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Two Cooperative Capitalists Are Better…

Cooperation is
about integrity of relationship,
for equitable integration,
maybe even some healthy co-arising assimilation,
correlation
co-relations.

Cooperatism is about investing our healthy time
in ourSelves
and each and every EarthBound Other,
as iconic of Earth’s vast health potential,
evolving
revolving
dissolving
involving
divesting
investing;

While Capitalism is also about health-investing our money,
commodities of Time’s equivalent value,
physical resources and ecosystemically considerable assets,
our vital true ErosCapital transubstantiating Earth’s affluently assimilative Agape,
ionic future value-icons to become redeemed
by, for, with Earth’s EcoSystemic regenerating therapeutic balance,
political and economic cooperative evolution, of course,
but recovered
re-involved through polyculturing/multiculturing true-health EcoLogic,
where Earth’s longing to repurpose
greets Ego’s most sublimely heuristic wu-wei co-belonging.

Capitalism, divested of its Cooperatistic Political and Economic Evolution,
is a sad reminder
of wealth v. poverty over-industrially severed from their permacultural roots,
health v pathology;
Capitalism, divested of Cooperative Models and Theorems of ReGenerative Evolution,
is a suffering suboptimizing reminder
of Capitalism re-invested through Natural EcoSystemic Cooperatism’s vast health potential,
within as without.

Capitalism is iconic of Cooperatism
as light is ionic for time’s evolutionary passing.
Capital is to Cooperate
as economic mind is to political body.

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Health Plan Upgrades

Imagine busy corporations
with political and economic healthy outcome missions,
like yourself maybe,
or perhaps your temple or church or favorite Earth Day nonprofit,
or your garden club or growing family,
as incarnate evolving Traditions
with EcoSystemically Struggling Cultures,
within individual Ego-identities,
but also expanding out into wider political-economic systems.

Each EcoSystemic Corporation
familiar with both cooperative health
and more dissonant pathologies,
struggling against anthro-elitist assumptions
not appropriate within Earth’s health care plan,
of,by,for,
co-arising with cooperative contractual assumptions
shared by all DNA/RNA EarthTribe Residents
with polycultural dialects
and polypathic rhythms,
resonantly harmonic truth as beauty,
(0)-soul ReGeneration as PositiveSelf StoryTeller Corporations.

Imagine corporate incarnations more like flowers on
and in
and through
and of
and for a kosmic tree of healthy life and pathological death,
wishing we could up our cooperative grade
to healthy futures safety,
both political and economic,
as ecological balancing, of course.

Imagine Capital
as Time’s EarthCommons investment in cooperatively bicameral minds
with corporately co-operative organic bodies
unfolding these Creation Stories through the eternally nondual present moment
of ecoconscious bilateral,
not yet past and not yet future
Time,
measured as solar-fueled bilaterally coarising light.

Wealthiest capital cooperative heads
bicamerally echo with healthy mind cooperative investment practices,
intentions moving toward interdependent EarthTribe Corporately inter-nested,
mutually invested, network bodies
with cooperative economic as ecologically and ecosystemically regenerative
of evolution’s co-investment in healthy WinWin SpaceTime,
Origin of (0)sum RNA/DNA political and economic ReInvestment Capital.

Commodification of time’s health value
is a quantitative abstraction
culturally rooted in our regenerative health values
including ecologically cooperative economic bodies
with political-capital heads
WinWinning networks for polycultural health and safety
of UniversalEarth,
as Holonic IntegralOther,
as Holonic Self-regenerate therapeutic outcome designers
and planners
and co-mentors and lovers,
icons of ecotherapeutic health as cooperative polycultural wealth.

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Mastering Public Administration

A few decades ago
I learned a Master of Public Health v Pathology Administration
recognizes best opportunities emerge
by co-evolving cooperative mastery of private-public nonduality,
lovely political truths
shyly hiding within nature’s polycultural economic
self-as-other co-facilitation of evolution.

When I lapse into hoping we maybe could competitively
either-or campaign
our democratic republic way
toward optimal both-and
bicamerally healthy cooperative political and/or economic outcomes,
then I remember
as we sow our seeds
so shall we reap
two and four and six more years of climatically despairing competition.

Therapies, medicines, treatments, services, policies, projects, programs
that cannot become,
with co-mentoring sustenance,
self-administered for self-as-other regenerative health perpetuation,
are, at best, suboptimal short-term solutions
toward more optimally healthy and stable resonant resolutions,
with eyes on long-term prize of self-perpetuating political as economic,
personal as public,
within as without,
confluently robursting self-care governance.

When discovering disagreements
to motivate the Competitor’s loss
becomes more politically
and/or economically
and/or ecologically important
than recovering co-facilitated agreements
and equities
and healthy balance,
to co-facilitate our cooperative WinWin,
as does too often appear to have been our PreMillennial LoseLose trend,
then we end up
where we start out
crying our ego-manic political and economic heart pout.

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TaoTime Mastery

HungSau
always do your best to reveal
only what is already both known and loved,
nature’s kindness and justice,
truth as beauty,
love as abundantly rich healthy life
and death.

But,
what do we love about death?
Should I not know any probable response
I would be always and everywhere mute
rather than offend this Golden Rule
of TaoTime Mastery.

Beauty in death
is its ZeroZen-Sum interest in dipolar love
as bilateral octave functioning light
and bicameral life with and in and of and for
Earth as Other Left
Earth as Mother-nurturing loving
proportionally midway Elder TemporalRight.

TaoTime Master,
deep ecologically analogical
polyculturing multi-polypathic
reiterating well,
regenerating wave,
dualdark wound
through nondual coarising Promise.

HungSau,
always do your best
revealing only ego’s true investments
in Earth’s regeneratively healthy beauty,
already both known and loved,
abundantly rich organic life,
Beloved Communities and Cooperative Networks.

Co-defined as not-not,
appositionally coarising dipolar nondual prime absence of relationship,
Lose to Lose
reiteratively absent
stressfully dissonant
sleep deprived
over-caffeinated, stimulated, domesticated, commodified
over-yanged
suboptimizing PreMillennial industrial-evolutionary trends toward DNA/RNA dismay,
LeftBrain enculturing empirical dominance,

Yet this same DNA Elder string of regenerating information,
teleological intelligence,
recognizes and is fed by,
regeneratively balancing TaoTime Mastery trends,
transitions,
great revolutions with smaller-slower evolutions
toward (0)sum ecobalance,
transliterations of paradigmatic transmutations
through time’s lovely light and dualdark transparency,
co-gravitating nondual integrity,
YangSelf as YinOther SelfGovernance EcoMastery.

HungSau,
time’s diversification of species and ecospatial networks,
responds to trends transitions turns
in interdependently symbiotic networks
increasingly Yang/Yin, x/y regenetic stress inducing
within political and economic development environments.

ReGenerative anomaly,
as a Positively Deviant Nutritional Event,
becomes more likely
as evolutionary trends reverse
away from overly monoculturally-yanged,
a temporary revolutionary critical-event opportunity coarises,
opening cognitive-affective autonomic freedoms to adapt by learning
a more balancing ecological center,
rather than BusinessAsUsual autonomic
pre-programmed speciation,
a form of heuristic historic health v. pathology door of climatic crisis,
searching, stretching through (0)sum political and economic ecologies.

This regenerative pattern of ebb and flow toward evolving time of balance
may apply to exterior landscapes
of regenerating cooperative ecosystems
or interior landscapes
of ecoconsciously networking biosystems.

HungSau,
our ZeroCentered deep ecological learning system
returns to most recent tipping points of former confluence
where there is now DNA v. RNA ambivalence,
to induce revolutionary generalization
recovering parallel ecological-analogical
EarthTribe patterns of cooperative polycultural evolution.

HungSau,
regenerating creativity
evolves this transliterative ability to recover-discover
predict midway health by explaining patterns
between and of,
from and by RNA’s original intent fractal algorithms
of healthy light waving dualdark co-gravitating Other,
ZeroZenTao Soul-Sum Co-Invested Ego with SuperEco SpaceTime love,
truth as polyculturing beauty,
confluent interest;
divest of Ego’s LeftBrain dominance
cognitive-affective dissonance
through RightBrain’s CoMessianic Basic Attendance,
or most any form of healthy dance,
as you think through now’s Longing Promise of,by,for,with
MultiCulturally Healthy Political and Economic Belonging.

Hung weaves in
as Sau breathes out, again,
until notnot home exhales farewell
to absence of Earth’s ecstatic light-elation,
floating
waving
back toward Omega’s dense rich-forming harmonies
corevolving cells regenerating
densely reiterating holonic memories
coarising love as Time repeating through Earth’s wet-blown
network-flown
organically digital atoms
primally speaking with nondual coarising regenerative co-intelligence.

HungSau
where you speak, learn to sing in harmonies,
where you walk, learn to dance in rhythmic synchrony,
when you breathe, remember both Yang-in and Yin-out,
until ego is done within agape of co-arising incarnate nonduality,
absent Promise reflecting warm light love.

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Great Transitional Liturgy

Creativity opens doors to learning
to read our own, and others’, compelling literacy,
beautiful truths.

We are not an isolated supreme species creating nihilism,
self-serving egoists;
or, rather, we are,
but within an open sesame systemic potential
for also becoming more grace-filled cooperative,
endo with eccto symbiotic evolutionaries,
learning to read nature’s enspirited dynamic scriptures,
dialects,
to hear Earth’s celebratory and climatic voices,
warning and blessings,
economic transactions as politically synergetic v . oppressive relationships,
healthy thru anemic thru pathological,
inviting our globally beloved future together,
creative ecological development
within our interior learning landscapes,
celebrating harmonic alliterative balance and proportions
of rhyming reasons
seasons of external landscape’s exquisitely regenerative literature
hearing truth of grace.

Internally inbred nihilists
would fill in for a feckless god of terrorism,
while externally listening evolutionists
discover Great Transitional literature
in Earth’s dialects of praise,
operatic fear and wonder,
musical comedies of dancing birdsong
flying whistling waves of oxygen,
silent streams of grace overhead,
memories of synchronic schools,
swimming mindleaps and bodythrusts
flowing thru wet historic hydraulics,
racing thru bilateral Time’s sacred copresent rhythms
of sounding bounding light without,
absorbing nondual dark learning creative compost
within each of EarthTribe’s deep learning systems.

Love, like Allah,
emerges a co-creative verb
fertilizing beautiful re-nouns.
Literature, scripture, life’s recreation stories
evolve emergent between embryonic Elder origins
and final decomposing bows
of densely resonant Namaste.

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Gratitude for Truth as Beauty

Why is it that gratitude
as response to truth with beauty
seems universally consensual as Positive Psychology,
mental health,
appropriate respect for life’s naturally secular graces,
and yet ego’s truth as Earth’s creative beauty
remains so unexplored,
under-mined,
anemically practiced,
hoped for
and, under a daily BusinessAsUsual radar,
not really even necessarily intended?

Always noticing bridesmaid,
hoping for such beloved gratitude,
yet seldom celebrated
as time’s co-arising truth with beauty bride.

As I gratefully choose to see my EgoAnthro life,
our human cooperative lives grow eco-centered
thru Right hemispheric balanced harmonic primal function
as ego-centric Left hemispheric deductive languaged
regenerative long-term health outcome InFormation
from and thru inherited RNA fractal dialects
of Elder time’s past bio- thru eco-systemic light-dark seasons,
revolutions of Earth’s healthy developing nutritional evolutions.

Just so is Earth’s leaded ironic value
in prescient alchemistry pursuit of human nature’s Golden Rules,
ReGenerations, Resonance, Resolutions,
Radiance, Radical Zeroism of TaoTime CoPresence;
recessive, concave, yin-implicate ordering flows
regenerating RNA/DNA beauty thru truth
CoOperative Association,
Mutual Acquisition,
Acquisitivity,
Autonomic dipolar Apposition
co-arising political relationships
within ecosystems
with economically nutritional v. pathological WinLose transactions
within eco’s RightBrained logic,
absence of cognitive-affective dissonance,
confluent dialectical ease thru disease,
dipolar bicameral lens
discerning regenerate development of EarthTribe health optimization trends
of Golden Ratioed 4D Bayesian SpaceTime complexity trends
of binomially shadowing information:
Where naturally interactive ecosystems notice health sustaining economic trends,
human biosystems find gratuitous faith
in co-investing mutually grateful political wealth.

To prove P is notnot to P
is not mine alone, you see,
but our universal group game theory zeroism projection
of YangYin dipolar mediocrity,
equi-valency
bilaterality of TaoTime’s 0-sum eco-normativity,
ecologicality
of dynamic grateful exterior
over interior landscaped binomial ecosystemic EarthTribes
stringing temporal creation stories
back thru BlackHole stretching dual dark TransParentcy,
cosmology of yin dialects
multiculturally surfing RNA syntaxed fertile restorations,
Earth’s great and small transitionally reiterative rhetorical events,
polycultural healthy climate outcomes
incarnating polypathic wealth-nurturing cooperatives
of endo- as ecto-symbiotic ubiquity
of RNA/DNA-structures Bucky Fullerite designing stretching fractals,
four seasonal dialects of resonant communication,
between YangOut as Janus face of Yin-InFormation’s bilateral tempered balance.

Perhaps yin without yang is nihilistic chaos.
But, yin without yang would be like white without black,
absence without pregnant fractal-fertile polypathic possibility,
where three spatial language dimensions
are each prime linear appositional as dipolar primetime,
noticing a folding-revolving appositional function,
hoping for a reiterative graceful refold,
prescient of faith in unfold’s future primal regenerativity
to actively loving future DNA health trends already co-present
prefolds of enculturing incarnate history
permaculturally systemic
within our own endosymbiotic DNA/RNA resonant health
as confluent harmonic frequencies of rich deep gratitude.

Perhaps Yang without Yin
is Allah without Earth
with all Her multiculturing dialectical Tribes
of InFormation
stringing regenerative tissues as issues
from one dominant-recessive generation
thru God of Evolving Time’s ecobalancing futures
in truly co-invested political cooperatives.

Why is it that gratitude in response to truth with reiteratively resonant beauty
seems universally ecoconscious,
true bridesmaids
celebrating beauty co-messianic brides give away?

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Sins of Omitted Remissions

Yin kindly reminds the more short-term focused Yang,
We together introduced language to Earth.

Ah yes, Yang smiles, too rarely lately,
over-worked and under-valued dominance of ecosystems,
That was natural-dialectical-dipolar trend projection
to optimize healthy interdependent biosystems
and their ecosystemic Elders.

Quite so,
those co-arising trends flowing
through our mutual-rhetorical reiterations,
our MidWay Confluence as deductively rational consciousness,
DNA exegetical capacity for logically calculating nature’s healthiest values;
what yin-RightBrain autonomically remembers
as prime temporal-bilateral neural syntax,
dialogos of fractal-function
and regenerative development
of dynamic healthy bioregeneratic lifesystems.

Yet, not to play any blame game,
this our new co-evolutionary capacity
for LeftBrained Language Enculturation
became YangDominant associated
with LeftBrain-dominant civilization,
co-arising anthro-centrism,
including Earth’s newer history
of revolution by Empirical Elitism.
Processes of empirical empire supremacy
became benignly associated with evolution,
by our human incarnations,
as sometimes revolutionary monocultural WinLose OmniPotent Creator Power,
Predators, often benign, Hosts to Praying Prey
til Trees of Life and Death appeared in dualdark dreams,
Divine Empire – Human Nature’s Incarnate Generation – Lesser EarthTribes.

Yes, we’ve watched history’s great transitional pendulum
rushing back toward center
but still learning British English Language Empiricism,
grown dominantly Western toward Eastern BusinessAsUsual rooted
history of AnthroCentric Elitism
as fortunes of natural evolutionary WinLose Games,
political and economically developing to date,
ecologically rational
spoils of competition’s inevitable evolutionary wars.

We would together prefer our mutual coarising
more true and beautiful superiority
only in solidarity with Allah’s merely “other-foreign”
living bio and ecosystemic inferiors, as Eler Superiors.
Now we have remade Creator God’s evolution stories
in our own historical-supremacist image.

Don’t forget Totalitarian Empiricism running through
nation-state political dominant trends,
leading toward the inevitable rational conclusion,
these long-term outcomes smell slightly, now,
of sulfur as Lucifer,
for some,
anti-christic political and economic trump-empowered damnation story cards
for others,
too-recessive

Yes, N(NP)

yin function, as you so calculatingly dipolar-define it,
or not, to others,
or notnot,
like LoseLose as appositional with WinWin binomials,
to still others,
more deductively consumed scientists,
and metric rhythms as dialectical language historians
and linguists
and ecotherapists
and deep-ecology gardeners
and permacultural landscape developers,
interior and exterior designers and architects,
0)-centric information system engineers
of binomial on-line WWW cooperative function
emergent poli/economic capacities.

Our too-yang dominance emerged Totalitarian Evolutionary Empiricism
unfortunately casting human nature
in our present operatic double-bind,
if enslaved to a benign cooperative Creative PreDator Intelligence
who would only empower WinWin regenerative reiterations of time,
if all were within His evolutionary powers,
then why is it OK for some male-dominant human-racing tribes
to enslave other human racial-cultural tribes
and genders,
especially transgenders?
When we look each other in the eyes
are we looking at god as humane nature’s regenerative incarnation,
or not quite so healthy as all that?

An unfortunate deductively accessible response
to this problem of mutually unjustified enslavement
was to pretend the ability to objectively define proportions of healthy humanity
as favorably contrasted to “other” foreign natures
substantially less valuable than
White EnglishSpeaking Male dominant Western BusinessAsUsual
enculturing incarnations
of God’s LillyNotPeopleofOtherColor Supremacy,
smelling of premillennial nazi, totalitarian fascist, racial supremacist,
terrorist,
and other anti-christic
tao-imbalanced nationalist-empiricist YangTrump Cards
of AnthroCentrism,
human nature’s LeftBrain curiosity
about humane evoutions of EarthTribe’s Cooperative,
our poli/economic selves,
continuing to rape Earth’s “other-lesser”
ecologically co-arising systems
now nuancing dissonant addictive stress enslaved recession,
no more than 50% humane-yin, as over-valuing domestication
commodification,
political and economic dominance of too-competitive Yang,
undermining ecological values of “other” nature,
as something other than our own Elder DNA/RNA co-enscribing Elders,
writing this ReGeneration Story.

This late PreMillennial economic,
then political, fascination,
almost mystical curiosity with enslaving power over other forms
and functions within human nature,
opened yet another Pandora-Nested-Box
of Great and Small Transitional Welfare Systems,
which premillennially severed our economic source of health
from polyculturally inclusive wealth,
with coarising political severance of universal health
from evolution’s integrative polypathic therapeutic welfare.

We remain confused
about how mental health could be improved
by essentially starving primal political and economic relationships
within our families and neighborhoods,
and wilting mutual namaste
within our EarthTribe’s polyculturally beloved ecoharmonic community.

Our mutual enculturing history
lends more climate-balanced support,
politically and economically,
as ReGeneration RNA Story
of yin-fractal (0),
WinWin
P=N(NP)
as Yang = Yin
RNA CoOperative PermaCulturing Design

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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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EcoPolitical Oxygen

What is phosphorous to me
asked oxygen.
Yes, He fuels light
where we briefly meet,
but light or sulfuric scented dark
are dipolar appositionals to me,
Janus faces of oxygen as s’posd to be.

What is sulfur to me
exclaimed oxygen!
Yes, she eros scents
my stinky arts and parts,
producing plasmatic phosphates
of wet flowing ribonucleic acidic regenerative function
in trilevels of organic implicating space
with emerging time of structural polyhedrals
polypathic and polymorphic matter,
Father-Son dipolar conjoined in Holonic BiLaterally Balanced Spirit,
for I am PolyOxygen,
while Phosphorous incarnates me as Yang fuel
and Sulfur enchants me with her Holonic Spirits
of Erotic Addiction,
yet,
admittedly,
an acquired Positive as NotNotNegative too much
ReGenerating Acid.

What is love to me
asked plasmatic universal energy.
Yes, YangLove synergy fuels my c-squared light,
where we meet inductive-deductive e-squared enlightenment,
but light or dualdark cosmology,
perhaps too sulfurically dissonant for human healthy scent,
remains polynomial dipolar appositional poli-economic equivalence to me,
Janus faces of double Yang/Yin as SpaceTime BiLateral Boundary,
Left to Right
to Left again
as Yang to Yin-squared
just-right wu wei
sulfuric plasma ionizing energy.

What is regenerative life to me
asked EarthTribe’s plasmatic oxygen.
Yes, healthy evolution fuels my c-squared balanced light
where YangSun’s plasmatic flows caress my skin,
but Sun’s regenerative YangLight
or sulfuric yin-fractal polyhedral dualdark Black Hole,
cathedral nights,
dipolar appositionals of my Universal Matters
with coarising Eros Timely Balance for me,
Janus faces of breathing
revolving in and out of healthy light
as life is s’posd to evolve.

What is healthy Earth to me
asked EarthTribe’s AnthroCentric enculturing plasma.
Yes, Yangish climatic health fuels my ecoconsciousness,
where we meet in polysynthesis,
but RNA-enscribed Elder phosphates
or DNA syntaxed regenerativity,
eco-cathedral of embryonic birth,
dipolar appositionals of All Life Matters
in self-perpetuating polyculturativity
as Yang/Yin temporal bicameral balance for us,
Janus faces of breathing light’s plasma
in Yang as out YinYin
EcoLogical Balance,
healthy cooperative ecopolitical revolutions
as permacultural design is s’posd to be,
polycultural future
covering dualdark monocultural angry/fearful unplanned histories.

Plasmatic health optimizing flows
where mute bicameral diving bells
polymorph into yin’s bilateral butterflies of proportional image,
where LeftBrain’s flow of internal language
polypaths to light Earth’s ecoconscious health-communications.

 

 

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