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Custody of the Eyes

Monks and nuns,
ascetics and miscellaneous humble proletariat folks,
were taught custody of the eyes,
to show respect for those older
and/or wiser
and/or more supremely royal,
and/or in other positions of merited or inherited authority,
to avoid appearing too curious
too available
too interested,
to avoid temptations
of lust and envy and gossip,
to avoid that part of our reality show
that was only meant for the real adults
in our extended family rooms and screens,
creeping across hedge and boundary and custody-paradigm issues
of who is worthy to be in and who not-so-much.

African-American sons and daughters of enslavement,
were taught custody of the eyes
and ears,
and nose,
and hands,
and mouth,
and mind,
because what may be nutritious for WesternWhite Entitlement folks
is what is inappropriately dangerous for nonWhite dependent nonfolks.

Custody of the senses, including the eyes,
is a form of risk management
and precisely what healthy, curious polypathic trusting people
would never ever choose to do,
to enrich not only our own curious multiculturing eyes,
but also to do our part to facilitate
therapeutic opening of our EarthTribe extended families’
ecologically deep-nutritious, bicameral nurturing, eyes.

Custody of the eyes,
risk-management, anger-management, fear-terror management,
does not invite the curiosities of appositional loves,
invitations,
mutual gratitude for still emerging sacred-cooperative humanity,
natural/spiritual nondual dignity,
integration of our potential
for more regenerative,
self/other acclimating,
Earth-Secular/Sacred multicultural health integrity.

George Lakoff reminds us that
“Most people’s first [custodial] experience with governance
[of the eyes and all that eco-bio system that lies bicamerally behind]
is in their family.”
[Here I would pause to extend this family’s self-governing timeline,
back to embryonic beginnings,
Pre-Left-Dominant language development,
to suggest this is where our within-matriarchal family governance
experience first began,
then out, from there,
into identifying a LeftBrain dominant individuated EgoIdentity,
also bicamerally structuring confluent/dissonant polarities,
but also stepping back in time,
now,
suddenly realizing this bicameral-nurturing Ego’s
freedom of eye and mind and ears for those who can hear
Earth’s ecological vocation toward inclusive multicultural health,
echoes RightBrain Elder memory,
DNA encrypted,
RNA co-mentoring nature-spirit root systemic intelligence,
regenerative health
ecopolitical commonly-held conserve-progress senses
that could never work with full regenerative intent
while confined to custody of this EgoIdentity’s marginalized,
repressed,
suppressed eyes.

“Your parents govern you: they tell you what to do,
what’s good for you and bad for you,
and what’s good for the family;”
and, if you are of great glad good health fortune,
how to deep nurturingly learn to love self/other regeneratively,
and why we take care of our health best together,
cooperatively,
rather than LeftBrain ego-centric competitively,
leaning toward fearsome sociopathology,
expecting lesser paranoid beings to practice
custody of the eyes
and to respect YangHubris right to enforce condemning violence
against less enlightened minds and too-liberal bodies.

“In a family,
the means of making sure they [custodial self-governance norms] are carried out
are, positively,
by expressing affection [and curiosity of mind about differences,
diversity,
multiculturality,
plurality,
branches of the family further removed
back in time,
and perhaps currently enslaved and commodified
by competitive LeftBrain aggression
in some oppressively custodial way,
ready to revolt from long-practiced custody of anthrocentric eyes
blind to our healthier regenerative nondual relationships,
denying most of Earth’s enspirited sacred ecosystemic natures],
social pressure [toward cooperatively inclusive integrity, and not so much toward competitively monoculturing egocentricity],
fulfilling desires [especially those emerging from
and cooperatively progressing toward conservation
of eco-health responsibility; healthier climates]
or instilling pride [especially about mutually expansive gratitude
for freedom from custody of the eyes];
and, negatively,
by withdrawing affection,
social isolation [such as custody of the eyes],
denying desires,
instilling guilt or shame,
or physical [condemning powering-over aggression of mindbody ownership, proprietorship, Yang-hubris] force.”

“The [EcoPolitical Earth] Institution…is the Family”
extended to multiculturally include all of Earth’s Organic EcoSystemic Tribes

“The Governing Individual…is a [BiCameral] Parent”
including too-often suppressed nurturing,
integrative,
co-redemptive empowerment mentors

“Those Governed…are Family Members”
co-respected,
mutually respectful,
responsible,
polypathically authoritative,
practicing custody of the senses
to notice ecological therapeutic frames,
climate health potentials,
regenerative, rather than degeneratively-dominating, landscapes,
internal natures as externally shared-OverSoul
enlightening custody
progressing Traditional-Orthodox conservancy
of short- through long-term extended family health
and defensive/integrative ecopolitical DNA/RNA Solidarity safety.

Bodhisattva Tao-Balance Warriors,
CoMessianic AtWo/Man OverSouls,
EcoPolitical Polypathic Matriarch/Patriarchs of ReGenerative Health
no longer cowed and commodified and controlled
by custody of the YHWH-narrow-way wu-wei co-operating eyes,
free to look out and bicamerally recreate
our renewing Ego/Eco-Reality WinWin Game Show.

Freedom from custody
is also bicameral freedom to customize,
to acclimate to our shared sacred-secular primal ecology
of mutually cooperative health and safety,
empathic trust,
Basic Attendance of all nurturing sensory communicators,
living within ecopolitical communities.

 

 

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Integrity of Empathy

Why need we insist on a difference
worthy of significant notice
between universal empathy
and uniting trust in co-relational health?

Whose interests,
economic and/or political,
are served by severing
external face of nature’s intelligent form
from integrity’s internal spirit of regenerate function,
co-empathic trust,
or whatever unlanguaged choices our insides inductively feel
and then deductively-reductively,
yet trustingly,
think feel right
and true,
and good,
and rationally balanced?

How could universal Yang’s empathy
not include unitarian Yin’s integrity of regenerative trust
in DNA’s and older RNA’s decompositional holonic mirrors
of enthymematic fertile rememory?

Why would ought else feel and sound and think
as antipathic negative powers of dissonance,
anticipating chronic ecopolitical paranoia,
vulnerable to further sociopathic condemnation,
exacting higher educational and parenting standards
for ever more fear and anger management?

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Ground of Becoming

Aristotle thought happiness is the foundation of existence.
Since then, others have worried that maybe survival is closer
to their own more suffering experience.

I don’t exactly disagree with Aristotle,
or with those on the more suffering side of our species.
But, where these two come together, in my experience,
is within the context of health v pathology.

To me, happiness is the Yang-face of health’s Yin-face,
so it is these two together co-arising the foundation
of ego’s regenerative existence,
and degenerative subclimate pathologies.

In learning happy health,
life lived ever more fully,
gracefully,
positive karmically,
as in gaming,
the stress of stretching one’s offensive capacities
is reduced by the belief that we have a perfect defense.
We know there are no WinLose strategic players;
only WinWin intent.
Because we know through co-empathic experience
and the evidence of Earth’s evolution,
that WinWin always optimizes happy-health,
while WinLose suboptimizes
opportunities for developing further co-empathic learning capacities.

So too,
defensive concerns soften and languish
by constant feedback that we have a flawless happy-health offensive strategy for further WinWin learning.

In the real world
there is no more a perfectly conservative defense
against unhealthy suffering
than there is a perfectly evolving offense toward happy health.

In learning healthier living,
cognitive-affective dissonance is our defense against polypathic co-empathy,
our oppositional resistance.

Empathic happy-health psychology,
a deep awareness of our ecopolitical equivalence,
empowers Basic Attendance (0)-sum balance,
our regenerative offensive-centered listening position
for learning effectively,
balancing nurture with challenge,
by noticing our own cognitive-affective defenses,
without which we would have no radical sense of autonomous identity,
no monoculturing monotheistic monochromatic severed ego.

So too, without our primal co-empathic relationship
with our mentoring environment,
we could have no interdependent. ecological happy-health identities.

And yet,
our ego-patriotic conserving defense of happiness
remains a secondary form
in relation to our RightBrain matriotic nurturance function
of a healthy regenerative climate,
learning atmosphere,
ecological integrity of ego-resilient polypaths.

LeftBrain Aristotle thought happiness is the foundation of existence,
because his RightBrain noticed health as his ground of becoming.

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Life’s Compelling Quarter

“I moved through the Quarter
as if through a stage-set to an opera
which, having finished its run,
might be struck at any moment.”
John Wray, Canaan’s Tongue

I move through this post-selection Quarter
as if a Fat Lady on an opera stage
which I must Final Curtain
through this eternally regenerating song.

I sing with all PermaCulturing Bodhisattvas
and CoMessiahs,
all EcoTherapists and Public Health Advocates,
all Ecologically Evolutionary Political Scientists,
all Cooperative Nutritional Scientists and Artists
recommitting ecopolitical acts
co-arising ecoconscious cooperative consciences
strong rooted in rational co-empathic trust in truth
as beautifully regenerative futures
could not become from merely ugly degenerative pasts,
climates and landscapes of health struggling with pathology,
and too often struggling against ecological balance
shining through our new dawn,
our new Full-Quartered Octave Day,
for cooperatively global peace corporations
and interdependently nutritional Earth Rights
and Wrongs of past Climate Pathologies.

Fellow ecotherapeutic researchers,
feelers of Earth’s cooperative kindness
and competing digestive unkindnesses,
unveil this opera’s climate change mask of academic neutrality,
to speak your Full Yang/Yin Informed Flow, MultiPathically Well-Formed,
our premillennial truth has included climate/landscape pathologies
of LeftBrain cognitive-affective enculturation,
both dominant yet dissonant
with Earth’s compelling WinWin regenerative nutritional trends
through DNA/RNA EarthRights nurturing solidarity.

We, together, cross this final LeftBrain Dominating Quarter,
to reweave historic geometric networks
of organically self-perpetuating ecopolitical systems,
to CoArise this cooperative EarthTribe CoOpera Research Network,
mandala fractal dynamos transubstantiating maya,
appositional health devouring oppositional antipathic dispolarities,
mass conversions of WinLose hysterics and terrorists and nihilists
co-passionately singing and dancing
Beloved MultiCultural Communicating Communities.

We move through this Final First 2020 ReVision Quarter
co-arising our WinWin EarthTribe ReGeneration Game
played with freedoms equilaterally eco-balancing platforms,
nutritional principles,
and health policies
of Elders past, and for full-optimizing futures,
incarnating Earth’s Climate Health Party.

I ask if this Quarter is an EcoPolitical Party
or a self-with-other EarthOpera Loving Game?

We answer both-and! yet again,
again reweaving
this public and private health and safety hunt and gather
to give away nutritional game
suitable for WinWin families
and especially children
still wise enough to play as ecotherapy
on landscapes where the sun is always rising
and setting
on every belonging one in-between.

I ask if this CoOperative Party Game of 2020 Climate ReVision
might feel more impending or compelling.

We answer
If one, then also the other.
If neither, then both, co-arising together.

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Imagine

Imagine you live in a daily environment
where and when everything you like
is already yours if you simply ask for this whatever with gratitude,
and is more frustratingly ungraspable if you cannot acquire sufficient gratitude to ask.

And, it doesn’t even matter whom you ask.
So you need not be troubled by complexities,
historically epic narratives,
about who owns what,
and who does not,
because everyone you meet knows it is their vocation,
it is among their reasons for being,
to give you whatever you want,
whenever you want it with sufficient gratitude.

How might you respond to such power and riches,
to both give and to receive
such fertile perfection potential?
How might we cooperatively rule our fertile rich black soils
and sparkling clear clean rivers,
and smile back at our mutually-held blue sky?

And yet, these powers are not yet polypathically magical.
You do not have powers to be someone else.
You cannot look at a perfectly beautiful body
and gratefully claim it as your own.

You do have the power to speak and listen with each of those perfectly beautiful bodies
and/or minds
about how and why and when and where you treasure them,
value them,
and would become a mind and/or body exactly like theirs,
an identical twin.

You do have the power to ask them, with gratitude,
to help you see and hear and smell and taste their beauty,
but not to become their beauty for them.

Becoming health and beauty powers with others
grateful for our most intimate mutually grateful availability,
vulnerability,
cooperatively trusting accessibility,
because your powers of acquisition
are constrained only by this magic
of mutual gratitude.

Imagine, as you mature in LeftBrain dominance,
the magic of mutual gratitude
and its more paranoid secretive absence,
when you were a child
was simply Left/Right deep learning chemistry.

Imagine how you might have heard,
You can be anything you sufficiently desire to become
as not so much,
You can have whichever magical powers of acquisition you can imagine,
but more like a child,
We are continually becoming whom and what we wish for
within an ecology of mutually trusting chemistry
we call regard, and sometimes wonder, and even awe,
and we are discontinuously becoming whom and what we do not wish for
within a climate of paranoid
overly acquisitive and competitive
LeftBrain dominant pathology;
this lack of RightBrain outflowing,
nurturing,
self-as-also-other regenerating gratitude.

Imagine you live where and when
all you can take in is ours to give
each grateful trusting other.

What happens in your imaginative chemistry
when WinLose games of Keep Away
revolt into WinWin games of Give Away,
but only when productive for
and consumptive of
co-empathic gratitude?

 

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Earth’s Greatest Lovers

The greatest lovers on Earth
never have sufficient time
to invest in competitions
to count how much love returned.

The greatest lovers
mentor Earth as CoMessiah,
regeneration’s soul Bodhisattva purpose.

Great lovers
do not quiver at death’s door,
where ego identity gives way
to WinWin more multiculturing integrity through time’s togathering,
reweaving healthy acclimated memories,
timeless revolutions of individuation
within SunGod’s nondual dipolar co-arising enlightenment
toward regeneratively nutritional outcomes.

Our greatest lovers,
Father SunGod co-arising nurturing Goddess Earth,
golden ruling and aging
wisdom literature’s most regenerative recreation stories,
absent suffering or loss
of love’s co-empathically timeless trust
toward future contenting revolutions.

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Seeking 2020 ReVision

My son, nearly twenty,

living at home while attending community college,

without prospects of healthier, more robust, alternatives,

believes it is now past time

for pollsters to cast aside their neutral professional agendas

and play a more positive role

in educating this co-invested international polity.

 

So, ask not just Who are you voting for?

but first, try

Of the nominees for President and Vice President,

and Governor and Senator,

and so on,

of these United States,

in which your grandchildren’s children

will see the day when one out of every four people

now living in coastal regions

will evacuate their homes and places of employment

before they return to the sea,

not just because we did not care enough

to slow down our oil burn rate

but also because we planted herds of cows

without reforesting today’s climate pathologies;

given all of the above

which Nominees for these public ecopolitical offices

do you believe will be most helpful

for these next 7-generations of EarthTribe?

 

Which nominees will you vote for

because they are in your grandchildren’s best long-term economic

and politically ecological,

and just plain healthy and safety and security and happiness interests?

 

Which Nominee do you believe is the greatest risk

for continuing current climate and Earth-landscape monocultural pathology trends

toward further un-polypathic mistrust,

collective paranoia exhibiting rabidly nihilistic

and competitively terrifying anti-ecological

Business As Usual?

 

Which nominees for Public Health Defense and Security Office

do you believe would also be strong candidates

for mentoring and facilitating regeneratively healthy outcomes

as CEO for Global Public Health Optimization,

Secretary for All EarthLives and Deaths Matter Education,

Chief Guru for Environmental Health Defense

and Global Nutritional Security,

Secretary of EarthTribe Habitat

and ReGenerative EcoPolitical as EcoLogical Development?

 

Thank you so much for your healthy and mindful responses now,

and in your GoGreen! voting booth.

 

So, to all who both did and did not vote

in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election,

would you mind responding to my son’s questions?

about your active hopes for Presidents

and Vice Presidents,

and their likely Secretary of EarthRights State,

so we might all revisit

our evolutionary Golden Rule Constitutional Convention,

review how we have been treated

with healthy kindness and pathological unkindness,

by Earth’s ecoconscious regenerative ecology,

to date 2020

seeing with full polypathic bicamerally balanced revision

of LeftBrain dominant ecopolitical premillennial history

reifying politically cooperative nutritional health from ecologically evolving wealth

of regenerative nurturing co-empathic trust

of/for EarthTribe’s full Left/Right

Yang/Yin

WinWin wu wei ecopolitical

cooperatively co-empathic ego/eco 2020 consciousness.

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Sacred Secular Identity

We all have emerged from one nutritiously multicultural heart,
one sunlight into
one DNA patterned and structuring rhythm compliance
with resonant RNA.

Predestined to remain within harmonic restraint limits,
yet free within these interdependent limits
to play ecopolitical WinWin healthywealth all day
every day and night
each in our own sacredly native nature way.

Utopia is polypathically multicultural.
We all know what Paradise dreams look and smell and taste and feel like
to a girl baby in Africa
as to an old gringo in the Americas.
These are the opposite of Hell,
ubiquitous monocultural excesses melting into LoseLose ecopolitical climates,
regardless of where and when you land and plant and grow on Earth.

What, then, are the ecopolitical merits and demerits
of a social justice,
much less an entire Earth Justice,
that we intentionally take off the scales of value-balance
when blindly thinking and speaking of criminal/victimization justice?

For which of us has never lived in both landscapes,
together;
that of utopian benign intent
and that of environmental terrorist outcomes?

And when do we most need and long for justice,
when we are well fed and among healthy social friendships,
or when we are incarcerated, without family and friends,
without good nutritional food,
shared meals feeding fertile listening and speaking?

If we seek ecopolitical wisdom,
if we can remember what it is to be homeless,
to become hungry for food and love,
to be ostracized and humiliated for poverty of positive social resources,
all of us remembering our moments with and among and as
economic and political non-elites
struggling together,
like twins for evil and good,
then we can co-empathically trust
that our best optimal criminal/victim justice
is discerned through ecological,
ecopolitically balancing,
peace-filling mutually mentored climates of graceful co-arising mercy.

Ecopolitical justice
always begins with (0)-sum Mercy!
I know we’re all doing the best we can
but this is not yet regenerative enough!
Not yet healthy enough!
in-between sustainable climates for elites within all us non-elites.

More explicated Interdependent polypathic regenerators
are already empowering cooperatively with multicultural others,
others yet implicately wending our metaphysical way
toward Earth Rights
as Golden Maturing PostMillennial Empty/Interdependent Regenerative Norms.

Norms and rules and laws and values and climates and landscapes for healthier nutrition
for elite victims of our collective pathological subclimates
and non-elite self+other-victimizing criminals
defying internal/external climate health’s opportunities and risks,
appositionally-interdependent as holonically (0) sum bicameral polypathic,
co-arisingly dipolar,
multiculturally eco-criminal and ego-victim alike.

While it remains difficult to define both paradise and pornography,
we know them both when we interdependent/empty
sense them.

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Follow the Nutrient Stream

Regenerating light
reiterating bright as dual dark
fertile shadowing bright polypathic light
when notnot night.

Healthy sight
as notnot dissonating blight.

Languaged cognition, thought, beliefs, ideas,
a LeftBrain Yang capacity
to extend internal emotional life,
evolving shared eisegetical stretch across a range
of empathic-trust to totally alien distrust
transubstantiating entire extended families of language, culture, society,
ecopolitical environments of nutritional light-flowing evolution
of Self+Other ecoconsciousness
from mere chaotic origins,
introspectively ruminating feelings toward more polypathic ecosymbiotic explorations
of feelings and their trust/distrust cognitive belief delivery systems
about our mutually held, or not,
ecopolitical ecological health and safety v pathology.

Other than seriously damaged sociopaths,
we each hope and hoe to become optimally effective ecopolitical communicators
of healthy, happy, prosperous, nutritional cognitions
with nondual emotional faces,
to speak and act in ways that build not only ourselves
but our perpetually extending multicultural families
with increasingly polypathic acclimation
to Earth’s collective peace with ecopolitical justice,
grace-effective love
rather than mutual victimization and projected criminalization
born of our own past empathic angers and fears of failing future trusts,
as well as our self-isolating perpetuation of environmental behaviors
toxic to our anthropological and ecological purpose
of EarthTribe ReGenerators,
Occupyers of and for health optimizing justice.

We want to feed ourselves,
each of our hungry sensory input receptors,
and our families and friends,
and, by extension, all our economic transactions and politically empowering relationships,
therapy for what ails us,
health for our future and future generations.

This Earth-optimizing health-generation
requires our cooperative revolution of empathic trust dominance
throughout each interdependent ecopolitical network,
unfolding day by day,
moment to moment of cooperative v competitive choice,
but also culture by culture
and generation by generation
and species by species of endo/ecto symbiotic ecoconscioousness,
now bicamerally articulating
great transitioning
to reverse time in our collective polypathic imaginations
back through at least 12,000 years
when Earth’s climate invited a more optimal stretch of EarthTribe regenerative consciousness,
gradually calming down while spreading DNA out into ecological health and safety,
more supportive ecopolitically positive nutritional systems,
beginning to build up Left-Yang deductive icons
to reflect Elder Right Yin’s inductive ionic-bionic feelings
about economics of digestion
and political science of nutritional cooperatives
verses pathological non-self-governing competitions
of mutually non-elite side by side monoculturing immunity,
dividing, reifying human nature from sacred environmental nature,
causing bicameral stress, dissonance
learning by earning to speak ego-identity self-consciously,
awareness as feelers storing iconic messages for future health/pathology trends,
written across the beating hearts of mindbodies
long experienced with radiant powers of warm light
and cold dualdark Black Embryonic Holes

richly fertile integrative interdependent intelligent intuitions,
composting fusions without words,
unfolding time’s integrity as regenerate revolutioning fractal-spinning
elational potential
evolutioning health
toward beloved peaceful timelessness
of cosmological ecoconsciousness,
together healthier ecopolitical becoming
toward this great optimal transactional now
Paradise polypathic mutually gifting forward moment
of together occupying and slow-growth sustaining
our collective encultured felt re-experience of permacultural optimization,
DNA’s Original intent
within bilaterally unfolding spacetime,
developing each individual within each species
now aware
we have always collectively shared this ecologically balancing power-with co-empathic trust
this integrative polypathic potential.

Still we struggle to speak and act with bilateral self-governing balance,
to learn through following ecopolitical ecoconscious harmonics
of thinking/feeling nondual empathic trust
as notnot thinking/feeling integrative potential
of regeneratively ionic-iconic EarthTime Herself,
birthing in and of and for and through
(0)-soul positive/double-bind negative
four-prime equivalent dimensional cooperative WinWin Games
for healthy network systems,
DNA/RNA octave-harmonic iconic
and bionic,
polymorphic spaces within polypathic bilateral time.

You are doing a great job of following the money, honey,
said Yin through Yang.
As we follow healthywealthy nutritional flow,
said progenitive Yang through double-binding YinYin
(0)-sum gifting-growth.

Healthy plight of light
following Earth’s regenerative string
of deepest richest nutrient streams of bright.

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Belief v No Thanks

We believe in truths we empathically
ecopolitically
humanely
nutritionally trust.

We grow therapeutic faith in empathic trusts
too peacefully pregnantly beautiful
to not become true, one day,
this day, if at all possible.

We actively distrust those competing truths
within potentially cooperative powers
we multiculturally love to hate.

We can not not believe in/with  ecological truths
of/for
deeply etched nutritionally resonant trusts.

If we assume Earth, including Anthros,
is biosystemically fully invested in cooperatively healthy climate systems
and disinvesting away from dissonating and unstable toxins,
what each of us believes and disbelieves in
becomes more a question
of what and whom we ecopolitically/ecologically believe and disbelieve with.

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