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WeedPatch Therapy

What words do we choose to express our ultimate accomplishments,
achieving our healthiest goals,
measuring our most successful outcomes?

Why do these words,
and our feelings about these choices,
wave in and out of happiness and prosperity,
even when quantitative measures suggest our resilience
continues to trend up and out toward infinite resonance?

We say we could become anything,
but do we mean we might achieve everything,
every power,
but not necessarily any time or way we choose?
How does WinWin associative integrity
accommodate WinLose dissociative history?

Integral PolyCulturists,
global environmental wealth therapists,
holistic health practitioners,
favorably contrast polycultural climax
with monocultural collapse
into rabidly aggressive “weed” patches,
where “responsible owner”
investment “planner”
intelligent “controller”
master “gardener” you
imagined your organically healthy
and sacred-beauty wealthy
well-groomed and wellness-inviting front yard–
rather than an uninvited cancerous infestation
where you intended to extend your healthy ego identity.

We might hope to become more adept polyamorous achievers
by acclimating to less anthropocentric monopolistic aspirations,
competitive Anthropocene climates of self-inspiration
too privileged to care about other-expiration

win/lose survivalist desperations
becoming uncontrollably messy “weed patch” subclimates,
stubbornly monolithic

EarthNatural disgrace
defeating HumanSpiritual grace
of concomitant eco-trust and ego-faith
in cooperatively resonant
win/win well-being resilience

ReCognizing ego’s always limited
co-empathic feelings

Healthy anthropocentric neurosystems
don’t require unwealthy Anthropocene ecosystems
anymore than good love-life days
require bad fear-death nights

Measuring out divine successes
and inhumane failures
day by day,
decade by decade,
life against life survival contests,
invidious “weedpatch” comparisons,
virtuous win/win AnthroMind/EarthBody contrasts,
each and all co-arising
polycultural integrity’s nondualistic potential.

Yet, like Yangish competitive AnthroEnlightenment
over all Lesser Othered-Lives
and Yin’s gooier cooperative co-empathic win/win powers
with Others,
these opposing bilaterals
are also dynamically recycling appositional revolutions

Neurosystemic health within
as ecosystemic wealth without
co-intelligent exchange,
searching for words and deeds
to optimally extend pronoia’s tensegrity
sacredly resonant synergy
organically resilient neuro/eco-therapy,
softly contentious sustainable contentment

Peace through EarthTribe solidarity
and cooperatively-held flexibility,
in-between victimization and virtualization,
in-between LeftBrain doer verbalizations
and RightBrain feeler harmonizations,
in-between monotheistic Anthropocene optimization
and polytheistic EarthCentric integration

An omnipotently
and omnipresently complex neuro/ecosystemic
win/win contentment
and yet often feeling win/lose transitionally chaotic
contentious

An overwhelmingly monolithic “weedpatch” of despair
further polarizing any active hope
of middle-ground integrity’s
AnthroMind/EarthBody repair.

With healthy democracy tools
for front lawn re-landscaping,
monocultures begin to feel like painful resources,
artifacts of pleasure passionate polyculturing Elders

With trust and good-faith wellness
co-governing more ecosystemically wealthy
and neurosystemically healthy
Anthro-crown/Earth-root therapeutic
inter-religiously resonant
and multiculturally resilient
thriving love-life futures.

What looked like monopolistic alien powers over little benign-ego me,
begin to also feel like restoring peace opportunities
with what remains from our former shared polypathic
NeuroAnthroMind/EcoEarthBody co-empathic
passion/pleasure
mind/body therapeutic depolarizing co-identity

ReWeaving promise,
never beginning re-ligious omnipotence
and ever ending dissociative omnipresence,
timelessly wealthy
front lawn win/lose “weedpatch” reseeding
healthy win/win spaciousness.

CoPassionate edible trust
with ornamental beauty pleasure
enlightening resilient climate Nature
continuously co-arise
old composted death
into new life change,
but these are transitions
that have historically favored multiculturally democratic health
and disfavored autocratic “weedpatch” pathology.

All robustly polycultural landscapes
lead to a more globally wealthy Home,
but AnthroPrivileged LeftBrain liberating verbal intelligence
chooses which directions to healthy-democracy walk
and which to unsafe-autocracy avoid

and when it’s time to win/lose contentiously pick up
and to win/win contentedly slow down
our WholeEarth peace-making pace

Calmly anticipating
leaving no anthropocentric weedpatch behind
monotheistically uncared for
and panentheistically neglected.

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Positive Politics

I am aware
we have a growing conservative academic position
that political science
becomes too didactic for scientific neutrality
when political scientists are too pro-liberating democracy
v pro status-quo theocracy,
plutocracy,
autocracy,
kleptocracy, etc.

too delusionally enthusiastic about economic
and sociological
and neurological health meritocracy

too positive about win/win co-empathic trust
as our best and brightest eco-political polypath
toward subjectively advocating for:
polytheistic/monotheistic co-liberating faith
polyculturally positive hope
and resonantly polyphonic love.

It does seem that this conservative political skepticism
bites the liberal education system that has fed them,
put probably uncontaminated food on their deregulation tables,
paid their gated suburban mortgages.

As conservative academic views
Trumpian turn toward military-industrialized advocacy
of second amendments to a better dead
than not-red constitution
for national corporate monoculturing greed
and irreligiously anthropocentric monotheism

I nervously notice that patriarchal conservation
of straight-western-white corporate
monocultural colonizing traditions
have become rather too comfortable
with a disempowering and unenlightened monstrous
win/lose 0-sum evolutionary survival hypothesis
that therapeutic and medicinal sciences best remain neutral
about climates and cultures of healthcare,
compassionate kindness,
and neurosystemic win/win peace,
while growing rabidly dissociative tolerance
for conserving anthro-entitled pathologies

such as divesting of international healthcare
environmental safety
secure and effective home and life prosperity
and vaccinated domestic defense systems.

My idea of scientific neutrality takes a Positive Psychology position
that terrorism and fascism and racism,
like narcissism and anthropocentrism and nihilism
and monoculturing patriarchal anti-feminism
and monopolistic winner takes all capitalism

And other forms of neurosystemic
and ecosystemic trauma,
no longer seem political-choice neutral
about effective and healthy governance
when conservative educators and advocates
are choosing peaceful and non-toxic residential climates
and cooperative family co-investment economies
and federal/state cooperative tax revenue associations.

Exceptions to this win/win co-governance golden rule
might be political and economic scientists
who enjoy teaching
while parenting macho-tyranny within their own troubling
autocratic fear- and anger-mongering homes
plutocratically gated neighborhoods
dysfunctional polarized school boards
and disturbing town non-dialogical non-councils.

Truly objective political health standards
can be explored and discovered through subjective neutrality
and yet conclude that nihilism
is not an effective neurosystemic governance strategy
just as denialism
cannot achieve efficient ecosystemic stewardship capacity.

I look forward to a more cooperatively graced
co-intelligent bicameral meritocracy

nominating and electing
and rewarding and preferentially selecting
effective democratic healthcare scientists
co-passionate policy designers
religious and public sector leaders
of polyculturing inside/outside climate therapies

Having win/win engaged bipartisan kindness
isn’t win/lose apartisan meanness,
and presented a well-documented commitment
to co-empathic liberating-mind/conserving-body nondual trust
in therapeutic evolutionary merits
(not devolutionary demerits)
of neurosystemic co-operative enlightening
and ecosystemic empowering
woke up political consciousness.

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Riding Sixties Shotgun

I was in the shotgun seat
in 1960 Lansing Michigan
headed straight as a harddrive
through ghettoizing “Negra Section”
hunting down our commercial whitebread
heavenly ThriftMart,

Wanna be a WalMart
but not Southern enough,
somehow,
to withstand straight-male competition
in fluent White Privileged culture
favoring evangelical
monotheistic
monoculturing AnthroSupremacists

Kinda like
patriarchal-capitalist
anal-retentive pathological trauma
homophobic nature v panentheistic erotic spirit
kinda unenlightened Left unhealthy
and disempowered Right unsafe colonizing wealth
win/lose hoarding
apartheid community trauma dissociative
chronic supremacist anxiety disorders
degenerating unhealthy inside whites only classrooms
contrasting this all black and brown summer outside classroom
feeling shared healthier and safer hearts.

School would soon reopen.
We were on our way to buy
back to school
shirts and jeans,
and whitey tighties
and Elvis Presley-worthy
and 3rd grade new classmate
Arturo Hernandez
disturbing white T-shirts.

A warm August mid-western
urban day
for us white family farmers
traveling East
when a dark-skinned gorgeous boy
my same eight years of age
riding his bike
right out along a cracked
and broken
tree-lined sidewalk
with other kids around
playing hot hopscotch
near a sun-baked naked curb.

He looked over.

With my window down
I felt
and smelled
his shared fragrance
for a moment brown eye to blue
so improbably in love with
you
are who I was made for.

Maybe we could become
boyfriends
and then old-school married
naked together, sometime
someday
somewhere
by accident
discovering we both explore pleasure
favored with him brown-eyed beautiful above
and me under
blue-eyed wide ginger
passionate red-curly-headed
MeWe luscious
wrapped around his waist,
both wanting to give
and to conceive

As I can mostly missionary
dimly historically remember
sounds,
dim sight,
and fertile smell
when her egg
was open-whole systemically
fertilized by spraying Yangstrong
sperm informing
incoming
integral potentiating
seed
and feed
and breed
and bleed
and need
and divine peaking deed

He drove racing athletically
just to tie
our metallic bronze-skinned Ford
sedate, seats six, sedan
on his battered red bicycle
3-speed

His only helmet a handsome head
full fuzzy, yet glossy,
glistening in noon-day summer’s seismic sun,
crow-black
tight-curled
gracious gotta-touch it
play with
feel him

His warm wet scalp massaged,
his salty lips tasted,
his breath and nether sacred
dualdark parts
breathed in
absorbed
until my breath nearly stopped

Then he fell behind,
and was gone
until I met you

And there he was
this eight year old glamorous
brown-skinned boy
now grown
into his handsome thirties

Wanting me
to love him,
and only him,
to worship if I want,
as will he
in sacred
1/0 double-Taurus
1960’s HolySpirit co-passion
for playing only win/win peak hotness
co-governing robustly resonant
co-relations

Reparations
if you will
then so will I
GoldenRule give with you
what all StraightWhiteMale
patriarchal monotheists
would most fear
slatternly given away
in lust for men of color
in that unimageable
thighs spread needy open
way

LeftBrain dominantly win/lose
either/or zero-sum competitors
Left v Right polynomials
reweaving Left-with-Right bicamerals
polyculturing communion, not monoculturing competition,
creolizing, not colonizing,
cooperating, not hunting down
for a profitable military-industrial
LeftBrain dominant
ecopolitical kill

Not yet nightmarish anxious climate imagined
when I was eight years old
in our Ford’s shotgun seat
back in 1960 Lansing Michigan
headed unstraight white
male as a harddrive
through ghettoizing “Negra Section”
distracted by our up and outing
cold cash is sacred manna
ThriftMart.

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Critical NonViolence Theory

Compassion does not speak in judgment;
at least not before sufficient listening
on the extending edge of gratitude.

Therapeutic sciences now speak
as one with inter-religious mystics,

That kindness
is physically and mentally therapeutic
for those who receive
and especially those who adeptly give,
facilitate,
mediate
mentor,
empower
while cooperatively enlightening.

While we readily see this bilateral correlation
of kind-therapy
and mean-pathology
when counseling couples
and quarreling kids
and mediating sometimes ancient
multigenerational family disputes,

We less often consider historical
and larger present day applications
to things like slavery
colonization
criminalization
patriarchalism
parochialism
evangelism
apartheid
white supremacy
homophobia
sexism
racism

Competitive capitalist drive to win/lose survive
without cooperative communion to win/win thrive

These utillitarian
punishing
competitive issues are all antithetical to kindness
of multiculturing communions,
to the exercise of healthy democratic communion,
to resiliently transgenerational wealthy communities

Where compassion seldom speaks
in win/lose evolving/devolving judgment,
and not before sufficient win/win
deep dynamic
revolutionary listening.

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Starting With Not Sure

I’m not sure about this
entertainment
divorced from engagement
issue

But,
consider the following
a hypothesis,
a Thought Experiment
in the Indigenous MotherLand
and SacredWaters
of ecowomanist political theory,

Part of my own experience
betrays a rightwing bias
against superficial entertainment

And, by association, self-promoting entertainers
living out shuttered
and too often unshuttered cluttered
Reality Shows
confusing inside unsafe voices
with healthy outside choices

Most corporate-sponsored
overly mediated events
desecrate cooperative profit motives

And, by popular reassociation,
further corrupt RightMind desecrators
of potential sacred engaging experiences

Peaking in MotherLands
and SacredWaters
in-between what was before Wonder
and after Awe,
deeply felt universal ComPassion
and unitarian Love.

Individualistic entertainments
draw on social skills
no more deeply exercised
than surface skin of monoculturing
white-noise color
perhaps stereotypically supremacist,
racist,
sexist,
patriarchal monotheistic
violent colonizing entertainments

More pornographic and sadistic
than sensual and co-passionate,

More invasive and extractive
than green bio-communion flowing in
from upstream
and ebbing sacred win/win
wellness watered communication out
downstream exhaling nutrition.

Sacred engagement
enlightens upstream givers
and further empowers downstream givers
like bioculturing sacraments
feed and water green multi-political economies,
analogies of cooperative lenders
and metaphysical borrowers
of NonZero Sums
living and planning
in Earth’s Great Transitioning
NonZero Climate FlowZone

Of sacred engaging values,
cooperative hope for healthy democracy investors,
fully engaged faith
in interdependent win/win resilient networks

Fully engaging gospel wellness co-celebrants,
wondrous and awesome polycultural love

For compassionate eco/mytheological engagements
non-violent compassionate bilateral
double (-,-) equals (+) polynomial equity
found in sacred multicultural metaphysics
of win/win engaging experiential co-mediations
committed to restoring EarthJustice.

It is my further polymathic
fully engaged faith
that C-squared = 1+ 3DSpace
= 0-squared BiNomial Tao/Zero-Time,

In universal NonZero EcoWomanist Experience
of PolyNomial
PolyCultural Health = PolyPathicWealth =

Polymathic GreenCommons-squared
experiential organic EcoEmpowerment =
Universal Ego/TheoEnlightenment

Where C=0-squared
is both a metaphysical Constant
BiCameral CoPassion

AND
a physical NonZeroZone Transition,
Translational,
Transubstantiating bilateral/binomial empty(0)
EcoSystemic cooperative synergetic
sacred Full-PolyCultural Integrity

Engaging both natural/spiritual metaphoric
Yang/Yintegral =1Spatial metasystemic
Either/Or Universal LeftBrain Dominant Co-EnLightening Voice

= Synergetic InBetween EntheMEMatic Constant-BiNomial

(-,-)0Squared Temporal Both/And polymathic
double-binding hypothetical
poly-metaphorical
MultiSystemic Integral Empowering
NonZero ProHealth Choice.

And yet,
a still small desolate
dissociating voice,

I’m not sure about this
LeftBrain Yangish prickly entertainment
divorced from Yintegral synergetic engagement
gooey metaphoric
polynomial/not moNo-Nomial
natural-theory/not not spiritual experience
eco-political faith-equity issues
values
neuro-sensory flow functions
of changing

Energetic democratic health
YangLeft EnLightened Entertainment
and co-passionate wealth
YinRight EcoWomanist
Co-EmPowering Engagement.

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Optimizing Health Care Resilience

Health care,
public health care,
global health care,
climate health care,
democratic health care,
resilient polycultural health care,

to actually be healthy
and caring,
minimally requires non-violence,
non-violent verbal communication,
non-violent non-verbal reflection
and action,

if not proactive
multiculturally resonant
and everyday and night personally resilient,
often silently felt,
deep listening compassion.

And, when personal
and local communal compassion
becomes culturally
and politically
and economically coterminous with health care
co-operative ownership
and shared space and time co-governance
and ego/ecosystemic cooperative synergy
restoring EarthHealth management,

then production
and consumption cooperatives,
citizen co-governing co-invested systems
tend to become slow-grown viral
win/win robust
loving revolutionary
international global faith
in ecologically climaxing green resolutions
of economic cooperative wealth conservation

and sacredly reflective
theo/demo-cratic inter-faith experience
with universalLeft/unitarianRight
multigenerational health care

just in
bilateral 20/20 balancing
non-violent communicating time
in healthy polyculturing co-passionate EarthSpace

for restoring healthy nations
and local communities
while non-violently communicating,
advocating
and deep silent listening
to yesterday’s manifest health-seeking destiny

rediscovered in today’s sufficient
and sacredly co-passionate
Green/Blue revolving
regenerating
returning
reweaving EarthJustice wealth
of multicultural caring health

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Russell’s Systemic Passions

Bertrand Russell
was intrigued by systems theory,
appalled by systemic racism
within himself and others,
corporations and churches
not recognizing each other’s wisdom
also found in temples and synagogues
and community investment banks
and poor houses.

He was also interested in political philosophy,
power of aristocrats
anticipating growing personal economics
despite offering no respite
to green/blue democratic EarthLovers.

A contemporary of Einstein’s,
who shared Russell’s political philosophy
and perhaps his interest in 4Dimensional
prime NonZero-entropic space/time
co-arising dipolar bilateral systems,

Russell writes,
“The reason physics has ceased to look for causes
is that, in fact,
there are no such things.
The law of [unilateral linear] causality
is a relic of a bygone age,
surviving, like the monarchy,
only because it is erroneously supposed
to do no [win/lose, either/or leftbrain dominant reductive] harm.”

Here, Russell’s parenthetical analogy
betrays his political philosophy
favoring natural/spiritual green co-arising systemic democracy
of We The Healthy MultiCultural People
causing and effecting
monoculturing
narcissistic aristocratic collective fantasies,
anthropocentric Naked Emperors.

Causal systemic power travels down to up,
like root systems toward flowers,
nutritionally before,
secondarily, communication flowing top to down,
like seeds embedding in Earth’s co-invested future
multiculturing fertile soil
bearing multi-regenerational anticipated win/win fruits,

Dipolar co-arising in polyphonic apposition
more normatively nurturing
than win/lose bipolar challenges of monoculturing,
too aristocratically self-delusional
short-term empowering aggressors
leftbrain straight white western male predators
on organic polycultural matriarchal fields
of nature/spirit win/win systemic energy
for which each individual ego
was EarthMother sacred
eco-politically born

For growing systemic
democratic cooperative green energy,
power,
empowerment,
enlightenment
of integrity’s systemic multiculturing potential
for climate health,
internally spiritual ego
as externally natural eco-systemic.

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To the DNC

Do not waste this rhetorical and climatic moment

on redundantly telling us what we already know:

Trumpism is not healthy democracy.

Please do invest this convening

in exploratory dialogue reminding us

of what we already love:

Patriotism is about wealthy EarthHealth

of green cooperative democracy.

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Restoring Deeply Conservative Progress

Our old nemesis,
capitalism,
is much older than democratic theory,
and even older than profoundly resilient democratic practice,
which is rather like Christianity–
often communion preached
and seldom democratically and multiculturally proficient,
fruitful,
viral,
contagious,
multiplying economic loaves
and politically empowering fish.

Capital-rooted values
derive from tribal chiefs,
professional healers and clergy,
and, more recently,
in the era of empires and nation-states,
royalty miraculously arriving by divine right
and sacramental enlightenment
of Elite EcoPolitical Persons,
recognized by exclusive rights of supremely royal birth–
entirely dissociated from loyalty of natural systemic rebirth.

When democratic political theory of inclusive,
non-elite,
eventually ecofeminist empowerment developed
into our straight white patriarchal U.S. Constitution,
we did not have enough multicultural experience,
and ecologically regenerative understanding,
to recognize that democracy is rooted in feelings of trust
and economic cooperative experience,
co-investment in what Game Theorists define as

NonZeroSum Win/Win ecopolitical outcome resilience

Resonant experience of cooperative ownership,
stewardship of compassionate properties
that can only be immorally misunderstood
as autonomously purchased with capital
and therefore ethically owned
controlled
exploited
deflowered.

Organic self/other
ego/eco
left/right bicameral management
remains conservatively rooted
in feelings of historic and cultural solidarity
on progressive journey toward resonant secular meaning
and resiliently sacred purpose.

Instead of noting that health
and well-being
and prosperity are endemic to cooperative win/win health systems
more than the chronic stress
typical of competitive win/lose strategies,
U.S. democracy is conservatively assumed to protect and defend capitalism,

Exclusively private wealth-accumulation,
and later incorporated anthropocentric self-investment
dissociated from OtherEarth Matriarchy,
becomes de-royalized personal patriarchal ownership.

Divine powers
and personhood
become disassociated from royalty
by right of birth,
and democratically re-associated with everyday inheritance
of anthropocentric royalty
accompanied by requisite meritocracy
of past familial,
and private corporate,
capital-wealth accumulation.

God the Father’s blessing
is evinced by bounteous ownership of currency;
not to be confused with natural energy democracy,
powers of naturally recycling currents of motion,
emotion
immolation
demotion
re-motion
premonition

At this point,
democratic health
and ecological/theological resilience
have been dissociated from moral virtue,
divorced from cooperative win/win wealthy systems
and divested from multicultural womanist networks
of co-empathic empowerment.

Our task,
rooted in this historic-cultural ecology of theological history,
Left/Right bicameral analysis,
may be seen as how to win more resources for and with non-elites,
left marginalized by win/lose rightwing capitalism,
no longer aligned with a green democratic trust
non-violent agenda for peace restoring EarthJustice;

As Jesus of Nazareth probably said,
we will always have the poor with us,
within us,
even if only poor in anti-natural,
unlovely and felt unloved, spirit.

We might also see this Great Transition
as a multicultural challenge
to deeply conserve healthy democratic progress,

Great opportunity to Reweave capitalism
into cooperatively-invested health care,
matriarchal giving while patriarchal receiving empowering
win-Self/win-Other models
for non-violent relationships
with Earth’s global climate,
with Interpersonal EgoSystemic CoOperating CoInvestment climates,
and MultiCultural EcoSystemic climates

Cooperatively polypathic/polyphonic,
left/right
universal/unitarian
yang/yintegrity
atomic/wave-linear co-relational
envisioned/deeply sensed empowerment,
renewing enlightenment era democratic resilient health
as also resonant economic wealth,

Promising compassionate
polycultural-nutritional-deeply prosperous
natural/spiritual outcomes.

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Blackest Fragile Friday

Black Friday,
iconic of Climate Fragility,
is designed to transition retail
from red
to black
end of year balance sheets.

Black Friday
is black
good
wealthy
robust
from a competitive corporate perspective.

What feels too seldom noticed,
This capital-acquisition game
is played with ZeroSum win/lose assumptions:

Retail corporations
are more likely to go richly black
as consumer households,
especially marginally surviving households,
urban apartheid neighborhoods,
rural failing family farms,
reach into shallowing pockets
to risk red indebted shortfall,
unhoused lack of holds.

To align our ecopolitical color scheme,
black incorporated economic privilege
is fed by red consumer fragility
as white political privilege
feeds on black and brown
and cooperative rainbow fragility.

One of the ways
we can remember this color scheme,
no paranoid pun intended,
is through a song,

Red and yellow,
black and white,
these are diversely precious
in His Straight White Male sight

ReIncorporated Capital-Infested God
loves all consumers
of the NonZeroSum WinWin
global market world.

This version suffers
from unlyrical challenges,
yet it still has a Black Friday ring
to cash re-registering around us.

The title of this song escapes me,
Was it
He’s Got the Whole World in His Corporation
or Shop Til We Drop?

The squirrels must think we’re nuts,
especially on Black Friday.

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