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Love Muscles Contract to Expand

BodyLove feels like muscular energy,
while AgapeMindLove emerges weirdly in reverse;
mind fluency, fertility, health…

Not in any way dissonant with BodyLove,
ideally
to grow maturing health also ecologically balanced
EgoAnthro ReGenerate Positive Psychology
HealthAsWealth EarthTribal MindBodies.

That is,
I feel like we can
and do, sometimes,
grow more athletic in our love capacities,
our cooperatively positive energy.

We can grow from loving just one little Ego
into loving ourselves within a quasi-functional family,
emerging more maturely into a kinda screwed up,
but benignly cooperative as originally intended species
impatiently sometimes
too patiently other times
working through distinctions and tensions within
loving others as ourselves,
and loving and not loving some of our behaviors,
our communications,
our relationships and transactions with our kids,
our spouses but our colleagues too,
our neighbors as global residents too,
our fellow lovers exercising our cooperatively intended behaviors
of would-be perfect mind with body lovers.

I do believe we can train ourselves
and maybe even each other,
how and why to become healthier,
grow mindful,
merge more inclusive of our own,
and other’s negative behaviors,
“enemies” speaking our mutually imperfect tensions,
dissonances of misunderstanding,
misprioritizing capital-centric investments
over our cooperative (0)Riginal Intent.

This dissonance, though
suffering and loss,
anger and fear disruptions into our current love capacities,
expanding out toward a globally extending family
of regeneratively intended health-with-safety lives,
expanding back through prior generations of embryonic DNA,
back through pre-embryonic RNA
coding assignations of light as warmth,
exegetical temporal development instructions
for regenerating (0)-centric co-gravitating Time,
measured in c-squared fractals
Prime Tao CoRelational DiPolar Light,
expanding eco-echo-consciousness back through
bilaterally co-arising DNA-rooted ecologic forward,
forward toward our Great Exegetical CoEnlightenment,
forward through PostMillennial DiPolar TaoTime
speaking WinWin Gaming Theorems
in co-laterally (0)-balanced bipedal
both thumbs revolving dominant clockwise Up;

Expanding deep-rootedly, permaculturally,
sinking into positive nutrient Uracil
reconnecting sync-time Cytosine,
dipolar co-arising,
double-negative binomially septic-aptic
[Basic Attendance as Agape Self-OtherEnvironment default]
WinWin economics
YinYin optimal CQI healthy politics,
fluent plasmatic double-boundaried
wu wei health/pathology flow-power analysis
Tipping Point ecosystemic understory within
Yang/Uracil fractal-balancing formation primal functions.

Does your positively active love capacity grows ecoconsciously,
and bicamerally analogical?
Rooted within ecological metrics of light AND dualdark development,
between BlackHole deep-dense health regenerative
embryonic (0)Riginal Intention Landscapes
of Time’s Health Agenda
AND
EarthTribe’s (0)Mega Exegetical Language Landscape,
speaking ReGenerative ReCreation Stories
through Beloved CoOperative Networks
of expanding love and peace networks
and reverse-correlational implosion
fusion
of Anger/Fear Power Management
suboptimizing LeftBrain deduce-and-dominate
monopolistic as monoculture WinLose
Yang dominating Yin culturing recessions toward pathological dissonance
competitive ego-centric consciousness,

rather than
Left loving Right’s positives and negative-dissonant dipolarity
with positive and pathology health and safety development functions.
within ecosystemically nested networks
of cooperatively intended economic with politically positive communication trends
from, as well as toward,
health v. pathology co-intelligent co-arising memory,
stretching light’s ecobalancing co-arising healthy Time
toward EarthTribe’s Beloved Communities
EcoSystemic self-correcting WinWin Networks
of P=N(NP)
as Yang-notnotYin
co-arising dipolar light-squared eco-balancing Tipping Point
Prime Co-Relational Function
of Universal ThermoDynamic TaoBalance.

More simply and therefore lovingly said,
we become better lovers within Earth’s more loving organic environments
wherein we evolve easier to recognize active love power muscle tone,
harmonic tunes,
and flexibility to reverse time’s energy
of diastatic muscle and skeletal tense body strength-power-over environment,
over Other,
over others,
over future and through past moments of anger and fear management
by muscling through,
pushing egocentric as anthrocentric evolutionary theories of ultimate WinLose
survival of the Yangiest.

Yin love power optimally grows in love from
and through and for and with
Yang’s CQI Earth-ReGenerative Health and DNA//RNA Safety,
with mutually co-arising HistoriCultural,
EcoLogical-EcoNomic,
Political-CoOperative
Evolutionary Agenda Items
extending proof-lines back toward
(0) sum bilateral soul-emergent cosmological-eco-open-systemic intent.

To grow healthier Yin with Yang balancing ecoconscious love,
relax discontenting Yang-strained and stressed muscles,
feed them better nutritional balance,
to include less sleep deprivation,
to oxygenate and feed muscles and bones and tendons
including breathing and stretching,
strengthening mindfulness
by strengthening lifestyle maintenance and grace-movement.

Polypathic practices of dipolar equivalent balancing,
stretching Basic Attendance transliterative and transubstantiating consciousness
as Ego’s natural-spiritual mental health center

Where PowerFlexing is good,
but so is polycultural-outcome stretching,
breathing and beating and dancing
toward general health maintenance of one nondual co-arising mindbody,
exegetically evolving (y)our economic health
as politically cooperative YangYin-Body wealth.

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Positive Psychology Greets Basic PermaCultural Attendance

Although a post-millennial Taoist, I avoid pretending any authority within cultural, evolutionary, or ecological histories, or most any kind of history, except perhaps my personal story, with which, sadly perhaps, I do so hope this treatise will not overly concern itself. I am other things as well, including a gay white, rather grandfatherly adoptive parent of four African-American teenagers, ranging 13 to 19, and the youngest, my only girl child, Yang, radiant with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and Oppositional Temporal-Sequential Disorder (OD) when even at a moderate level of anxiety, which was, until the last few weeks, most of the time.

All that said, in my run-on sort of way, I have come back to the work of Laotse, and commentators, with some academic baggage including psychology, communication theory, philosophy, especially epistemology, holistic and panentheistic teleology (faith systems evincing meaning and purpose within the evolution of culture and information), systems theory, and then public administration, community and economic development, and, most recently, certification in Permaculture Design; which, at this point in our evolution might be more aptly re-labeled as Ecological Regenerative Development and Design because, while perhaps something may be permanent, it most certainly would not be culture, by definition a slow mutually-symbiotic radiant absorption of nutrients within an increasingly diastatic system, about to give birth to a transformed generation of reformulated function. Sounds like yeast to me.

My husband, and my second son, in their highly diverse ways, express concern about my memory and imagination juggling complex paradigmatic and temporal analogies, Alice in Wonderland conversations between mind and body, space and time, longing and belonging, physics and metaphysics, night and day, summer and winter, spring and fall, Yang and Yin.

 

I see Laotse as an Ecological Regenerative Designer-Shaman, writing an ecotherapy mentor manual to his intellectual and chi-optimizing organic progeny. Laotse feels informed by the flow and force functions of Earth’s natural systems, health and wellbeing, nutrition and values within not only moral/ethical frames of reference, but also metric, especially biometrically organized value-group systems and trends, like societies, and sages, and root systems, and rivers.

Pre-millennial astronomers were similarly fascinated by astrological patterns and rhythms. Perhaps my post-millennial perspective on ecological development and design derives from this same Original Natural Systemic Intent of Teleology, an intuitive responsiveness to icons of natural rhythmic change patterns and flow trends, development, and structure, regardless of paradigm, inclusive of psychotherapy, socioeconomic and cultural regenesis, economic and environmental therapy, but mainly about how to develop and maintain a safe and sane home with the capacity to grow organic wellness through incorporating global diversity.

 

I have been reading across multiple paradigms again. Apparently this is a bad habit that drives my husband nuts, or at least contributes to his dismay about my apparent lack of an appropriately prioritized, not to mention better organized, mind. Reading books about cosmology and psychotherapy and permaculture design, and economic policy simultaneously to see how they may inform each other, and the occasional Yes! or Scientific American magazine simulcasting, it’s hard to say exactly where this research project began. I might trace it back to slurping Mother’s nutrient stream of plasma, but something about reading Laotse, Julian Jaynes, Buckminster Fuller, and David Bohm together has shifted my perspective on my own retirement, and the apparent retirement from rationality of a too white Western wealthy male-dominant culture.

 

I  recall, about a year ago, discovering Positive Psychology. I first noticed the studies of identical twins, living with each other on a daily basis. They tend to look more alike than twins disassociated at birth, or even after reaching adulthood. More recently I saw pictures of long-time happily married couples, a whole lot of high school sweethearts who stayed sweet on each other for the duration. They tended to resemble each other, even facially sometimes, in ways that are more pronounced as elders than when they were young in their relationships. Not until a year ago did I notice that people who generally have positive, can-do, yet realistic attitudes (so mono-maniacal types are excluded), who tend to feel grateful within their relationships, for whom resentment and envy are anomalous feelings, anticipate their long-term prospects for contentment and success and joy, and continuing gratitude throughout their lifetime(s). These are generally happy, loving, kind people, often swimming in some nurturing form of learning/reflective culture, especially as they move into middle-age and beyond. These are the people with whom everybody wants to live. Or at least I do.

Perhaps significant, though, I find no evidence of white Western wealthier male dominance here. Although there are many with these Positive traits, these are far more deviantly shared with people who have had a more challenging time.

So, why do Positive people meeting this description, sidestepping viral irony, tend to live longer and healthier lives than the rest of us comparatively manic depressive and cynical “realists”? I read Norman Vincent Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking when I was about ten, but I don’t remember anything that would predict why my tall handsome African-American husband would start looking and sounding more and more like me, and I, a not-so-tall and not so handsome white guy, would start looking and sounding more and more like him, and liking it less and less. This was not our plan twenty three years ago. We actually prefer our differences more than our similarities, I think. Or at least I do, or did, and I thought that was an illustration of my somewhat positive psychological health—attraction toward diversity.

Evolutionary psychologists explain why positive psychology is so positive, why happiness is healthier than ambivalence, at least in more chronic forms. They say positive is positive because we have better outcomes so this develops positive feedback loops that lead to more and better sex and progeny over more average years.

OK, so maybe I’m not as positive as I had positively hoped.

While this evolutionary ethology sounds right to me, it also feels like this alone would predict a run-away positive feedback loop. So happy kids would almost inevitably grow up to be successful, happy, contented, and grateful adults, and old people, and they would, by now, be in complete global control of our situation, and I could take a nap, without worrying about my grandkids’ future prospects. Maybe we have some systemic constraints on the density of positiveness that any one community or ecosystem, or white straight financially-comfortable Western male can realistically contain at this time. This evolutionary frame may predict survival benefits more humbly than actual flourishing outcomes.

Doesn’t Positive Psychology also at least imply that human nature is ecologically evolutionary, that underlying our individual ego-self identities lies our mutually subsidiary network of synergetic (0) sum eco-soul chi? Mutual confluence and gratitude resonates; while mutual immunity, tension, stress, dissonance creates considerable noise, decay, destitution, death. Is a positively balanced ego-consciousness a still-emergent formation foreshadowing our understory, an eco-network of well-rooted, positive/negative balanced, thermodynamically harmonious gravity flow and synergy? Are we body-ego-identified individuals exploring our positively intended evolution as mind-eco-cellular individuating (0)-sum chi soulfood for each Other, within our own bodies and merging minds, and environments, relationships, communities, language development, nutrient economies, our own homes and families? This sounds Positive, but also Permacultured, to me.

 

I suspect there may be some implicit Negative Psychology mixed in with our explicated Positive Psychology; a recognition of the therapeutic value of grief, of care-giving and care-receiving, of nurturance and heartbreak as a response to pain and loss, and extinguishment, or purgation, in some contexts, as a response to dissonance and turbulence; like when my teenage sons pop their ear buds back in and turn their backs—Cognitive Dissonance Theory at work.

If only the positive, happy, more enlightening, emotions and affect could lead to improved, more abundant happiness, then I would presume that those of us who tend to sometimes be at least a tad more dull, and blind to our own gratitude for belonging with each Other, would have long ago died out, probably before dinosaurs. Glee, success, happiness, brilliance, beauty, goodness do not fully explain personal and social and economic evolution, or we would all be a whole lot more positive by now.

A response may emerge by looking at why Positive Psychology bears the name “Positive” rather than other possibilities like “Therapeutic” or “Good” or even “Correct” or “True.” Or “Perfect,” why not Perfection Psychology or even Paradise Psychology?

According to Wikipedia.com, our mutual textbook in the clouds, “Positive Psychology…uses scientific understanding and effective intervention to aid in the advancement of a satisfactory life, rather than merely treating mental illness.” What distinguishes between an unsatisfactory life and mental illness? Why wouldn’t treating an unsatisfactory life also treat mental illness? Positive Psychology implicitly, or liminally, somehow, seems to respond to Negative Psychology, our cultural fascination with pathology as unsatisfactory.

The Positive branch complements, with no intention to replace or ignore, the traditional pathological foci of psychology. Those other, Negative psychologists, with remedial intentions, have their place inside our somewhat shared asylum. Those ready for, and actively seeking, the good life will learn about “using your signature strengths everyday to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.” (Martin Seligman, 2002). Presumably, if you want to learn to use your signature weaknesses everyday to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification, then you need to move over to that other Negative branch, which, unfortunately, is so embedded in its Anger Management pathological silo that the two branches are too often not even on speaking terms within the hearts and minds of psychologists.

Kirk Schneider points “to a body of research showing high positivity correlates with positive illusion, which effectively distorts reality.” High positivity, or “flourishing,” can generate a positive feedback loop rendering some self-delighted sap “incapable of psychological growth, unable to self-reflect, and tend to hold racial biases. By contrast, negativity, sometimes evidenced in mild to moderate depression, is correlated with less distortion of reality.” (wikipedia.com, Positive Psychology, Schneider, 2011, Toward a Humanistic Positive Psychology). This reminds me of how psychoanalyst mentor Harold F. Searles responded to Edward Podvoll when he was unclear about what more he could learn, ”Your problem is that you’re not paranoid enough.”

 

Depression, to take a sometimes personal example, may be a correcting, or TrimTab, tipping point away from run-away positively manic delusion, just as flourishing affect and feelings associated with ego-identity and relationships can be therapeutic for all that sad poetry I write during the winter that no one wants to read, including myself, when I’m feeling Positive, “flourishing.”

TrimTabs, from B. Fuller, are small deviant adjustment dynamics that reiterate positive and negative feedback functions between Positive Psychology and Negative Therapy, showing up in the amazing outcomes of the Positive Deviance Initiative (www.positivedeviance.org).

Positive Deviance is based on the observation that in every community there are certain individuals or groups whose uncommon behaviors and strategies enable them to find better solutions to problems than their peers, while having access to the same resources and facing similar or worse challenges.

The Positive Deviance approach is an asset-based, problem-solving, and community-driven approach that enables the community to discover these successful behaviors and strategies and develop a plan of action to promote their adoption by all concerned.

This is strategized and planned positive evolution, with regenerative neighborhood and community-level effects. It is, in Podvoll’s language, finding islands of relative sanity. For example, a few parents figure out how to grow well-fed kids without any more money than anyone else in a neighborhood of largely malnourished kids.  The Positive Deviance researchers interview those families as the first step in spreading their outcomes more broadly among the population. I presume the reverse-deviant behavior or affect or feeling, or all the above, truly is positive, and not involving flourishing kids in assaulting other kids for their school lunches. Maybe these kids are flourishing because they have better choices for breakfast and carry nutritious lunches from home instead of what everybody else at school is eating.

 

This idea of not only Positive Deviance but also, by implication at least, Negative Deviance spreading to optimize a mutually-valued level of long-term sustainability comes to mind as I look for Ecological Mentoring Communities and Homes. Like the Findhorn EcoVillage, for example. Where are our best therapeutic cooperative models for sustained intentional positive communal life? How would one go about replicating these cultural development models within a more diverse and inclusive culture?

Apparently not with Positive Psychology alone, but some TrimTab balance between the Yangish excesses of positively functional outcomes and the Yin negative-reflective mutuality of interdependent nourishment, economic subsidiarity. Loss, pain, dissonance, wilting flowers and thriving weeds, climatic distempers, violent and fear-filled communications acutely erupt into our lives, and sometimes chronically emerge into our relationships, our communally accepted norms, our willingness to compromise on our definition of “home” and “paradise,” and perhaps even “sanity,” due to cognitive dissonance realities of the moment.

I am looking for models to form and maintain and self-propel positively deviant residential communities. Three psychologists stand out for me. The first is Julian Jaynes. I may get back to him a bit later. The other two are psychoanalysts, Edward Podvoll (Recovering Sanity, 2003) with a Compassionate therapeutic model, developed through the Windhorse Project, and Laura S. Brown’s Feminist Therapy (Subversive Dialogues, 1994).

Brown is passionately eloquent about the dis-positive ego-softening state of listening and speaking awareness essential to empathetically resonant, resilient, sustained therapeutic relationship. “A feminist therapy ethics takes the stance that practitioner and client are allies in the process of transforming…” (p. 207). This idea of therapist and ally, as empathic mutual mentors listening for dynamic functionality within their cognitive and communication dysfunction goes by the name of Basic Attendance in Podvoll’s psychoanalytic model.

Basic Attendance may be to non-violent communication what compassionate mindfulness is to actively engaged discursive synergy. Perhaps Basic Attendance has more of a peace intention, while compassionate mindfulness carries a more Western linguistic preference for active love. All of these are born of the same synergetic fabric found ubiquitously in religious and scientific paradigms as mutually gravitational attracting energy, motion, time frequencies, integrative function and force.

Uncovering the existence of spontaneous, innate flashes of sanity can become the building blocks of recovery…. Learning the necessary skills of this approach, especially the methods of basic attendance, allows human intimacy to become the catalyst for recovery. (Podvoll, p. 318)

Human natural intimacy is basic attendance, which might also be defined as the implicated root, or enthymematic to, compassionate mindfulness, love, or even synergy—according to Buckminster Fuller’s original coinage of this term for negative entropy—the opposite of an established relationship is something different, and more “advent”ish, more actively hopeful, than the entropic absence of relationship.

Basic Attendance includes both an intention and a practice. Intention precedes practice, “In this sense, environmental [ecological?] awareness is not only the tool to create sanity in the household, it is also the fundamental healing discipline that the patient needs.” Basic Practice of Attendance evolves out of Compassionate Therapy as a “fundamental healing discipline” ordained, perhaps quite literally, by ecological multisystemic awareness, or perhaps even a more active prehension of “Other-ness” within. “The secret of such intimacy can be learned and practiced; it is called the discipline of ‘exchange’.” (Podvoll, p.. 318) This seems to more-or-less bring us back to Brown’s feminist and holistically integral empathy.

Stretching to include human nature’s full living and often quite deviant diversity, I suppose ecological natural system awareness disciplines would include intentional breathing together, and noticing the pace of our heart rhythms, perhaps movement, exercise, artistic expression, poetry and story-telling, but also the mundanely unmystical habit of listening in full left- and right-hemispheric balanced stereo, and perceiving and feeling and absorbing and generating full sensory nutrient positive potential in full left-right hemispheric balanced stereo.

Julian Jaynes’ evolutionary theory of left-brained emergent linguistic dominance might suggest a cranial understory of reiterative, double-boundaried, Eco-Connected-SelfOtherPrimeRelationship-Mind-Right and Ego-Self-Identified-Body-Left-Languaged accessibility to and from older-brain encoded information. R.D. Laing, Gregory Bateson, Buckminster Fuller, and Robert Norton all look at diverse paradigmatic relationships between double-bind prime identification nonduality, emergence of binomial—analogic and digital, bipolar, and dual-nature dipolarities, autistic dissonant communication silos, and the ethological emergence of ego-body-self-identity awareness seminally accessible with the evolution of double stimulation capacity. (See Robert Norton’s Communication & Consequences: Laws of Interaction, p. 101) Self and Other are mutually individuated by knowing not only that when Other touches my arm I can feel this on my arm, but also when Self pinches my arm I can feel this on my arm and on my hand. Self is both subject progenitive, predicative, and object, response, outcome, in some (0)-sum balanced ego-core identity; or Not-Self-Otherness Species.

Non-violent communication analyzes the distinctly pathological problems that emerge from listening only with one ear and seeing only with one ego-centric eye. Feminist therapy reminds us that optimizing therapists choose to give fully balanced weight and credence to any functional intention of Other’s voice and movement, through empathic listening and responding with a voice or movement, music, rhythm, pace, flow, frequency this particular Other, in this particular moment might be able to recognize as confluently responsive.

When my non-verbal son screeches and shouts and pops his lips with a sequence of rhythms and pitches, creating a repeatable sequence, he listens more attentively when I repeat these sounds back to him, more or less the way they sounded to me. For my reward, he shows the dimple on the right side of his mouth. Because I frequently get to see this dimple, I recognize myself as a well-trained Ecotherapy student; but D. is, so far, the only effective verbal-pattern linguistic teacher in our mutually-therapeutic relationship.

When my probably insane daughter throws her food, jumps up from the table and runs away, I have learned to stretch further to see and hear through her functional neural system. It looked rather like one of her internal voices sounded an alarm, “Oops, alien incoming! Run away!!!

The most positive response in my arsenal was to see this as time to clear up her mess and go read a good book. But, when she was ready to come back to the crime scene, she wanted to eat the food off our floor (not something for the faint-hearted to even consider) rather than clear it up with a broom and mop.

When I responded with a cease and desist!, her response ranged from angry panic, incessant wailing despair, to loud protestations to the effect, “I’m hungry! Not just hungry; but hungry for this food on this wall and floor!”

With time, and more reflection on what response might Basic Attendance invite to my daughter’s dysfunctional alarm, it came to me that the alarm itself is not dysfunctional; it is my interpretation of her alarm’s meaning that was too myopic. My challenge was to regain positive and active faith in her functional intent to take care of herself. Soon after I remembered that she will take care of herself before she will do anything else, because she is profoundly ego-identified, it occurred to me that maybe I should jump up and run with her to her bedroom sit down on the floor with her, hold her if she will let me, and ask her what happened and why were we running away from the mashed potatoes, with gravy, and butter.

While initially all I got was silence, this was already better than all that wailing and terror. Eventually we got to I don’t know. Shortly after that, to Who threw my dinner? I’m hungry! That was when I began to have restored faith that there was a positive, yet alarming, method in her madness. She began to teach me about oppositional temporal disorder, reversed memory of cause and effect when under moderate to high stress conditions, and confusion between agent and victim, Self and Other-ness.

My daughter’s reverse-synaptic affective response to her environment as a negative and toxic place for living cells probably started with her first baptism in alcohol. As she has matured and found her moments of sane nurturing relationships breaking through the insanity of her neural-hostage environment, her anxiety level has dissipated. I. continues to mature, helped along by some music and dance and game therapy, playing with cause, effect, and reciprocal, reiterative, and appositional-oppositional temporal sequencing. Reverse role playing, story-telling with peaceful and harmonious words but saying them mean and ugly, and vice versa, ritualistic absurd name calling all have become idiosyncratic to our mutually trusting, playful, often humorous, positively expressive relationship.

 

Ecological awareness is feeling and hearing and seeing Self and Other with both eyes, as interdependent holons within Earth’s positive evolutionary, explicating, incarnating order. Karmic purpose unfolds as grace’s meaning, as karma’s practice enfolds grace’s intent. Borrowing from Basic Attendance but also Permaculture Design, we can choose to optimize polycultural nutrient absorption by minimizing ego-dominating distractions, predators, and dissonant assumptions of malignant intent. Bicameral basic attendance learns that well-balanced egos prehend indigenously within self-perpetuating, self-defining eco-centric EarthTribe’s designing and developing, emerging natural flow trends, functions, information. We each evolve part of Earth’s way, truth, and life; each of these three words is used to define Tao and, by Jesus of Nazareth, to define Messiah, as a new millennial manna.

Buckminster Fuller might recognize mutually symbiotic Attendance within our multi-systemic environment as a metaphysically real true way, or Universal Intelligence.[1] Fuller presciently committed intelligent permacultured design to the core TrimTab balancing principle of Greatest Effect with Least Waste, or loss of value, or least retention of dissonant-resistant frequencies and functions. His TrimTab mechanism later was labeled as the “tipping point” within a dynamic system in process of reversing one or more energy or information flow trends. A Trimtab’s (0) Core Vector is a “digital” view of optimized confluent analogical frequency trends, and minimized dissonant frequencies; optimized energy and information. TrimTabbing predicates consciousness value-balancing within any dynamic relationship trending toward prime, primal, or seminal; a significantly harmonious threshold toward emergently confluent ways, or Tao. Tipping points are emergently diastolic balanced flow, with reduced dissonant turbulence, moving toward some new/old diastatic, mutually enculturing stage of systemic relationship, synergetically merging two interdependent but complexly diffused, and sometimes confused, entities into one organically evolving form of perpetually dynamic stasis; an ecosystem.

TrimTabs are tipping points in cultural self-designing moments and eras, increasing our collective prime comprehension, conceivability, compassionate mindfulness. They are balancing trend changes of function and form and frequency generating new moments of mutual sanity, or at least reiteratively building exchanges of values, words, thoughts, conceptual forms and structures that appear to have harmonious resonance between communicating minds and bodies wanting to head in the same balanced direction, eventually. But, for this moment, merging into dissonant frequencies invites an open-ended pilgrimage whose end we can see, but not any steps in between.

Somehow it all feels like regenerative paradigms are soaking into our global analogically saturating culture right now, this companionship between physics and math and teleology and evolution and ecopsychology and new economics and cooperative gaming theory, and then back to Bayesian trend analysis of QBits, or Qits, or whatever quixotic quarky name we have for implicately analyzed big data-set trend strings of confluent prime spacetime relationships within regenerative  natural and strategic development story lines. This generates a permacultured nutrient rich and sustained well-being frequency or stage theory.

Temporally emergent functions and stage-frequencies follow an ecological rhythm and pattern like RNA, or the four annual seasons, or the light and dark sections of a day. In Dharma and Development, Dr. Joanna Macy discusses a development fractal following this same pattern:

  1. NOTICE: metta–loving kindness as Basic Positive Teleological Attendance
  2. HOPE: karam—compassion and/or grief [I would translate as confluence and/or dissonance, within information and communication theory]
  3. FAITH: mudita—joy in the joy of others; confluence/sorrow in the confluence/sorrow of others; trust in the trust of others; informating through informating with others; incarnating through incarnating as Integral Eco-Other Positive mythos/logos, eisegetical/exegetical string species
  4. LOVE/ACTIVE PEACE WITH JUSTICE: uppekkha—equanimity/integrity optimized value balance; a great, and deep, peace Tao of balanced equity.

So, in Bloom’s Taxonomy of deep learning, we start with

  1. an enthymematically emergent noticing of potential information,
  2. through researching hope of confluence within appositionally analyzed dissonance,
  3. Through reporting heuristic faith therein, and finally
  4. comparatively analyzed and synthesized for analogous ecologies and economies with prior regenerative memory cycles and metric systems and language paradigms;

Basic Attendance metta is to hope, as faith is to love;

as LINE is to COSINE is to LTR is to Fuller’s (0) Core Vector fractal prime relationship;

as winter’s advent is to springing hope,

as summer’s faith fulfills in abundant Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Permaculture Design and Development optimized prime cooperative information and functional-synergetic value harvests;

as Uracil is to Cytosine,

so is Adanine to Guanine;

as + is to (-),

so is Polynomial Yang+ QBit

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Reverse Not-Polynomial Yin(-)QBit..

This EcoTherapy is symbiotically and binomially born of  digital binary information ecosystemic theory, and from a deeply inclusive permacultured Golden Rule, expressing each person’s positive intent through Basic Attendance, described as our mutually empathic, and intuitively enthymematic dancing practice of reflecting each other’s sanity by discovering analogies within our own experience and imagination, our extant range of frequency and functional and formative awareness of natural/organic/holonic potential, events, exercises (e.g. role play, music, gaming exercises, movement, meditation, stress reduction and artistic expressive therapies). Basic Attendance is to actively peaceful, “safe” and harmonious expression what non-violent communication is to dissonant- and risk-avoidant information patterns, like the stuff of Cognitive Dissonance Research. Cognitive Dissonance is the opposite of Basic Attendance, which grows nutrient positive roots for growing more sustainable Positive Deviance trends within apparent negative environmental circumstances, especially within currently abused and neglected populations, species, neighborhoods and bioregions.

 

Anyway, getting back to my crazy oppositionally afflicted reverse-temporal synaptic daughter, she and I were both able to laugh at our dysfunctional fears when I was able to share with her that she threw that vegeburger and ran away so fast, I was sure it had teeth and had bitten her on the nose. She found that image amusing, and perhaps humoring this pathology helped her loosen her fearful grasp a bit, to hang on to our shared intentionally co-passionate and mindful moment of positive integral ecotherapy. It helped each of us to hear the other, and ourselves, laughing about that fearsome vegeburger. Laughter, perhaps literally, absorbs dissonant information, it is medicinal, as is joy, and all those attributes associated with Positive Psychology.

Perhaps what is still missing for me in Positive and (negative) remedially-oriented  ecopsychology theory is something that might help explain why an old widow and her not quite so old boxer look like cousins sometimes. Can we predict the evolution of body and mind confluence by optimizing multisystemic information and energy confluence in each of our relationships, each moment, each choice of word and song and dance and value? Is this not what we mean by Basic Attendance, and/or compassionate mindfulness?

How might we spread this rich compost of Basic Polycultural Attendance throughout our most cooperative and permacultured enterprises? Throughout the places in time and moments in space where those who are not wealthy straight Western adult males, 40-70, will have one of Laura Brown’s Subversive Dialogues about ecotherapeutic cooperative care for homes and families, businesses and vocations, learning and designing and developing regenerative systems and relationships. How will our historical-cultural understoried population invest our wealth for ourselves, our children, and our future generations of all EarthTribe?

 

REGENERATIVE WORK

Is work that reconnects?

I hope I am hearing voices from the future

not yet here.

But, I have a message from our past

that might reflect a positive intention

for continuing our epic journey

of regenerative pilgrimage.

 

Do we intend effective regenerative therapy

for straight white upper middle class

family value issues,

choosing segregated safety

over a more active adventure of integrative living

as a quasi-gendered Other of non-color

within a neighborhood

and school

and training workshops

led by straight white wealthier

family value issuers,

reformers,

ecotherapists?

 

Industrial Age Myth delivers

global value confusion

into an otherwise formerly sustained,

deeply green encultured,

Agrarian EarthTribal Age Myth.

Logosing across economic,

ecological,

cultural,

linguistic analogies,

emerges a slow-evolving hypothesis:

family economic and ecological silent silos of abuse

and neglect reveal abundantly informative

confluent Tao patterns and

permaculturally functional rhythms.

 

BUSINESS AS USUAL

  1. Industrial Age Myth of Global Progress

Leads to

  1. White wealthier Western

straight male-dominant

cultural and ecological

and economic pathologies.

 

AND

 

REGENERATIVE THERAPY DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN:

tipping turning vortex

Positive Deviance Therapy

confluently hearing

Positive peace-filling kind-kin logos orthodoxy.

(1) Profoundly inclusive diversity

(2) reweaving diastolic evolution toward

(3)diastatic fullness,

also known as

(1) Basic Grateful Attendance

(2) to Self, Other, Earth,

three faces of SelfIdentity balancing EarthTribal Co-Prehension,

(3) democratizes compassionate mindfulness,

also known as

(1) Eastern Yin-executively flexible

and reverse-hierarchically inclusive

polycultural information skills

(2) emerges ecological economic

and global-learning therapies.

(3) Leads To

  1. Sustaining Well-Being Optimized BiCameral Networks

Agrarian

Residential

and Trade Guild Cooperatives

Communities and Nations

planets and universes

with Therapeutic Ecological Econormial Values

 

These feed my permacultured Taoist soul story

that we are sticking with it

to fly together,

and not apart.

 

[1] In Synergetics 2 (1979), #987.075, p. 322, Fuller appears to conclude that Universal Intelligence is DNA/RNA design programming, the “cosmic-coordinate system to be embraced and accommodated by the epistemography of synergetics.” If so, then he may have been casting the role of uracil as “Yang”, +1 Eulerian QBit function, Bohm’s Explicate Order, and Polynomial spacetime information set, and cytosine as “Yin,” +/-(0) Core Prime Fractal-Holonic Relationship, Vertex/Vortex binomial, Not-Polynomial-dominant, reverse-temporal “dark/dense” string memory codex.

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Angelic Guides

Divine messengers from Elders past
beget humane guardians of culture.

Messenger functions
perform and redevelop
guardian structures and forms.

Proactive verbs
with their domesticating nouns
speak defensive formal language,
recreating exegesis of life
spread and stretched between
fiaming love and stone-cold hate.

Messages shaping defense of polycultures
reshaping offense of runaway monocultures.

Divine words
building bodhisattva messiahs
guardians of healthy cooperative virtues,
EarthTribe’s convening natural discerning kindness,
ecoconscious mindfulness.

Messengers to and from our Elder guardians,
trees shaken by breeze,
squirrels chased by bluejay girls,
light shadowed by nondual night.

Sacred messengers,
enculturing guardians.

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What Are We Learning?

What have you learned from your family experience
that influences your position
on public health and safety,
national health defense
and economic offensives you might propose
for healthier individuals
and families
and nations
and even planet Earth, hopefully?

Could you give me an example
of what might qualify as a politically satisfactory answer
for you?

Well, I parent four teenagers,
three require special support environments and resources
to foster improved learning outcomes.

I have concerns
none of the schools,
from the most elite private
to the mental health specialized therapeutic public,
seems to have deep learned their way into
how to avoid adversely depressing and repressing my kids’ growth potential
into a more polyculturally articulated
and multisystemically accessible
self-optimizing ego-healthy mindbody,
much less an effective communicator,
much less an effective deep ecosystemic listener and learner.

We each seem to start into our learning lives
thinking and feeling deductively and inductively
with all senses listening for dialects of feeling and function
within ourselves,
others,
Earth,
until our enculturing institutions
interrupt with mental-physical health disservice,
suboptimizing with more didactically addicted
quantified
deductive memorization performance outcomes,
thereby missing days and years of lifetime healthy cooperative political
and economic
and ecological
and interpersonal relational communication potential
while investing in competitive excesses
of Left mindbody dominant commodification
of learning how to live into life’s most regeneratively
anthro-preoccupied not-listening opportunities,
we accept unacceptable risks of unbalancing angers and fears
as anthro-supreme species
sharing primal bilateral temporal intelligence
with all DNA/RNA syntaxed living cells
and organs
and species
and bioregions.

We are of and for Earth’s polyculturing cooperative relationships
and transactions
with internally symbiotic dipolar nondual ecosystemic functions
of purpose and deep regenerative meaning.
I didn’t pick that up in school,
nor have my kids found any support for
this way of enculturing holistic health
to regenerate polyculturally optimal outcomes.

Aetna,
a health insurance company,
knows more about mindfulness training,
health and self-care as Earth-care consciousness,
while our schools,
which could be our kids’ healthy-love-of-polycultural-learning assurance incubators,
focus more on anger and risk management.

I’m wondering if anything like this comes up from your experience
of how our social
and political
and economic
and defense
and sometimes even our “health” institutions
do not practice basic mindbody health-medicine principles
of cooperative ecoconscious relationships and transactions,
or aspire to regeneratively optimize future cooperative learning outcomes.

Why isn’t human history taught
as our still-evolving language
and nutritional enculturation
and toxic deculturation
ecopolitical healthylove-as-learning
EarthTribe’s re-creation story?

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Bun Dance Season

I could not be me without you,
nor you without me,
as “I”,
you see,
we’re not at home in side-by-side.
Egos seek universality
coincidentality
equality
economicality
ecologicality,
teleologicality,
biological unfolding we.

If no MetaEcoSystem,
then no Me.
If no me, then no exegetical
metaphysical
metamorphical
polycultural
permaculturing,
polypilgriming Be.

If not Be-longing
then no longing.
If no longing,
then no Belonging.
If no becoming, then no Being
seeing
sensing
souling
solving
resolving
resonating
incubating
sublimating
dia-enlightening We.

If synapse
were not quite so closely haunted by fear of relapse
deep learning might Be
as predictable as gravity’s self-creational
bi-relational
lapse of time as space.

When East and West learn to divest
of ignorant enculting absence,
as South and North learn to invest
in other Culture’s Presence,
then permaculture design and development
will redeem sustained
polycultured present planet,
polymorphic peaceful economics,
polypathic co-passioned ecologic,
as PolyTao Therapy;
EcoTime’s Thermodynamic Open-Systemic Balance.

Mutual Messiahs turn Left to Right cheeks,
Right to Left hemispheres,
and back again,
reiterating timelessly
to turn Earth bioethics upside down,
with SunGod’s Alpha cooperative rays on top
of economic (0)Mega pie charts.

Earth’s graceful synthesis spreads wide
warm watery memories of sense perception
challenging bigoted contractions of tree-ringed,
We-ringed ecograce,
lust for abundance,
sensual Bun Dance away from eisegetical error,
ignoring anthrocentric supremacy,
Ego’s solo fancy prance reactionary cultural responses
to “Why”
when we each and all come together,
in love’s full climaxing binomial Beloved embrace,
we turn our holy identity upside down
in solid sustained HereNow time as spatial place,
our eco-entity global home,
grace.

DNA does not speak in spatial language,
we unfold to fly together
across time’s perpetually revolutionary boundary.

I could not be me without you,
nor you without me,
as “I”,
you see embodied,
we’re not at home in silos of side-by-side.

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Fuller’s Cosmic Consciousness

Said Harvard to Bucky
we feel quite so lucky
your genius on campus
has caused quite a ruckus
but this time we’re sure you’re less mucky;

And yet we’re not sure
which department could endure
your thesis exegetical
your wisdom eisegetical
of what is and is not we’re less sure.

Perhaps you’re a poet
and the last ego to know it,
you thought this was science
mixed up with con-science,
your poetic verse helps you show it.

When Bucky wrote meta-physical science
we read him as physical conscience
and that could be fine
it fits with his rhyme
of teleopathic resonance.

There once was a Fuller who prehended
a Special Case universe co-prehensile
teleopathic embrace
wears polypathic face
as wisdom’s synergetic eco-tensile.

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Why life?

Why does dawn dress morning,
while dusk undresses sight?
Each dawn incarnates another Earth Day
as Easter morning's redemptive revolution,
another day of gift-it-forward light,
some longer,
some shorter before naked covered night.

Why life?
To uncover love's light invitation,
synergy's eco-creative comprehensive meaning.
To discover love life sustained 
as vastly interdependent belonging.
To recover synergy's perpetual pilot light,
decomposing fire's burning fuel rate 
and flow toward identity's
nurturing heated health and eternal sight.

Why rehabilitation,
repurposing of people, places,
property, possessions, planet?
Recreation unfolds a coincidentally redemptive event,
dawning/darkening new each moment and day and life and species,
paradigm and meme,
language and information,
conscience and consciousness,
each loving act of mutual gravity's practice.
Therapeutic intent to rehabilitate and repurpose
grows internally nutritious spiritual roots,
externally natural branches,
ecological economics healing cooperative Paradise Lost
within, and without,
comprehensive polymorphic landscapes
of Ego and SuperEcoing Earth's bi-versal systems.

Language both fertilizes and farms.
produces and consumes,
enthymemes and echoes,
grows and harvests 
induces and deduces vision
sight
sound
feelings.
Speech and thought both rehabilitate and repurpose understanding,
comprehensively comprehending co-passionate nutritional con-science.
Linguistic analysis decomposes and recreates cultural memory, imagination, hope and faith,
despairing dreams predicting sintaxing decay,
raping screams restricting life,
universal dark negentropy swallowing Earth's synthetic life of light,
both dissonance and confluence,
double-negatives within positive,
contentiousness within contentedness,
fearing death within loving full climax life,
longing within belonging.

Noticing dipolar relationships,
Ego-yang and SuperEco-yin-yin Earth ships,
enrich polypathic fields of analogical Win-Win evolutionary perception,
growing consciousness of interdependent value paradigms,
love between my weeds and flowers,
brothers and sisters all over this organic farm
of deeply resonant ecologic.

Id-entity rests simply silent
growing confidence in SuperEco's compelling righteous revolution
resonant resolution
swelling discontented longing roots
to regenerate passion's peacefilled leafing NOW.

SuperEco is to Yang/Yin synergetic power
as Id-entity is to Yang/Yin voiceless balance 
listening discernment to and of and in and by natural systems,
as non-violent intent is to recreative peace and ecojustice practice,
as inclusive consciousness grows co-passion's Beloved Community.

Decompositional function of polynomial language 
grows information's reverse hierarchy QByte octaved bicameral systems,
where Right-brain not-not polynomial 
rediscovers binomial spacetime,
waving double-boundaried resolution of eternal time, 
coincidental meeting of infinitely omnipresent past with omnipotent future.
Regenerate function of language creates, 
inspires,
enjoys,
insights,
dawns both ecologically wise and economically (0)-summed co-operation,
fueling Earth's peaceful power with global compassioned justice.
 
SuperEco comprehension both fuels and farms love,
organic ecotherapy for all four seasons,
including advent's winterish purgation,
winnowing Identity's weedy monotonous roots,
composting Earth Tree's rehabilitating spring branches
stretching out with gratitude 
toward Omniscient Eco's radiantly graceful light.

Why regenerate living?
Why not decompose dying?

 

 

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Organic Chicken Soup Farm

Relationships are like farming,

if you don’t plant the seed,

you’ll have no crop to harvest.

Rumi (M. Mafi, trans.)

 

Gambling is like farming,

if you don’t play the game,

you’ll have no winnings.

 

Economics is like farming,

if you don’t play the mutual cooperative game,

you’ll have no competitive winnings.

 

Ecologic is like farming,

if we don’t play the mutual mentoring Climax Community game,

we’ll have no long-term sustainable,

much less optimized systemic,

winnings.

 

Stay aware and purposeful in your search,

for happiness is truly in the searching.

Rumi

 

Stay awake and purposeful in our research,

for peacefulness,

contentment,

confluence,

justice,

ecological economies are true within this polycultural searching.

 

Stay awake and mindful of polypathic meaning

in your Regenerative Permaculture Designed Research,

for happiness, confluence, equity, truth, Prime Relationship Balanced Teleology

are truly within this self-optimizing SuperEco searching.

 

How do we sleep while part of us is gone?

Frogs and night birds,

bats and insects cry out for company

filling raucous warm luscious breeze

gentle, caressing,

carrying chicken soup songs of love

not yet won,

love wanted and needed with primal longing

to belong back together

for our first really great time.

How do we sleep

while part of us is gone?

 

Night flight resolves revolving chatter,

fractal spinning spiral-echoes

haunting iconic timeless teachings

from potential future Right-brain memory

predicative facts,

intuiting predictors,

confluent, confident islands of prophetic sanity

boundary inspiring polycultures,

multi-open systems of optimal communication.

 

How do we sleep

in this racket of absent SuperEgo

missing evil hope of flight tonight?

God as the Doomed and Dooming Ground of All Being,

under Whom we hide from shamed non-redeeming character,

id-entity.

We thought we were economically neutral

on Goddess Moving Train of Earth,

oblivious to Her climatic millennial warnings

to ease up on the fire power,

take a break,

let’s cool down,

enjoy some slower peace and more mindfully inclusive justice.

 

Remaining neutral in our farming cooperative relationships,

admittedly a slower moving train,

and yet it helps to confluently comprehend we are spinning

with Common balancing thermodynamic balance,

and how fast is too fast, too Yangish,

and how slow is too slow, too Yinnish,

and when we might slow down to rebalance Yang with Yin,

and how much we might slow down

emerges permaculturally predicated

as [+Yang = (-)(-)Yin] = [+PolyNomial 0-sum equivalent to (-)Not-PolyBiNomial-4-Prime Spacetime Dimensionally Balancing Vortex] Open Natural Systemic

or +1/(-)0 = space/time binary Closed MetaSystem fractal-holonic-octaved reverse-hierarchical balance,

to sustain our permacultured rich teleological neutrality on Gaia’s regenerative train.

 

How do we wake

when part of Us is gone?

How do we awaken

our search for polycultural economic justice standards

for researching well-being sustenance,

self-optimizing regeneration with SuperEco Mindfulness Intent?

Planting regenerative seeds,

to grow redemptive pay-it-forward gift economies,

winnowing metasystemic research to optimize repurposing meaningful purpose,

EarthTribe’s ecological self-redemption future day

covering love, peace, happiness, contentment, justice, information, confluence roots

with threats, opportunities, strengths, weaknesses systemically balanced compost,

learning faith and hope in suffering dissonance as cooperative redemption,

evolutionary research,

incarnation,

karma,

ecology,

the Permaculturalist Economic Tao:

sleep and wake and absorb others, as you would have them be you NOW

we re-emerge our SuperEcoTribe’s cultural therapeutic,

polypathic

scientific

natural-spirituality.

 

Natural systems are to spiritual systemic comprehension,

as Physics is to Metaphysical Universe (B. Fuller’s definition),

as Yang is to Yin,

as Polynomial Information is to Double-Bound Negative Polynomial Information Balancing Trends.

 

Polypathic and multisystemic relationships are like therapeutic organic farming,

if you don’t plant fractal-holonic DNA/RNA-encrypted seeds,

you’ll not have an Optimized PermaCultural crop to harvest.

 

Ain’t nobody here ceptin us Chickens

and somehow we all landed in this soupy mess together.

Let’s start lickin each other’s wounds.

 

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SuperEcoTeleologic Humor

Our most entertaining wise prophets,

our saints and messianic geniuses

are those who mentor us about what not to do

to sustain abundant life,

what could not possibly truthfully communicate,

what could not become orthodox faith again,

how not to become,

how not to cooperatively come together,

how not to commodify one’s life and relationships to other people,

and other natures,

and why.

 

Polypathic saints without a globally embracing sense of humor

about what we should not be doing and being,

yet continue becoming despite our organic orthopraxis

and permacultured plans,

are either hypocrites,

liars,

wrong,

or all of the above.

 

Under our shared Sun,

on our shared Earth,

nothing grows more grace-filled,

or karmically appropriate,

or mindfully compassionate,

more content,

more enlightened and wise,

than optimally sustaining a kind

and mutually grateful sense of humor

about our interdependent selves,

lives,

futures and pasts,

our messy shared-Earth home,

a paradise of stand up together comedic opera,

and mutual applause,

however silently smirked

through soft-eyed gold horizon stares.

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Active Peace

Polycultural and permacultural,

space and time growth of human communication,

information systems,

common understanding,

Commons economics,

and ultimate integrity of all human concern

and evolution’s informed coordination,

coincidental endosymbiotic cooperation,

karmic incarnation,

of love’s redemptive initiatives–

these harvest active peace.

 

Anger dissipates without an enemy to target

through acts of kindness.

Fear fades coincidentally

as strong-tempered love fulfills its trembling place,

transformed polymorphic place,

Edenic life ionically balancing,

finding humor in ego’s hateful quaking

monoculturing systemic dissipation.

 

All Yang,

no Yin,

original sin,

not Original Intent

of polyculturally balanced

Prime Principle of Universal EcoLogic.

 

Indeed,

P must reverse-valent NP,

as Yang reverses Yin,

as Tao’s enculturing skin economically responds

to namaste invitations from sunlight’s Vitamin D.

 

Photosynthesis enlightens binomial polycultures

and regenetic string theory.

Anger and fear burn monopolistically synaptic,

like sunlight on unprotected skin,

when and where

perma- and poly-

P does not

unfortunately

equal NP.

 

Baptism is to water and air systems

as photosynthesis is to light and soil rooting systems

as yang is to binomial implicating yin,

thusly thereforeversomuchly,

(and exhaustedly)

P DOES = NP!!!

so let’s move on with this Green Revolution

of active peace.

 

I need a nappy.

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