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My Perfect President

Open letter to President Obama:

9/17/2015

Two things. A thank you, and a suggestion for our shared global future, confronting increasingly rapid climatic, with concomitant cultural and economic, transitions.

First, thank you for the pleasure of watching and listening to your comparative political and economic sanity for the past eight years. Enthusiastically voting for you twice, although you are not my “perfect” candidate, was such a relief and pleasure. And, your performance in what appears to be a largely thankless and hopeless position, has been graceful and sometimes even respectful of honest differences in priority. When comparing our financial investment in your presidential campaigns, and the cost to your personal integrity, to any positive health and well-being return, I see where this may have made sense for the rest of us, but I find it miraculous that you so generously accept your losses, along with your wins.

Second, my suggestion moves toward optimizing political and economic potential for addressing what we have labeled “climate warming,” but is actually the multisystemic problem of over-heated climate change. You seem to see the difference, and recognize the awesome scale of this challenge, especially during the already-shrinking projected normal life spans of our children, and grandchildren. So the requisite motivation to recognize and accept climate change as our most profoundly significant “well-being” global rights issue, as well as a national issue, you already have in your pocket.

No doubt you have noticed by now that even the President of the United States and the General Secretary of the United Nations, perhaps those two positions even more so than for all of us regular folks, daily confront a huge gap between what you are motivated to do and what you are powerful enough to accomplish. With political empowerment comes greater global and cultural and socioeconomic responsibilities, and aspirations. If you are any good as a person at all, I think you step into this larger-scale of consciousness, and you and your family do appear to be very good people indeed.

Perhaps helpful, with regard to our political “stuckness”, I am also noticing a considerable growth and refinement of two paradigms that appear to be co-arising toward nonduality, which, if you are familiar with Buddhist and/or Taoist philosophy, is the kind of evolution that has a way of becoming revolutionary, in a positive way. These two paradigms are Permaculture Design (and Development) and New (Feminist) Economics.

Each of these paradigms analyzes Business As Usual to point toward our urgent need for cultural and economic local-scaled cooperative-nurturing systems (including healthier ecosystems) to replace our current messiness. Business As Usual includes Win-Lose Game Theory, Left-brain dominant deduction, competition, economic and evolutionary cultural dynamics of entropic-trending dysfunction and over-specialization.

Since retiring from grant and program development for Connecticut human service agencies, I have been reading economics as presented by Riane Eisler (The Real Wealth of Nations), John Michael Greer (The Wealth of Nature), and Charles Eisenstein (Sacred Economics). Each is brilliant and together they shape an economic dipolar pattern contrasting Received View financial growth as economic wealth with a newer, more cooperative-centric economics of health, positive nutrition:

  • healthy production balancing consumption, and
  • polycultural health as root-value measure of wealth regeneration within eco-logically cooperative systems that today emerge from our current exponentially-growing global consensus that well-being has already begun trending toward decomposition.

Permaculturists, from Laotse through Buckminster Fuller and on to today’s booming industry of healing Earth and residents thereof, take as much interest in the ecological balance of regeneration and decomposition as economists invest in expanding v. contracting economic health of production/consumption systems.

Eisenstein (2011) calls the New Economics “sacred” economics, but, boiled down into natural system language, his sacred might be translated with Buckminster Fuller’s synergy; a positive-trending cooperatively-evolving dynamic integrity of health trend systems design and development. Further, Eisenstein seems to interpret “divine,” as contrasted to profane, as integrity v. deductive-reductive-redactive competing identities and independently eisegetical understanding. It is a profane Business As Usual culture assuming oppositional either-or Win-Lose evolutionary strategies and logistics, when it is more ectosymbiotically integrative to heuristically hold both-and Win-Win appositional challenges and comparisons and tipping-points, leading toward nondual co-arising strategies and more comprehensive polycultural consciousness.

What are Win-Win cooperative political, economic, and ecological outcomes that are achievable given the current climate in Washington, the U.S., and Earth?

I think we already do agree on, and are united within, one primary concern: How can I (and we)

  • invest in optimizing my health and well-being,
  • assure the right of full healthy development of my dependents, and all I love,
  • continue learning and mentoring wise and natural-systemic discernment, rather than merely learning to produce and consume more efficiently,
  • prudently invest my life exclusively within long-term just-right maturation, by avoiding short-term high risk gains in a sense of wealth that has become divorced from health of life’s intrinsically regenerative value.

We could each and all choose to invest our balancing budgets in cooperative economic industry, vocations, residences, communities, local ecosystems and polyculturally inclusive transformations of monoculturally silo-entropic decomposition, or Win-Lose Business As Usual. This choice of cooperative polycultural development over competitively self-isolating monocultures reflects the permaculturist’s approach to each site for redesign, but also our approach to each day, each life, each word and communication choice, each food and recreation choice. It seems possible to recognize that Martin Luther King’s Beloved Community is equivalent to the permaculturist’s Climax Community and the cooperative economist’s 7-Generation planning for optimal life-sustaining cooperative health-investment networks; where health is interpreted as broadly as Thich Nhat Hanh’s positive nutrition for all the senses, most definitely including aesthetic health, proportion, rhythm, patterns of form, function, and frequency.

If  all life, and future human quality of life in all its diversity of colors and cultures, matters, this new economic permacultural paradigm could be the basis of

  • deep learning theories in public education,
  • taught to every politician entering elected office,
  • every military strategy leader and teacher,
  • every policy analyst and designer,
  • every government employee and volunteer and intern training program, including the Peace Corp and AmeriCorp/VISTA.

Turning public education and public financial investment away from supporting further monoculturally-trending competition, and toward healthy polyculturally-trending cooperative systems and networks, could work for both sides of the nation’s partisan aisle.

This would be an impressive way to both exit as President, and enter as what Laotse would call a sagacious ruler; a permaculturally proficient polyculturist of cooperative economics, natural evolutionary relationships, and ecological well-being. That is what I would wish for you and your family, as I wish for mine.

If you are looking for a permaculturist with systems design and development expertise, I strongly recommend Joanna Macy, in California, sometimes, teaching in the Berkeley area.

Thank you for your response to our still-emerging climate change issue.

Namaste,

Gerald Dillenbeck, MPA, M. Div., PDC

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Apple Application

Somber red apple branches
sagging down into green orchard grass
lumpy loaded with solid ripe ready fruit,

Watch pale yellow butterflies huddle down
then spray up and out a geyser of light vibrant flight
scattering and skipping above their sun-drenched forest,

A sea of windy winding rivers
shadowed by red mount trees of deep-rooted life,
making sweet love with flighty buttered wings
sweeping and beating co-gravitating gratitude.

Red Team too old and wizened
to count their darkening days as numbered.
Yellow Team too light and funny flighty
to bother commodifying frenzied beating wings of day.

Separate huddles,
yet coherently co-arising Team
of Earth’s diversely enspacing Times.

Orchard hunting follows Win-Win ectosymbiotic norms
of solidarity through mutual subsidiarity,
co-arising cooperativity
of hunter functions with hunted octave
applecultured frequencies,
this hunt emerges through all four fractal Golden Seasons
before revolving cosmological
and ecological
and analogical
and just plain logical closure,
to begin another why and how hunting adventure
within and toward Paradise.

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Empowering Health

Positive balances negative energy,
co-arising matter.

Future balances past Time,
co-arising within Space.

Neutral-Draw Yin balances Negative Yin,
co-arising Positive Yang/YinYin healthy wealth.

Positive CommonTime equi-valences Negative “c”
co-arising +/(-)(-) double-binding Zero-PrimeTime bilateral dimension
of light’s emergent speed.

Light as +/(-,-)0 co-arising gravity
square rooted in RNA regenerative enlightenment
as (+/(-/-)ZeroCommons CulturalMetric
within 4 primal spacetime dimensions.

Understanding Elder-hemisphere as Eco-centered “Commons” bilateral,
Time encrypted skeletal-soul cell informating energy;
Comprehending Left-deductive through Ego-centered c-squared
bi-elliptical octave frequency transliterations,
in 4-prime spacetime;
emerges Universal cosmological +/- QBit function
as information/exformation of co-arising matter(s)
co-generating through ProGenitive (0)-sum cooperative ecological economies,
healthy self-optimizing thrival
of Beloved Climaxing Nature.

Verbal logic reveals relationships and transactions
as noun-binomials reveal subjects with their objectives,
to be attained or avoided or confused,
loved or feared
by their co-relational transmutation,
their co-arising praxis,
mutually gravitational life,
precessive and recessive,
inhale expansion toward exhale contraction,
time’s unfolding incarnation
of health and beauty,
sickness and decay,
peace and justice
with violence and suffering struggle,
Left with Right,
Ego with Eco-logical Economics,
Time’s +/(-,-)0 nutritional value,
integrative revolutionary recycles,
co-gravitational QBit trend default strings of P=NNP equivalence,
positive/negative co-arising informating energy,
in (0)-centric Open Universal Bicameral Systems
with Thermodynamic
and Electromagnetic
Yang/Yin Balance.

Co-arising nondual communal communion
silences our screaming segregating ego-defensive screens.
Eco-identity shares faith in hope to yet see
the whites of each Other’s eyes and souls
while we share this warmth of what remains
within our mythic Tribal burning bush,
DNA-encrypted fractal-balancing wisdom,
we can each and all walk away with each other,
not from each other,
understanding differences between what we all need
and what nobody wants,
and we will each and all shine toward this globally inclusive future
with what we each and all need,
and without co-dependent competitive relationships,
toxic to lasting therapeutic coherence.

Revolve Resolve Resonate ReDeem ReMember ReTurn ReConnect
to sustain our co-arising polyculturing time,
our ecosystemic well-being,
our ecotherapeutic homes and communities
and shared vocation,
our cooperative economic transactions of wealth-optimizing health;
this eco-logical,
permanently-enculturing permacultural con-scientific revolution
of co-mentoring within’s paradigms gardening without’s eco-consciousness.

Co-arise this optimally sustained revolution,
this dipolar wealth of meaning for health,
with dissonant noise and chaos for disease,
this robust prose and languaged
consciousness of inclusive bicameral mental health,
this graceful living and breathing and healing poetry,
rhythm, pattern of sound’s reason,
fullness of season;
metaphysically expressed through universal laws of language
and eco-time’s-logic,
while physically expressed through global dancing
and singing
in full RNA-fractal octaves of ringing regenetic circles.

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Poetic Prehensions

Poets prehend self-governing structures
in natural ways that seem more enlightened
than pedants of partisan evolution.

Prophets predict self-help co-redemption
in ways that really could seem more enlightened
than preachers of competitive economics.

Time’s wisdom con-sciences co-arising information
within regenerative ways that comprehend light’s full-tempered power
to mutually mentor polypaths of  health-encultured evolution,
conscientific full-being consciousness,
cosmological ecological biological geological wealthological uni-health-paradigm,
fractal-facet syntax
of Time’s Thermodynamic RNA-rememory language,
co-arising,
folding to unfold again
through great transitional revolutions.

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Medicated Breath

I breathe in sunshine
to breathe through rain.

I breathe in laughter
to breathe through pain.

I breathe in and up
to breathe down thru-out.

I breathe in language
to breathe through syntax.

I breathe inside
to breathe through all sides.

I breathe in DNA languaged You
to breathe through RNA instinctive me.

I breathe in Left-brained dominant you
to breathe through Right-brain permanently-encultured me.

I breathe inflating ego
to breathe eco-conflating,
double-binding,
Self+Other time.

I breathe in convex information
to breathe through concaving dissonant co-arising noise.

I breathe economic expansion
to breath through ecological contractions,
decomposition,
purgation.

I breathe in Eco’s Plan A
to breathe through Ego’s balancing Plan B.

I breathe in zen zero nondual form,
to breathe through tao Yang-Yin balancing
ergodic/ionic binomial
mutually-gravitational co-arising function.

I breathe in yolky embryonic paradigms
to breathe out revolutioning Time’s polypathic ecologic.

I breathe in what matters [+Polynomial]
to breathe through optimally healthy midway double-dark energy
[(-,-) Polynomial]

I breathe in 0-soul theorems
to breathe through 0-sum economically full-living cooperatives.

I breathe in rich nutritional health and well-being
to breathe through wealth of form and function.

I breathe in ego-Win!
to breathe through not-not eco-win.

I breathe
to breathe through you,
as us.

I breathe in transparent-mirror ego compost
to breathe out eco-seeds of regenerating culture.

I breathe in nondual coincidence
to breathe out co-arising,
self-balancing perpetuation
of mutual mentoring gravitation.

I breathe in yes
to breathe through polycultural not not yet.

We are breathing together
to breathe through remembering syntax
of permacultural time’s diversely seasoned articulations.

The family and living planet that breathe together
stay together.

The family, planet, that doesn’t,
well…not so much.

I breathe in sunshine
to breathe through rain.

Note:Influenced by Dr. Robert Norton’s ethological theory of communication strings, following a geometric and logical fractal rhythm.  See “Communication & Consequences: Laws of Interaction” (1996), Robert Norton and David Brenders; essential reading for poets and would-be-effective-public-facilitators of communication and inclusive policy development, especially health and economic policy.

 

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Greeristic FreeVerse to B. Sanders

Obamystic Preludes: Things we wish tomorrow for today

Insufficient knowledge for fully comprehensive consciousness
is also more than sufficient ignorance
to cause comprehensive disease.

Knowledge is not optimally resolved
resonantly revolved
accurately measured
in deductive-only information,
rational knowledge is optimally measured with health-trend outcomes.

If competing for attention is too tiring,
wilting you outside and in,
try cooperating for retention of solidarity
through mutually subsidiary engagement,
co-prehension,
attendance to co-emergent healthy outcomes.

If we want soldiers of and for good,
then they need mentors
with cooperative gaming strategies
to achieve and sustain
globally self-optimizing healthy wealth.

If we want to avoid nightmares
then we end each day embracing our daytime health/wealth stallion stories,
counting our best cooperative assets
for sustaining life through another night, and generation.

If we want to optimize our wealth of mental health
then we decompose “nondual co-arising confluent memory,”
both binomial-analogical and binary-digital,
toward regenerative multisystemic comprehension.

Too much hated war and violence,
then what do all sides do to sustain their anger?
Too much anger,
disproportionate to resources required to sustain?
Then inclusively discern what we collectively fear about death
as lack of fully comprehensive eternal life
for our polyculture-trending future generations,
and ourselves,
today,
here and now.

Too much disabling and unhealthy paranoia,
depression and suppression,
repression and ignorant impressions
substituting Win-Lose hope of wealth
for Win-Win health
as our shared value for diastatic life?
Then uncover
and discover
and recover
opportunities for cooperating active love
co-arising from the opposite side of the fear/anger spectrum,
refusing to feed your nightmares.
by relentlessly watering our interdependently co-arising health.

Transitioning from competitive Win-Lose
global and domestic policies
toward cooperative Win-Win logistics:

1. Begin with military defense and insurance expenses anticipated for next year.

2. Add all competitive BusinessAsUsual industry subsidies,
tax credits and deferments,
financial investments.

3. Divide the total competitive-aggressive Win-Lose military-industrial expenses
by two;
(1) and (2) above.

4. Invest 50% in a new Peace Corp
with Permaculture EcoTherapeutic Win-Win Design and Development
Mentorship Training,
with requisite alternative-technology tools and resources.

5. Invest the other 50% in a new Americorp/VISTA
with the same multisystemic cooperative networking
mentorship model,
a most cooperative polyculture!
placing interns to co-organize local cooperatives,
health/wealth optimization guilds
composting ecological abundance economies.

Insufficient comprehension for fully co-emergent consciousness
is also more than sufficient decay
to cause cosmo-dislogical disease.

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The Civil PolyCultural Revolution Party

“Before the party begins,”
said the Permaculturist to her pupils,
Yang on the Left,
Yin twins on Right,
processing nondually,
“a brief reminder.
of how to enter a room with appropriate balance.”

“This Party Door to life is not hinged for the right-hand dominant side
to swing open and closed
at Ego’s Win-Lose competitively unilateral convenience.”

“Our Party’s threshold toward Win-Win love
is a revolving door,
(0)-soul centered, geometrically, metaphysically, ecologically, and economically,
thermodynamically and gravitationally and cosmologically.
ionically and ergodically,
bionically and binomially nondual co-arising teleology,
logically and fractally dynamic,
revolutionary.
Our PolyCulture Party massively co-hosts
and energetically mentors
this universal spacetime,
on the other nondual side of this classroom’s revolving threshold door.”

“Please continue to push into the Door from the LeftYang position,
while pulling toward your Ego from your RightYin;
either way and both together, nondually.”

“Please avoid messy tangles of arms and legs
and bicamerally dissonant heads
by retaining positive clockwise revolutionary potential,
as opposed to counter-revolutionary BusinessAsUsual
for entering the classroom.”

“This PolyCulture Party celebrates our co-arising design and development,
light dawning with the flow of Time’s eco-natural system,
spinning Left to Right,
then back to Left,
iterative bicameral revolutions toward closure
of our Originating Story,
(0)Mega Tipping Point
Core Pendulum of Time
with Bicameral Enlightenment
for full-octave Party brights.”

“Today,
feeling your light of polycultural wisdom,
after you have finished all your empirical scientific research
for sufficient deductive/inductive
nondual co-arising
Win-Win double-negative logistics
and statistical dipolar trend optimization,
then,
and only then,
please step into the PolyCulture Party threshold,
become the zen nondual-Tao Door,
swing positively on Left-deductive,
and double-negatively on Right-intuitive/inductive.”

“Again,
please sustain these two bicameral frames,
simultaneously confluent
to flow nutrients out Left and wisdom in Right’s dual-dark atmosphere
in temporal and proportional alignment
for optimal thermodynamic balance,
and proactive, yet nonviolent, love.”

Yang and Yin-twins wend their weignt along Golden Ratios and Rules,
toward their nondual and dipolar,
correlational
co-arising
PolyCulture Revolution Party.

Your Bicamerally Balancing Time.
Your TriSpaceDeductive with BioTime’s Co-Inductive Memory Moment.
Your Mental Wealth of Health.

Our cooperative Win-Win ecosystemic revolutionary gaming party,
with health/wealth organic snacks,
locally grown and harvested,
decomposed and regenerated,
lived and died and relived
through future generations,
and back to once upon our co-arising dual-dark Time.

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Cooperative Political Odds

I wilt with guilt,
self blame,
too comfortable with living midway
within this United 5%
stealing 28% of Time’s encrusted fossil investment
as if by collective right
as if without loss,
no reparations for the other 95%
today
or for the 100% of future generations
born nearly bankrupt
of healthy economic trends
suffering from our eco-dislogical bender.

What I must know
from those who would lead us
through the next two or four or six years,
What is your cooperative political and economic experience,
aspiration,
vision,
informed by the pursuit of wealth measured in inclusive health,
rich nutritious optimization choices
moving you and us away from BusinessAsUsual
Win-Lose strategies
with sub-optimizing intent.

Please let us not settle for Winning now
by choosing Loser policies for tomorrow!

How can you reassure us
that our vulnerable children
will not be heated
for stealing from all Earth’s tribal presence
and future,
further shredding karmic grace
of healthy eco-normic pace?

If we are global citizens,
how can we tolerate
allowing our kids to deliberately aim ballistics against each other,
to take nature’s irreplaceable energy
so outrageously, violently,
to strip our water and air of their mutual climatic balance,
our soil raped of health,
our own future potential aborted
bereft of health and justice birthright
which mindless violence
and short-sighted Win-Lose competition have squandered.

Show me the candidates
who study their own priorities
as incarnated by their colleagues,
discern how they can combine strengths
to cooperatively develop optimized health wealth
as both domestic and global necessity.

If candidates cannot establish Win-Win campaign priorities,
why would we believe they know how to develop Win-Win policies?

If candidates cannot explain how they are fully invested
in their local cooperative economies
and inclusive governance discernment
then how could they explain their default
to competitive BusinessAsUsual
Win-Lose politics and economics
in which I have lost all faith
in outcomes other than collapse and failure?

We must more fully incarnate
Earth’s synergetic evolution of health
as political and economic measure of sustainable wealth.
Missing this primal priority
is suicidal cannibalism,
eating our own children’s integrity,
viability for loving life
more than entropic stasis.

Where are our Boddhisatva Cooperative Warriors,
willing to embrace this challenge of active love
in private as public life?
We have run out of time for second string illusionists,
fully invested in first string permaculturists.

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Welcoming Womb

Hello!
Hello in there?
Can you feel me yet?…

Welcome to the United States of America!

The U-nited States began as an incubation site
for ecosystemic freedom and justice,
although our elders were a bit ahead of
non-violent communication therapy,
well-being community therapy,
so we have run into some long-term cultural problems
with linking up our justice walk with our peace talk.

You have chosen to seed in what was our global hope
for incubating ecological economics.
I so hope you develop neither surprised nor disappointed
in the U.S. rebranding project,
now providing global laundry and enculturation services
for other would-be sub-optimizers
perpetually fascinated,
and disheartedly entertained,
with ego-centric adolescence.

This U-benighted States of perpetual anthropocentric greed
and monolithic hubris,
now aspires to become Earth’s monopolistic
Monocultural Laundry Service,
divesting of polycultural natural enrichment
to thoroughly thrash the exciting high risk market
in anthro-centric entitlements.

If you thought you had landed
within smooth warm womb
of old school Zero-Sum
Win-Win Skin
in a Permacultural Game Theory
of regenerative life…
well,
good luck being born a polycultural alien
in this Oppositional Disordered political and racing economic culture,
this DisUniting whitewashed policing State,
out to save the globe with arms of might
now that we have proven
how great we are with shooting down each other,
in our homes and on our streets.

Welcome, baby,
it’s a not-so-brave old world
in our UBeNighted State.

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