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Supremely Courted Systemic Feelings

I believe it was Alfred North Whitehead,
an early developer of cognitive systems thinking,
who observed frequent miscommunication
and confusion
and chaos
over bilateral complexities
of Set v isolated Individual issues
within a systemic set
of inter-related issues.

This comes to mind
as I listen to another lose/lose partisan debate
about democratic U.S. civil defense
of appropriate constitutional law
and socially egalitarian order
during this current SupremeCourt
public badgering
bullying
verbal ballistics.

A question is asked
in defense of
an individual health care policy
scheduled to soon reappear
on the constitutionally controversial
democratic health care
and resilient wealth defensive
Supreme Court docket.

Yet the democratic historical system
of evolving eco-political enculturation
education
expansion
win/win reflection
co-invested viral multicultural infestation
global and local peace restoration
(not so much win/lose pontification)
is seldom explicitly voiced
as a shared discussion experience
bicamerally favoring global health outcomes
through mediating and mentoring
compassionate communication safety.

In part
because systemic questions
frames
contextual intelligence
curiosity about responsibly held concerns
are better processed
more democratic-health accessible
more empowered
more enlightened
through open-systemic dialogue
than closed win/lose individualistic egocentered debate.

A central multicultural systemic question
has to do with the U.S. constitution
as a de-contextualized
de-historical monocultural dogmatic document
of a closed set democratic rights tradition
both static
and fundamentally originalist
as Democracy’s Holy Grail

Standing apart from a regenerative EarthSystem
of expanding
enlightening
empowering
democratizing win/win co-empathic history
extending our family
and sacred tribal
and secular state consciousness
to include all public life-health systems
for restoring justice
and compassionate peace-felt communication networks.

Which was more the multicultural value mindset
of Enlightenment Era
constitution-signing
U.S. StraightWhitePatriarchal ForeFathers,
largely left-brain dominantly educated
and competitively rewarded
for verbal debate acumen
more than more right-brain
ego/eco-systemic thinking and feelings
potentially win/win healing
more than win/lose further elitist wounding.

Declaring democratic health
interdependently determined to promote optimal
integral well-being
by turning away from

Autonomous apartheid
hierarchical defensiveness,
patriarchal,
supremely narcissistic
from-above
closed
unchanging
divinely designated elite monoculturalism
monotheism
egocentrism
anthropocentrism
of a StraightWhiteMale
made in God’s patriarchal capitalist
win/lose jealous and punishing
retributive,
and not redemptively re-distributive,
EarthHistoric System

As if a ProDeath Network
of compromised competition choices
too comfortable with military-industrialized
win/lose defense of democratic nationalist constitutionalism
rather than win/win compassion
for democratic global natural/spiritual
bicameral
bilateral
binomial communication-empowering systemic health
evolving
revolving harmonically resonant Constitutions
accessible to past through future optimizing
public and climate health wealth

To, eventually,
as historic multicultural consciousness expands,
and restorative egalitarian justice systems evolve,
as RightBrain interdependent enlightenment flows out,
and as LeftBrain ego/eco-centering empowerment strengthens,

Become a truer
more multi-goodfaith balanced,
healthy systemic democracy
of and for all residents,
humane natures
and divine spirits,
people and plants
and bioregionally cooperative
win/win
healthy systemic
local through global planet.

A better systemic question
for a healthier democratic nation
and Earth:

How do you support
the continuing eco-political WinElite and WinNonElite
emergence of empowering health care giving
and enlightened wealth care receiving
within your own growing
resonant and resilient
multiculturally co-empathic communicating
EarthJustice system?

Or are your mentoring
and modeling aspirations
for healthy interdependence
for wealthy multicultural democratic values
somewhat less enlightened
and more disempowering
than supporting our original democratic experiment
in ongoing self/other GoldenRule
evolving co-governance systems?

Responsible and co-responsive,
vulnerable and transparent,
actively curious and quietly courageous,
win/win committed yet good faith humored,
anti-unrepentent predative monoculturing systems
by multiculturally favoring
restorative healing democratic justice

For all God’s sacred creations
voices
climates
cultures
held in original historic
pre-historic,
verbal and non-verbal and pre-verbal
healthy democratic World SystemicView
and View of EgoRecentering
CoAcclimating
CoPassionate Communicating mindbodies
of sensory reception
collaborative absorption
synergetic digestion
neural-integral multicultural communication
systems
invoking organic individual
yet integrally singing and dancing
resonant
and resilient,
sacred
and secular,
theological
and ecological,
internal
with external,
egocentered
with ecosystemic voices.

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Loving Two As One

Culture
is to Climate

As Spirit
is to Nature

As TheoLogical Reflection
is to EcoLogical Experience

As MetaPhysical
awareness and thinking
are to Physical
sensation and
internal feeling/external touch associations
reassociations
preassociations
dissociations

As One
co-arising
dipolar
binomial
BiRelation-Twoship

I find two ways
to have faith in this prime
eco-political relationship,
one interior
to two exterior/interior
as NonEmpty systems
are to ZeroCentric particulars,
as Physical causes
are to Meta-Physical/Phoric
Poly-Pathic/Phonic
presilient/resonant
bicameral double-bound/co-binary effects.

I believe
multicultural health
and power
have nothing to do with,
or say to,
or listen with compassion for
deference to each cause/effecting Other
inside impressed
as also outside already manifest
and remanifest
in tension with not yet premanifest
with co-passionate communing sufficiency,
active curiosity,
solidarity,
co-empathy,
sacred grace.

I further believe
these integral flowing double-yin = yang variables
are integrally unrelated
and unrelatable sameness,
incommensurable
to strong synergetic Yang binomial
bilateral
bicamerally redundant communications

Because they are one historic
and pre-historic,
verbally thought
and nonverbally felt
prime NonZero Whole-Sum Healthy Narrative
for Open Ego/EcoSystemic BiLaterally Egalitarian Relationships
already at mirrored
reflective
bicamerally re-meditative
left with right winged hand
and mind
and bilateral lungs
and heart
and spinal-neurological synergy chakras
for growing internal/external sensory integrity;

More of a mutually positive correlational metaphor
of dipolar contrast
than a competitive negative correctional
bipolar analogy
between rightbrain sacred theology
of interdependent democracy
and leftbrain secular ecology
of multicultural communication.

Multicultural enlightenment
co-invites non-violently communicating
EarthHealth and SafeJustice climates
of wealthy empowerment,
and Left to Right
BiCameral Both/And
West to Eastern Culture
and North from Southern
polarized hot original equatorial
patriarchally overheated,
and not blue/green
organic
ecofeminist balancing subclimates

Wombed by sacred EarthMother
breached by secularized
LeftBrain dominant Daddy’s Capitalism,
by competitive non-communicant thought
outdistancing compassionate eco-political feelings

Uncomfortable with anthropocentric
theologically verbalized sense of privilege
as a monoculturally divine elitist
lording over non-verbally felt
ecologically marginalized
non-violent subclimates
for systemic thinking and feeling
co-empathic bicameral communication

Among Sons of SunGod Privilege
undervaluing
under-investing
in win/win EarthMaiden multicultural values
for our own internally managed Light
of their own UltraNonViolent EarthMother,

Earth’s revolving
spiraling orbit
of multi-colored sensory octave receptors
favoring
co-empowering
climate/culture stereophonic energy,
multiculturally intelligent co-acclimating integrity,
Open ego/ecosystemic climates
of and for sensory synergy.

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Powerfully Polite Imaginations

Imagine with me
that your local
political
economic community,
municipality,
bioregion
is a communication network
already at hand,
like a potentially benign kingdom
or mutually informed democracy,

Which is what some residents actively hope for
as a peaceful sacred communion
and others engage in active voting campaigns
and political party platform design
for restoring secular justice communities
as architects for cooperative economic co-investments.

Within these secular and sacred,
economic and political,
empowering and enlightening
positive communication networks
are ecologically healthy,
and theologically wealthy,
robust and resonant non-violent relationships
of cooperatively positive compassion.

Imagine that ecological resilience
and theological multicultural resonance
within and beyond this communication network
extend back through past regenerations

Of this particular empowering moment
and human enlightening place
on Earth
not merely opposing subjective functions of non-communication,
but actively embracing
externally natural experience
compared with internally spiritual memory,
as appositional compare/contrast experience,
appositive flow-forms
of dipolar co-arising functions
for power and light communion

Yang LeftBrain nature
actively communicating power
with Yin RightBrain spirit
recessively intercommuning light
with empowering secular Yang
with enlightening sacred Yin
with power
with light
communicating bicameral revolving spirals
bilateral
binomial community communication
positively viral energy.

Imagine we politically
and economically,
ego/theo-logically
and ecologically agree,
across all current
and past multicultural reconnecting systems,
that our communication network’s most resonant
and resilient co-passionate purposes
are healthy empowerment
of all life systems
and wealthy enlightenment
of all human-divinely inspired polycultural
polypathic
polyphonic
polyvagal neurological
positive win/win communication networks.

How would you
democratically
and multiculturally explore
design
plan
and democratically implement
and evaluate
and re-evaluate
and redesign
and replan
and restore justice and organic peace
within and beyond
this secular/sacred
bicameral
multilateral
democratic group win/win game
for empowering
enlightening
cooperative communication
life energy ego/eco-system?

Could we learn to see
these diverse cultures
of all enlightening good faith climates
as pleasingly interdependent,
influenced by birth
in diverse historically empowered eras
and culturally enlightened communal
climate experiences?

Rather than judging
what empowers good faith rationalism
and what darkens bad faith superstition,
could we find ecological
and theological
power and light analyses
that actively research win/win comparative values
and lose/lose disvalues
and in-between win/lose suboptimal misvalues
for all of us
as one holistic
robust
resonant
resilient communication network?

Together urgently committed
to empowering local and global health,
to enlightening globally localized
powerful and yet polite wealth.

Imagine with me
that our local
political
Earth economic community,
municipality,
bioregion
is a communication network
already at hand,
like a potentially benign kingdom of God the Father
and a mutually informed Holonic EcoFeminist Spirit
of polite
healthy-power/wealthy-light
EarthJustice
restorative compassion network.

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Seminal Enlightenment

When I was in an interfaith seminary
I noticed three models
for understanding a faith community’s purpose
in a democratic and diverse society.

  1. Conservation of SelfRighteous Anger

To compete with,
and thereby degenerate the powers of,
sin and evil and ignorance
in a monoculturally untrustable
hedonistic
degenerating society
destined for just rewards
of hellfire and damnation
because untrustworthy
and untruthfully obscuring privileged
eco-political capitalist patriarchalism.

  1. Liberating from EgoCentered Fear

To rescue us individual sinners,
benighted Earth defilers,
from our capitalist-patriarchal
competitive
oppressive
suppressive anti-feminist
homophobic
racist
ageist anthropocentrism;

To redeem our hopelessly negative
deviant bad health choices,
monoculturing,
left-brain dominantly encultured
verbal miscommunications,
disunions,
despairing experience of eternal apartheid,
loneliness,
unease and disease.

  1. Empowering win-ego/win-eco CoMessiahs
    To cooperatively enlighten each Other
    to grow in compassion
    and non-violent integrity of communication,
    internal communion experience
    and external harmonic community
    for active eco-political hope,
    cooperatively empowering faith,
    deep learning multicultural love.

When I went to Public Administration graduate school,
I, thereby,
noticed three models
for understanding a democratic constitution’s purpose
in a healthy society.

  1. Red Anger Management
  2. Blue/Green Repurposing Win/Lose Fears
  3. Ultra NonViolet
    Whole EarthPeace
    Open ZeroZone
    Win/Win EgoEco-Systemic
    BiCameral CoOperative Empowerment

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Investing in HealthPower

I think the political left
makes too much noise
about enlightened democratic goals
of our LeftBrain dominant
white property-owning
ForeFathers

To be respectfully
and resonantly heard
by economic RightWing Christian,
and other Supreme-Dogmatist,
capitalists who don’t make enough noise
about Jesus’s multiculturaly liberating GoodNews

That win/lose capitalism belongs
to systems supporting economic privilege
while powers of global
liberal
lavish
radical
profound Love
belong in multi-faith cooperative enterprises,

Sacred Communion
divinely empowering Realms
Heavens
Paradise
and humanely enlightening
even the most merely natural and secularized EarthTribes
of co-redeeming deep listening circle value,
Commons Truth,
empowering Ways,
enlightening Means,
embodied healthy Beauty,
restorative Justice,
resilient Peace

Perhaps if we could bicamerally invite
a multicultured fluent
multicolored spectral dialogue
we might discover a democratically healthy Constitution

Influenced both by RightWing GodLanguaged
historical
new-nationalistic patriotism
to build a sense of solidarity,
and by LeftWing EarthCooperative economics
to build healthy
cooperative multicultural values

Regenerating blue/green/red/yellow/blue/purple/orange
black lives interdependently
multigenerationally matter

Within Ultra-NonViolet EcoPolitical Circles
polypathic
polyphonic
polynomial YangStrength
equals not(not) polynomialYintegrity,
or face climate unhealthy global consequences

Polyvagally neuropsychological
sacred/secular bicameral
Right/Left bilaterally integral
safe-wealth/healthy
economic/political
ecosystemic/egocentric
democratic mind/body Constitutions
non-violently communicating
for polyculture-optimizing values
between people,
all organic creature populations
including plants,
and Earth our shared home planet.

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Bodhichitta Joy

Bodhichitta:

Is a supremely multicultural
golden elixir
overcoming sovereignty of death,
fear of mortality,
anger against loss
and suffering
and dispassionate inhumanity.

Is an inexhaustible
infinite
poly-rational treasure
eliminating,
absorbing,
healing poverty
in
and on
and over Earth’s orbiting
revolving
spiraling seasonal path.

Is supreme medicine
that quells
dispels Earth’s disease,
monoculturing unease,
swells polyculturing ease,
communion,
multiculturally intelligent communication.

Is a tree sheltering all living creatures
wandering
wondering
tired
retired
retreading this cooperatively-held path
of conditioned
reconditioned,
autonomously
interdependent,
mortal existence
immortal consciousness.

Is a universal bridge,
nutritional language,
healthy wealth
leading to liberal liberating liberty
from unhappy,
stingy,
conserving,
hoarding states of defensive birth
and child uncare.

Is a dawning moon of mindbodies
dispelling
respelling tumorous torment
of disturbing conceptions,
perturbing new moon misconceptions,
burbling cognitive dissociative dissonance,
gurgling bicameral full moon resonance.

Is a great sun
ultimately removing misty ignorance
of MotherEarth icons,
EarthMother original sources
resourcing our ecofeminist healthy home
in joy.

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ReStoring EarthPeace

Now that Restorative Justice
has raised her Gaian ecological purpose,
to restore multiculturing peace
in polyphonic
polypathic Turquoise Eden,
how do you continue to justify
a win/lose Retributive Justice evolutionary philosophy
of law and moral order
as contributing to healthy
win/win
regeneratively revolutionary democracy?

Asked the ecosystemic Judge
of UnitingNations jurisdiction.

Restorative Justice
was never intended to be effective
where either victims
or predators
are unwilling,
often incapable,
of re-engaging in cooperative
interdependent
win/win dialogue,
egalitarian discernment
in-between Trust
and MisTrust
and hostile DisTrust.

So you argue
win/win regenerative assumptions
of natural/spiritual creatures
are not safely,
and not realistically, accessible
for all the healing dreams and purposes
endemic to our Gaian muse of Justice?

An insufficiency
of experience
with healthy democratic peace;
yes.

And,
how will continuing to primally rely on win/lose retribution,
where victims and a healthy society
are presumed to Win
by punishing criminals
and Loser scoflaws,
lead us toward this noble,
and globally multicultural, goal
of achieving healthy democratic peace
for all Earth’s regenerative creatures?

Retributive Justice
is the State’s weapon
to protect the Common Good
from further injustice,
a deterring threat;
not a tool
or medicine
toward an actively remediating peace,
domestic
or international,
private
or public resonant health.

How do you respond
to peace therapeutic win/win possibilities
of multiculturally mediated dialogue
to bring together victim compassion
with wrongdoer remorse,
without hyperactive threat of criminalization;
As compared to current Retributive Justice outcomes,
case loads,
imprisoned and exploited populations
of marginalized misfits,
disproportionately poor
and dark-skinned?

Traditional patriarchal systems
do not over-invest
in democratic health
or rights
of our predative
and victimized,
traumatized
feminized
marginalized
raped and pillaged citizens,
as these are not well-established
in win/win cooperative investments.

I’m not sure
arguing for further patriarchal
competitive win/lose capital-investments
helps your justice through win/lose punishment
cause.
You invite the Court to question
whether anyone is capable of sufficient Trust
toward resiliently democratic peace,
internal as external,
to actively communicate egalitarian
restorative
healthy democratic choice-making,
Facing toward compassion,
facilitating win/win disciplines,
expanding ego-recentering non-violence
therapeutically mediating ecosystemic compassion.

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Privileged Cultures AfterThought

It feels fascinating
that horny voracious passions
dissipate in the presence of ego-centered fear
of pain and suffering
and ego-defeating loss,
disability and predative performance anxieties,
wounds,
death,
short-term through permanent
degenerating energy,
absence of active hope
for future holistic integrity.

In this time of climate degeneration
fear and cultural distancing need,
frustrated leftbrain dominant
StraightWhiteMale monoculturing horniness
looks culturally privileged like,
sounds prejudicially like,
feels and touches sacred EarthMother like,
smells and multiculturally
creole tastes like
manically monoculturing
predative redmeat energy states
of fear-and-anger inducing rabidity
rather than restorative green regenerative passion
for multicolored
trans-generational
testosterone/estrogen
yang/yin
pansexual win/win
inclusive cosmic integrity

Of cooperative green/blue energy
power
EarthPeace compassion.

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Summer Saturday

On a Michigan farmer Saturday
in August,
anticipating tomorrow’s evangelical Sabbath,

When late summer vacations
invoked pre-sacred house cleanings
more unusually light,

Heading outside after lunch
into this spectacularly breezy
blue billowing
discontinuously cumulus cloudy
in-between radiant sky blue
infinite wonder

Into this awesomely long leisurely afternoon
becoming one of those special kids
sent out to rediscover solitary play
while Mom clears HER kitchen
to fill our kitchen
with impossible fragrance
of Sunday dinner rhubarb pie
or fresh strawberry shortcake,
whipping vanilla or banana cream
while boiling sweet yellow corn,
baking mac and ancient cheddar cheese
for this evening’s pre-dusk compline dinner.

On this first summer celebrating Saturday
of low humidity
and temperatures predicting September 70s

Out past our red barn
and past its barnyard lily pond
and into golden stubbled hay fields,
sheared sexy contoured face
of my temporarily uncloseted gay imaginings
hoping for YangGod’s sexiest face
smiling in sabbath of return

Continuing on
to private green cool woodland
to nakedly climb a favorite tree
skin to naked bark,
full-bodied embrace
of this fabulous shared EarthLife
transparent
and open
and breezy free with God’s inclusive hope.

Out to play
and pray
this day
and month
and vacation
and re-creation
will never end

Or end,
if time must continue,
in moonlit radiant peace,
night dreams
of asking into perfect Sabbath.

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Agreeing to DisAgree

I have noticed
in negative strong
long feeling settings
a willingness
to accept impatience
to reluctantly embrace tolerance
and Agree to DisAgree.

Yet, to equate this conclusion
with cooperatively
and actively Agreeing to Positively Agree
with anticipation
rather than further win/lose anxiety
would be to overvalue tolerance
and to underestimate
differences between systemic logic
and self-deceiving fallacy.

We do not meet
win/win standards of nonviolently held energy,
powers of positive communication praxis,
by Agreeing to DisAgree,
shrugging
and leaving the dialogue
with win or lose, who knows?
back to hopeless stuckness,
but now further entrenched
in frustrating
increasingly impatient,
look some other way
tolerance

Of a society
too dumb to GoldenRule agree
to act as decent as a healthy family,

And too ignorant
to co-invest in present
and future green integrity.

To believe agreeing to disagree
is sufficient for short-term bridges,
let us be forewarned
agreeing to not yet agree
on reassuring regenerative plans
for healthy green democracy,

Is quite far from cooperative value enhancements
of agreeing to co-passionately agree
we are here together
for all EarthTribe’s health and safety

Multiculturally cooperative
eco-political regenerativity,
revolutionary 20/20
democratic positive energy.

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