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The Fourth Principle

The Fourth Principle of cooperative ecopolitical design (D. Holmgren):
Apply self-regulation and accept feedback.
One might read this as an implied corollary
of the Golden Rule.

Why?
The sins and blessings of the patriots and matriots
are revisited by and with children
unto the seventh generation.

If we are to develop healthy and robust democratic self-governance
then we must grow cooperative ownership and stewardship of feedback systems,
especially from those whose outcomes are least robust
among our slowly extending global family.

Feedback comes in two trends,
regenerative-positive,
which often has some form of creolizing, creative, recreative dimension
to love’s evolution,
and degenerative-negative.
It is important to accept both kinds,
to welcome both kinds, especially when they are offered together,
within some nondual co-arising double-binding frame
of appositional dipolar reference,
to become grateful for both kinds,
to express this gratitude for both kinds,
life’s apparent blessings and curses.

So, whether Republican or Democrat,
or something Libertarian Green in-between,
an important litmus test for the savvy ecopolitical consumer and producer
of national and state and local leadership and maturity
that we sometimes ignore at our own disgruntled peril,
and at further peril “unto seven generations”
of potentially robust regenerators,
from Bodhisattva PeaceWagers and CoInvestors
to CoMessianic Salvific GoodNews CoRedeemers:

1. How has this candidate for public office
demonstrated and grown mature self-regulation
in his/her personal and public economic and political-relational life?
Essentially a question to compare cooperative ownership and governance trends
with overly competitive elitist and supremacist egocentric trends.

2. How has this candidate demonstrated growth
in regenerative capacity
to absorb,
learn from,
and become grateful for
positive and negative feedback
in his/her personal and pubic economic and political life?
How might you compare this to your own life,
both naturally organic and spiritual?

Perhaps the overly competitive economic and politically aggressive public servants
we have been electing and hiring to represent our healthiest interests
are the to-be-expected answers
to the absence of higher-priority questions,
too degeneratively short-term focused
and polarizingly narrow-minded,
questions unmindful of the Fourth Principles potential
for more robust Golden Rule cooperative outcomes.

David Holmgren, Co-Originator of the Permaculture Concept,

Fourth Principle from “Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability”

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Touched by Kindness

An outrageously warm full moon
radiates above my roof
across our yard,
my face and mind,
reminding me Earth’s nature can and must sometimes feel kind
if last week’s hurricane of snow felt unkind
to aging joints and internal family tensions.

My Taoist roots remain disarticulated on this theme.
Controversy of dissonant and alien natures cannot be kind
because Earth is not kind.
Yet too often taught,
I feel this full moon glow across my tearing mind,
that nature is unkind
and so it is our nature to compete to survive,
rather than cooperate to thrive,
along with all Earth’s Golden Ruling creatures
and ecosystems.

And yet this narrative,
left removed from other half,
distorts who we are sometimes,
who I am at my best and healthiest,
and least competitive dissonance,
because in 0-sum Taoist nondual co-arising philosophy,
where there is an unkind Yang
there must also be a kind Yin
or how would we know anything of kindness,
positive or negative opposition,
yang both/and yin apposition
full regenerative kindness and empty unkind promise.

This warm January moon will darkly empty,
yet fill again
to touch my heart,
our hearts,
with Earth’s kind and healthy Promise.

 

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Digesting Happiness

What did your grandmother tell you about happiness?

Bottom line,
All you have is your health.
Nothing about money or celebrity status at all.

Yes. That sounds familiar.
And, what did your father hope for your happiness?

He was more nuanced about happiness.
Or maybe conflicted would be a better word.
Happiness was maybe not the right question.
Certainly not the most important one.

Did he have a favorite aphorism?

You are what you eat.

Putting those two together, then,
You progress in absorbing health
as you conservatively invest in healthy nutritional choices,
and vice versa,
we progress toward further degeneration
as we continue to compete against toxins
from unhealthy environmental choices.

They both talked about the Golden Rule,
although not about nutritional choices.

If they talked about the Golden Cooperative Rule,
they were talking about healthy, nutrition-optimizing, choices,
conservationally progressive orthopraxis,
and co-arising feelings of trust,
rather than continuing to co-gravitate toward more competitive investments,
rooted in others’ naive benighted breaches
of mentoring healthy integrated, digestible, investments
as you would have others mentor nutritionally cooperative enrichment
to and with conservational-progressive ego-healthy you.

Maybe my grandkids want to hear me say,
and watch me do,
Bottom line,
All we have is our cooperative health flow,
neither too Yang over-active
nor too Yin under active,
under creation storying,
integrity’s nurturing, graceful,
karmic flow toward even further regenerations.

Yes,
and then too there is that business about
You are what you eat,
so you are also what you are eaten up and down by,
and for,
and with.

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LeftBrains with RightHearts

LeftBrain ego challenges
are also investments
in cooperatively struggling with RightBrain understream flow,
understories of recreative grace,
positively trending karma,
or against, trying to swim directly upstream,
competing with RightBrain’s laterally co-arising flow skills of integration.

Our moment by ego/ecoconscious moment choices
are in where and how and why
to LeftBrain invest in positive challenge
and/or divest of cognitive negative problems.

While this either-or competition
is actually also both-and cooperation
when we are at our Left-Right best,
most maturely skilled in deep ecological learning,
we lean more heavily into both-and challenges
with RightBrain integrative polypathic multicultural comprehension,
co-empathic co-arising Left/Right mutual-subsidiarity trust,
and more lightly on either-or mistrust problems
with LeftBrain ego and anthrocentrist ignorance
of RightBrain’s timeless understory
of nutritional co-gravitating integrity.

Minds, brains, hearts, lungs, hands, feet
are embodied,
part of an organically healthy,
and sometimes more unhelpfully pathological,
ecopolitical biosystem.

So LeftBrain deductive reasoning,
logical rationality,
is also RightBrain embodied ecological,
phylogenically emerging within holistic matriotic nurturing,
growing out from Ego/Self:Eco/Other co-embodied composting wombs
co-arising nondual polypathic power-with empathy.

Following Julian Jaynes’ ethological theory of bicameral emergence,
and phylogenic historic-memetic evolutionary evidence,
LeftBrain’s polynomially languaged rationality
is primally embedded in RightBrain unlanguaged unconscious
notnot Tipping Point ecological-moral integrity development,
discernment toward multicultural integrity as climate health norms,
ego-values rooted in ecological thermodynamics of living systems.

LeftBrain egocentrism
merges with RightBrain eco-consciousness
as we mature
by extending our empathic skills
discerning ecological health
cooperatively, co-redemptively, co-mentoringly, democratically
by divesting of unhelpful self-and-other condeming pathologies,
an unwillingness to mentor co-empathic “both-and” acclimation;
especially when we feel surrounded by a mistrusting “either-or” competitive, and not quite so healthily democratic,
mutually-condemning,
sometimes paranoid and terrifying,
ego-supremacist environment.

After all,
what else could divine with human natural transubstantiation be,
other than this ecological polypathic stretch
of our multicultural WinWin Golden Rule?

Left to Right and back again,
reiterative enthymematic revolutions
of Left-Explicate and Right-NotNotImplicating-integrating
co-arising polypathic communications of climate health
and notnot dissonant demonic noise?

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Radical Conservative Revolutions

Radical conservatives are cooperatively embracing a culture war.
Our battlefield is our ecologically evolving brain.

At stake is what Earth and Earth’s hosted tribes become.
Our cooperative vocation is to radically co-arise nondual human development
to fit conservationist moral integrity.
Our threat is anemically anthrocentric democracy
and all that does not yet flow positive grace/karma through multiculturing integrity;
not just in NorthWestern cultures,
but wherever LeftBrain dominant influence extends
to RightBrain decomposing repression of deep ecological learning.

LeftBrain WinWin values are fundamentally positive-progressive,
centered on equality,
human as ClimateHealth rights,
economic and social responsibility,
and cooperative inclusion of all species
within our reweaving Golden Rule of Earth’s Conservation Rights.

Yet DNA/RNA co-arising permacultural progressives have,
without knowing why,
given DNA-anthrocentrically dominant conservatives an unwitting advantage
in our eco-cultural struggle toward inclusive peace.
Fundamentalist LeftBrain WinLose survivalists,
still wearing evaporating rags of legitimized conservative labels,
continue to hunt and gather
patriarchal authoritarian hierararchies
rooted in vast fear/anger concentrations
and monopolistic control of capital as the sole measure of wealth,
the commodification of health’s potential integrity ourselves;
unbalancing disorder rooted in fear,
bullying and intimidation,
obedience to condemning paranoia;
control of elections and administrations and legislation through control of who votes and who doesn’t bother to cooperatively invest
in our shared future;
and patriarchal family values projected upon religion, politics, and the market,
at the expense of ecopolitical matriarchal nurturing-co-empathic integrative values.

The future of Earth’s climate of democracy is at stake, now.

Social evolution is ecopolitically material–
who competitively/cooperatively controls what forms of wealth–
institutionally ecosystemic–
who runs what nutritionally multicultural/toxically monocultural powers to invest and divest of and for multi-generational regenerativity,
and political competitions within a larger cooperative WinWin network.
But the main front of our climate health culture struggle
is the Left/Right co-arising nondual mindbody,
especially how the bicameral brain functions
below the ego-conscious level of eco-consciousness.

Progressives no longer accept as sufficient
the pre-millennial view of LeftBrain dominant reason,
rooted in evolution as either-or competitions for survival,
dating back through the revolutions of struggling history ourselves,
that reason can be, but is not necessarily, ego-conscious,
both literal and analogical,
both logical and ecological,
both universal and unitarian,
both unemotional and co-arising empathic feelings,
disembodied as decompositional
but primally
regeneratively
ecologically
organically
phylogenically systemic,
serving both egoLeft and ecoRight cooperative conservation interests.

As cognitive and brain sciences unveil,
this is no longer a distorted LeftBrain dominant view of reductive reason.
This may sound like a merely academic issue,
but this assumption about the ecological nature of logical co-empathic
phylogenic comprehension of ego/eco balancing consciousness
has stood in the way of an effective progressive/conservative co-defense
and advancement of polypathic democracy.
Multicultural progressives pre-millennially ceded
the eco-political balanced mind
to fundamental reductivist traditional icons of wealth,
no longer rooted in Earth’s integrity of health.

Our ecopolitically dominant LeftBrain mind
dynamically uncovers RightBrain’s unconscious-unlanguaged modes of politically cooperative thought,
and how these are co-arisingly nondual-linked.

We are each and all climate health experts,
conservatives of cooperative ecopolitical cultures.
As we develop our cognitive sciences,
we are changing our polypathic comprehension of ecosystemic technical fields
like economics,
international climate health relations,
regenerative v degenerative evolution,
and LeftBrain dominant linguistics,
and why these LeftRight balancing changes matter
for Earth’s future ecological politics.

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Positive Political Psychology

I question my own interplay of psychology and political science.

Does this too facilely root analogy within ecology of climate health v pathology?

 

Intersections of sociology and psychology are at least academically commonplace.

I have a friend with a doctorate in something called social-psychology.

And, conjoining sociology with political power and its appositional marginalization reviews long too-familiar, uncomfortable, political and social pathology territory.

 

Most of us have experience of both elite and non-elite ecopolitical childhood memories;

elite as compared to younger children, on one hand, and non-elite compared to adults, on the other, more politically advantaged, side of our deep learning power-psychology spectrum.

 

From the more toxic disempowerment of non-elite embryonic experience, longing for the power-advantages of full-maturation, we can all empathize with life on the margins of a power-culture.

Living within these boundary-margins brings higher risks of political disinvestment, from others and from within;

including financial and sensory-nutritional disadvantages,

higher risks of  co-arising disempowerment,

of active mistrust

internally rooted in chronic paranoia about the ultimate prospect of dying, and egocentric death.

 

However, the direct attribution of political power to nutritional powers of healthy fertility,

now increasingly known as positive evolutionary psychology,

or even positive-deviant revolutionary psychology,

is seldom explored as Positive Interior Political Psychology meets Positive/Negative Exterior Political Psychology,

where Positive is populated by a culture’s politically and economically empowered elite

while Negative climate-trending populations become increasingly at risk.

Non-elite status darkens and fades into vaporous margins of oblivion

as our ecopolitical cognitive-affective dissonance perdures,

cancerously producing paranoia co-arising within as non-competitive and value-less without.

 

When I awaken in the morning, sometimes I feel vaguely paranoid,

mistrusting of this day’s potential for politically healthy relationships and  more economic nutrition than economically toxic dissipating outcomes.

At the end of this day will I feel more like I have been struggling against environments inhabited by viral scorpions,

or struggling with how to contain and sustain my non-paranoid sense of healthy ecological-ecopolitically cooperative-dominant elitism that feels and smells and tastes of co-empathic trust?

 

This cooperative v competitive, helpful v condemning, twist in resonantly positive, non-dissonant, psychology is about positive politically mutual-empowering elitism.

Positive political elite powers are always and everywhere in regeneratively evolving nature,

as contrasted to degeneratively devolving political natures and economic-nutritional/dissonant feelings, empathies fixated on antipathies.

More paranoid WinLose models of psychological, and ecological, and democratically integrative evolution, induce a competitive LeftBrain dominant frame of paranoia about death and suffering and loss and egocentric attachments,

including political powering-over norms and strategies to defend egocentric powers against time’s inevitable insufficiency to conclude on the winning side of life’s equation,

rather than RightBrain power-with WinWin nurturing norms of Earth’s optimally regenerative nature.

 

Earth evinces a history of anthro-enculturation through revolving perennial time

with secondary three-dimensional spatial attributions of language and geometrics

accessible to both our LeftBrain Yang political-psychology power-over egocentrism

and to RightBrain’s Yin economic-nutritional power flow-with co-arising DNA/RNA harmonic extending-selves.

 

Do I wake up to a political enculturation day seeking advantages over others

or co-investment abundance with others?

Psychological and political elites do our best to choose the democratically healthier abundance for multiculturally polypathic all

by letting go of paranoid baggage of WinLose ecopolitical advantage.

 

Both the psychological and political problems of LeftBrain competitive dominance trace back to two source-roots.

In science, regenerative WinWin evolutionary trends favoring cooperative organic norms have been presumed less powerful than WinLose survivalist norms under high-stressed environmental imbalance conditions.

What is ecologically normative cooperation has been psychologically and economically and politically usurped by a model of evolution that assumes ecological health is rooted in the dominance of power-over competitions.

Were this the actual historical case, then we have no way of explaining how natural ecosystems could evolve into self-regenerative biosystems of memory and increasing communication relational integrity;

organic systems of intelligent interdependent-sustainability.

 

The other root source goes back to the origins of religions as co-empathic trust in sacred powers. Human nature has revealed divine powers as both helpful, benign, and as condemning, vengeful, jealous.

The gods and goddesses of love fuel further fertile cooperative empathic trust in Earth’s regenerative future.

The demons and unkind gods and unfertile goddesses of condemnation, too often re-enacted by tough-love parents, and monoculturally xenophobic politicians, and WinLose economists and financial investment/disinvestment assumptions, provoke further cognitive-affective dissonance about our politically non-elite ego identities within,

and further terrorist supremacy theologies rather than regeneratively cooperative elite teleologies;

meanings and purposes for humane healthy relationships and transactions,

whether psychologically within

or politically without.

 

As many have said, but few have synergetically structured, as did Bucky Fuller,

it is easier to become psychologically healthy when we live in an ecopolitically regenerative culture,

but it is also easier to perceive a cooperatively regenerative ecopolitics of co-arising trust

when one starts each day of childhood through adult life

with positive evolutionary psychological assumptions that we are each here significantly to help each other by most resonantly and fully communicating who we are meant to become with full integrity of a helpful-healthy functional family,

within an extended family doing our Golden Rule optimizing best to achieve regenerative ecological balance

in both our interior psychological and exterior political EarthTribe landscapes and climates.

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Just Say Yes

Just say yes
to not yet gone
not yet going against your way
not yet becoming distrusted distasteful dissonance.

Those of us more blessed in the Positive Psychology department,
and yet perhaps all of us somewhat more opaquely,
enjoy qualities of life that we all do want,
and an equal number of negative appositional qualities
that we would do better without.
These are, by definition,
and by comparison with their more positive counterparts,
pathological,
as confluence is to discover dissonance,
as integrity grows to uncover late-great decompositional transitions,
as healthy climates recover from comparatively compromised unhealthy subclimates.

We all want more beauty
so less ugly.
We want more good
and less bad.
More truth
so less equivocating untruths.
We all want more healthy places and spaces and times
and paradigms
so less pathology of mind and heart and soul and body,
distresses of internal climates.

We all want cooperative economic and political relationships
and less rabid competing and terror
distrust and hatred.
We all want more power-with
so less power-over;
or do we?

We all want neither too much
nor too little.
We all want our self-optimizing time delivered neither too late
nor too soon.
These function as a prime-relational fractal of temporal double-bind,
wu-wei Tao Tipping Point
of (0)Zen mutually shared SpaceTime wants,
with their counterpart not-wants,
natures both kind and unkind humored.

We all want more peaceful order
so less stressful chaos now,
and to stay with us forever,
neither too soon nor too late,
but just rightly positive balanced
on tipping point of eternal now.

We all want
not too soon with not too late
quality of time,
as not too much and not too little Basic Nutritional Space
within Earth’s timeless co-present sacred place.

Polynomial values = notnot polypathic disvalues
as YangSpace = notnot YinTime wu-wei balance.

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Golden Rule/Ratio/Elixir Upgrades

Not just do to; do with:
Do with others as political and economic you expect and hope with others.

Not just do with; do with each Eternal Moment,
as has always been done with you
and your Elders still flowing within you,
as always will become done with
throughout this eternally regenerative DNA/RNA-solidarity moment.

Sustainably do with others,
as political-economic eco-logical you
expect and hope with others.

Not just others; but all others,
living and dead,
and future generations,
regenerations
of not only our species
but all species living on and in Earth’s Promised Permaculturing Garden.

Sustainably do with all co-arising others,
as poli-economic encultured you
expect and hope with all Earth’s Tribes.

Not just expect treatments, relationships, transactions;
but expect co-empathically inclusive trust evolving healthy truths with grateful beauty,
optimizing cooperative and peaceful relationships
of mutually appreciative intent
and practice,
expect gratitude to articulate our holistic co-ecology of multicultural grace.

Trustingly do with all co-arising others,
as poli-economic holistic ecology encultured you
trust as positive healthy integrity,
active cooperating peace on and in and for and with
advocates and occupiers also from Earth’s ReGenesis Original Intent.

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Remembering Radical Relatives

Explain your historical evolution radically, inclusively, expansively, a sense of humor wouldn’t hurt;
not carefully, deductively, reductively, sarcastically.

We once had a school of thought
among up and coming geneticists and historians
that the precursor to the regeneration of a species,
or even an ecological paradigm,
most any kind of reiterative memory and retrieval system,
is like a loosening of instructive but too-dominant stresses
within our DNA MoreContentedNature Codex,
so we can act more like a school of thoughtful fish
then a vile swarm of rabid media piranhas feeding on pariahs.

That is,
the Golden Rule shifts from too Positive or too Negative
to Both-And (0)-normative Earth Balanced.

What was regeneratively exegetical,
orthodox trusted reality
becomes part of a staged multi-generational change process
influencing what had remained only eisegetically (0)-soul hoped for,
a healthier,
more nondual co-arising sensory therapeutic-cooperative
political-economic as ecological bicameral healthy trusting balance.

Some scientists and philosophers said maybe true,
and some said maybe not.
On the maybe true side was a Professor Demings,
speaking of evolution as increasingly positive freedom trends
away from overly-instructive, deductive, reductive dominance
of [co-empathic?] neural-rooted communication networks.

Meanwhile Bucky Fuller was ranting and rhyming on
about the information/exformation regenerative exchange ratios evening out,
and how this is climatically essential for growing political and economic cooperation
to emerge a new system that will replace the PreMillennial Competitions of Ecology v Economics,
as if they were not the same Eco (0) Root System of therapeutically nutritional dialectical geometrics of synergetic-evolving language.

Then we remembered that natural systems produced more (0) Positive/NotNot Negative
health anomalies with less loss,
as compared to our PreMillennial Received View
of evolution as BusinessAsUsual
fundamentalist WinLose Games
taking place between Heaven on Earth,
dying to decompose and fission and burn
to separate ourselves into Silos of Eternal Hell.

Then, with a bicameral mindbody nudge from Julian Jaynes,
half of the Great Transition bicameral minds deductively noticed which deviations are cooperative-positive,
and which are pathologically negative,
rooted in which have the greatest nutritional harmonics
and deepening dynamic effect that is most sustainable,
like political/economic self-invested cooperative networks,
rather than all those struggling against potential Losers
so they can become political and economic Winners, over others.

Suddenly community and economic developers became ecotherapists
and ecologists became facilitators
of bicameral group-dynamic system and anti-system trust theorists,
realtors joined farmers marching for greatest and highest and deepest resonant values
as those with least struggling-against competitive health futures.
Highest and Healthiest Interior as Exterior Landscape Use
with least effort
means no readjustment of (0)ZenTao Culture needed,
weeding and watering not much required,
yet notnot irrational to anticipate polypathic nutritional WinWins
through at least Seven ReGenerations.

During the final stage of the Great PostMillennial Wave of Transition,
the multicultural strengths of Positive Yang-Information
are found to be the fractal-seasonal-temporal balancing therapy
needed to respond effectively to prior notnot Yin-Squared
dualdark dissonant negative alternative trends.
By definition,
too Yin RightBrain-recessive,
concave (B. Fuller),
and yet implicate predictors (David Bohm) of this new
postmillennial Yang/Yin cooperative bicameral speciation opportunity.

We noticed
back in early PostMillennial Time,
ConvexYang was competitively too dominant,
and therefore negative
in dipolar response to ConcaveYin,
too repressed to fulfill her positive-cooperative potential
for nurturing natural integrity.
Together these function toward averaging in/ex-functionality,
balanced evolutionary positive psychology
of ecoconsciousness,
co-empathic dipolar bicameral trust,
within and among our extended family selves.

Now, further in to more PostMillennial Golden Rules
of cooperative politics-economics-ecologics,
Evolutionary Psychology aligns with Positive Psychology
and Compassionate socioeconomic (0)sum political-economic
ecological health therapy,
mndfulness extending from childhood dreams through adult (0)Zen polypathic listening and movement, praxis of breathing ecoconsciousness both internally and externally,
in and out, treat within as without,
for WinWin.

Psychologists and other equally PolyPathic Evolutionists
stepped into comprehension
that the reason one positive or double-negative nomial,
variable relationship,
seems to associate with another,
is because everything is caused by everything
as unreality is not caused by nothing,
and anti-reality is caused by mutual-immune deficiencies
of cooperative Uracil/Cytosine functional balance,
as Yang/Yin fractal harmonics,
as +1/-,-0 binary, double binding, bilateral, binomial (0)sum thermodynamic balance,
as predicted by QByte health v. pathology value trends,
co-arising positive WinWin,
ecobalancing Earth’s LoseLose competitive absence
of co-gravitation,
co-empathic political and economic mutual subsidiarity,
cooperative complementarity of trust
in ReGeneratively Healthy Landscapes
personally within
as ecotherapeutic political power without.

Avoid leadership offers from Over-Yanged Supremacist Plutocrats
disguising themselves for self and other esteem
as globally benign democrats.
Long-term health trends don’t look so good
from this PostMillennial perspective.
On the other hand,
good luck finding a GlobalHealth Democrat
willing to invite Plutocrats
to invest in our highest and healthiest cooperative banquet.

Live radical polyempathic highest and deepest and healthiest truths,
political-economic cooperative trusts,
Earth-centered multicultural loves.

Explain us.

 

 

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Homeless Schooled

Healthy HomeSchool
therapeutic mindbody homelife,
especially for those who feel and think homeless.

Where we learn how everyone is a parasite.
Some more benign.
Others not so much.
But, still, beyond their bloated enslavement to rabidity
and terror
lies what is left of benign polypathic possibility.

We also listen for our opportunities to become healthier,
more benign, loving
truthful and beautiful Hosts
as holonic regenerators
within Earth’s Global Polyculturing Organic Political Economy.

We explore hypnotic addictions
to monopolistic dreams
and LoseLose nightmares,
to recover their lessons
for improving our natural Golden Rules of Discernment,
of mutual subsidiarity,
our Golden MidWay Ratios of holonic complementarity.

We explore why Yang-eros
balances, or tries to, Yin-agape
as light dipolar
co-arises dense dualdark nutritionally absorbent learning
within active bicameral love
as synergy generates back toward Alpha,
forward to (0)Mega WuWei Tipping Point.

We learn that just as you cannot successfully communicate with anyone,
unless your journey follows a two-way feedback reiterative loop,
so too you cannot successfully sustain love with anyone
who will not love you back,
so too you cannot deeply trust anyone
or anything
that does not practice co-arising trust in return,
so too we cannot deeply listen to others
and ourselves
and all Earth’s Tribes
when Other does not practice co-arising listening
as loving
in return.

We learn the sounds of silent parasites
without homes to heat with fossil fuels,
without cars,
without bloated gleaming assets hoarded in silos of hubris,
while children and other biosystems starve
and die of thirst.

We learn to distinguish the silent benign majority of parasites
from the heavy monocultural footsteps of a toxically enslaved minority,
and what these shyer parasites are saying about all of us
in our homeless unshelled naked schools
of basic political and economic empathic trust survival.

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