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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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Grasping Exhaustion

Maybe it’s just ageing me.
So, I’m asking,
as focused yet open
as I could ever hope to encompass,
transparently vulnerable

Do negative correlations
distancing inhaling
from exhaling
EarthMother’s sentient WorldView
resemble, for you,
too,
a reverse correlation,
dipolar co-arising
appositional contrast,
in-between organically grasping on
and sacredly letting off?

I am not sure why
this question could be economically
or politically
or psychologically
or neurologically significant

In this time of great polarized
climate EarthHealth v EconomicWealth cultural crisis,
and yet,
it persistently seems so
as I attempt,
in my Earth-bound solitude,
to exhale and dissociate from
left hemisphere verbal
monopolizing
monotheistic
demanding anthropocentric dominance

To inhale and grasp toward
more right hemisphere nonverbal
co-passion communing physical therapy
re-associating
re-syncing metaphysical thought
and physical feeling
re-communing organic and sacred
re-ligioning

Green
and blue
and red
ultra-violet transforming
Earth’s climate health
grasping fresh inhalations
while exhausting stale patriarchal capitalism’s
straight white male preserving
reiterative hortatory,
Might Makes God Right

Grasping and exhausting reactionary nonresponsiveness
to our organic belongings
and sacred longings
for EarthHealth
and DemocraticWealth,
co-passionate points of WorldView.

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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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Deviating Sisters

One of my sisters believes I chose to be queer.

Did you remind her
you had no more choice about chasing guys
than she did?

Yes.
But her favorite televangelist
says I must be mistaken,
or just lying,
because who wouldn’t choose to be hated
by all the hetero homophobes
like televangelists,
and evangelical radio heads,
right?

That makes no sense.
She can’t really believe
you would choose to belong
to any repressed and humiliated minority,
especially during early onset of puberty,
when every girl and boy in any culture
is terrified of becoming different,
or special,
or weeded out of the clickety-clak pack.

Well, as she sees it,
she is in a LoseLose double-bind.
Either I chose to be queer, and am thereby demented,
or God graces all forms of WinWin sexual expression,
which would be contrary to her homophobic enculturation,
so it is easier to believe I am nuts
to choose perversely
than to consider herself nuts
not to choose more graciously,
especially with regard to God’s creative capacity for love,
rather than simplistic judgments
which look and smell and sound like patriarchal sexism
more than radical compassion of God’s healthy pleasure
of regenerative love among all gendered children,
red and yellow,
black and white,
gay and straight
and shades of grey transgendered,
each is precious in our polyamorous
Gaian Hypothesis sight.

What about your other sister?

Oh, she agrees.

With what, or whom?

She agrees we’re all nuts.
Nuts
not to choose healthy love
over pathological hate
and fear
and anger
and greed,
craving to keep all the hot men
for one’s own privileged clan.

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Second Principle of HealthCare Planning

Obtain a regenerative yield,
a positive,
rather than negative, feedback loop,
better than a dissonant feedback screech
of mental v physical madness,
politically powering parties become monotheistic mobbing beatdowns,
economic corporations become cancerous hoarders,
churches designed by and for
hierarchical caste inequalities of mind v body irresponsibility
for plutocratic calculating authorities, dogmatically hetero,
male dominant

and don’t even ask caste preserving them
to start thinking outside their god-given gangs
about transgenderal nurturing opportunities
within Earth’s nondual co-arising Paradise
at hand.

How do we distinguish
between a healthy garden and a weed patch?
By nurtured nutritional outcomes,
positive yield,
inclusively diversifying so more robust profit
growing healthy wealth polyculturing potential,
including harvesting of seeds and bulbs
for our next even more cooperatively self-governing regeneration.

How do we distinguish
between a church or temple or synagogue
and a courthouse?
As above.

How do we distinguish
between playing with abundant cooperative vocations
and working against competing scarcity?
Same answer,
where seeds and bulbs
are cooperative,
organic,
unfold reverse-hierarchically, from within,
composed of complex interdependent relationships
which nutritionally enable together
Earth’s Common Cooperative Garden
producing positive nutritious yields

Health wealthing again,
for future faithful self-with-other
ego/eco balancing
regenerators,
doing our best to obtain a positive every-day
at-home
responsible yield for us, together
cooperatively-held, owned, governing,
nurturing and nutritious
common-sensed neurological authorities.

The First and Second Principles of Permaculture Design:
Capture and Reinvest
associative and productive yields
and not so much the other yucky
dissociative debris
and dismay.

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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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