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Losses Predicting Gains

I asked the Christian evangelical
proudly wearing his Make America Great Again
red golfing cap:

What day to day spiritual experience
of grace
health
humane relationships
rich in joy
well-being
regenerativity
integrity
would you lose
if God the Father of omnipotent Love

Turns out to also be
Earth,
the Mother of Holy
Holonic
Holistic GreenPeace Spirit?

As Eden on restored Earth
predicted
and iconic redemption experienced
by Jesus of Nazareth’s fertile
polycultural Kingdom already at hand
during and after baptism
by water
in a sluggish,
yet still flowing,
still nurturing,
still transporting Jordan River
of active hope
in faith
for polyamorous
synergetic love.

I’m still waiting for his answer
about what he would thereby lose.

Although I suspect it might have something to do with loss
of caste preserving confidence
in StraightWhiteMale
LeftBrain dominant
competitive miseducation
segregation
individualized freedoms
for earning salvation

From fear of erotic ego’s eternal suffering
in endless lonely Hell
of painful isolation
overpowering potential communion
in immortally polyamorous inclusion,
regenerative social
and cultural health
and neurosensory wealth potential
already at hand

Cooperative
democratic
eco-political
restoring justice to green peace climates
of nonviolence
for WholeEarth global inter-religious
inclusive polycultures,
win+win thrival

Including sacred+organic
conscious+sentient
nurturing+naturing
dialogical
dipolar
depolarizing communication integrity.

When I asked him
what he might gain
from Earth EcoFeminist Gaian principles
of synergetic health compassion,
he was equally silent

But, I saw a glimmer
turn to gleam
restoring internal sense
of saint and sinner reviving solidarity
with endless longing to return
to sacred EarthMother’s ecosystemic
opulently organic
belonging

To eco-politically reweave,
to world-wide-webbed restore,
to revive and thrive
to make Earth’s healthiest nutritional wealth
great co-passion communication

Sacred ecology
of organic inter-religious theology
again

Asking monotheistic evangelists
proudly wearing Make AnthroIntelligence Great Again
red golfing caps

What win/wins could we gain
by losing anthropocentric sins?

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An Attractive Thought Experiment

In this thought experiment
Adults, at least,
have developed three types of attraction
and attractiveness,
chemistry,
positive and negative
and in-between synergy:

Heart attraction,
romantically associated
with touch and feeling,

Mind attraction,
more cognitively associated
with sight and sound
and, perhaps, LeftBrain dissonance
and more competitive
predative instincts
of win v lose zero-sum
calculation

And root sexual attraction,
primordially associated with taste
and smell,
swallowing
and letting go
biochemistry,
neurologically informed
and exforming passions,
rhythms,
communion and disunion patterns,
co-passion v dis-passion communication structures,
win+win bilaterally resilient
and lose v lose resistant
pleasure v displeasure
ease v disease

These three conjoined
into dipolar associative co-relationships
anthropological and ecological,
spiritual and natural
sacred and organic
metaphysical and physical
passion and pleasure

Sage and Muse
crown and root bicameral intelligence
combined within each PeaceWarrior
heart
touching Other sentience
and feeling Self consciousness.

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Deviating Sisters

One of my sisters believes I chose to be queer.

Did you remind her
you had no more choice about chasing guys
than she did?

Yes.
But her favorite televangelist
says I must be mistaken,
or just lying,
because who wouldn’t choose to be hated
by all the hetero homophobes
like televangelists,
and evangelical radio heads,
right?

That makes no sense.
She can’t really believe
you would choose to belong
to any repressed and humiliated minority,
especially during early onset of puberty,
when every girl and boy in any culture
is terrified of becoming different,
or special,
or weeded out of the clickety-clak pack.

Well, as she sees it,
she is in a LoseLose double-bind.
Either I chose to be queer, and am thereby demented,
or God graces all forms of WinWin sexual expression,
which would be contrary to her homophobic enculturation,
so it is easier to believe I am nuts
to choose perversely
than to consider herself nuts
not to choose more graciously,
especially with regard to God’s creative capacity for love,
rather than simplistic judgments
which look and smell and sound like patriarchal sexism
more than radical compassion of God’s healthy pleasure
of regenerative love among all gendered children,
red and yellow,
black and white,
gay and straight
and shades of grey transgendered,
each is precious in our polyamorous
Gaian Hypothesis sight.

What about your other sister?

Oh, she agrees.

With what, or whom?

She agrees we’re all nuts.
Nuts
not to choose healthy love
over pathological hate
and fear
and anger
and greed,
craving to keep all the hot men
for one’s own privileged clan.

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The Only Way To Go

When I was a new seminarian
I had a favorite parish priest mentor
who told me the best way to die
is while having an orgasm.

I wasn’t sure if I could ask
why he was so exclamatory sure
of his nakedly compromising position.
I did not really know him all that well,
although he seemed to be a swell up kind of Father.

Perhaps I looked a bit nervous
because he hastened to reassure me
the reason he is enamored of orgasms,
of peak experiences,
is because they transcend our cognitive dualities
in-between polyamorous Eros
and polytheistic Agape.

Orgasms are ecstatic climatic events,
warm full-bodied memories
of mindbody interdependence,
of holistic cooperative economic enlightenment
and political empowerment within
every organ and cell,
muscle and happy little ego-subsystem
groaning out this profoundly universal Yes!
with both LeftBrain audio-visual ethos compassion
and RightBrain universally uniting
neurosensory climate of eros pleasure.

I didn’t know what to say to this bicameral-sexual therapy.
But, if this is an option for how to die,
it does sound like the only ecstatic one I have ever heard.

So I said that.
And then my mentor suggested I go home
and practice
living that same way.

Interesting,
how orgasms struggle through rhapsodic space
while dying struggles against too-fast insufficient time.

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Said the Wiccan to the Wicked

Cognitive decline
follows chronic emotional neglect

Said the curious student
to teachers of dogma

Said the silenced sage
to muted musicians

Said the theologian
to exhausted bodhisattvas

Said the frustrated ecologist
to traumatized wiccan worshippers

Said the gospel sympathizer
to Old Testament victimizers

Said the scientific systems reformer
to irreligious deformers

Crown chakra abuse
follows root chakra neglect
because
Root chakra abuse
follows crown chakra neglect

Because my cognitive ethos decline
follows our chronically traumatized
eros neglect

As my disillusion
follows Earth’s disempowerment

Re-cognizing humane ethotic decline
follows chronic divine erotic neglect

Not empowering transformation
not enlightening compassion’s
authentically engaging information

Scientifically sagacious incline
following inter-religiously amusing
passions.

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Harmony of Right and Left Brain: Cooperative Wisdom

A happy healthy and wealth-integrated
indigenously pleasing/displeasing RightBrain
grows maturely peaceful as a calm winter night,
content to allow LeftBrain to ego-chatter away
debating further cooperative win/win plans
for Earth’s and Elder RootBrain’s and,
most immediately and satisfyingly therapeutic,
newer CrownBrain’s best beloved belonging day.

In an evolutionary historical sense,
we are each and all,
WesternDominant and EasternRecessive bicameral
moving NorthernMind and SouthernBody bi-hemispheres,
RightBrain embedded in EarthMother’s yin-flowing
regenerative yang-stengthening
emergently extending love’s warm universal womb

Before enlightening exposure
to Either/Or deductive springs
of AnthroPrivileged
bilateral Both/And cobinary intelligence

Bringing newborn eumemic trust
in One GodSun’s ethotic crowning truth
experienced through GaiaEarth’s erotic rooted beauty

Passion and Pleasure
reborn light of FatherSun’s democratically radiant trust
in what is MidWay warm
co-empowering Earth’s green caste
not too zealously condemning red hot
and not too silently victimized blue cold.

This integratively cooperative and nurturing economy
of RightBrain’s root erotic chakra,
listens to deep ecologically learn, regenerate, remember
LeftBrain’s ethotic crown co-investment chakra,
with both wise yang opportunities
and overly reductive dis-yintegrative risks.

Yintegral Wisdom
RightBrain deep flowing
Yang’s polypathic bicameral imagination
toward spacious/timeless capital-invested
1(0)-cobinary belonging,
void of any cognitive v affective
ethotic v erotic
crown v root
remaining upper v lower caste dissonance

Resistance to Yang/Yin cooperative ecopolitical contentment
within this silence
of a warm winter night’s co-redemptive womb,
becoming evolution’s further revolution
of not said not silent
ethos/eros co-empathic
passion/pleasure bliss

Multiculturing hope
in bicamerally co-arising nonduality
of ecological empowerment
through winter’s contenting hibernation

Calm before more fractured convergence storms
of 20/20 perception/reception co-passionate laughter,
remembering how unSage LeftBrain has been
to not see RightBrain’s muzzled Muse health
in AnthroPrivileged co-empathic song and dance
cooperatively mediated
cobinary SunFather/EarthMother
crown enlightened ethos-telling
root empowering
eros-swelling wealth.

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