaculture Design’s Continuous Quality Improvement Standard Principles, for regenerative systems evolution.

 Investing exorbitant currency and time in campaigning for an essentially cooperative vocation seems ineffective and counter-intuitive to this Cooperative Party. We tend to nominate those candidates who invest the least in their campaigns for office. On the other hand, we do support  candidates with resources needed for public discernment, responsive to issues cooperatively and inclusively named and framed for their Positive Deviance TrimTab potential.

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Permaculturing Compost

This more fully organic mind-farm we are growing,

a rich composting Holding TimeSpace

of (0)-centric Positive values

appositively balancing, tipping, exchanging,

transposing Negative Non-Named Disvalues,

lurking before our Square Commons of Cognitive Dissonance,

slowly pulling into enlightening days and Transitioning Generation

to explore harmonies of scale and pitch,

and developmental learning stages,

proportional polyculturing designs

to optimize Positive Systemic Teleology

by diminishing eisegetical dissonance

from our global cooperative orthopraxis.

 

Dynamic orthopraxis regeneratively Holding SpaceTime’s

(0)-sum economic logic;

too often confused with stagnant ego-serving Orthodoxy

degenerating Earth’s gasping overheated breath.

 

Bucky’s easiest way to improve failing systems

is to upgrade their environments,

their ecological balance and harmonious potential flow streams,

especially their humane cultural environments,

to grow more effective nutrients,

Positive Teleological Values,

and less Cognitive Dissonant

 

Ways and Means–Progenitive Hope,

Truth or Consequences–Generative Faith,

and The Good Life–ReGenerative Love,

a graceful messianic incarnation

of post-millennial Tao ReGenesis.

 

Balanced dia-praxis,

including dialogue,

primally roots

in regenerative systemic orthopraxis.

 

Tao optimizes sustainable Ego-Yang

through our Self-subsiding Eco-Yin exhalation.

 

Invest in Ego reducing praxis for CQI,

low-risk investment outcomes.

 

 

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Sustainable Hiber-Nation?

Not sure who said this,

in reference to social change and perhaps evolution,

“We can’t be neutral on a moving train.”

 

And yet, we often do retain our natural systemic balance on spinning Earth.

Our gravitational center adjusts to Earth’s flowing magnetic

radiant, attracting, spinning in and out,

folding in and out plasmatic memory functions.

Usually these adjustments follow autonomic natural rhythmic laws

of precessive, then fully engorged lungs and hearts and cells and minds,

then diastolic flow back down and in and back toward dark purgative stasis,

before this ecological fractal cycle regenerates Earth’s nuclear recycling

ReGenesis Codex,

our Common Ground of Becoming.

 

Rational optimizing of polyculturally equitable relationships

between our study and praxis of economics and ecological life

emerges as a richly meaningful relationship

between a horse and a HorseWhispering Logos,

predicating what s/he would most appreciate,

bi-relational value optimization within their humane-horsepowered

ecological running system.

 

Our natural Left-brained deductive economic values

long to belong within

our eco-natured Right-brained intuitive ecological boundaries

of inclusively Golden rationality

within universal information flows and functions,

primal relationship of balanced space and time,

where Polynomial Positive Yang-Explicating Space

equals Time-Reversed PrimeFunctioned Square

Zeroistic +/-(-Bi-nomial) Balanced Yang/Yin Metric Place.

 

Functional informative flow,

unfolds to synergetically cooperate and fuse

organically and thermodynamically animated power systems,

rather than burning energy and resources

to break them apart

and overheat them

and dissolve them,

and kill them.

 

Each day my cells and systems

burn more than grow rich subtlety together,

we look toward winter’s hibernation

with Elder hope for Spring’s Transgeneration.

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ReGenerative Work

I hope I am hearing voices from the future

not yet here.

But, I have a message from our past

that might reflect a positive intention

for continuing our epic journey

of regenerative pilgrimage.

 

Do we intend effective regenerative therapy

for straight white wealthier class

family value issues,

choosing segregated safety

over a more active adventure of integrative living

as a quasi-gendered person of non-color

within a neighborhood

and school

and training workshops

led by straight white wealthier

family value issuers,

reformers,

ecotherapists?

 

Industrial Age Myth delivers

global value confusion

into an otherwise formerly sustained,

deeply green encultured,

Agrarian EarthTribal Age Myth.

Traveling across economic,

ecological,

cultural,

linguistic analogies,

emerges a slow-evolving hypothesis:

family economic and ecological silent silos of abuse

and neglect reveal abundantly informative

confluenct Tao patterns and

permaculturally functional rhythms.

 

BUSINESS AS USUAL

A. Industrial Age Myth of Global Progress

Leads to

B. White wealthier Western

male-dominant

cultural and ecological

and economic pathologies.

 

AND

 

REGENERATIVE THERAPY DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN:

tipping turning point,

Positive Deviance and Development Technology

for hearing confluent

Positive Psychology kind kin voices:

A. (1) Profoundly inclusive diversity

(2) reweaving diastolic evolution toward

(3) diastatic fullness,

 

also known as

(1) Basic Grateful Attendance

(2) to Self, Other, Earth,

three faces of SelfIdentity balancing EarthTribal Co-Prehension,

(3) democratizes compassionate mindfulness,

 

also known as

(1) Eastern Yin-executive flexibly

reverse-hierarchically inclusive

polycultural information skills

(2) emerges ecological economic

and global-learning therapies.

(3) Leads To

B. Sustaining Well-Being Optimized

Agrarian

Residential

and Trade Guild Cooperatives

Communities and Nations

planets and universes

with Therapeutic Ecological Eco-nomial  Values

 

These feed my permacultured Taoist soul story

that we are sticking with it

to fly together,

and not apart;

and I am not either an old straight wealthier fart!

 

 

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Green Sanctuary

Dear Green Sanctuary 2014,

 

Please excuse two messages intruding from the year 2214, from our Green Sanctuary progeny, but I wanted to share these messages based on research from the Tellus Institute (www.tellus.org).  Since the 1970s, Tellus has been contrasting the pictures we can project on our progeny if we follow Business As Usual, contrasted with a still possible future should we implement pervasive systemic changes, that I argue follow Permaculture Design standards, principles, and ethical norms, including (0) carbon footprint. Forty years, and one millennium, later does not seem too soon to incorporate this information into economic and ecological policy and procedure for community development and investment.

 

U.S. history unfolds replete with precedent for the religious sector taking an early lead on freedom and justice issues. This began with the primary motivation for many early European immigrants, looking for religious freedom and self-governance, to abolition of slavery, equal rights for women, through civil rights, more inclusively conceived. Now we come to the ecological, economic, and perhaps even the evolutionary rights of Earth.

 

Business As Usual, 2214

 

From your perspective, back in the day, I would probably be labeled as an autistic gamer, more comfortable below ground. Living in basements has become normative for their comparative effectiveness as contamination-resistant silos. Most of us are hiding from each other. Your corporate elite “won,” from a really sick way of understanding nihilism as success. They got the world they wanted, what’s left of it, and the rest of us mainly don’t think too much about how things might have been different.

 

I do wonder sometimes, though, if you had looked my direction with better foresight, maybe you would have seen how worthy of cultural ridicule those enormous wealth and power deposits were in your own time. Laughing at your Emperors With No Rationality, rather than voting them into office, and allowing them to control information and influence networks, to defend their own hopelessly ridiculous sense of values, may have been a more effective political weapon than all that anger and angst, and wringing of hands.

 

Anyway, my Business As Usual days do not include going outside unprotected. Most of the mammals and birds have died. Water is rationed, but there is lots of piracy. Even so, we would never use it for waste disposal.

 

What were you thinking, really? You starved our soil for compost while you took a shit in our water? It defies my increasingly autistic imagination and memory communication capacity to imagine a species that was so utterly benighted. Although the solar and wind powered energy caught on, as did fake commodified nutrition. Most of us use recycled bicycles to get around, when we have to forage.

 

Connecticut, and all land masses, is smaller now that coastal waters cover most of the towns and other habitats. Even so, we continue losing people faster than dry acreage.

 

They say that you used to experiment with rats, leaving them free of constraints to overpopulate, which they did. Along the way they developed their FatRats, with too much rabidity, chomping down on their smaller, weaker neighbors. All the rats stopped breeding, eventually, became sick, died off, some from vicious attacks without apparent cause or meaning.

 

So why couldn’t you see that you were acting the same way, with the same results predicted for my generation? Few of us left, and even fewer who have any hope, faith, or even basic desire for breeding.

 

I usually play on-line games in my underground silo, in he dark, waiting for the last satellites to fall, leaving me in a dark solitary confinement. That is when I plan to finish this death, already too long in process.

 

Truth, you were looking for Truth? If your Truth left you free for Business As Usual, I am barely here to tell you that yours is a Truth that cannot and will not sustain. Your intentions are good, but your precariously empty, pseudo-independent egos, homes, vocations, travel plans, food production practices are far from eco-logical. Replacing synergetic, loving ecological meaning and purpose with competitive economic rights of ego-self investment and extractive market developments was at least short-sighted, if not criminally sociopathic toward other species and your own future as a humane species.

 

Eco-dislogic dissonance degenerated into a competitive culture of increasingly autistic dismay. But, then, I’m just an Occupier Kid living in the basement of the old Unitarian Society of Hartford, all that’s left after the big 2213 hurricane that took the roof and most all the trees.

 

Anyway, I saw this message in your Green Sanctuary 2014 file that you wanted to hear from your future generations about what we think of your work to divest from the fossil-fuel business. Well, duh, good job on stating the embarrassingly obvious. But, would it have killed you to spend at least as much time on an ecological investment policy and procedure?

 

Back in your day, investing your lives, vocations, days, words, property, wealth in learning to live more cooperatively with nature, using natural, regeneratively balanced, system development skills and technology for creative design and learning and economic planning…. Well, hindsight is always 20-20.

 

Thanks for giving it your best shot. Sorry it took me so long to get back to you, I’ve been busy catching cockroaches for…, well, never mind. It’s probably kinder not to say.

 

 

Great Transition Message, 2214

 

OK, so I had this dream last night that back in 2014 our Green Sanctuary Elders specifically wondered aloud what Green Sanctuary would look like in 2214 and how their work on divestment would play out for the long-term.

 

So, yes, thank you for turning our investment strategy around from all that angry angst about losing fuel toward all that happy grace about gaining cooperative investments in your own future energy for our planet and our species.

 

Sync-ing pre-millennial Information Systems Theory with Deep Ecology and post-millennial Evolutionary Economics was so UU of you!

 

Today, Green Sanctuary continues growing your ReGenesis Project, for Reconnecting People, Place, and Planet. Intentional Communities (we stopped calling intentional communities “faith communities” when we realized that there is no such thing as a faithless community—an oxymoron if there ever was one) cooperatively invest in worker, resident, and consumer-owned services, products, enterprises, and natural construction habitats with organic food production capacity on site, all meeting (0) carbon foot print and (0)-sum economic transaction network Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) standards of Permaculture Design, which I think was still not quite evolved completely back in 2014.

 

At this point all food products are repurposed, with curbside pick-up and delivery through the ReGenesis Project’s communication and transport network of Transitio Teams. So is everything else recycled and repurposed, although we sometimes use specialized Transition Teams for non-food items like, you know, pianos, and wire, and all that plastic your generation could just not stop finding new reasons to produce.

 

We also have cooperative natural construction teams; organic farms, gardens, and nurseries; recycling/repurposing guilds, cooperative child and elder care; schools; bioregional credit unions; cooperative health care, including mental health care; energy and biofuel coops; artisan, craft, and performance arts guilds—using a surprising amount of stuff out of old land fills. Most people live in some form of cooperatively owned structure with occupants responsible for maintenance and resale or exchange within the economic network.

 

Your Low-Risk/Optimized Long-Term Return financial priority carries through to this time as Greatest Effect/Last Loss; a core principle of Permaculture Design applied to all nutrient, energy, and economic systems. Advocacy to that effect led to:

 

  • A huge increase in cooperative loan fund investment dollars now easily accessible through individual and cooperatively-held retirement funds;
  • Voters learning to ask which candidates for public office have the lowest carbon footprint and spend the least amount of money on campaigning, choosing from among these Green Mentor Candidates;
  • Passage of the National Fee-and-Dividend Carbon Tax (see attached documents from Citizen’s Climate Lobby–www.citizensclimatelobby.org);
  • Changes in income tax structures so that the top revenue generators has options of paying up to 80% of their income in taxes or investing up to 60% of their revenue in their bioregional community at 0% interest, for up to 20 years. These percentages and length of loan terms vary from highest for those in the top 1% revenue category, to lowest and shortest loan terms for those in the 21% to 30% of revenue in the prior year. Any wealth taxes paid in lieu of 0% interest bioregional loans are usually invested in cooperative homes, businesses, services, and commodities;
  • Reversal of that weirdness about corporations having the civil rights of personhood.

 

Finally, these  evolutionary economic measures culminated in our globally recognized Ecological Rights of Earth.

  • CQI Information and Economic System Design Standards research equivalent analogs between permaculture principles, procedures, values, ethics and thermodynamically optimized sustainability of ecosystemic synergetic outcomes, with least dissonance and value loss.
  • Economic positive value development systemically follows positive functional information string trends of Bayesian analysis. In other words, Win-Win gaming strategies optimize regenerative and inclusive development strategies, while win-lose assumptions tend to sub-optimize and become exclusively valued by those with greatest accumulated value (functional capacity) and power (autonomous force-freedom) frequencies, at global expense to sustainability of life.
  • Competitive, ego-centric paradigms become exclusive, monopolistic, run-away positive feedback systems for wealth/power centers, becoming overly extractive of long-term sustainability from the population, polyculture, and ecosystem as a whole.

 

Once it became redundantly clear that competitive win-lose extractive markets, rooted in the assumption of self-perpetuating gravitation toward existing wealth and power deposits as normative ethical values (eco-normics) would always sub-optimize sustainability for future generations and sacrifice inclusive systemic diversity, thereby further eroding and weakening future evolutionary potential, then it became culturally normative to economically embrace our permacultured natural systems regenerative roots. Cooperative, diverse bioregionally-centric (rather than anthropocentric) markets, habitats, enterprises, gardens, farms, communities, communication, information networks emerged globally normative, and re-established a strong regenerative slow-growth ecological and evolutionary economic network. (See the attached study from the Tellus Institute for their research germane to future regenerative development trend comparisons.)

 

So, this cooperative economy did emerge out of your generation’s Permaculture Design, and your New Economics became Positive Evolutionary Economics, and your Deep Ecology, but this first appeared in the Synergetics of Buckminster uller, who grew up in a Unitarian cultures. Anyway, putting it all together led to global resonance for a (0)-sum economic norm for each living system. The true value of any investment measures time and energy resources committed toward the outcome in this moment.

 

Value has become more closely associated with nutrition and well-being and disvalue with dissonance and decay. A nutritious house is one that delivers energy and shelter and beauty, and smells and feels good, and interacts with natural sounds and light and does not pollute our soil, water, or air. A nutritious relationship is one that delivers energy and shelter and beauty, and smells and feels good, and sounds and looks natural, light, resonant, resilient. These are the value attributes for information, communication, communities, these are the relationships of belonging, a Green Sanctuary place called home. When we see and hear and feel and smell these values about ourselves, then we feel at peace and at home with ourselves, and with those around us, I mutually mindful gratitude for this Green Sanctuary economy of optimized ecological value.

 

No one owns time,

So no one owns temporally functional realities,

So no one owns this informating canvas of ecologically grown Earth,

So no one owns soil, water, air,

So no one owns information, frequency, force

Or form or function of any kind.

We are each and all of, by, and for this informating Earth-bound

Universal Intelligence we share,

As energy is to information,

Yang is to Yin,

Balanced Tao (0)-sum cooperative economy of grace.

 

We have worked on the pre-millennial Golden Rule, giving it a bit of a tweak, more of a permacultured brand and articulation:

 

  • Assign to others the same responsibility and values that you are willing to receive from your own practice, as well as all that positive intention.
  • Give others, including all species, past and future, the rights of freedom, responsibility, and integrity that you would have them give to you.
  • The universal right of integrated freedom and responsibility optimally incarnates through balancing synergetic justice with responsible self-authority—mutual eco-logical subsidiary solidarity within Earth’s natural spacetime information systems.
  • Water our confluent flowers and mulch them with our dissonant weeds. Harvest positively deviant seeds for strategic spring planting where most useful to Earth’s Common Tribe.
  • Learn to fly cooperatively together, like flocks of airborne geese, so we don’t fly apart quite so awfully much.

 

I know your era of divestment, the post-millennial tipping point, was difficult, as are all Trimtab functions, learning from both confluence and dissonance how to more astutely aim for (0) eco-centric balanced cultural and economic values. I hate to think what might have happened if you had not done your best, as always. Maybe I would be living in some dark silo waiting for what’s left to end, longing to belong, yinning for Yang.

 

Your incarnation continues. Namaste.

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Toward an Ecology of Evolutionary Economics

As a growing, evolving spiritual community…we commit ourselves to nurture our needs for personal spiritual growth…and mutually caring community, devote ourselves to religious learning…, embrace human diversity…, and join with the larger community to promote love, justice, and service to society.

Toward these ends we pledge our talents, energies, and resources.

                                                                                                                Unitarian Society of Hartford, Mission Statement

 

Ecological Evolution of Post-Millennial Economics

 

Rev. Gerald Dillenbeck, M. Div., MPA, PDC

 

While I seldom take time to read long emails, I hope you will at least give this a chance to see if my perspective resonates for you regarding the ecology of the Unitiarian Society of Hartford’s economic culture, including perhaps rather too much sweeping conjecture about regenerative faith systems. In summary, I propose an internal, growing toward externalized, cooperative exchange of values, arguing these will grow increasingly positive, abundant, even regenerative, as value exchanges reflect our shared faith in individual and collective “Truth-Journey,” also known as Tao, or “the Way” and “the Word” in Christianity. Applying fundamental principles of permaculture design and synergetically eco-logical stewardship planning and networking to ourselves, our faith community, and our larger ecosystem, incubates a richer, more inclusive, greener, resilient, and life-sustaining economic culture. Like good yeast.

 

Joanna Macy and Molly Brown’s Coming Back to Life is a useful manual for what has become known as the Work That Reconnects (WTR). This WTR, like Permaculture Design, begins with an enthymematic, silent stage of simply noticing what’s going on, without judgment or needing to fix it, or even embellish it, yet. As we mindfully perceive and co-prehensively interact, learn from and notice, our Exterior Landscape, in this case the economic flow trends, exchanges and boundaries, both tangible-spatial and temporal-sequential, we find parallel dynamics in our Interior Landscape, our currently enculturated ecology—how we both do, and do not, experience ourselves as an organically full-functionally interdependent ecosystem, a full-blown polycultured paradise.

 

So, for example, if we believe that all people are mutually subsidiary to each other, enjoy equal dignity and interdependent solidarity, within Earth’s care, then it begins to appear like an issue if some people are harvesting and sequestering nutrients needed to feed and water other species and people who are suffering, especially if these needs are indigenous to our biosystem. This perspective that we are losing economic well-being (fuel, power, efficiency, health) within our own larger community, and planet, begins to build an internalized desire for systemic change. Economic suffering, poverty, vast disparity in financial assets, is not eco-logical, a lack of well-being; imbalanced nutrients, investments, vocations, lifestyles, learning, beliefs, awareness, consciousness ensue.

 

This relationship between Exterior and Interior Landscapes may also be applied to any organic system, like a tree, with the exterior being the trunks and branches, leaves, and, hopefully, flowers and seeds to produce, empower, reseed winter’s soil; and, imagining underground, the tree’s Interior Landscape is morphologically reiterated in the spatial-temporal branching of a hopefully well-composted, nutrient-rich Yin-root system, reaching down and out, developing an underground cooperatively networked feeding system for the Yang-production upper-end of the tree’s binomial system.

 

Each faith community needs a healthy nutrient ecologically-balanced root system, nurtured by our self- and community-caregivers, and our externally-oriented producers, economically effective designers, growers, builders, organizers, advocates, creators, writers.

 

I understand UU culture, as incarnated within USH, within a Taoist narrative frame. My own perspective begins looking down at UU’s Yin-internally nutritious, graced, empathic, interdependent root system, cooperatively mindful of balanced power, energy, function, and attuned to gravitational, or ergetic, alignment frequencies. Imagine a feminist-balanced eco-therapist mentor taproot reaching deep down into our underground river Commons for water to quench the thirst of a wilting faith forest.

 

So, it would follow that I would look up for analogically prime relationships between our deep ecology and our externalizing, incarnating, regenerative production of Mission Leaves: love, justice, service; a faith community organizer, developer of positive constructs, programs, designs,  self-regenerative, systemically sound financial and learning plans, resource organization and delivery systems, an eco-logically resilient, diversely-skilled and expressed and celebrated, economy of inclusive and long-term sustainable equity.

 

The Work That Reconnects includes some time-traveling exercises. What will the USH community of 2214 want to know about what we did and did not choose to do because of our permacultured care for at least seven generations in the future? If we assume that our endowment fund, for example, represents our Elders’ caring not just for our time, but for all time, then how do we achieve the permacultured design principle of Greatest Abundance with Least Loss? This, by the way, is redundant of Buckminster Fuller’s Continuous Quality Improvement design principle, perhaps related through his Unitarian upbringing to his understanding of Universal Intelligence. Fuller’s regenerative system response was two-fold:

 

  • Don’t try to make individuals better, individuals will heal when we make a better system;
  • Don’t waste a lot of time changing dysfunctional and decaying systems, design better, more therapeutic, ones and that will help clear out what has become pathological.

 

I am inclined to put our USH faith tree and our UU faith forest in the late winter of the Great Turning, on the first dawn that brings the longed for hint of warmth between frigid blasts. The religious sector, and faith in the future development and evolution of Earth and Her Tribe, are emerging, I hope, from a long winter of dissonance and discontent. USH appears to be pushing out buds. Positive faith sectors that avoid competitive theologies, while embracing cooperative teleologies [positive teleology is active hope that our history’s meaning remains primally related to our future’s purpose—also known as karma, in the East, and the deep ecology of grace, in the West] are spreading balanced permaculture, whether this faith lives under the label of UU, Intentional Community, Green Occupier, WTR, EcoJustice Warrior, these all intend to express cooperative industry, design, creation, busy-ness, vocation, residence, habitat, consumption, extraction, exchange, community.

 

These Positive Deviants are early endosymbiotic adapters, evolutionaries, as found in Positive Psychology, but also evolutionary and learning theories. The Positive Deviance Institute (www.positivedeviance.org) takes the basic principle of Positive Psychology—confluent frequencies and function tend to evolve as increasingly congruent form, a positive corollary of Cognitive Dissonance Theory, that we tend to shut out what is viscerally dissonant with our Received View, without noticing or remembering it—to reproduce the anomalous trends of early positive adapters in otherwise negatively trending environments. Gardeners do this when they harvest the best seeds, usually an early winter project to organize ingredients to be most fruitful with each other, looking forward to spring planting of symbiotic polycultures.

 

Perhaps it is not coincidental that many young adults and adolescents are interested in faith systems that have positive responses to their concerns about the environment, climate change, economic collapse, and their pervasive thirst for justice, cooperative systems, win-win gaming strategies, experiential and creative learning, peer mentoring ecologies, relief from chronically stressed neural systems and autism, natural and organic therapies, globally inclusive and accessible information. The World Wide Web introduced a post-millennial cultural Wealth Without Walls assumption. Our value and our values are rooted in Earth and produced within a Commons exchange network. Stewardship is about our property and our time and our assets, including our bodies. We live within a natural system economy that is profoundly inclusive of human nature itself. Ego-identity emerges from eco-centric individuation, following principles of natural systemic development. Post-millennially emergent permaculture, of which UU is an unusually well-balanced exemplar, responds to the opportunity of climatic winterish crisis with a sense of urgency for eco-systemically balanced change, including economic confluence with our ecological principles.

 

Those who retain active hope for their futures seek cooperative economies and environments that invest in local ecosystems, are holistically informed, inclusive, resilient, buoyant, and show promise of growing in sustainability for the long term. For an excellent economic analysis of what faith communities would wisely invest in, please see long-term economic and ecological trend analysis by the Tellus Institute (www.tellus.org). It will probably come as no surprise that cooperative vocational, communal, and nutrient abundance derives from diminishing competitive financial and political assumptions and lifestyles. Our mutual immunity ego-systems do better when they do not exceed our eco-unitive system. Successful polycultures do not typically play win-lose roulette (more of a high-risk corporate structure strategy); mutually symbiotic nutrient sharing is our underlying ecological win-win strategy.

 

Those who are having trouble hanging onto active hope throughout our days and nightmare nights are less likely to show up in the religious sector at all. Those who succumb to despair often have a sense of impending crisis, which leads to chronic stress syndrome and concomitant mental health issues. It would follow, then, that more and more of those newly arriving on the USH threshold who are younger are also concerned about finding a safe harbor, and a culture that is less about teaching and more about mutual mentoring; walking the walk, not just talking the talk.

 

My brilliant 17-year-old son has told me that he might be able to start trusting me again if I would just listen to the darkness he feels about his future, and his peers’ future, and Earth’s miserably projected future. If I could just notice, listen, not judge, actively attend, be more mindful, stretch into his stressed skin. Just respect it for what it is. Truth is saying what he feels about his daily, seasonal, lifetime choices, such as they may be. The polar bear on the not-so-slowly melting ice, adrift alone, his existential icon.

 

As an EcoMinister I notice a UNICEF survey report (2013) that “almost three-quarters of young people aged 11-16 are concerned about how climate change will impact on their lives…two-thirds of young people were worried about how climate change will affect their children and families in developing countries.”

 

During the 1970s, studies of young people noted an unprecedented polarity in response to the perceived threat of nuclear doom; a spike in social indifference (denial) and in defiant behavior against a nonsensical, hopelessly irrational adult world of clannishness and nationalism creating technology for a global apocalypse. The absurdity of nuclear mutual annihilation as a terminal way of resolving property issues and cultural disagreements measured clearly on an intergenerational scale of positive teleological health as a decidedly negative turn of events. Studies of post-millennial young people suggest a new baseline for chronic stress in post-industrial cultures, perhaps associated with overpopulation, diverse neural, communication, and information interface anomalies, including the ability to predict a tsunami through social media cloud trend studies—possibly the renewed emergence of telepathy within our teleological positive consciousness.

 

While I have chosen to cast our UU Tree of Life in late winter’s glimpse of spring, a Transition Generation perspective would more typically reverse the picture to late summer’s heat drying up our polar caps and glaciers, expecting a hard apocalyptic Fall from benign grace, as Earth winnows her harsh harvest of positive v. negatively energetic seeds. My son reminds me of what the psychoanalysis mentor Harold F. Searles said to an intern who was not sure he had anything more to learn,”Your problem is that you’re not paranoid enough.”

 

To promote more synergetic economics, communication and community life (Buckminster Fuller’s systemic synonym for love is synergy), eco-justice, and care for Earth as well as oneself, each UU, and the religious sectors of each community, and the faithful global community of Earth’s Tribe, we might choose more cooperatively and inclusively oriented win-win strategies within our communities, our systems. Our internal economy and ecology are most likely to meet Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) standards of even TransGeners if these systems mentor, reveal, uncover, display, incarnate, walk the walk of what we would advocate for our society, global culture, and would hope for those who follow us in 2214.

 

An implied reverse corollary: If our internal UU Tree grows competitive, we waste redundantly-held resources. An under-commodified cooperative root system is one that doesn’t access nutrients because nobody knows who has what that they don’t need right now, that could be invested where it is needed. An overgrown tree, has a root economic system that is insufficient and ineffective, does not actively seek synergetic diverse nutrient fields for a long term peacefully slow grown economy, does not openly invite participation from new challengers and stressers, for fear of collapse. These trees fall short of regenerating our own permacultured paradise.

 

Joanna Macy uses the Shambhala Warrior Prophecy to predict this transition time of unprecedented challenges. Both our compassionate Yang community-investment energy and our cooperatively nurturing, mutually caregiving, mentoring Yin mindfulness of interdependence need each other to grow more balanced and fully accessible talents, energies, and resources; positive nutrients in a seasonably harmonious, sustainable economic ecosystem.

 

As a growing and retiring, Yangish and Yinnish, Taoist-UU peer mentor, without the slightest hesitation or caution or concern, I urge UU leaders and others reading this to use the Work That Reconnects (www.workthatreconnects.org) as a template for late winter’s shared vocation, planting cooperative gratitude for winter’s well-seasoned seed, learning from our acutely stern and frightening issues how our shared sense of pathology, embraced together, points toward our faith and love of cooperative and resiliently inclusive economic therapies.

 

For UU communities to also live up to Green Sanctuary aspirations, it would help to have a Green Economic Estuary, compassionate mindfulness mentored amongst ourselves, prepared for more successful greater Hartford economic policy and outcomes, advocacy, inviting a shared investment journey that excludes no positive teleological faith, we might practice this WTR, with intention to discover an abundantly regenerative nature-spirited system of

 

  • Cooperative learning and vocations,
  • Cooperative habitats and residences,
  • Cooperative investment systems and networks,
  • Cooperatively nutritional talent, energy, and resource systems, inclusive of all senses, paradigms, investments, time, and forms of communication.

 

 

Coming Back to Universal Life

 

All from Earth

and to Earth we all return,

back into Gaia’s composting womb.

 

I brought nothing when I came into this Identity

and neither did you.

I will leave this Identity taking nothing with me,

and so will you.

 

What meaning,

which purposes and practices,

seem most sane

healthy

graceful

noble

good,

knowing how each starts

then ends

a (0)-sum balanced economy?

We each withdraw

with lifetime boundaried precision

what we bought into at conception.

 

How does this eco-prime transaction,

double boundaried,

eclipsing short-term risks and opportunities of ego-identity,

inform my, our, karmic evolution,

ecological grace,

our mutually interwoven roots and flowers,

weeping revolutionary Earth-bound Tree of Life?

 

If each life concludes as compost,

to enrich or further poison future generations,

and usually some of both,

which grade of compost do you prefer

to sustain our EarthTribe’s universal dream?

 

G O Dillenbeck

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