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Spirited Developments

Great
and small
spiritual teachers
glowingly preach
and promise disciplined pilgrim creatures
Nirvana,
Paradise,
Heaven,
Blissful Features.

A timelessly perpetual climax
no natural teacher
this side of Eden’s regenerative garden
would dare speculate
we might reasonably anticipate
some great rewoven day
of universal redemption.

It is this Bliss,
too univocal
too monochromatic,
I begin to question

If this climatic experience
is like a deep bright pond
stagnantly enclosed,

Rather than a continuously flowing river
of multicultural
multigenerational
poly-regenerational sensory experiences
spouting out from Here as Now
back to light’s first flicker

And forward
to bright’s most blissful moments
reflected
inflecting constant flowing functions
of energies robustly positive,
cooperative
compassionate changing paradise
returning me to this river
never entered
or exited
exactly this same fluid nirvana
twice.

Not only because eco-rivers
continuously flow
but also because ego-identities
continue to curiously grow
sometimes far beyond
any happy shores
our natural and spiritual teachers
have hoped to personally know.

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Healthiest Wealth of Loyalty

We each and all have, I suspect,
a universal rightbrain multicultural awareness
that patriotism
risks degenerating into leftbrain fascism,

Isolating nationalism
self-righteously defending militaristic supremacy
and patriarchal privilege of an apartheid State
moving toward fear-mongered isolationism
supporting competitively debating
predative politicization
of capitalism

Rather than recognizing ourselves
as nations resting and wrestling
and co-investing
on interdependent continents
articulating green/blue loyalty to Earth
and no less nation
or solitary incontinence.

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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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Cerebral CoOperativism

Capitalism
is an economic strategy
and/or theory
that harbors no inefficient room
for healthy democratic love,
to live or die trying
(and not slowly fade away
not trying)
and for concomitant
co-arising
co-relational
positive correlational
ego/eco-relational
co-passionate
compassionate
wealthy multicultural values.

Cooperativism
is an inclusive incorporating culture,
with an economic systemic plan,
a politically healthy theory
rooted in democratic
and robust multicultural
win/win privileged values.

Expectations of cruel
and unusual win/lose punishment
strategies for fake
disempowering
undemocratic justice
is what runaway cascading capitalists
dream of drowning in
each nightmare night
of winners v losers politics.

Anticipation of kind
and natural/spiritual win/win rewards
for restoring Earth’s healthy green justice
is what cooperativists
wake up to
each co-arising economically buoyant
democratic dawn

Of ecosystemic RightHemisphere rest
prevailing over
anthro-centric LeftHemisphere restlessness
about Yang global
v Yin spinal spiraling
health empowering emphasis
of multiculturally cooperative patriotism
over monoculturing capitalist fealty.

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Shocking Senior Chakras

It feels difficult,
and more urgent in advanced single age,
when mind and root dominant chakras,
perhaps highest and deep best,
conspire against heart
and root resonant chakra,

Difficult
to conspire toward short term positive outcomes
such seniority should actively deploy
and then peacefully enjoy

While also entertaining
how to deeply respirate toward long term
resilient incoming
and resonant outgoing relationships
such wise elders
could fluidly compassion

With non-violent communication,
win/win cooperative ecopolitical development
conjoining these places
spaces
traces toward one’s own theological temples

Are another’s inviting ecological
co-relational passion
of mind
and heart
and deep rooting chakras.

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Sensory Revolutions

It is a longterm scientific revolution:

THAT, despite visual perceptions
to the contrary,
Earth revolves around our light
and heat SunSource,

And not the other way,
Sun daily rounding Earth,
abounds all our sensory assumptions
to this EarthBound space in UniversalTime.

THAT our home planet’s shape
is co-revolving round
and not linear
ZeroSum cause-effect flat,
entropic,
stagnating
toward future chaos.

THAT atoms are not
merely swirling building blocks
of stable round
or square
or triangular
or even rectangular
two flat
or three fat dimensions

But also,
when viewed across Time’s flowing perspective,
wave-linear change
expected and invited
transportive impressive/repressive undulations,
balancing rhythms,
songs sung through humming harmonics
of ionic circumferential
cooperatively deferential
ergodic resonance
of energy cooperatively becoming
EarthTribes most inferentially
reverentially
hope this healthy wealth would come
most precisely back together.

As we revolve more clear:

THAT relentlessly straight white male
left-brain dominant verbal orthodoxy
is killing sacred Earth,

THAT deadly Viruses
are not limited
by nationalistic
patriotic
naturalistic v spiritualistic
partisan disloyalty to Life
and Love,

THAT social
and political
and economic capitalistic distancing,
masks hiding sensory lack of information,
gloves muting sensual touch and feeling
warm skin to healthy/pathological moist skin,
can lead to depressing paranoia,
rabid repressive divisiveness,
military oppressive first solutions
devoid of impressing win/win resonant
or resilient resolutions,

SO THAT EarthTribe remains abandoned
by a nondualistic
sexual/spiritual revolution
into universal win/win health commitment
compassionate political empowerment
with cooperatively owned
and managed
and multiculturally mediated economic enlightenment.

THAT we cannot own each Other;
Earth’s living
vibrant
healthy real estate,
as if a StraightWhiteMale Master Teacher
would omnipotently own a tribe
of reluctant Slaves

Without paying the ultimate
degenerative price
of global win/lose rape,
lack of cooperative sensory invitation
gratitude
non-violent and often non-verbal compassion
for healthiest
wealthiest
sensory communion
spiritual union
sexual celebrating climate climaxes
of regenerative
scientifically enlightened
and religiously empowering
green
and black
and non-violent revolutions

THAT co-arise further
right/left-brain
win/win
prominent/dominant
resonant/resilient
health/wealth
transportive transparent comm-unifications

SO THAT yang/yin’s future
scientific/religious revolutions
restoring EarthPeace-Justice,
inner Beauty-Truth
become multiculturally healthier
polypathic
polyphonic
polyvagal
polynomial/not-not polynomial
equitable revolutions
furthering compassionate communication.

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Of Death Then Life

Death and life
are a degenerate/regenerate transformation
of negative/positive energy,
space flowing time’s sustaining identity;

Therapeutic transubstantiation
for those with ecopolitical maturity,
to sensory
sensual,
even sexual, power identify
with all generations before;

And, for those who have
communed
compassioned
communificated
with generous
grateful sufficiency,
transforming humane regenerators
yet to arrive

On spiraling
revolutionary Earth,
born of sacred EarthMother’s
primal metamorphic eucharist,
attachment
creation
recreation,
healthing green
and wealthing blue
and ultra non-violet regenesis.

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The Pleasure Principle

I’m not sure what Freud’s Pleasure Principle is all about,
or was about Health and Safety;

Whether it’s in
or out,

Whether hedonistic
and narcissistic
or the mundane
secular
capitalist
corporate product
of efficient sexual therapy
and heartless entertainments.

Whether the Principle is applicable
only to secular masters
for optimal “sacred rights” experience

Or also accessible to sacred slaves
as our secularized vocation
to provide for our nasty property owners,

Whether it is the primary purpose
of capitalism’s efficient,
if ruthlessly competitive,
corporate monocultural deformation
into post-climax apathy
and cynicism
and cruel and unusual punishments,

Yet, somehow,
as I merge into this stream
of organic fossils
still miraculously refueling,

I am sure this Pleasure Principle,
Beacon of Health and Safety Bliss,
Paradise Pursuit

Could only be entered
by those wise enough to recognize
it is cooperatively
globally
multiculturally owned,
managed interfaith communion,
interdependently experienced
and multiplied

Into raptures
of organic/cosmic
internal/external climates
of and for personal
political
economic
ecological
theological
neurological win/win Climax

Of spaciated bilateral Time
dynamically equals revolutionary bicameral Space
in NonZero-Sum
open-holistic yet still emergent
equipoise waves
of self/other co-conscious
co-passionate
co-empathic
co-intentional
co-operative comm-union comm-unication.

Well,
thanks for sharing all that.

De nada;
my Pleasure.

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Old Run Ins and Outs

Ran into an old friend
just the other day.

Has to have been
50 years
another way.

She made that big mistake
of asking what I’ve been up to.

Well, I’ve been studying
systematic multicultural theology
and, then, regenerative ecology.

Oh,
that sounds nice.
Probably keeps you out of trouble.

Yes, well, I guess it is nice,
but not trouble-free.
Another word
might be “athletic.”

Like soccer?

More like gymnastics
and long distance running.
Anyway,
have you ever heard of Process Theology?
It has a first Christian cousin
in Creation Theology,

Brought to us sytematically
by Matthew Fox,
but also rooted more experientially,
synergetically,
by both Eastern and Western nature/spirit mystics.

Well, sounds like I have some homework
to do–to catch up.

Just Google process theology
or creation theology
or, better, both
and see if you can see
positive correlations
for those with ears
to hear.

Ok, well, thanks.
I’ll get right on that.

Then, look up regenerative ecology,
restorative environmental justice
and try creation ecology–
and maybe positive psychology’s Theory of Original Matriarchal Attachment.
See if they all sound alike
more paradigms for sprouting polypathic
feeding
watering
nonviolent ecological communication
and experiential regenerative theology.

Well, my goodness!
Look at the time…

Exactly,
the space within bilateral time,
Here within timeless Now,
Yang strong atoms
Yin flowing spiraling strings of waves,
LeftBrain dominant monoculturalism
undermining RightBrain prominent multicultural communication
unfolding in-between
chaos and complexity

Alpha and Omega
One and Zero bionic
bilateral double-binding
bicameral
natural ecological egos
and spiritual theological-neurological eco-habitats
sacred within as climates secular without
health reforming multicultural wealthy experience,
collateral compassions
of Zero NonSum-ologies;

Each of these
WinWin strategies
for healthy resilient systems.

Sorry,
had to check my texts.
Kids, you know.
Never stop being a responsible parent
or friend.
Were you still talking?

If a verbal communicator
stands
or sits
or squats in a forest
of non-listeners,
is the cooperative communicator speaking
or just talking within myself?

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Silent UnPrivileged Stories

When I was a Big Brother
for Jason,
an African-American 10 year old male,
we went into his apartment
so he could look around
for a long overdue library book.

As I accompanied him
from room to sparsely furnished room,
looking in nearly vacant closets,
cupboards,
drawers,
the only book we found
was a phone book,
looking silently neglected
much more than actively abused.

My first white male privileged
feelings about his Mom
had to do with blaming her
for probably not even feeling ashamed
for her irresponsible choices
while economically and politically administering
their bookless house
in this pre-WWW information age.

But, then I began asking questions.
What could Jason tell me
about his Mom’s life
when she was his age?

What were stories
familiar to her,
read
or retold
or experienced
and re-experienced,
therapeutic or traumatic?

Through this widening narrative moment
of multigenerational conjecture,
hypothesis,
questioning,
contemplating,

I also learned to question
what traumatic straight white male stories
are experienced by gay
and bisexual
and transsexual 10-year-olds,
regardless of racial identification,

And by 10-year-old girls,
perhaps regardless of racial identification,
or even further amplified
by being doubly,
and silently, outside
straight white patriarchal privilege.

I found myself
suddenly
tearfully
incapable of briefly imagining
much less deeply,
unflinchingly contemplating
the trauma
of growing up poor
and lesbian
and black or brown
or too red
or too yellow
without any books
or stories,
read
or retold
or experienced
about how her 10-year-old life will matter,
could be healthy, someday,
would ever be felt safe,
unless held shamefully silent,

Not appropriate material
for books
or retelling
or experiencing straight
white
male dominant stories,
economic
and political narratives
about retributive trauma
and not multicultural
restorative
democratically inclusive therapy.

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