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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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Economic Rights, and Not So Much

Does nature have the right to fly?

Apparently so.

We certainly do perceive flight function

within aviary ethereal nature,

air-travelers.

 

Does human nature have the right to fly?

Apparently not.

Perceiving flight as functional,

organically possible

and probably fun,

however compelling to my imagination

my ego-centric memory recalls flight

only in my dreams,

where eco-logic and ego-centrism

seek my synchronicity.

 

What rights and wrongs,

rights and lefts,

goods and evils,

could nature have,

apart from humane nature?

Are nature’s rights confined by natural laws,

like winter must not follow spring,

nor morning follow noon?

Yet winter does follow spring,

with summer and fall between.

Next dawn’s morning follows this noon,

with afternoon, evening,

and starlit dreamy memories of flight between.

 

Nature’s temporal laws

are rights with spatial faces,

Earth’s rights our laws

of permacultured regeneration,

and dissonant entropy,

a Tao of binomial temporal balance

in which after always follows before

and beauty emerges from

uglier times, frequencies, dysfunctions,

noise, chaos, suffering.

 

Yang and Yin

sing out and in,

convex-concave,

positive radiant light and night’s ergetic gravity,

balanced Left and Right economic functions

with competition square rooted in mutual gratitude’s roots

for win-win creative cooperation,

self-perpetuating moments of eternal sanity,

as ego-normics give way to eco-logic,

and spring warms winter’s dissonance

as winter’s hibernation regenerates fall’s winnowed harvest.

 

Eco-normic rights and wrongs uncover,

nakedly displayed for all to see

in ecological balance,

our polycultured paradise,

where night flight soars

and daydreams roar

our mutual delight.

 

It seems easier to be heard accurately

when choosing to sing with others

while helping us float downstream

toward shared values;

than struggle to successfuly shout at others

about why they need to improve their swimming practice and intent

toward my own hegemonic values.

 

Mentoring eco-centric souls

with compassionately mindful egocentrist comprehension

of regeneratively formed systemic history,

and evolution,

and enculturation,

and learning,

and faith,

and trees,

OK, any informating system,

like gardens and forests

and days and nights together,

and Left and Right hemispheric processors,

and years, and species,

and evolutionary paradigms about everything,

especially the eco-logic of economics.

 

 

 

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Green Commons

Metaphysical form,

polysystemic information,

when transferred to another

presents no loss of identity,

wealth,

potential,

intelligence,

integrity,

unlike physical form

when transferred,

exchanged for equal value,

gain for loss,

rather than gain exchanged with positive dual-entry balances.

 

Anything extracted from Self to Other

not resulting in loss to Self as a result,

because renewable

and gracefully reincarnated from Commons root system,

as a flowing functional inform-mating gift of air, water, Earth, fire,

and prime evolutionary economies of natural systemic relationship,

water and Earth’s revolutionary whirlpools of

both Exterior Landscape neutrons and Interior Landscape neurons

unwrapping themselves toward human natured consciousness,

eco-ing polymorphic light,

could never have evolved exclusively from Self.

 

Information grows uncommodifiably Common,

Earth’s natural ergodic diversity,

formed and not,

incarnated or excarnating,

both human and not-human natural systems,

intuitive permacultural form and flow functional spirits

implicating nature’s bi-ego/ecological order

and Original Intent,

belongs to all of us.

This seeds our Tao Commons.

 

To treat our EarthTribal residential address,

and spacetime holonic fascination

like a marketplace

de-sacralizes

de-natures

commodifies

reifies

enslaves

addicts

isolates

marginalizes

neglects

abuses

sterilizes

freezes

burns

violates

reduces our creatively gracious natural awareness,

inviting curiosity to explore mutual belonging,

until tragically transduced into stingy

pedantic

dispirited

nationalistic boundaries

between cultural diversities longing to make love,

a caricature of Earth’s openly expansive invitation

into balanced natural-systemic,

solar Yang impregnated

sufficient organic compost for all.

 

Freedom to belong organically together

like Sun to Earth,

Yang to Yin,

Positive to Negative appositional,

quantal and spectral,

temporal and spinal,

communal and eco-synergetic ReGenesis

erupts freedom ringing through silent silo longing.

Monocultures suck

water we cannot own

unless we created Earth

and her flowing veins,

cascading flows surfing life’s ecosystems

discovered within

as uncovered without.

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Seasonal Temperaments

Falling breeze sweeps winter’s advent psalms,

before this Great Return,

before spring’s gratitude,

cold shouldering attitude of deep sad ecology,

underlying Earth’s crisp frosty skin,

Mother’s richly warm composting womb

weeping advent

hibernapping cocoon

quietly composting metamorph,

dark grey diastatic revolution,

polyculturing baptism issuing second birth,

our EarthTribe Species,

Shaman Warriors,

Femalist Caretakers

co-regenerating

mentor seeds predicting our future Tree of Life

producing leaves of days of seasons

green,

diversely spectral, falling,

barren,

budding,

then green again,

growing fertile flowers, future generosity,

each informed seed predicting future efficacious roots,

reaching down and out

generating tender tendril networks

from inclusive fertile wealth,

investments sapping succulance,

cooperative heartbeats,

breathing interdependently,

symbiotically,

synergetically,

radiantly toward ecological regenerates,

health-systemic leaves,

producing an abundant crop

of air for Mom to breath

as She gives labor to this

Her last Great Transition

to produce a balancing bipolarity,

by reducing Left-brained Yang-convexish domidance,

slow-growing cooperative eco-normic EarthTribe,

not so much competing ego-manic SelfStamped-Pride.

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Sex EcoEquity

Sexual intercourse would feel as odd and unwelcome as the prospect seemed to me when I was ten. Perhaps this second  virginity is equivalent to what has been permaculturally recognized as the sublimation intrinsic to an authentic celibate vocation. Perhaps there is something in here of relevance to  neo-monastic cultural development and the emergence of deep ecological balance.

As my natural immune system unravels, so does my sex drive. Rather than grasping desire, I increasingly feel vulnerable to everyone. This vulnerability is not just a “mind fuck” mentality but a holistic intercourse of curiosity and acceptance, growing compassion and improved comprehension and communication; greater mindfulness of “right” relationship as balanced loving relationships. Balance, in relationship with others, with my environment, is what increases confluent attraction across all sensory spectra.

Learning to accept our mutually equal subsidiarity, vulnerability, recasts earlier normative responses to total strangers, other species, plant life, Earth, as autistic–overly concerned with protecting my ego-immunity, self-identity as Self, rather than an equally individuated member of Earth’s Regenerative Tribe. I grow grateful for this emotive and affective and effective justice and mercy, in turn growing slowly toward our (0)-sum balanced economy of grace (Western term) or karma (Eastern term).

Positive holistic sensual information receptors bring to Positive Psychology, Ecology, Economic, and Teleological Theory what autistically unraveled monocultural chaos brings to Cognitive Dissonance and Commodification Theory of ecological loss and disvalue.

Perhaps it is the normative cultural commodification of sexuality as a substitute for building slower bridges of holistic communication and sensuality that has contributed so loudly and invasively to our overpopulation, climate chaos, abrasively stinky air, and distress about anomalous gender expression.

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Summer’s Full-formed Harvest

Information,

wisdom,

meaning,

is not consumed

or taught

or schooled,

it is digested

succulently absorbant roots

emerging

embracing

compost.

 

Information is noticed

an event,

practiced with intent,

discerned,

discovered,

explored,

decomposed,

researched,

evolved,

revolved,

co-prehensive,

comprehended,

resolved,

absorbed,

integrated,

synergized

peacefilling and active lovin diastasis

producing regenerated polycultures

and polyeconomies

and polyecologic

and polyparadigms

and polypaths;

but never polyester.

 

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The President’s EcoChaplain

Sr. Kathleen Brennan, of the Order of Positive Intentions, is the 11th Interreligious EcoMinister Chaplain to the U.S. Congress, where she has been unusually…useful, and apparently ubiquitous. President Fuller is suffering from 2nd-term despondence-syndrome. His Cabinet seems to be leaking, the House is total chaos, and, while the Senate is somewhat more bicamerally balanced, good intentions far outweigh sustainable outcomes. Fuller feels ironically emptier of hope, much less faith that this mess will reweave into a viable fabric within his life time, much less his remaining two years.

When Ms. Fuller, his wife, found him flirting with suicidal ideation, she rather firmly invited onto his schedule a pastoral visit with the Congressional EcoMinister. Although not exactly sure that this appointment would add up to a regenerative future, his not-so-little intuitive voice resonated hopefully with this suggestion because of Sr. Brennan’s reputation as somehow unusually…useful.

President: Sr. Brennan, good of you to stop by. Hoping you might be able to help.

Chaplain: In what way, Mr. President?

P: Well, certainly not that way. Just “Bucky” please. “Mr. President” feels much too heavy right now, like somebody else I never really wanted to be.

C: So presidential Bucky isn’t unfolding as you had hoped, or intended, somehow.

P: I see what you did there, that reference to your Order’s vocational formation. What does that mean, anyway, I don’t recall meeting anyone else from the Positive Intentions Order. Ironic, Washington is a veritable compost pile of good intentions that don’t seem to come together anywhere close to whatever it is you are doing with this Positive Intention ecotherapy, or whatever you call it.

C: You covered quite a lot of ground there, Bucky. Maybe it would be helpful to talk about this disparity between your good intentions and how you define Positive Intent.

P: Well, maybe that’s part of my problem, while I am painfully aware that the road toward good intentions has killed far more people than malignant intent, I can’t work out why, exactly.

C: I doubt you know anyone with malignant intent.

P: What would you call suicidal ideation?

C: I would call that an oxymoron, If you have a positive intent toward self-destruction, you cannot actually incarnate that potentiality without sacrificing the positive polarity of your intended trajectory toward a sustainably peaceful life.

P: My life has been to try to be useful, where most needed, as inclusively as possible. But, it is the inclusivity itself that seems so utterly impossible from this position in Universal Intelligence.

C: Which is…?

P: As I am sure you know very well, the Regenerative System Development Platform has advocated for a cooperative (0)-sum post-millennial Trimtab transition for optimizing global Continuous Quality Improvement.

C: Quite a circular mouthful. So, your positive-teleological position revolves around this (0)-PrimeMutual value system. Is that how you define our “good intentions?”

P: Probably, although I would certainly use a lot more words, and numbers, and generate many polysyllabic hybrids about natural-metric systems development.

C: That does seem to be where you lose your constituency, all the irrational words, numbers, and assumption of malignant intent within the belief systems of those who oppose you, those malingering “Nay!”-sayers.

How do you reconcile your faith that we are all in this mess together with this fear of some proactive, organized, Order of Malignant Intent? While I doubt you have met anyone wearing society’s imprimatur of “Hopeless Sociopath,” I have spent some time in your prisons. A bicameral system with addictive sociopathology issues explores homicide as vicarious suicide. It feels like naked-wild risk, with the prophylactic of clothed hiddenness.

My (0)-sum win-win faith, and positive teleological intent, are not compatible with the view that your constituency would elect representatives who are addicted sociopathologists.  In other words, I wonder if you are confusing Positive Intent toward a regenerative, and sociotherapeutic, economy with Negative Intent toward globally inclusive suicide, as a species, and personally, within yourself.

P:  While I would be vastly relieved to learn that I am confused about the Other-Side’s malignant intent, I just can’t get my data-crunchers to come up with that optimized sustainable outcome trajectory. I mean, for example, if the rich and powerful define Winning the Economy Game as continuing to grow their wealth deposits, then all our synthesized projections for the future show exploding global population of increasingly marginal poverty, to say nothing of what it is doing to the dimming prospects of any (0)-carbon air-bound/soil-bound balanced ecosystem surviving anywhere on Earth.

C: So, your global information system is telling you that we cannot play a Win-Win Sustainable Ecology Game using Win-Lose socio-economic strategies.

Try this metaphor. Imagine that your constituency is a population of lotus flowers, able to physically see each other only above the surface of our Earth-pond. Your Prime (0)-sum cooperative economic platform is the pond’s surface. But, when you plunge down, under the surface, you can see that our species’ (0)-sum ecological center goes deeper down to where we share an emergent root system reaching down, with diminishing, yet still positively-regenerative intentional structure, into Earth’s rich polycultured compost. This cooperative permaculture feeds our root system, so nutrients flowing up have a regenerative infrastructural trajectory for all the individual lotus flowers, and their seed-bearing future generations.

On the other hand, one of the lotus flowers decides that he and his neighbors are more important than some other weedy-kinda-flowers on the other side of the pond, so they start sucking up all the nutrients, watching their distant RNA-cousins wilt and suffer, under the mistaken belief that they are protecting their childrens’ future while they are actually strangling their entire economic and ecological root-systemic capacity. The apparent suicidal ideation of those wilting flower-cultures on the other side of Earth’s pond are a lesson to all of us: Don’t forget that we are all (0)-sum centered where information fully reflects our most inclusive root system. This deeper ecologically balanced plateau emerges endosymbiotic Win-Win cooperative economies for nutrient flow up toward the next generation of lotus flowers.

Your suicidal ideation is your poli-cultural teacher, reminding you that we are all in this together, regardless of all the push-back necessary to bring global peace to the surface of Earth’s pond. You have no more right to choose suicide, Bucky, than a bipolar sociopath has to choose homicide. Choose to regenerate inclusive, cooperative polycultures; avoid malignant competitive monocultural silos of us-v-them, and me-v-we boundaries.

P: Is that your spiritual advice?

C: That’s my eco-equity Continuous Quality Improvement permacultured advice, straight out of the Order of Positive Intent’s prayer book, for greatest effect with least dissonance. We used to call it the Golden Rule, but now we are learning to apply it somewhat more broadly, to how we treat all species, all information, all communication, moments, days, lives, learning, and generations, past, present, and future, as EcoSelf (0) = Grace of Thermodynamic Balance [+ = (-)(-), as Yang = Reverse-Yin diametric restraint, as P = NP]—not so much Self-Centric, and refusing to play nice.

P: I think I regenerate, theoretically, what you did there—and I’m feeling positive, even hopeful, about this analogical way of comprehending QBit spacetime, and bicameral in/ex-formating systems development, and comprehensive coincidentalism, and universalism, and integral intelligence, and sociotherapy, and bicameral psychotherapy, and bioethics, and….

Assuming this might go on for a few hours, Sr. Brennan, EcoMinistry Chaplain, excused herself; without any apparent interruption of Bucky’s positively regenerative, and inclusively analogical, string theory, traveling its regenerative pilgrimage toward self-perpetuating organic compost.

 

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