Polypathic conversation with David Holmgren:

Today it is common to hear the suggestion
[polyculturally-informed] education and [compassionate communication] training
is the key to allowing people to contribute
to a more sustainable [eco-political] future.

Although I recognize the value of formal education and training
and [especially cooperatively-owned and -managed] communications media,
they are also part of the [systemic under-caste trauma] problem

[and therefore also keys to more resonantly cooperative resolutions]

preventing [LeftBrain dominant] us from a more direct [RightBrain-inductive] connection with,
and [bilateral] experience of,
the natural[-spiritual co-arising] world
through [co-passionate communicating] observation
and [bicamerally balancing] experience
[and work/play of win/win curiosity/imagination].

Much could be said about how we need to modify formal education
and the [competitively capital-hungry] media
so they can contribute better to the [polytheistic
polyamorous
polypathic] revolution,
but we need to recognize several fundamental
[Leftbrain verbally dominant thought] problems.

First,
almost all education,
and especially higher [yet not necessarily deeper] education,
is [redacted] knowledge from secondary [audio-visual] sources,
interpreted through [competing specialist] frameworks
of [limited intersectional] understanding.

Academic [exegetical LeftBrain dominant] training
that requires every idea and concept be referenced to refereed published [also LeftBrain verbally dominant] sources
is the extremity of this [conserving rather than transitioning, liberating] approach
to [reiterative memorization
of what once was normatively true
and necessarily so,
yet perhaps not exclusively or even sufficiently true
for all times and spaces and complex systems,
win+win yang/yin cobinary hypothetically tensioned with win v lose, 0-sum.]

Second,
information technology has accelerated the speed of circulation,
retrieval
and reproduction of [healthy v toxic] information
[v disinformation].
The [commercial] professional packaging
of [LeftBrain reductive] secondary experience
in [massively networked] media
promises faster and better ways
to [LeftBrain access others’] learn[ing].

For instance,
in comparison to the wildlife [ecological healthy/toxic] observation skills
and original [6-sensory-neural
sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, feel
internal positive/negative compassion/dispassion felt)
thinking.

Third,
almost all formal scientific education is based on bottom-up reductionist [STRUGGLING EITHER/OR AGAINST BothAnd] thinking
[screening out cognitive-affective dissonance,
negative unresolved non-resonant neuropsychological issues].

While the [cooperative multi]cultural harvest from specialized reductionist thinking over the last few hundred years
has been great
[and continues to accelerate],
it is the [cooperatively self-organizing] integration
and [transubstantiating] cross-fertilization of concepts
and
[feeling potential both/and win/win] ideas
that is now providing the most fruitful results
for dealing with the problems
of the environmental crisis.

Much of this [win/win bilateral co-arising] integrated [comprehension]
is happening outside [LeftBrain dominant] educational institutions
[pathology-oriented, continuing competing-issues committed
with highly competitive ecopolitical survival issues,
including upper-caste preservation].

Ironically,
information and communications technologies
are increasing these [cooperative win/win insight] possibilities,
although this benefit is over [LeftBrain dominant win-thought v lose-feeling] content,
and [redundantly tedious] replication over [re]creation;
[degenerative oppositional feedback loops
rather than cooperative self-governing
regenerative double-binding
ego/eco-appositional loops].

Fourth,
and most problematic of all,
formal education at the higher [yet not deeper] levels
is focused on digesting massive amounts of information
within the [slow-growth synergizing, incubating] constructs
of separate [and alarmingly unequal] disciplines
and cultures
(such as [Left-Yang, EitherOr] science
and [Right-Yin, BothAnd] art
[nurturing octave-scaled regenerative functions,
like 4Base fractal group/game math,
and 4Season phylogenic reproductive cycles]).

This education lacks wholistic [therapeutic] integration
with [health-wealth positive oriented] living experience
and its insights and truths often make little [trivial felt] impression
on the underlying [Right-YinFlow nurturing resonant] structures
of [comprehensive AND compassionate] understanding
and [internally felt committed] belief [with co-empathic trust]
created by [LeftBrain might makes right] family [anthropocentric-capitalist] upbringing,
mass [consuming dominating productive values] media
and popular [nationalistic eco-political Win v Lose partisan] culture.

In many fields
we find the [global co-passion] solutions
to [ecological and anthropological] problems
are known [and felt]
but are not [regeneratively] applied
for a myriad of specific [LeftBrain constipated cul-de-sac] reasons.

The core of these problems is [competing mutually mis-communicating and therefore gradually degenerating belief systems]
which people appear to [defensive either me or they win] hold
have not been [Both Me And We-vetted] integrated with
and [regeneratively-therapeutically-cooperatively] reinforced
by their [Left+Right bicameral polypathic
polyamorous polyculturing] personal experience
[of positive health cooperatives
are not negative pathological/partisan dissociative, dissonant competitions].

Note: Wiccan transubstantiation of David Holmgren’s “Permaculture Principles & Pathways”, p. 20; adding in seasonings from Edward DeBono’s bilateral thinking and Buckminster Fuller’s synergy systems theory, and, of course, layering LaoTse generally across Yang v Yin and Yang+Yin as Left-Right creative bilaterally nondual dialectical 4D appositionality. Polycultural Education as if multiculturally informed polyamorous Earth lives aiming toward WinWin preference matters if humanity’s goal is to optimize regenerative, and minimize degenerative, eco-politically healthy ecological and wealthy anthropological co-passionate communication pleasure-felt outcomes.