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Man/Sha Legends

Original Bison’s Field Theory

Form neither spiritual nor material, nor sensual, commodity;

S/he regenerates relation ships

in liquid ecology of grace.

Formation owns my Commons

becoming Common prime relationship,

Original Reiteration of mutual intent,

Eternal Karmic momentous coincident

pre-rhetorical

pre-spatial

enthymematic

Yang greets Yin measures Yang

unfolding in primal rolling sequence

bare place between full space

ready to go

then belong

to long again to go

or not.

 

All the same

to WeSelformingEgoidionicEarthTribe…

triumvital acid (0) Core binomial wavering

surfacing sensory surface-lake in three dimensions

with neural roots inward toward heart and mind

fueling air passes birhythmic lungs

breathing in forming from without

exforming from within

WeSelf’s bicamerolling mountain roots:

as Within, so Without

as without, so within

as before, so after…

 

My sensory surface flowing polyculture

lake of Trimtipping ripples,

greatest dance design through

diastatic fertile stillness

when appositionals binomially align

polynomials with reverse negatives

implying not-so-polynomial

yin wisdom.

Dark Prime Relationship enlightens

Golden Ratio

with EgoSelf as half of We

and We as mountain home to Me.

Goddess Spirit and Nature God

speak binomially

with Yang deducing Left

and Yin inducing Right

brained bi-elliptic

hemispheres of Tao balance.

 

Information networks this reflective

neural-RNA rhythmic Coded

(0) Core +Vector OVER

(0) Core -Vortex UNDER.

P=NP

when -000 predicts +111 percent

in bifractaling nominal balance,

dynamically revolving

positive trending

as in-form development therapy

radiates from full CQI analysis

exforming dissonant pathologies

irrationalities

dislogic unlodged

to Open Doors revolving

permacultured Tao abundance

jigging squiggling squares and jazz

incarnating hormoneternal song.

 

Information (0) Prime Relationship balanced

+Natural Yang neural mountain reflects -SpiritYin reflective lake

EternalMoment’s ecology of grace

my spacetime Paradise.

 

This darker side of wisdom

afraid to share In-Formnative Self

fearful we will not prehend

appositional bonded language and knowledge

between deductive reasoning and inductive awareness

creatively learning to co-prehend each Other

as Left proposes toward the Right

as Yang proposes through Yin

and Yin embraces back again

to reassure Yang’s receptive pose

with square root fractal steps

implied induction

greets with namaste

what Left brain longs to discover,

less dissonant pathology

or even none,

-1QBit

implies Eternal Moment’s

Positive Teleology

bicameral +1 = -(0)

with octave balanced

 

-000 +111′

-001 +110

-011 +100

-111 +000

 

in CQI  four-dimensioned  harmony

when F is -G

then sound and metrics

resolve

pi = +/-e

dia-metrically

analogically,

but digitally too

report our binary balanced cousins.

 

Information is not religious commodity.

Science remembers

+1QBit pi = -0QBit e-function,

strange but Tao

or so it seems to WeSelf me

eisegetically

to measure natural relationship

try 4-Based fractal hypotheses

for syncing Yang meets Yin

and therapy reversing pathology

as positive psyche balances negative values

virtues once again

a Pythagorean reality revisited

and e-functioned Time

0.25% spatially windowed

wallpaperish design

for deep learning’s dancing muse

slow motioning toward +1.00% QBit Universe

sustaining quantitative resolution

away from mononominating chaos

into binomicycling ReGenetic Story.

 

To function full as Being

Information = Positive Becoming Teleology

to function full as Being

Positive Psychology’s  Original Intent.

 

As above,

so below,

as without,

so within,

as before…

 

Golden Rule of effective cooperative development:

treat Becoming as your Being

would like Other without

to reflect WeSelf within

and vice versa.

Greatest Becoming effect

with least Being loss

integrates positive therapy

with negative multisystemic pathology loss to

thermocultured (0) appositionally acidic imbalance,

just peaceful paradise

in forming function

through fractal frequencies

with (0)  irrational remainder

launched into eternity

timeless ge0-rhythmic birth.

 

As in formational,

so outward functional

reversed polarities

radiantly fused gravitas

QBit binomial sequential place

4-Based metric dynamic balanced

nutritious grace

justicelogical

crystalushly clear

trans-parent

Nature-Spirit’s

Original Mindful

WeSelf Passion

Be Longing

Prime relationship

Tao (0) Core Vortex

Dark relationship negative understory

regenerating string trail theorems

back to once-upon-Time

where rootips uncover their own Self-compost

sucking back at them

a double-bow of namaste.

 

My confusion lies less

with sound in vacuous forests

and more within

time in absence of place.

This could not Be

I think I see

that time begins

regenerating space

4-helium bi-metrically.

 

 

 

 

 

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The President’s EcoChaplain

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

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

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

Chaplain: In what way, Mr. President?

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

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

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

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

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

C: I doubt you know anyone with malignant intent.

P: What would you call suicidal ideation?

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

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

C: Which is…?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

P: Is that your spiritual advice?

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

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

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

 

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Teacher of Metaphysics Ergetically Needed: Universal Regenerative Vocation Description for Homo-Not-So-Sapiens

Position Title: Interreligious EcoMinistry Chaplain

 

PrimeFunction: Assess the metaphysical systems development trends of

students,

families,

staff,

communities,

constituencies,

policies,

cultural norms,

pedagogy, and

other informative values, assets, nutrient fuels, and resources.

 

Formational under-story/Definition: Buckminster Fuller defines metaphysical as what is not Physical Universe.

 

If Physical Polynomial Universe (P) is –(P), and –(P) is Metaphysical Universe, then metaphysical information is in a reverse-binomial metric relationship with Physical Universe. There can never be one without the other as they are mutually dipolar, reverse correlatively

defining,

illuminating,

boundary-ing,

generative,

formative.

 

When we forget that there is no more, and no less, information value in the meme “Dark Matter” than there is in the meme “Not Dark Matter,” this may be a pathological symptom of Left/Yang hemispheric dominance, out of cultural balance with the Right/Yin hemispheric primal intuition, and nurturance, of a Positive Teleological Original Intent. This dyadically-rooted Original Relationship Intent may be articulated, borrowing from Fuller, and more contemporary Group Theory and Information Systems Development Theory, as

 

+ = Core Value Vector

OVER  [ 3-dimensionally AROUND, 1-dimensionally AFTER]

(-) = Core Vortex

YIELDS [in binary, bicameral, binomial information systems]

+1 = (-)0.

 

Where +1 = +0.50% P OVER +0.00% exformative, diastatic, cooperative prime relationship frequency Constant (C)

AND

-1 = -0.00% exformative aptic EcoSelf-Awareness [see Julian Jaynes on “aptic”] (-U) OVER

-0.50% NP

 

[Also see Max Tegmark, Our Mathematical Universe, p. 198, on information wave-function, bi-elliptical density matrix]

 

-U is not ergetic, so it is radiant reverse-flow, mutually antigravitational so mutually radiant, or grateful to notice each other, endosymbiotic flow trend. A mutually evolutionary “Namaste.” This is the reverse-bias trajectory in mutually redefining relationship with diastatic sustainability (C). –U and C are a Janus-faced revolving informational field.

 

+C/-U yields thermodynamic natural biosystemic balance; harmony.

 

Second Function: Facilitate students,

and their families,

and the human species to sustainably regenerate their own

biosystems,

bicameral information processors,

and/or positive teleological historiCultural assumptions

(also known as faith in several traditions and paradigms).

 

The in-formational, intended YIELD for biosystemic facilitation:

Awareness (seed), YIELDS

Perception (healthy mutually grateful, enthymematic compost), YIELDS

Understanding (developing trend toward mature systemic/organic plant), YIELDS

Comprehension (infusive, fertile, transformative insight event, flower), YIELDS

Positive ergetic information flow functions, optimally balanced for self-perpetuation, YIELDS

polycultured organic information Climax Community seeds of regenerating awareness.

 

Third Function: Story Teller and Designer for a binomially balanced Binary Information Network and an EcoSelf emerging polycultural system.

 

Requisite Formative Definition for the Third Function:

Buckminster Fuller (and Euler, defining the prime linear temporal core of any measurable—informed–universe) define Universal Intelligence as +.50% Yang (+2e) = Positive-Flow Energy = +(0)e² = Polynomial Time (P)

EQUITABLY BALANCED OVER

-.50% Yin (Negative Energy—entropy) = -(0)e² = Not-Polynomial Temporal Exformative Trend

 

Where Exformation is Dark, dysfunctional, dissonant absence of relatedness—chaos.

 

Space = E = +1QBit * e²-temporal function

OVER

Time = +/- e = {.50% Yang-flow}/{.00% Yin-flow (0) Core-Soul Vortex}

 

See Group Theory, especially Gregori Perelman’s (et. al.) (0)-Soul Theorem, as applied to a 4-based metric system and/or a 4 equi-normatively balanced dimensional space—without anomaly, smooth structured binomial equi-definitional map of information’s binary striction.

 

This thermodynamically and normatively balanced definition of our Space/Time Universe could be translated into Buckminster Fuller’s geometric paradigm as a synergetically regenerative Metaphysical Universe.

 

Corollary: Metaphysical (NP) flow systems are reverse-metrically appositional to Physical (P) binary information systems. No other Metaphysical/Physical Universe is cognizable by a bicameral mind. In other words, if NP does not equal P, in reverse-ergetic flow relationship, then only NP Universe. If you are able to follow the logic, and/or the analogy, then that might prove that Not: P unequal to NP; therefore, P = NP, in reverse.

 

Universal Intelligence is

 

1.00% QBit Prime Yang/Yin Balance—syntropic trending

EQUAL TO DENOMINATOR

-1.00% aptic dissonance, decay, chaos, dissolution, solipsistic negative, closed system assumption—entropic trending

 

For Fuller, translated through the lens of more contemporary Group Geometric and Biometric and Information Systems Development Theory, the paradigm “Physical Universe” ends where direct sensory reception ends, which is a much more limited definition of Physics than the term “Quantum Physics” would convey. Quantum Physics becomes rather oxymoronic, or behaves oxymoronically, or it means metaphysical theorems and conjectures about physical emergence, or precession, or development, or incarnation, or the incubation metrics for evolving regenerative self-perpetuating information biosystems. Theoretical Physics is about discovering the reverse trend information pattern binomial relationships and maps that have positive information pattern development consonance (flow harmoniously and consistently) with DNA/RNA—4-dimensioned, fractal, information development Codex.

 

Fourth Function: Regenerates stories, movement, rhythms, sounds, music, dance, linguistic and autistic and synergetic remembering, recalling, replanting and reharvesting, revisiting and regenerating, internally and externally, personally and communally, tribally and globally. Inclusively designs events, days, moments, fields, polycultures effectively intending to transform climatic dissonance into an inclusively emergent peaceful and just climate of positive mindfulness.

 

Formational development sequence:

Notice, then listen, then water with compassion, growers and facilitators, farmers and educators, students and leaders, practicing active hope and peaceful presence on behalf of themselves, their tribe, our Species throughout time, and Earth from proto-history through distant future.

 

Perceive, understand, then comprehend, with articulate, carefully-expressed and translated, gratitude:

beauty and goodness,

grace and wisdom,

suffering and loss,

dissonance and dismay,

entropic systemic flow-trends,

the misinformed, disformed, competitive anomalies pushing back

to strengthen our synergetic positive flexibility toward post-millennial bi-hemispheric balance.

 

Fifth Function: Mentor and provide support for Self Care and People Care during this era of transitional cultural, ecological, economic, educational, governmental, violent, climatically critical rebalancing tipping point trend, toward the Holistic Grail of trust as P = NP because +1.00% Yang normatively and equitably equals -0.00% (0) Core Vortex binomially exformed (-e)-function [as any good feminist-compassionate sociotherapist could verify quite a bit more intuitively and eloquently], gracefully spinning within a post-0-Soul Theorem, WWW-networked, Earth-based, bicameral cooperative communication and economic network.

 

Formational Heuristic Whole Bicameral System Assumption:

According to Julian Jaynes, and followers, this emergence of Left/Right thermodynamic, reiterative, regenerative balance was the Original Positive Teleological Intent of our RNA-structured precameral synaptic/aptic information processing system. In other words, there is no new knowledge here; or no new knowledge is intended. Regenerativity Theory only intends to increase the self-comprehension of our bicameral species’ most permaculturally ubiquitous wisdom:

  • Golden Rule applies to all species, all space, all time.
  • Prime Thermodynamic Principle is greatest internal synergetic effect derives appositionally through least external dissonance and loss of gratitude, mindfulness, nurturing, caring, balancing the equity-value of  feminist and otherwise marginalized Yin cultural influence.
  • We are all in this bicameral information processing string together, just as we are all in this binomial natural system external landscape together.
  • As within, so without, so as without, so within.
  • As below, so above, so as above, so below.
  • What goes up must come down, so what comes up, must have gone down before.
  • As before, so after, so as after, so before.
  • As decayed, so un-regenerated, so as regenerated, so un-decayed.
  • As fissioned, so un-fused, so as fused, so  un-fissioned.
  • As sociotherapy grows, sociopathology wilts, so as sociopathology grows, sociotherapy wilts.
  • As dissonance develops, so synergy exforms, so as synergy informs, so dissonance exforms. binary,
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The Taoist Doctor of Ministry Proposal

Greetings:
I hope you might let me know if you have any interest in a Doctor of Ministry project that would essentially blend M. T. Winter’s work in Quantum Theology with the positive teleological assumptions implied by Buckminster Fuller’s “Synergetics”, which he defined as equivalent to an ecology of love, and/or grace.
While this may be more appropriate to the Doctor of Philosophy program, I am personally more interested in its holistic and feminist applications to at-risk populations in Connecticut, than I am Fuller’s Theory of Regenerativity, as an obscure, but certainly holistic, metaphysical system.
Whatever you think best for Hartford Seminary, and opportunities to link this dissertation/research project with current Hartford Institute initiatives, is fine with me.
Synopsis:
There appears to be a moment in every religious tradition when human enlightenment comprehends why the threshold to paradise requires absolute ego-purgation. Two metric systems theorists who may exemplify this level of comprehension are Buckminster Fuller and Gregori Perelman, of Group Theory fame. Yet the underlying positive teleological assumption that we are, each and all, better as holonically related to an omnipresent and omnipotent Universal Intelligence is as old and culturally pervasive as the Golden Rule. Doing to Environment as we positively hope, with gratitude, Environment will regenerate me is predicated on a rational belief that each of us is systemically related to Environment. The Universal Intelligence Brahman and the CoCreator Atmanic “Ego-Self” are primally related as
  • Yang to Yin,
  • quarks to leptons,
  • Positive-Deviant +1.00% trend-analysis to Negative-Anomalous (+/-)0.00% Axial Binary Assumption,
  • In-Formation is to Dis-function,
  • Explicated Polycultural Nature is to this implicately (David Bohm) structured PermaCultured Design,
  • Polynomial  regenerative energy string algorithms are to Non-Polynomial dissonantly irrational information dispersion, or decomposition
(0)-soul Vortexed Binomial Universal Balance (see Perelman and the (0)-soul Theorem of Group Theory).
If this adage-meets-analogy way of seeing the prime relationship between natural and spiritual systems proves to be scientifically and metrically accurate, pastoral and sociotherapeutic implications abound. One example of the richly abundant wealth of this perspective is the interesting work within Permaculture Design’s “Interior Landscape” of self- and people-care, and this Design’s economic/ecological equity-normative value system. Nutrient flows through our constituencies may be positive resources and/or negatively dissonant and toxic when sustained, tending toward systemic effects that are increasingly volatile, climatic, chaotic, and, in some teleological perspectives, even demonic. Positively confluent deviance is the opposite perspective from that captured in Cognitive Dissonance Theory. The socio- and eco-therapeutic advantages of a Positive Teleological Assumption run rampant through
  • Positive Psychology,
  • the brilliant Positive Deviance Initiative’s missional effectiveness for developing sustainable, indigenously-resourced, well-being systemic change (www.positivedeviance.org),
  • the Ecology of inductive Grace as profoundly balanced with Natural Law and deductive Logic,
  • and may even offer a theoretical and dynamic explanation for the apparent strength of Feminist Psycho-Social Therapy (see Laura Brown, “Subversive Dialogues” as an excellent example).
Financial incentives for Hartford Seminary may be equally generous.
  • The proposed CT Youth ReGenesis EcoMinistry Project may fit confluently with the Association of Theological Schools’ “comprehensive initiative on global awareness and engagement,” currently funded by the Henry Luce Foundation.
  • An information systemic implication of Regenerativity Theory may be that Polynomial Information equals Non (or “Ex”)-Polynomial Information. A mathematically and teleologically satisfactory theorem proving this conjecture of metric equity could qualify Hartford Seminary for anywhere from one to seven million dollars in Clay Millennium Challenge awards, pending two years of juried acceptance. Research in this area would also be of interest to the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
  • Engaging the Hartford Institute as the research center for the proposed CT Youth ReGenesis EcoMinistry Project could attract both private and public-sector philanthropic and social-investor interest, and serve as an international prototype for synergetically developing interreligious communities of mindful practice and Appreciative Inquiry (www.centerforappreciativeinquiry.net). As an active member of the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD), I am certain that there would be considerable interest in many academic departments throughout Connecticut and beyond. This proposal is essentially about dynamically balanced communities of spirit-nature discernment. There are global and national political, legislative, policy, and public governance “practice” implications.
  • Finally, I believe it may place in regenerative context the issue of growing and sustaining faith-filled communities, individuals, and culturally-informed species. In this light, all the current Hartford Institute research projects might be theoretically informed by Regenerativity Theory and its Positive Teleological Assumption.
When I last talked to David Roozen about the feasibility of entering the Doctor of Ministry program, I still lacked two essential resources to proceed.  One is capacity to pay tuition and fees–which remains problematic, although I believe I could generate far more than that through research grants and fellowship income should you be willing to take that risk with me. The other was a ministry site. Last week I was offered the part-time position of Chaplain at the Sustainable Farm School, entering its fourth year with a relocation to the 400 block of Farmington Avenue, West End, Hartford (your neighborhood). SFS is an interreligious parochial–but never provincial–laboratory for youth formation in Permaculture Design, both Interior and Exterior Landscapes.
Attached is my final paper for Professor Roozen’s excellent class on change-agency within communities of faith. In it I took some analogous liberties with M.T. Winter’s Paradoxology, which I hope will resonate; and not cause more dissonance.

 

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The Global Cooperative Development Network: CQI PermaCulture Design Team Project

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I woke up this morning remembering my Time Traveling Math Historian dream, wondering, actually kind of obsessed about it, like a schizophrenic trying to see through his meds.

 

But, Ivy had a poopy diaper, and so did Daquan, and Sunday morning rudely returned to Business As Usual.  Which is OK, I think.  I rather like Business As Usual at home.  It helps when we are all here, rather than just some of us.  It helps even more when all of us work together, rather than choosing not to invest in each other, at the time, and in the ways, and amounts of time, that I prefer.  Although, of course, I have never bothered to tell any of them what those ways and means might be.  Anyway, Business As Usual.

 

Today I have to design a PermaCulture Development class for the global Cooperative Economy Network, started by a consortium of social investors, public facilitators and community organizers, new economists, permaculture and ecology-missioned groups, intentional communities, including research cooperatives and funders, some public sector, most of the grant-making entities. In a sense I guess each of these subgroups is an intentional community, with its own language and justice issues, priorities, concerns, specific missions and vocations on behalf of our planet. Yet it feels like they share a common value and active disvalue infrastructure. I can see why this social constellation wants to look clear-eyed at their shared mission: to optimize Continuous Quality Improvement, natural growth, re-establish a global permacultured economy and ecology, inclusive of all species, with this Transition Generation, and the 7 generations to follow.

 

So that’s why I told them I would write up a cooperative contract proposal with them (not for them) and that proposal begins with asking each adult participating in this PermaCulture System Design training to bring one person under the age of 25 with them, if at all possible one of their own children, or a younger relative, down to the age of 12. These are the people that we all need to listen to about how to design their PermaCulture Planet.  In Group Development Theory they act as a Lie Group, but that is certainly not appropriate for this event.  I don’t know.  For now, let’s just go with the “Shaman Team” and the “Observing Team.”

 

OK, so let’s see. 

 

 NSF, Division of Social and Economic Sciences: Science of Organizations

 

Organizations — private and public, established and entrepreneurial, designed and emergent, formal and informal, profit and nonprofit — are critical to the well-being of nations and their citizens. They are of crucial importance for producing goods and services, creating value, providing jobs, and achieving social goals. So, how do we improve the design and emergence, development and deployment, and management and ultimate effectiveness of organizations of all kinds?

 

The Cooperative Economy Network (CEN) is committed to our fundamental understanding of how cooperative systems develop, form and operate. The PermaCulture Design Project will develop and refine Regenerative System Development Theory, and  develop new measures and standards for Continuous Quality Improvement of community and global development projects. Educational, Communication, and Information Systems implications may be of value to the business practitioner, policy-maker, educator, parent, and research communities.

 

The PermaCulture Design Project will illuminate aspects of organizations as organic systems of coordinated diversity, self-management, and inclusive governance.

 

Germane theoretical paradigms include (but are not limited to) organizational theory, behavior, sociology and economics, business policy and strategy, communication sciences, entrepreneurship, human resource management, information sciences, geometrics and Group Theory, Synergetics (B. Fuller), managerial and organizational cognition, operations management, public administration, social and industrial psychology, and technology and innovation management.

Phenomena studied will include (but are not limited to) value and power structures, iteration frequencies, choice-making effectiveness, competitiveness, innovation, communication  and Binary Information System dynamics, change and evolution.

Levels of analysis will include organizational, cross-organizational cooperative relationships, and global implications, and will include individual and team value metrics.

Research methods  include archival analyses, surveys, simulation, comparative case studies, and network analyses.

 

Intellectual merit: The Cooperative Economy Network’s final report will further articulate a Cooperative-Appositional System Theory of Evolution.

 

This Cooperative Development Research Project has the potential to provide globally inclusive societal benefits, meeting sustainable value optimization standards for a socially, culturally, and ecologically balanced cooperative economy.

 

First Day:

 

Facilitator:

 

Welcome, and thank you for saying yes to our invitation to spend some time listening and speaking with each other. Those around the walls are our Observer Team. They are also your parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, or maybe even that crazy adult who asked you to do this with them, as a partnership. You around this inner circle are members of a Transition Generation, ages 12 to 24.

 

Here is what David Orr predicted for your future:  “The generation now being educated will have to do what we, the present generation, [this was published in 1997, so you would be 22 now if you had been in kindergarten at age 5 in 1997] have been unable or unwilling to do: stabilize a world population that is growing at the rate of a quarter of a million each day, stabilize and then reduce the emission of greenhouse gases, which threatens to change the climate—perhaps disastrously; protect biological diversity, now declining at an estimated rate of one hundred to two hundred species per day, reverse the destruction of rain-forests (both tropical and temperate), now being lost at the rate of one hundred and sixteen square miles or more each day; and conserve soils; now being eroded at the rate of sixty-five million tons per day.” You must “learn how to use energy and materials with great efficiency.” You “must learn how to utilize solar energy in all its forms.” You “must rebuild the economy in order to eliminate waste and pollution.” You “must learn how to manage renewable resources for the long term.” You “must begin the great work of repairing, as much as possible, the damage done to the earth in the past two hundred years of industrialization. And, you must do all of this while addressing worsening social and racial inequities. No generation has ever faced a more daunting agenda.” (Hannum, ed. Environmental Literacy: Education as if the Earth Mattered)

 

I believe the life trajectory situation of your children and their children has reached a transition era of crisis. Those of us in this room are hear to listen to what your experience has been like so far, and what you think you might like to do as a Transition Generation before your kids arrive (if kids are in your future) and maybe even with your kids as you imagine your adult futures.

 

We begin today with three fundamental questions for each of you.  In the first round we will ask these questions in reference to what happens in this room, with and to these people.  Then we will talk about the same three questions in reference to what happens outside this room, with everybody else.

 

1.  What interests you most? What is the creative or learning scenario that feels most compelling to you? You would do more of what if you could?  If you had the resources, time, money, property, health, education? What seems most compelling to you right now, in this situation, that we might even be able to do together here?

 

[High faith power indicator.]

 

2.  What makes you angry, gets you really riled up? What is the specific scenario that is most likely to get you to erupt, that could conceivably happen to one or more people in this room, yourself included? What will really tick you off if somebody does it, or doesn’t do it, today?

 

[High hope for justice, equity, mutual respect.]

 

3. What makes you sad.  What is the scenario in which you are most likely to imagine yourself as lonely, isolated, incapacitated, depressed that could happen to you today?  What would really shut you down and out, and make it impossible for you to care to participate any further? Imagine yourself really sad and hopelessly bored by mid-afternoon today, what happened to get you into that mental space?

 

[High enthymematic reverse-resolution.  Compare to “1” above.]

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