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Mixing Politics and Religion

My grandfather
seemed wise with years
walking his rural spiritual path
in a relentlessly white
Christian dualistic church
dividing sinful nature
from sacred spirit.

He counseled:
Do not mix
religion and politics.

I wonder
how he would feel
about this mix
of sacred and profane
if he were to meet
my out lesbian activist
senior UU minister.

Clearly
we have mixed up
our religious community
within our local political culture

When we called
this clergy person
we did not ask her
to leave her politics
at any sacred
and ordained door.

On the contrary
we recognize
and celebrate
that she
and we
are politically empowered
and disempowered identities
with naturally spiritual experiences,
family traditions
and theological agendas.

I wonder
if my grandfather would realize:
If calling an out
feminist lesbian
as our minister
mixes religion
and politics,
against his well-meant advice

So too:
Calling a straight
white male
as his first
and second
and third
and fourth
and fifth
and sixth…
pastor
was also mixing politics
and religion
and sexuality

Also against his own patriarchal
not feminist,
monotheistic
not polytheistic,
monoculturing
not polyculturally resilient
healthy advice

Especially for a family farmer
valuing crop
and income diversity
who started out
as an adolescent
relying on organic horsepower,
spirited stallions
and mares
capable of peak experiences
and making ponies
and fertilizing fields
with sacred regenerative practices
for exercising political agency

Giving birth
to future
naturally religious
politically empowered
and disempowered
gender role identified bodies

Yang strong
and Yintegral flowing
wu-wei admixtures of secular politics
and sacred enculturing religious
integrity

Monotheistic
and polytheistic
and panentheistic
and atheistic experiences
cooperatively inclusive

Resiliently polycultural
political and sexual
dynamic communicators
within enlightened tribes
and across empowering species.

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Healthy Compassion Parties

I am deeply concerned,
worried,
anxious
that We The Humane Healthy People
need to calmly
and firmly say:

The Republican NATIONAL Party
no longer supports:
Public Health,
Mental/Spiritual Health,
Planetary Climate Health,
Cognitive/Emotive Integrity
Resilient Economic Wealth
Healthy Democracy.

A therapeutic
redemptive revival
of a trusted
true
and patriotic
Grand Old MultiCultural Party
requires pruning back through historic
toxicity
to the Eisenhower administration
channeling the Lincolnesque longing
for a more civil discourse
between those who are enslaved,
those who feel economically
and politically oppressed,
between loyal adversaries
sure of a United State of commitment
to public wellbeing,
green environmental and economic prosperity,
empowering profoundly co-empathic public health
and conservational safety.

My own Michigan
white privileged
homophobic
evangelical ChosenPeople
monotheistic father
never would have voted for a Hillary Clinton,

And he never would have voted for a Donald Trump
because of Anti-Christian vainglorious pride
in having no experience,
including veteran experience,
defending humane health
and sacred social safety.

The RNC owes We
The MultiCultural Democratic People
an apology
and reparations,

A therapeutic
bipartisan peace plan
for national resilience,
for global green health,
and for ecological-economic safety,
sanity,
EarthResonant security.

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Radly Bad Religion, and Politics, and probably Sex

Sad
mad
wealth of bad;

Not so glad
not so rad
and not really healthy gonad
regenerative gospel.

Sad sex,
mad religion,
wealth of unaffordable,
rapaciously bad politics
seducing capitalist white bad boys
with mad cash investments
in wealthy corporate religions
with win/lose purposive missions

To forget we little regular folk
may all worship different Sons,
but all those Sons and Suns
and heavenly Daughters
share one Holy Green EarthMother

Nurturing,
sensitively natural,
ecologically nutritious

Not so unenlightened sad
Not so disempowering mad,
Not so health care bad.

Not choosing life
as love
story’s win/win co-arising cues,
good news

Enlightening glad multicultural nonviolence,
green communion,

EarthTribe here is now
radically empowering
mystical peak
root-systemic
indigenously sacred
co-empathic experiences,

Polyvagal
polycultural
neurosystemic communion

Left hemisphere agnostic
Right hemisphere divinely engaged
bilaterally co-enraptured
with full-spectral spiraling
NonZero OpenSpacious Nutritional Systems
supporting ambiguous
sacred curiosity
of a green health
makes a truly wealthy
bodhisattva messianic Planet.

Who could imagine
One ZeroSum
without
Earth’s biosystemic Other?

What could be Now
without someday becoming There?

Yang strength resonantly Now
without Yintegrity flowing
healthy wealth balance
SomeWhere
we would all like to become
There

ReMembering healthy Then
without sick Here

Economic yintegrity Then
with politically empowering Yang
co-arising potential green
cooperative
nonviolent
compassionate Here

Sadly rad,
madly bad
singing and dancing
with glad gospel gonads.

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Singers and Dancers Needed

What to gladly sing
about our global economic politics
and socially inept monoculturing predation?
divinely self-righteous
missionary terrorist zeal
also known as religious
colonization.

Such global
and national
and local PatriarchalCapitalist
RightWing unhealthy issues

Seem to have started
sometime after we stopped
singing and dancing
together

And before we began competitively speaking
and not cooperatively listening
always rhetorically against,
and never even theoretically for,
each Other

They
those separate
and really not pure patriotically
Christian evangelizing equal
non-rightwing dominant
agnostically disabled
gnostically feminized
politically marginalized
economically criminalized
using LeftBrain punishing RightBrain
retributively correct
didactic
anal-retentive Queen’s English
empowering
and enlightened
verbal correctness

In a neural network
somewhere
bilaterally between
wealthy multicultural engagement
and unhealthy mllitarized oppression,
assault rifle policing

And congressional
“mow’em down”
redblooded patriotic pictures
of families proudly erecting assault rifles
nestled between their fertile thighs
gathered round a brilliantly middle-class
StraightWhiteAmerican Christmas Tree
whispering plastic memories

Song and tribal dance
celebrating a Win/Win messianic virgin
bearing forth a GraceFilled Prince
for EarthJust Peace

AnthroSupremacist warriors
punish EarthGreen cooperative
co-invested,
less toxically infested, intent,

Polyphonic deep listening
for sacred Gaian
abundant muses
resonating panentheistic Wisdom.

While monotheistic persuasion
may be confused
with monoculturing coercion
at the end of a self-divinizing gun

And the loser end
of a capital-cultural hoarding game,

We
all hope
and body pray
and kind mind say

Genuine win/win conversion
to GoldenRule Trust
is free of win/lose persuasion
rooted in debate;
not dialogue

Resonant conversion
most resilient
adheres to EarthCentric
GreenCooperative Rules,

Health is wise wellbeing wealth
enumerated in win/win Positive Psychology
applied to uniting co-invested nations
and local communications

NonViolent for EarthJustice
and GreenPeace Days
transforming MeWe
divine humanity
into Beauty/Trusted Truths.

Feminist flow
and masculine strength
estrogen
and testosterone
co-arising away from LeftBrain
dominant StraightWhite AnthroSupremacist

MisUnEducated persuasions
and MonoTheistic win/lose coercions
do not predict PolyCultural EarthCommunion
resilient health outcomes

Are denying RightWing
degenerative lose/lose
nihilistic absence of health
and regenerative wealth communication,
resonantly resilient

Still GreenWing whispering
of perduring sacred co-invested Time
felt in harmonic healthy
gospel music
4/4 full-spectral
experiential octave resonance
of a holy warm-wombed night

Tao dancing integrity
of hereYang nowYintegrity
body/mind
spacious/timely
cooperative/integral
universal/unitarian
bicameral/contextual
health/wealth
museResonant Stength/musicalResilient Flow
Informing/Outgoing
multiculturally intelligent
organic design.

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BumperSticker Salvation

I’m behind a dull white Chevy sedan
developing a lived-in look
while waiting for a greener light

With more than sufficient time
to read two rather ragged bumper stickers
in radical red,
relentless white,
and smoky blue.

The left side message
right in front of my resting wheel
reminded me of my waiting shame
that Jesus had to die
because of my personal sins
for which no one else
could even be partially
pulled out to blame

Only confirming
my bad-self flame
burning along with
a ZeroSum Win now
to delay Losing later
our all-in financial
and partisan lame game

Selling out to our competitive patriarchal
hierarchical shame
of predative corporate Christian Capitalism,
which is what remains
of Cooperative Economics
after squeezing all natural
indigenous spirit wisdom
out of wealth
is health optimizing life.

If only I were less selfish
and lazy
about mediating good-faith
healthcare co-investment cooperatives
as I move along
through each nonviolently communicating
day and night

Bringing me back to the bumper sticker
on my right wing
reminding me,
There is room left
at the Cross for me

Which immediately feels threatening,
ominously judged
and found collectively guilty
for my personal lack of faithful
healthy Soul,
big shortages in potential win/win co-investments
like gratitude for PolyCultural GreenHealth Communions
wherever I might stumble into them again
acting like We care
about health wealth resilient Us.

So, I’m tragically predestined
to climb onto the same rugged cross,

[and why is our cross always so iconically “rugged”
rough and primitive
ragged and wretched
manly and rapacious?
Why never graceful,
flexible,
poignant
transformative
potentially metamorphic
compassionate?]

Losing today
to maybe survive until tomorrow morning’s
StraightWhite God
declares redawning
punishing
timeless omnipotence
to judge all my tomorrows.

Yes,
there is a room for me
at the patriarchal foot
and the capital head
of threatening
punishing mortality
inflamed by oppression
of LeftHemisphere dominant
StraightWhite PatriCapital
anthro-divine individualistic
monotheistic supremacy

Worshiping healthy SunEnlightened humanity
by denying a wounding Cross
we have win/lose ZeroSum created
and recreate each day
between each nightmare
against sacred Earth’s polycultural communioning
reunioning
reweaving
win/win NonZero Soul
optimizing sacred Integrity’s
ecological
economic empowering
EarthWealth

Of a love so radically liberal
Jesus could get more democratically down
off our CapitalistCorporate cross

And then
I’m suddenly no longer behind a dull white Chevy sedan
developing a lived-out look
while waiting for my greener light.

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Masked Medical Missionaries

Not sure why
USA red
relentlessly white
and not so much blue WholeEarth patriots
have consistently
selflessly supported
medical missionaries
vaccinating against every unmasked
health threatening disease
erupting in tribal life
of darkest social systemic Africa

Yet fail to co-empathically embrace
basic
fundamental
win/win evangelically redemptive
bipartisan public health care
here in domestic
Straight White
USA Christian
flag-waving homes

Where live and breathe
our own at-risk children

And climate threatened grandchildren

And pandemonic RightWing denihilistic
degenerating public and private health prospects
for great grandchildren

Who might hope to survive
for more than another wealthy
humane-divine century

Sacredly meaningful
unmasked
transparent
and multiculturally vulnerable
co-empathic
polypathic
public and private
EarthBound health.

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WellHearted Minds

I suppose my worldview life of mind
and witnessing view of few
deep well
hearted Earth
Bodies

Would both feel easier
healthier
lighter
safer
more powerfully co-inviting
without chronic win/lose stressors
popping up
downstream sundry, multiculturally
diverse

Technologically
Digitally
and yet Organically EcoGreen
possible

Future prophets
without ecologically probable
health

Potential for organically integral
panentheistic
polyenthymematic
multiparadigmatic
polypathmathic
prophecies

Shunning Mutually Assured Destruction
MADness prospects for further losing
degenerating

Earth losing wealthy cooperating Ego AnthroPolyCulture
Healthy

Sensory-centered sacred EarthStar Bodies
without sexual secularized
Win/Lose bipolarizing not/not passions
reverse dipolar
co-pathological
anti-theological
un-ecological

CoPassionately reverse unstressed
already vaccinated for win/lose
that

Passive/Aggressive Judging voice:
Thanks so much for bringing this AntiEarth Issue
to my EarthMother sacred worldview Mind
entranced with Earth’s EcoFeminist Ultra NonViolet
Organic Green/Blue/Brown
wide/deep felt
Paradise

Body ecosystems
with biosystemic global view
leftbrain
voices

Choices in these Here/Now at Hand
times of potential nuclear holocaust,
WholeEarth climate disorganic
disorganizing
Degeneration,

This viral anthro-pandemic
of ZeroSum monocultural
Win/Lose lacking
Ego/Eco-Systemic
Game

Of cooperative
Win/Win globally bicameral
natural egohealth/spiritual ecowealth
green organic/currency energy democratic
consensus

Profitably predicting
apparently inevitable:
If you Lose your healthy EarthView
then you also Lose our EgoAnthro-Communication
Center

Of health
wealthy resilient
resonant EarthTribe
Older RightBrain “Safe-Conservational”
CoIdentity

Yet individuating our still small
green
rightbrain interdependent
eco-matriarchal
win/win womb
paradigmatic

Thought/Felt Voice
profitably fresh
deep wellbeing brilliant

Light
empowering cooperatively wide
integrity

Of co-binary Heaven/Earth
Yang verbal Voiced
and Yintegral non-violent
Choiced

EgoWin to EcoSystemically Win
organically knowable
scientific LeftBrain
corporate Capitalized
research

Exploring Either/Or deductively
rational win/lose polarized
conclusions

AND
binomial double-binary
both/and
tolerance/intolerance
chronic stress
and cognitive/affective dissonance
boundaries

Reconnecting secularized Thought
from indigenously sacred Felt

Heaven’s inductive
conductive heartbody
EarthChild feelings
healthy and
safe
CoPositive

Interior spiritual nervetissue
of verbalized issues,
stressed thoughts
about longing for healing
feelings

Of Original HealthSource belonging
cooperative ReSource
investing

In an ancient pre-millennial
indigenous
wisdom
revolution

Where Earth’s root systemic breath
pleasure issues,
empower re-maining
re-ligioning
re-connecting
Paradise

HeavenSource
of sensory spiritually nervous tissues
enlightening

Our anthro-designed habitat:

Does it feel more like a fortress
against Earth’s invasive
overpowering green gospel Nature?

Or more like an invitation
for Earth’s expansive grace,
co-empowering spiritual Paradise
Place?

This dynamic EarthSpace spiritual Time
internal

Conversation between Earth’s CoOperative Green Nature
and capitalist humane straight white patriarchal behavior
reasonable win/lose historic mono-hetero-elitist colonizing
nature

Inside competitive polarizing
stressed-out
increasingly militantly-industrialized
mega-corporate
meta-ecopolitical
big bully anthro-supremacist voices
post-millennial identity

Crisis of Nature’s climate risk
becomes more bilaterally engaging
when Earth asks the leftbrain anthrohealth questions
and HumbleEgos cooperatively respond
with co-invested
wealth

Of EcoSystemic prime-rooted NonZero Sum answers
responsible for sacred gratitude
for Beauty
Elegance

More than individually authoritative
Intricate

Holistic yet secular
divisive attitudes
more than multiplying gratitudes
anticipating with therapeutic sleepiness,
perhaps eco-political democratic health hypnosis,
before more AnthroEgos Win so EarthEcoSystemic Science
Wins

20/20 overcoming AnthroCentric privileged
means cooperatively
multiculturally empowered
and ongoing interdependently enlightening
Dogma

Standing in
and out
and upstream history
and downstream polycultural
health

For Nature/Spirit
double-bicameral
EarthWorld
ReView
ReSet
ReVolve

Widely
multiculturally downstream
healthy future
children

Already deeply
monoculturally wounded
unwealthy past
upstream Voices

ReTurning into Secular
Sacred silent Choices.

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Losses and 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
multicultural Kingdom already at hand
during and after baptism
by immersion
in a sluggish,
yet still flowing,
still nurturing,
still communing Jordan River
of active hope
in faith,
for omnipotent energetic 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 egocentric confidence
in StraightWhiteMale
LeftBrain-dominant
privileged miseducation
segregation
individualized competitions
for earning salvation

From fear of ego’s mortal eternal suffering,
where fear of lonely timeless Hell
of painful neuropsychological isolation
outdistances communion
for eternal multicultural inclusion,
regenerative social and cultural health potential
already at hand,

Cooperative,
democratic
eco-political
restoring justice to green peace climates
of nonviolence
for WholeEarth global interfaith cultures,

Including secular/sacred
dialogical
dipolar
depolarizing 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 solidarity
with eternal longings to return
to ecosystemic opulence

To eco-politically reweave,
to globally restore,
to resume,
to make Earth’s healthiest nutritional wealth
great nonviolent communication
and ecology
and theology
again.

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Disempowering Systems

Systemic racism
is a social/cultural pattern
of racial prejudice
originating within individuals
and their anecdotal experiences
and lack of multiculturally enriching discernment

Shedding light,
and shredding dark,
power analysis,
political and economic,
on patterns of white privileged events
unveils systemic patterns of win/lose empowered privilege
and disempowering lose/lose prejudices,
race and male and heterosexual privileged
anthropocentric unredeeming
lack of communication
events.

Take, for example,
a power analysis of John 3:16:

For God so loved the world [Earth and EarthCreatures]
That He gave His only begotten Son [patriarchal frame]
So that whosoever believes in Him
Shall not perish
But have eternal life.

Literalist
Fundamentalist
Conservative
Evangelical Christians
(should this prove not to be a complex oxymoron)
have supplanted believing in God’s radically interdependent EarthLove
(first phrase)
with doctrinal belief in Jesus of Nazareth
as God’s only begotten, privileged
humane/divine hybrid Son of
StraightWesternWhiteMale
LeftBrain Dominant
Military-Industrialized
Retributive Win/Lose Judging God.

This substitution of belief
in the privileged sacred status
of a Jewish male Teacher
and Prophet,
sharing his potentially viral experience
of Jewish AbbaCreator
as win/win power of universal multiculturing
regenerative Love,
is a culturally profound
early straight white western
(not particularly eastern nature/spirit nondualistic)
privileged-prejudicial moment
of defining God’s economic
and politically empowering grace
in troubling oppositional terms:

First phrase, Regenerative Source is universal Love,
and, third phrase,
Regenerative Source is historically-culturally,
systemically racist.

If, to be orthodox and effectively Christian
is to be spiritually privileged,
then those not born into evangelical Christian homes,
King James Bible reading communities,
Western dominating cultures
are disproportionately
and systematically
and historically under privileged,
disempowered
unredeemed
with less win/win graced
direct experience of Love
Light
Word internal/external
ego-refining/ecopolitical-defining win/win
potential spiritual/natural life optimizers.

Jesus of Nazareth’s prime experiential teaching,
story telling
prophetic “God is multiculturing universal win/win Love”
not revengeful monoculturing
win/lose systemic
racist Judge

Is not resonantly heard,
not resiliently felt,
neither tasted nor seen
through eyes and ears,
hands and heart,
mouth and nose
of straight white male privilege

Too leftbrain dominant
to divinely know
and nondualistically respect
appreciate
primacy of empowering cooperative green/blue Love experience
over disempowering competitive redblooded Lust
for theologically dogmatic unecological lack of relationship,
anthropocentric
xenophobic
narcissistic
individualistic ego-salvific power

To claim sacred wealth of life
for yourself and only your Tribe
by denying truths of sacred/secular empowerment
through win/win cooperative everyday experience
of communion
throughout all EarthTribes

Divine/humane
right/left
yin/yang
green/red
nonviolent communicating Light
of ChristMass Love
Words
Stories of CoRedemption

Democratic,
not autocratic,
experiences both ecologically natural
and theologically spiritual;

Devoid
Cleansed
Wiped Clean of racist,
straight male dominant,
leftbrain misculturing
unhealthy
unwealthy supremacy.

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Audacity of Green Democracy

Are you,
or have you ever been,
a Trumpist?

Asks the Restorative Justice Committee
inviting an open discussion
with Christian evangelicals
about their new green global loyalties

And how this anticipation
of restoring justice
through green/blue climates
and unred-undominating cultures of peace
has been influenced,
or not,
by EarthPatriotic repentance.

In hindsight,
said a representative
of the StraightWhiteMale Clergy Association,
I first began reflecting on,

“Who is my social capital competitiveness
willing to sacrifice,
to actively or passively bully,
shun,
ignore,
disempower,
leave behind as a ‘loser’
so I could more clearly emerge
among my monoculturing peers
as an orthodox redmeat ‘winner’
a God of Retributive Justice emulator,
judge,
blamer and shamer,
violent miscommunicator,
win/lose evolutionist
of a discontinuously transcendent
slowly degenerating undivine EarthView.

Willing to sacrifice
and capitalistically bully Earth Her sacred Self,
in my shunned silent closet
focusing on a rapturous Heavenly climax
after the straight white Father’s great self-righteous
rapacious red rage.

Which is something rather punishingly different
and anxiety reproducing
as compared to anticipating
a green EarthBound Rapture
catalyzed by healthy democratic empowering
and cooperatively enlightening restoration
of ego/eco-therapeutic EarthJustice.

What, of your own potential integrity,
internal multicultural interests
and faith-filled curiosities,
is your current internal monocultural win/lose efficiency
for hoarding currencies of social success markers,
such as “annual six figure income”?

I’m not sure I understand your question.
Is our household income over $100,000?
Am I a faithful federal military-industrialized taxpayer?
Yes, of course.

What and whom are you willing to leave behind?

How do your faith communities shut out awareness
of other green restorative currencies for success,
such as integrity,
multicultural, multigenerational neighborhood social synergy,
win/win commitments to inclusive consciousness,
to transparent authenticity,
to vulnerability
willing to risk personal honesty
about closeted red deviancy,
feelings of undemocratic evangelical supremacy?

I’m hoping those are rhetorical questions?

Oh ye of little green faith
inadequate to anticipate opportunity
to more deeply learn
who we are becoming
as an interfaith multicultural health wealthy family,
a global neighborhood communion,
a diverse mutually absorbing ultra-nonviolet community
free of dreaming up more red fear
and blue/green free for transparent cooperative curiosity
and win/win co-empowerment
and holistic open systemic co-enlightenment.

Now who’s bullying
and overpowering
and not effectively communicating
so much as competitively evangelizing?

Who and what do your religious dogmas
exclude from grace
that your spiritual and natural cultural interests,
your attractions and anxieties
would include as stretch goals
for better health communication
which includes respectful listening more
and disrespectful preaching less?

If you wouldn’t mind,
could we turn your question around?
How are eco-political you,
and how have we forever audaciously become,
MultiCultural Therapeutic Communicators?

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