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Here Comes This Time

There comes a time
when partisan
and pious positions
are set not aside
but explicitly within
both/and dialogue frames
evolve and revolve
private principles
and public EarthJust policies
for healthcare practice
meditation
medication
consciousness
conscientiousness
compassion
passion stories
redemptively co-invested
cooperative journeys
re-ligioning

There comes a multicultural space
re-connecting who Red Republicans hate diseased the least
with what Green Democrats healthily love the most.

There comes our climatic time
and sacred space
when all EarthTribes must take
and retake
and remake integrally healing opportunities
that feel neither capitalistically safe,
nor competitively win/lose
ZeroSum strategic,
nor popular for defending straight white male
anthroprivileged leftbrain dominance,

But, we must invite each other
with humbling gratitude
positive attitude
into changing international co-relational
co-investing space

Because bicameral consciousness
tells and spells us
this is contextually balancing
universal left Yang
and unitarian right Yintegrity.

There comes our climaxing
regenerative space
unpositioned
nonpartisan place
for synergetically cooperative
ecological
theological both/and might
power and light,
polyculturally/multiculturally
meta-ecopolitically bright.

“There comes a time
when one must take
the [nonviolently compassionate trans]position
that is neither safe
nor [partisan apartheid] political
nor popular,
but he [sic, for nonviolent humanity]
must do it because conscience
tells him [us] it is right”
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

And righteously beautiful,
EarthHealth and Safety
polyvagally
polypathically
polymathically
polyculturally
polynomially
multiculturally elegant.

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Women’s Wisdom Walking Councils

I know you invited the Brothers to side-line along,
but only if we are here to listen;
Don’t speak.

Yet I may have credential for qualifying voice.
For I, like some of you,
know what it means to develop cooperative,
too often dissonantly competing,
multicultural enriching relationships
with our African-American husbands and lovers.

Sons and daughters of enslaved Elders,
with responsibility to multiculturally nurture our mixed-race Other children,
some with mental and physically challenged mindbodies,
replete with Left and RightBrain dominant/suppressed confusions,
disabling appositional,
disorienting,
dissonant marginalizations and appetites,
yet sharing health and safety cooperative ecopolitical rights
to therapeutically healing touch and sound
of bicamerally balancing,
bigenderal,
both matriarchal with patriarchal
Left, but ecoRight listening,
curious,
hungry
for Wise BiLateral Council Society,
cooperative both-anding
our WinWin wu wei march
with co-evolutionary freedoms to and from.

From where I stand
and march in breath-rhymed pace,
we together hear our own silent resonant march
with Brother Martin Luther King, Jr,
Doctor of revolutionary journeys with his Elders,
Brother Mahatma Gandhi
walking East/West
armLeft with armRight W.E.B Du Bois,
Doctor of his enslavement co-redemption health and safety
evolutionary maturation story,
personal,
familial,
national extended family,
EarthTribe ecological-global full-extending family,
back to shared RNA root systemic regenerative balance
and forward to future regenerators of multicultural polypathic
climate health.

No Women’s Wise BiCameral Council
would hope to leave such nutritious me-too Voices
of regenerate echoing history
for freedom from patriarchal enslavement,
freedom toward matriarchal nutritional cooperative deep ecology,
PatriarchalEgo-Left with Matriarchal EcoRight mindbody
polypathic ego/ecoconsciousness of past through future
health and safety NatureSpirit Holonic Balance,
resonating reiterative SpaceTime Revolutions,
(0)-Soul bilateral Voices,
Yang DualDark Brothers,
born of Yin
Feminist-Matriarchal
diastatically enriching Wombs.

Marching with all of this our genetically shared WinWin Above,
both-and cooperative Creolizing (Dr. Jane Anna Gordon)
transubstantiating
transliterating ecological linguistics (G Lakoff, Political Mind),
with Creolizing Political Theory,
about W.E.B. Du Bois, ecopolitical scientist,
adding marginal side-line listening notes
and wonder speculations
of and for WinWin regenerative Wisdom Marching Councils:

“…[I]t is a mistake
to frame all [health and safety] problem-driven work
as necessarily answering and serviceable
to [LeftBrain Dominant-Commodified] corporate imperatives.
After all, what of the work of Frantz Fanon
or W.E.B. Du Bois
[and even Buckminster Fuller’s cooperative bilateral Synergetics,
for that matter]?”

“With Du Bois,
his framing of African Americans as a unique social scientific opportunity
[with wisdom-marginalization ecopolitical deep ecology learning
as positive-deviant opportunities with authoritative ecopolitical responsibilities]–
to study the emergence of a [degeneratively bought and sold] race
born of [marginalized, LeftBrain dominant ego-patriarchal] displacement,
coerced [regenerative] intermixing,
[co-engendered] slavery[-MasterWhiteMale/Suppressed-FeMale]
and then [emerging ecopolitical] emancipation.”
[multiculturing
bicameral issues
of Global EnSlaved/PatriarchalMaster climates
and ecopolitical landscapes
of not always so WinWin healthy]

“led not only through his monumental thousand-page,
‘The Philadelphia Negro [ReGenesis of multiculturing regenerativity]’
to the development of the field of urban [ecological ecopolitical] ethnography
(including the generation of previously nonexistent census [eco-systemically evolving self-regenerative] data)
but to a uniquely New World [mindbody nondual ecological] form
of [sacred/secular integrity,
evolutionary WinWin nutritional] sociology.”

“Ironically,
his [ecotherapeutic] efforts
to disclose and illuminate the [healthy] workings
of modern [nutritional multicultural] racialization
enabled him to produce
a creolized [ecopolitically RightBrain matriarchal-feminist YinYin=WinWin nurturant Flow (Lakoff and Csikszentmihalyi)] study
of [regenerative/degenerative] complex [ecopolitically bilateral] societies
that added to classical European [LeftBrain Patriarchal EgoDominant] concerns[egoLeft-ecoRight appositional therapies of health/pathology consciousness] of [segregated-supremacist] class,
secularization [dominance over matriarchal-sacralization of nurturing governance],
[LeftBrain Dominant] rationalization,
and [RightBrain health and safety potentials for cooperative polycultural holistic civil rights discerning] bureaucracy,
particularities of the [health/safety cooperative eco-polycultural] plantation
and its complex [regeneratively nutritional/enslavement-toxic] aftermath.”

“Unlike his contemporaries
who tried in making their sociology [LeftBrain deductive dominant] rigorous
[but not also RightBrain health-wealth WinWin cooperative flow-optimized]
to make it un-[ecologically health-balancing]American
[deep-bilateral learning experiential of both Left/Right nutritional ecological balance toward climates of multiculturing health–
not monoculturing enslaving LeftBrain YangDominant pathology],
his writing continues to be available in print
and read in [LeftBrain WesternWhite USA Patriotic/Nationalistic Dominant] classrooms.”

And available to be heard within these liminal narrow-way boundaries,
shadow-marching resonant yet enthymematic silent-mindful sidelines
of historic Women’s PolyPathic Wisdom Marching Councils.

Everything King
and Gandhi
and Du Bois
and Gordon
and Lakoff
and Fuller
and Czikszentmihalyi
learned through matriarchally diastatic ecopolitics
they absorbed first
through their Wisdom Walking Wombs,
defying dissonant talking Tombs.

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Earth Birth Rites

“…when you as an individual repeat the same [competitive v. cooperative health] choices in relationship to your own mind[body] and emotions, those choices also form habits [potentially becoming instinctively patterned loss of choice-freedom of will] that define your [ecosystemically healthy, and/or systemically win-lose suboptimizing] personality and your psychological self-sense.” Andrew Cohen, “Evolutionary Enlightenment” p. 72

Psychological Self-sense:
sustain identity as ego-time’s
CoPresent EcoPresence,
alpha through omega,
in ubiquitous syntax of DNA/RNA Tribes
of Bodhisattva EcoWarriors
and Reverse Hierarchical EcoOccupyers,
Yang Co-Relational ReGenerators
with Yin Elational,
iconic dipolar co-arising functional,
EarthBenign
Original Intent.

MLK’s Beloved Community on Earth,
like Buckminster Fuller’s Spaceship Earth Universal Intelligence,
his active hope
and passionately urgent love for comprehensive
cooperative eco-consciousness,
like Darwin’s view of Earth’s endosymbiotically interdependent evolution,
is permaculturally rooted,
not only in the Buddha bicameral brain of loving kindness,
or even the uniquely human natured neural eco-messaging system.

Rather,
polyempathic ecoconsciousness
or co-intelligence with all healthy temporal syntax,
evolves from the cooperative root strategy of DNA,
so, even more primally,
from each RNA self-regenerative living cell structure,
design,
and polycultural development of life as aptic-love-elational default
MidWay spacetime health-optimization balance.

My consciousness arrives through my mindbody,
a neural time-evolving system,
includes my bicameral heart,
my bilateral lungs,
all my Internal/External organs and tools
hold this endosymbiotic Beloved Community
of eco-centric synergy
to joint venture invest
in my/our regenerative co-arising cooperative,
though often co-falling challenged,
alpha through (0)Mega Point faltering step
toward eco-selfconscious diastasis,
(0)-soul sum of interest rooting
harmonic balanced content
within four equi-dimensions of nature’s full-octave frequencies
inform
co-arise ecofunction
of thermodynamic balance-harmonic fractal fold-times
within (Fuller’s concave half-function),
as enlightening dawn dipolar with dark dusk dissonance
without (Fuller’s universal convex half-function).

Repeating choices,
now regenerating habits,
now revolving ecoconsciousness
of cooperative
polycultural
ecopolitical
revolutionary design
as Beloved Communication development.

Rise up from ashes of Anger and Fear
of ego-centric mythic gods
of fleet time to make nutritious hay
while our eco-fueling sun shines
to birth just Earthright time.

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MLK’s Beloved Community

MLK’s Positive Beloved Community Psychology:

The study
and mindbody experience
of positively regenerative life
as appositionally dipolaric,
negative correlational,
with negative decompositional time-trends
back toward cultural absence of memory
and consciousness
and conscience
and co-arising empathy
back into endosymbiotic cognitive dissonance
physical-ego decay,
and metaphysical-ec(o)-soul irrationality
of unbalanced temporal-neural dysfunction,
growing autistic depressive-repressive anger and fear,
disintegrative chronic,
increasingly climatic,
dis-ease racing toward even further YangFear
monocultural trending self/other-hatred,
socio-eco-politicalpathology,

for missing out
on our polycultural diastasis opportunities
to choose full-life investment in polyempathic love
and Beloved Community
Interior within Exterior Landscaped evolutionary contentment
through Positive BiCameral EcoPsychological Consciousness
spreading our networking virus of ReGenerative Beloved
and Civil
Therapy.

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Prophetic Water

In the recently published Death of a King: The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Junior’s Final Years, Tavis Smiley reminds us that living a prophetic and integral life does not result in winning popularity contests. While prophets may become mystics, saints, and geniuses post mortem, Dr. King was no exception to the historical rule that no prophet is broadly welcome in his own time.

This thesis reminded me of a Taoist aphorism:

Who receives unto himself the calumny of the world

Is the preserver of the state.

Who bears himself the sins of the world

Is the king of the world.

[Translation by Lin Yutang, 1948, Random House, NY]

 

While Dr. King had gained broad support for his positions regarding racism, as he retained a consistent ethical voice in support of equal rights for women and against the culture of violence and war epitomized in the Vietnam War, he would have had increasing difficulty had he ever aspired to elective office. His allies in D.C. resented Dr. King for biting the hand that they believed had fed him more than sufficiently already. His African-American clergy colleagues often did not appreciate King’s views on the rights of women in society, much less within their churches.

Both Mr. Smiley and Laotse speak to the creative tension between powerful prophecy and effective redemption. The strength of prophecy for redemptive effectiveness, to support regenerative change, becomes compromised by cultural dissonance. Too much cognitive dissonance is dismissed as insanity or marginalized as appropriate for the saint and martyr, but not realistic for universal human nature. Yet as redemptive comprehensiveness is softened, contained, diminished, the prophetic voice is softened for more confluent ears.  Regenerative potential can be largely residual potential; less incarnated.

The cutting edge of regenerative optimization is a rationality that ebbs the flow and follows the flowing-confluent edges  around, and eventually through, the ebbing knots of cultural dissonance. Inviting society into a more rational future becomes more effective through the weakness of optimally ebbing and flowing water, energy; both listening carefully and summarizing astutely the echoes and distresses within historical and cultural trends.

 

There is nothing weaker than water

But none is superior to it in overcoming the hard,

For which there is no substitute.

That weakness overcomes strength

And gentleness overcomes rigidity,

No one does not know;

No one can put into practice.

[Ibid, p. 306]

 

Perhaps no “one” can put water’s wisdom into practice because the flow of regenerative energy is intrinsically interdependent, swelling where there is confluent and sure flow, and cautious and much slower, gently inviting more positive and inclusive discernment, where the diverse sprays of mutual dismay remain more complexly knotted. But, gentle invitation is the land of the facilitator, and not the stand-alone prophet. Active peace-making walks between these two worlds–which Dr. King did rather better than most of us.

 

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