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Reweaving Peace

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

Asked the social systemic trauma Judge
of UnitingNations jurisdiction.

Restorative Justice
was never intended to be effective
when either victims or predators
are unwilling,
often incapable,
of re-engaging in cooperative
interdependent
every body wins dialogue,
egalitarian discernment
in-between Trust
and MisTrust
and hostile DisTrust
and restorative ReTrust.

So you argue
win+win regenerative assumptions
of self-conscious+other-sentient creatures
are not safely,
and not realistically, accessible
for all the healing dreams
and therapeutic purposes
endemic to our Gaian muse of peace?

An insufficiency
of experience
with healthy democratic revival;
yes.

And, where victims and a healthy society
are presumed Winners
by punishing scofflaw Losers,
how will continuing to primally rely on win v lose retribution
lead us toward this noble,
and unconditional loving goal
to achieve healthy democratic peace
for all Earth’s regenerative creatures?

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

How do you respond
to therapeutic win+win possibilities
of multiculturally mediated dialogue
to bring together victim compassion
with wrongdoer remorse,
without corporeal threat of criminalization?

Retributive Justice outcomes threaten further
release and parole caseloads,
recidivism,
imprisoned and exploited populations
of marginally surviving misfits,
disproportionately poor
and dark-skinned

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

I’m not sure
arguing against further patriarchal
competitive 0-sum capital investments
helps your justice through matriarchal cooperative
cause.

You invite the World Court to question
whether anyone is capable of sufficient trust
in resonantly democratic peace,
internal and external,
anthropological and ecological,
to actively communicate egalitarian
restorative
healthy democratic choice-making

Facing toward compassion,
facilitating co-empathic communication disciplines,
expanding EarthFirst nonviolence
to therapeutically mediate Gaian Hypotheses.

Well, actually I invite the Court
to recognize
Gaia has already recreated
and regenerated thriving
bicameral balancing minds+bodies
crowns+roots
capital+physical
ethos+eros
compassion+pleasure
cognition+intuitrion
consciousness+sentience

So unconditional love
doesn’t really notice
if I would prefer to debate
against some ultimately punishing
win v lose diminishing
dissonantly patriarchal
distantly monotheistic
and anthropocentric
DisUniting Nationalistic Judge

Left hemisphere verbally dominant
outspoken ex cathedra
prejudiciously judgmental god
imprisoned in StraightWhiteMan’s image.

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Healthy Democratic Civilizations

Imagine your healthiest body
is a democratic
ego-mind/eco-body
bipartisan empowering organism

Ideally,
most nutritionally,
nurtured by an also open,
living,
dynamic win/win preferential,
evolving,
revolving organic home,
in many anthropological times and places
also known as sacred MotherEarth.

Notice
your democratic mind+body
is an open
holistic
ego+eco-centering
co-invested re-centering,
co-acclimating interior+exterior
bilaterally systemic infrastructure
for democratic health,
rooted in mutual trust.

If your brain is in charge,
this is a democratic charge,
a coordinating
complexly inter-communicating
organic whole system responsive responsibility,
leaving no individual organ or health function
irresponsibly behind,
shunned,
shamed,
solely blamed

Not an autocratic,
from above,
hierarchically patriarchal,
anthropocentrically capitalistic
thought-mind over felt-body matter

Not a republican authority
on upper-caste,
above the neck,
defensive rights,
incapable of long-term
win for leftbrain dominant spirituality
only at the cost of a lose
for rightbrain organic
interdependently felt naturality,
mental+physical health,
bicameral communion intelligence

Bilateral ego+eco communing communication
looking for win+win neurological
whole organic system
democratic resolution
of spiritual v natural wealth issues,
pathologically autocratic cancers,
effective v affective predations,
viral dispassionate dissonance,
rabid and rogue kleptocratic behaviors,
win v lose anthropocentric ego-inflations,
lose+lose anthropological terrors
and global EarthMother decimations,
rather than win+win wonders,
sacred awe of organic Earth’s resiliently healthy
democratic regenerativity.

Now, recall important political statements
influencing your own development:

A family is not a democracy.
A classroom is not a democracy.

Both implied “should not be” statements
almost certainly true
in your own predominant civil empowerment v disempowerment
formative experience,

Embracing win v lose
either-me/or-you empowered competitions
between autocratic teachers and preachers
and not yet mature and experienced
sometimes you solo win,
and usually cooperative children,
maturing civil adolescents
and organically co-passionate young adults
don’t solo win.

Many of whom,
especially those poorer and darker,
will graduate into military-industrializing subcultures
of fear, anger, and threat

Where patriarchal
leftbrain dominant plutocracy
of commanders
over indentured pawns
become reduced to untrusting tools
and win v lose assumptions
that civilization defense requires
high risk,
and high priced,
strategic weapons.

These young brainwashed adults
will certainly not be gathering richly diverse trust experience
in democratic dialogue
over autocratic debate
about the comparative strength
and weaknesses
of win+win caste abolition
of uncivilized injustice
for restoring anthropological+ecological democracy.

So, is it possible to still hear
indigenous sentient wisdom?

Families, like classrooms,
intending young life healthy empowerment,
rather than autocratic disempowerment
of lesser Other
alienated people and alien species.

Not yet mature democracy
grows roots by experiencing robust compassionate Trust,
rather than an unintended civics lesson
in rabid leftbrain anthropocentric autocracy,
as if capitalism
and homophobic whites-only patriarchalism
were historically inevitable
ecosystemic trauma
and anthropocentric apartheid.

As if mutually mistrusting families
and classroom competitions for individual winner power
were democratically healthier
than win+win cooperative models
for shared mind+body
sacred+organic
spirit+nature
ego+ecosystemic
evolutionary civilized wealth

Resonant trust
resilient love
compassion+pleasure

Imagining our healthiest bodies
on our wealthiest days
within anthropological+ecological
co-relational systems
are therapeutically democratic

Self+Other empowering
Anthro+Earth responsible
co-responsive civility
among win+win organisms
non-violently communicating
advocates for polyculturally intelligent
restorative polyamorous EarthFirst Peace
informing and transforming
local democratic justice.

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Attachments and Aversions

I wonder if
what Buddhist meditation teachings
refer to as “attachments”
and “aversions,”
a medical doctor
might label with different words,
such as addiction
and dissociative diversions.

In both frames
illusions may be recognized
and respected
as deep opportunities to learn;

Illusions and delusions are depreciated
as too risky
not to repress with blame
and suppress with shame
devoid of any therapeutic
transporting
transformative
transparent (not self-shaming)
and vulnerable (not other-blaming)
communication
with our performing EgoTherapist minds
and our engaging EcoTherapist bodies

Illusions, illustrations,
dreams and fantasies,
losses and gains,
attachments that can become obsessions
compose sensory attractions

Whether smells and tastes,
touch and feelings,
sights and sounds,
exterior reception or interior inception

May have potential
to therapeutically transport
away from addictive-compulsive behaviors
and ideations
toward a less self-obsessed integrity

Away from impulsive self-serving,
potentially predative, anthropocentric
caste preserving attractions

And toward co-passionate
and resilient pleasure

Cooperatively intended
hoped
good-faithed
good-humored

Loved,
eco-politically
and personally
and bilaterally
bicameral ego+eco integral wealth
mind+body synergetic health

Becoming completely satisfied
sufficient
simple
centered in HereSpace+NowTime

Learning from past sensory satisfying memories
informing future images
imagining resonant and resilient pleasures
climatically encompassing
all of the above
compassion+pleasure.

Addiction to cooperative multicultural
multigenerational
regenerational
and bicameral left+right
bilateral spirit-mind+nature-body
peak sensory experiences
present healthier passions and pleasures
than addictions to competitive mono-culturing
and mono-theistic
and caste preserving predator v prey
sensory risk ambivalence inside
and systemic trauma impinging
from outside

Where relationships don’t necessarily smell
or taste inviting,
don’t necessarily feel gratifying to touch
or feel inside my mind+body,
don’t transformationally transport
when compromised win v lose truth is heard
but win+win beauty is not seen,
falling short of healthy co-passion
for EarthMother’s vast polyamorous
multi-colored wealth
of ultra-nonviolent
multisensory
caste abolished
sacred+organic
EarthTribe integrity.

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Integrity’s Promise

If I may suggest
a possible improvement
in mystic teachings
about healthy meditation experience,
structure,
discipline,
neurological
and psychological
and, in more advanced classes,
sociological consciousness
polycultural sentience
and political correctness

I would compassionately ask
if we have not spilled
rather too much word-filled ink
attending to cognitive awareness
and not enough
on affective
contextual
interdependently felt intelligence

Distinguishing subtle nuances
ambiguity
everyday mundane in-between nest
of empowering anticipation
(not merely win+win enlightened awareness)
and disempowering darker anxiety

Not just win v lose strategic
spiritual Me v unnatural Not-We
caste preservation consciousness.

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Porch Swing Questings

I have a lot of questions
questions
questions
he repeats
slowly creaking
and dancing
on our screened porch
peaking swing.

Radiant
in fiery ginger godliness,
mind centering omnipotence

He is so far ahead
of answers,
I feel embarrassed
to share them.

But, in not sharing
I become lost in caring
what he might think of me,
feel about we
without sufficient daring.

He swings anal retentive
in a whole new light
of previously unrepresented delight.

Ah! that could not be my question.
A hypothesis, perhaps
meriting further research;
new questings.

It feels important to me
this questing
for high and deep best male alert
dessert thick
and creamy,
dreamy wave of carnal delight,
absence of fright
or fight
in last and long dark nights
on seas of swings
just fucking right.

I want to squeeze
these pulsing questings
out of this maleness
female mess
so quickly
complexly asked
and chaotically given

Shriven
of clothes
but not masquerades
of closet questions
questing answers
not yet hard
and widely embraced
formed
invited graced queer notions

Of motions
and emotions
just right
and left
bilaterally in-between
bicameral lusts
and bisensual leisure
to swing all theories continuous
polypathic
polyphonic
polyvagal
polymetric
polyamorous ways

Of in
and out
and rebellious shout
for Earth’s most carnal freedom
of re-connecting
polycultural con-scientific re-ligioning
questions about straight and narrow
meets wide and deep

Why 1
slides so sexily
through 0
shape-shifting chakras
of natural
spiritual co-empathic pole
and holistic energy
like nuts
round bolts
and male
inside female bipolarities.

So many questions,
he gloriously proclaims
in majestic awe
meets lusty wonder

As his bi-gendered feet
gently invite
our graced swing
to sweep and seep defeat
with co-passioned
revolving Earth
back to Spring
and forth to Fall

One late summer morning
on our screened porch
secret secreting swing.

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Sophisticating Republican Women

“The ways in which we apply these [empathic] abilities
to controlling the excesses of growth and expansion

[by nurturing multicultural synergetic balance]

over the next century
will be the greatest test
of our evolutionary [democratic Win/Win]
sophistication.” D Holmgren, Permaculture, p. 73

Sophistication is not
jingoism
nor tokenism
nor nationalism
nor sexism.

Democratic evolutionary sophistication
requires developing holistic integrity,
invites and nurtures polypathic
health of interdependent pleasure
and wealth of intersectoral compassion.

Until our League of Women Voters
becomes a Legion of EcoFeminist Speakers and Listeners,
leaders and co-operative
co-invested followers.

Until our democratic national party
becomes an everyday
InterNational InterDependent PolyCultural Health Party.

Until our republican nationalistic party
becomes a cooperatively-managed
EcoTherapeutic Wealth Development Project.

Until each educational and religious system
becomes a polyamorous paradise
for mentoring Restorative Peace,
a remedial safe space
for battered and neglected
abused and exploited
miseducated and disempowered
Republican girls and women.

Until each Town Meeting
becomes a bipartisan win/win part
of EarthMother’s CoPassionate Discernment Network.

Until each political campaign
becomes a NonViolent Communication progression
reinforcing our EcoPolitical CoOperative Health Trust
of and for Earth’s Peace Wealth.

Until Type A caste supremacist planning
to extend competing Win v Lose Yang
reweaves equivalently
with processing Type B
nurturing Win+Win
caste-abolishing Yin.

Until Left deductive dominance
panentheistically religions again
with Right inductive
mind-passion/body-pleasure.

Until masculine strength with endurance
also means feminist flow with nurturance
through mutual Left/Right bicameral
cooperativity.

Until day
becomes not so much nightmare.

Until “unsophisticated women”
becomes an oxymoron,
a population of zero,
empty vacuous imaginary population
now singing more resonant harmonies
dancing more resilient memories.

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The Dance of Fear and Love: Understanding Appositional Relations

This ancient apposition
between fear and love,
distrust and trust,
where fear reigns, love has already faded into too-distant hope;
where love co-integrates
fear can naught but evaporate.

Dipolar appositions
are bipolar oppositions wearing newer wings
of more robustly Win+Win polyculturing wealth
impoverishing Win v Lose anti-resilient
not so brilliant
polarizing pathology.

Appositional contrasts speak in transliterating dialects
trusting co-passionate truths of balanced resonance
and distrusting degenerating dissonance,
arrogance,
confusion,
apathy,
absence of sustaining interdependent curiosity,
dipolar co-gravitating courage.

Those who dance through polyamorous designs
for polyculturing love’s integrative outcomes,
extinguish LeftBrain’s angry anthropocentric fears
disintegrating narcissistic outgo.

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Democratic Health Party

I just read that U.S. Democrats stand in solidarity
against Trump,
but what else?
What is democracy for?

First,
democracy, rather than republican plutocracy,
here confuses collaboration against our competitive opponents
with solidarity,
which must be for both ourselves and our appositional tensions.

Second,
democracy trusts empathy
rather than mistrusting antipathy
much less active distrusting pathology
so democracy stands in solidarity
with polypathic regenerativity,
with wealth optimization as health maximization.

So,
please,
if our parties and cooperatively-owned
and managed
and cared for
healthy workplaces
wear the label of “we are pro-democracy”
then rest assured that being for healthy polycultural evolution
and against degenerative monoculturing competitions
is a humanitarian platform
not limited to gathering votes from 50% of the humane-natural population,
but capable of drawing every vote
from every mind and body of age
to become pro-health for all Earth’s species,
including this less upper-caste privileged variety
of democratically polyamorous party animal.

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The Only Way To Go

When I was a new seminarian
I had a favorite parish priest mentor
who told me the best way to die
is while having an orgasm.

I wasn’t sure if I could ask
why he was so exclamatory sure
of his nakedly compromising position.
I did not really know him all that well,
although he seemed to be a swell up kind of Father.

Perhaps I looked a bit nervous
because he hastened to reassure me
the reason he is enamored of orgasms,
of peak experiences,
is because they transcend our cognitive dualities
in-between polyamorous Eros
and polytheistic Agape.

Orgasms are ecstatic climatic events,
warm full-bodied memories
of mindbody interdependence,
of holistic cooperative economic enlightenment
and political empowerment within
every organ and cell,
muscle and happy little ego-subsystem
groaning out this profoundly universal Yes!
with both LeftBrain audio-visual ethos compassion
and RightBrain universally uniting
neurosensory climate of eros pleasure.

I didn’t know what to say to this bicameral-sexual therapy.
But, if this is an option for how to die,
it does sound like the only ecstatic one I have ever heard.

So I said that.
And then my mentor suggested I go home
and practice
living that same way.

Interesting,
how orgasms struggle through rhapsodic space
while dying struggles against too-fast insufficient time.

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PolyCultural Education

Polypathic conversation with David Holmgren:

Today it is common to hear the suggestion
[polyculturally-informed] education and [compassionate communication] training
is the key to allowing people to contribute
to a more sustainable [eco-political] future.

Although I recognize the value of formal education and training
and [especially cooperatively-owned and -managed] communications media,
they are also part of the [systemic under-caste trauma] problem

[and therefore also keys to more resonantly cooperative resolutions]

preventing [LeftBrain dominant] us from a more direct [RightBrain-inductive] connection with,
and [bilateral] experience of,
the natural[-spiritual co-arising] world
through [co-passionate communicating] observation
and [bicamerally balancing] experience
[and work/play of win/win curiosity/imagination].

Much could be said about how we need to modify formal education
and the [competitively capital-hungry] media
so they can contribute better to the [polytheistic
polyamorous
polypathic] revolution,
but we need to recognize several fundamental
[Leftbrain verbally dominant thought] problems.

First,
almost all education,
and especially higher [yet not necessarily deeper] education,
is [redacted] knowledge from secondary [audio-visual] sources,
interpreted through [competing specialist] frameworks
of [limited intersectional] understanding.

Academic [exegetical LeftBrain dominant] training
that requires every idea and concept be referenced to refereed published [also LeftBrain verbally dominant] sources
is the extremity of this [conserving rather than transitioning, liberating] approach
to [reiterative memorization
of what once was normatively true
and necessarily so,
yet perhaps not exclusively or even sufficiently true
for all times and spaces and complex systems,
win+win yang/yin cobinary hypothetically tensioned with win v lose, 0-sum.]

Second,
information technology has accelerated the speed of circulation,
retrieval
and reproduction of [healthy v toxic] information
[v disinformation].
The [commercial] professional packaging
of [LeftBrain reductive] secondary experience
in [massively networked] media
promises faster and better ways
to [LeftBrain access others’] learn[ing].

For instance,
in comparison to the wildlife [ecological healthy/toxic] observation skills
and original [6-sensory-neural
sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, feel
internal positive/negative compassion/dispassion felt)
thinking.

Third,
almost all formal scientific education is based on bottom-up reductionist [STRUGGLING EITHER/OR AGAINST BothAnd] thinking
[screening out cognitive-affective dissonance,
negative unresolved non-resonant neuropsychological issues].

While the [cooperative multi]cultural harvest from specialized reductionist thinking over the last few hundred years
has been great
[and continues to accelerate],
it is the [cooperatively self-organizing] integration
and [transubstantiating] cross-fertilization of concepts
and
[feeling potential both/and win/win] ideas
that is now providing the most fruitful results
for dealing with the problems
of the environmental crisis.

Much of this [win/win bilateral co-arising] integrated [comprehension]
is happening outside [LeftBrain dominant] educational institutions
[pathology-oriented, continuing competing-issues committed
with highly competitive ecopolitical survival issues,
including upper-caste preservation].

Ironically,
information and communications technologies
are increasing these [cooperative win/win insight] possibilities,
although this benefit is over [LeftBrain dominant win-thought v lose-feeling] content,
and [redundantly tedious] replication over [re]creation;
[degenerative oppositional feedback loops
rather than cooperative self-governing
regenerative double-binding
ego/eco-appositional loops].

Fourth,
and most problematic of all,
formal education at the higher [yet not deeper] levels
is focused on digesting massive amounts of information
within the [slow-growth synergizing, incubating] constructs
of separate [and alarmingly unequal] disciplines
and cultures
(such as [Left-Yang, EitherOr] science
and [Right-Yin, BothAnd] art
[nurturing octave-scaled regenerative functions,
like 4Base fractal group/game math,
and 4Season phylogenic reproductive cycles]).

This education lacks wholistic [therapeutic] integration
with [health-wealth positive oriented] living experience
and its insights and truths often make little [trivial felt] impression
on the underlying [Right-YinFlow nurturing resonant] structures
of [comprehensive AND compassionate] understanding
and [internally felt committed] belief [with co-empathic trust]
created by [LeftBrain might makes right] family [anthropocentric-capitalist] upbringing,
mass [consuming dominating productive values] media
and popular [nationalistic eco-political Win v Lose partisan] culture.

In many fields
we find the [global co-passion] solutions
to [ecological and anthropological] problems
are known [and felt]
but are not [regeneratively] applied
for a myriad of specific [LeftBrain constipated cul-de-sac] reasons.

The core of these problems is [competing mutually mis-communicating and therefore gradually degenerating belief systems]
which people appear to [defensive either me or they win] hold
have not been [Both Me And We-vetted] integrated with
and [regeneratively-therapeutically-cooperatively] reinforced
by their [Left+Right bicameral polypathic
polyamorous polyculturing] personal experience
[of positive health cooperatives
are not negative pathological/partisan dissociative, dissonant competitions].

Note: Wiccan transubstantiation of David Holmgren’s “Permaculture Principles & Pathways”, p. 20; adding in seasonings from Edward DeBono’s bilateral thinking and Buckminster Fuller’s synergy systems theory, and, of course, layering LaoTse generally across Yang v Yin and Yang+Yin as Left-Right creative bilaterally nondual dialectical 4D appositionality. Polycultural Education as if multiculturally informed polyamorous Earth lives aiming toward WinWin preference matters if humanity’s goal is to optimize regenerative, and minimize degenerative, eco-politically healthy ecological and wealthy anthropological co-passionate communication pleasure-felt outcomes.

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