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Tao of CoPassionate Intelligence

Our UU Society, not “church”, is a member of an interreligious justice organizing project, not going so well. Failure to swell.

Our U.S. Religious Right neighbors are not interested, perhaps actively disinterested, in taking beloved community with Us.

Our U.S. Religious Left and MainLine constituency is not interested, perhaps also actively disinterested, in taking beloved community with Them.

That becomes problematic when missioned to reduce irreligious trauma for all interfaith community organizers, and potential collaborative members.

So, our organizer staff thought about this, using systemic thinking/feeling skills, and decided to offer free NonViolent Communication Certification training on a zoom platform. While teaching communication skills, our healthcare case study and beloved community role play scenarios draw from our own economic and political systemic trauma experiences and our own irreligious disassociation from sacred Earth’s organic wellness polycultural history.

To this end, a staff member asked a gay white guy certified in Multicultural Community Mediation, Integral Permaculture Design, and Music and Movement Compassion Therapy to invite every non-professional, non-clergy constituent of all religious communities to a zoom discussion of challenging anthropocentric theological issues.

How Do NonViolent Communications Help Us, and Them?

Our first compassionate community project was to discuss why “love” and “integrity” are not synonyms, and then the eco-political advantages and disadvantages of reconsidering them as if they were synonyms when applied to what is sacred and what is organic, respectively.

That went fairly well for finding a common intelligence ground root of symbiotic sentience.

Then we moved on to more critical consciousness questions.

Many of us hope for life after death. What do all sentient beings hope for life after birth?

If your life after birth experience has been different than what you hope for life after death, how and why?

Have you ever felt an organic sense of belonging within sacred MotherEarth? A connected time and contented place? If so, when and why?

How do you describe peak sentient awareness? Post-peak consciousness?

Do you believe in your ongoing economic life after ego-death? Why and/or why not?

Do you believe in the transcendent power of gladness, joy, after birth? And immanent powers of badness, sadness, madness?

We found these reconnecting questions both challenging and comforting.

Then we realized, we all,
right and left,
male and female,
parent and child,
monotheist and polytheist and atheist,
monogamous and polyamorous,
yang and yin,
crown and root,
spirit and nature,
mind and body,
1 and 0 cobinary prime relationships,
also find these questions
vulnerably uniting and transparently curious

Sacred belonging and organic longing,
together
going deeper
toward analyzing feelings,
body sentient needs,
and conscious mind wants.

A popular House Meeting question “What keeps you up at night?”

Generated diverse responses:
need to pee,
horny,
need to clean up after taking care of horny,
need to pee again,
arthritis,
recovering from surgery,
traffic noise,
late night news,
late night TV,
late night lights,
late night…

We shared this with our nonviolent community mediator. S/he strongly supports open questions, and yet, for our critical Beloved Community health risk situation, perhaps a more focused question would be more useful. How about?

Which is more likely to keep you up at night?
a. sex life
b spiritual life
c. lack of a sexy spiritual and spiritually sexy life.

Some deeper one-on-one questions:

Why do we usually associate health with love and disease with hate, and not the other way around?

What would consciousness of “God the Monotheistic Father” lose by recognizing sentient awareness of “Gaia Earth’s PolyAmorous Mother”?

Do you believe all relationships work out for the bipartisan Win+Win systemic best for those who love interfaith community organizing?

What would you lose, and what would you love, if our dialogue resulted in a covenant including

We religiously associate health, well-being, and therapeutic values
with healthy democratic minds and organic bodies.
AND
We irreligiously dissociate disease, chronic anxiety, and traumatic disvalues
troubling anthropocentric minds and unhealthy capital-driven bodies.

We find that two opinions are better than one, especially when at least one of the two is less anthropocentrically toxic and more ecosystemically synergetic.

We are healthier Right and Left enlightened together
than falling disempowered Right v Left apart.

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The Religious Right’s Trumpian Tragedy

Straight from the New York Times,
The Macho Appeal of Donald Trump:
We saw him being a boss

A take charge kinda’ narcissistic guy;
just the kind of 0-sum business capitalist
to Make America Even More Greedy Again,

Especially if you have always enjoyed
StraightWhiteMale caste privilege

And never sworn to defend
a democratic health care agenda
for the well-being of all the people
and plants
all over our planet
at all times,
in all federally associated
and co-invested places,
sacred spaces.

Others saw and heard
a self-invested capital-privileged
narcissistic Boss,
of an old
and traumatically supremacist vintage,
who never was a successful business manager
in the private sector,
much less a successful multicultural democratic facilitator
of public health and safety
in our nation’s
and our regenerative Earth’s
best and brightest
compassionately communicated
resilient eco-political interests.

Would you want him to be your boss?
Your dad?
Your teacher?
Your preacher?
Your mental and/or physical health care provider?
Your family’s therapist?
Your banker?

Your fearless leader
so full of fear
of anyone
not a wealthy
and profane
real estate and bling marketer

Just another straight white male
caste privileged narcissist
in anthropocentric decline
shaming you
so he won’t feel the conscious need
to blame himself
for acting like the perfect
anti-Christ

Calling out hate
and revenge
when we need love
and global peace
climate restoration.

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New Wine in Old Wineskins

In The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying,
Sogyal Rinpoche writes, unconvincingly,
to my left-brain dominant ears,

“No suffering,
however dreadful
[and even mortal],
is
or can be
meaningless
if it is dedicated
to the alleviation
of the suffering of others.”

This intelligent act of “dedication”
sounds suspiciously left-brain dominant
to me,
Looks like rationalization,
Feels like fake fixing
Sublimating sensory desires
and denials
that would merely replace
one disconnected set of neurosensory trauma
with Other’s trauma

By empathic mind over matter sustained willpower,
rather than ego’s power-with
peaceful sentience.


.As if left-brain consciousness
could control environmental flow
of sentient feelings,
the fluid elixirs of empathic connecting
yet autonomous presence.

Anyway
[kinda got lost in the analogy
which is more of a right-brain metaphoric
metaphysical
polypathically polyamorous
polyphonic search for resonant connections,
reconnections,
preconnections,
disconnections],
I can imagine:

No suffering,
loss,
humiliation,
excommunication,
impeaching death
of an organic left-brain dominant AnthroIntelligence,
however dread-filled,
is,
or can become,
meaningless

All positives and negative experiences
are connected,
and memory reconnected
and imagined preconnected
to empower/disempower elder brain stem’s
pleasure/pain sentience
and thereby enlightening prefrontal cortex’s
compassion/dispassion consciousness

That alleviating Ego suffering
contributes to alleviating environmental
EcoSystemic Trauma
loss
degradation
disconnection
marginalization
apartheid

Depression
of an anxious organic right-brain
interconnected
Transcendent Open EarthMother View
of spiraling intergenerational
revolving new wine life from old wineskin death

Recycles
Reweavings
ReGenerations
Multi-ReGenerations
Interdependence
of democratic
life systemic
organic Power
sacred Light,
bilaterally resilient
Positive v Negative


and In-Between WuWei
synergetic crown conscious
purposeful wants
and entropic root sentient
meaningful needs
to polyamorously reconnect

Religious Elder Brainstem sentiment
and Scientific PreFrontal Cortex intelligence

Agree that
“No suffering,
however dreadful
[and even mortal],
is
or can be
meaningless”
when consciously
purposefully connected
to ecosystemic trauma’s
individualistic
familial
nationalistic
and/or anthropocentric
win v lose drama

Rather than integrity’s
Win+Win potential.

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Powerful Polite Communication

Imagine with me
that your local
political
economic community,
municipality,
bioregion
is a communication network
already at hand,
like a mutually benign synergy
of informed healthy democracy

Which is what some residents actively hope for
as a peaceful sacred communion
and others engage in active voting campaigns
and political party platform design
for restoring Earth Justice communities
as architects for cooperative economic co-investments.

These economic and political,
empowering and enlightening,
positive communication networks
are ego+eco-logically healthy relationships

Within+without, theologically wealthy,
robust and resonant non-violent communications
of polytheistically positive
inter-religious compassion.

Imagine that ecological resilience
and theological polypathic resonance
within and beyond this communication network
extend back through past regenerations

Of this particular empowering moment
and enlightening humane natural place
on spiritual Earth
not merely opposing deny
and dismiss
dissociative dysfunctions of non-communication,
but actively embracing
externally sacred engagement
compared with internally organic anticipation
as appositional compare/contrast re-connection,
appositive flow-forms
of dipolar co-arising functions
for power and light bright communion

Yang LeftBrain ego-nature
actively inter-communing light
with Yin RightBrain eco-spirit
recessively communing power
with enlightening sacred Yang
with empowering organic Yintegrity
light+power

Bicamerally communicating
bipartisan revolving spirals
bilateral inspirations and expirations,
cobinary community communion
of positively viral co-empathic energy.

Imagine we politically
and economically,
ego+theo-logically
and ecologically agree,
across all current relationships
and past multicultural reconnecting systems,
that our communication network’s most resonant
and resilient co-passionate purposes
are healthy empowerment
of all life systems
and wealthy enlightened meaning
of all human-divinely inspired
polycultural
polypathic
polyphonic
polyvagal
neurological
panentheistic win/win communications.

How would you
multiculturally explore
design
plan
and democratically implement
and evaluate
and re-evaluate
and redesign
and replan
and restore justice and organic peace
within and beyond
this sacred-mind+organic-body
bicameral
multilateral
inclusive group win+win game
for empowering
enlightened
cooperative communicating
life energy mind+body
anthro+earth co-passion systems?

Could we learn to see
these diverse bilateral cultures
of all enlightened good faith climates
as pleasingly interdependent,
influenced by passionate birth
in diverse historically empowered eras
and culturally indigenous
climate intersectional experiences?

Rather than judging
what enlightens good faith rationalism
and what darkens bad faith superstition,
could we find ecological light
and economic power analyses
that actively research win+win common values
and lose v lose dissociative disvalues
and in-between win v lose caste preserving misvalues
for all of Eartheistic us?

As one holistic
robust
resonant
resilient communication
win/win polyvagal
neuro-systemic network.

Together urgently committed
to empower global health
to enlighten local wealth,
powerfully, and yet politely, compassionate.

Imagine with me
that our local
political
WholeEarth economic community,
municipality,
bioregion
is a resilient win/win communication network
already at hand,
like a benign kingdom
of AnthroGod the monotheistic Father
and an EarthGoddess polytheistic Spirit
of civil union
actively curious
health-enlightened/wealth-empowering
restorative justice

Co-investing in Gaia’s compassion networks
locally
and informally
cooperatively owned
and democratically managed
health+wealth care giving co-messiahs

Bodhisattva re-educators
re-formers
in divinely humane
green communion love life

Where interdependent health is resilient wealth
bicamerally co-passionate
ego+ecosystemic intelligence.

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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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Religious Ties That Naturally Bind

Religion
could be more organically grounded
in healthy ecological relationships
were theologians and governors
to remind each Other
is also, at least neurologically,
not Other

This re-connecting work
of religious economic and political enculturation
is less about unchangeable past history of TruthPassion
and more about continuous,
resonantly reculturing
EarthPleasure.

Less about petrified fear
anger
unhealthy distrusting demonizing Other
and more about optimized compassion,
win+win safe
timeless double-binds of graced eternity.

Double-binds are sometimes recognized
in moral theology–
damned if you do
and damned if you don’t;
Lose+Lose

Seldom blessed if you do
so graced if you don’t;
Win v Lose.

Two negatives equal a positive
but two polarized positives
equal a mess of competing
0-sum
either totally win
or totally lose
confusion.

R.D. Laing connected verbal communication
between individual victims
and socially empowered authorities
like parents
and teachers

And perhaps evangelical theologians
demanding we love God
so deny body pleasures
Yet if we misunderstand body pleasures
as disconnected from God’s omnipotent grace,
then we have not yet
personally enough
accepted God’s polyamorous love.

Double-binds are double-negative
lose+lose oppositions

Co-binary x’s and y’s,
1’s and 0’s,
bilateral prime relationships
like Yang and Yin
connect win+win appositions
potential reconnecting associations
of both yes and no contrast

Co-defining
mind+body
ego+eco-refining
Anthro+Earth’s regenesis
re-ligiously reconnecting
fractal DNA+RNA
double-bilateral octaves

Like 4-dimensional space+time
of co-arising
co-acclimating bi/di-polar dynamics
either/or AND both/and
left hemisphere resonant
with right hemisphere interdependent ‘
thought+felt
mind+body communication
non-violent,
so, compassionate–

These are not often enough
positively re-ligioned
re-connected
rewoven into the fabric
of double-binding win+win choices,
healthy, mutually trusting,
democratic discernment,
nondualistic dialogue
theologically and ecologically
teleological,
psychological and neurological,
organically and sacredly democratic,
sexual and sentient,
historical and mystical,
memory and mysterious
reconnecting win+win hope

For dipolar co-gravitating
spiritual love and natural life
ecosystemic passion+pleasure experience,
systemic divine climax,
sacred wonder
and secular
spiraling
recycling
regenerating awe

Root
to branch
to flower
to seed
new+old re-ligioning
reconnecting cognitive+intuitive
anthropocentric
bicamerally intelligent systems.

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Integrity’s Completion

What we believe
is our neurological humane nature,
growing up
and cooperatively out
from LoserMe+LoserWe caste depressions
about our survivalist selves
failing past multiculturally dynamic environments,
defending WinMe v LoseWe capitalistic patriarchalism,
while spiritually transitioning toward WinMe+WinWe
nurturing co-passionate communication

Feels natural,
teleologically indigenous,
red-blooded spiritual
flowing up
and cooperatively out
ecological green/blue energy
growing away from retributive injustice,
harmful guilt and shame

And growing toward WinEgo+WinEco absorbing compassion,
ego+eco-political restorative peace
sacred EarthSentient
matriarchal nurturing
healthy nature of wealthy spirituality

What I believe
is our positive v negative multi-regenerational
neuropsychological
internal nature

Has grown from
our ecological prime EarthMother Attachment,
flowing out divine individuating energy
growing from discontinuous
detached
ultimately disempowering WinMe v LoseWe
post-partum rabidity
toward Win+Win democratically healthy
green indigenous nondualistic relationships
for humane internal+external
natural consciousness

Of wealthy holistic healing
multicultural health
multigenerational
multi-pathic
polyphonic
polyamorous caste transformation
meta-euphoric experience

Of universal love
without anthropocentric conditions.

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Gospel of Audacious Democracy

Are you,
or have you ever been,
a Trumpist?

Asks the Restorative Justice Committee
inviting an open discussion
with Christian evangelicals
about traditional green
global
gospel
Body of Christ loyalties

And how this anticipation
of restoring justice
through green/blue healthy democracy climates
and unred-undominating polyamorous peace
has been influenced,
or not,
by EarthPatriotic repentance.

In hindsight,
said a representative
of the StraightWhiteMale Clergy Association,
I first began reflecting on

Who is my social capital competitiveness
willing to sacrifice,
to bully,
shun,
ignore,
snub,
disempower,
leave behind
because of their hopelessly unclean sin?

So I could more clearly emerge
among my monotheistic caste peers
as an orthodox MAGA ‘winner’

A judging God of Retributive Justice emulator,
blamer and shamer,
not listening mis-communicator,
winner v loser evolutionist
of an anthropocentric
slowly degenerating
undivine
not redemptive EarthView.

Willing to sacrifice
and capitalistically exploit Earth Her sacred Self,
in my silent shaded closet
focusing on a rapturous Heavenly climax
after the straight white Father’s great self-righteous
rapacious red rage.

Which is something rather punishingly different
and anxiety reproducing
as compared to anticipating
a green EarthBound Rapture
catalyzed by healthy democratic empowering
and cooperatively enlightening restoration
of egoMind+ecoBody
therapeutic Earth Justice.

What, of your own potential integrity,
internal multicultural interests
and faith-filled curiosities,
is your current internal monocultural win v lose efficiency
for hoarding currencies of social success markers,
such as “annual six figure income”?

I’m not sure I understand your question.
Is our household income over $100,000?
Am I a faithful federal military-industrialized taxpayer?
Yes, of course.

What and whom are you willing to leave behind
wound
kill
starve
boycott
excommunicate
impeach
lock up?

How do your faith communities shut out awareness
of other green restorative currencies for success,
such as win+win integrity,
multicultural, multigenerational neighborhood social synergy,
polyamorous commitments to inclusive consciousness,
to transparent authenticity,
to vulnerable sentience
willing to risk personal honesty
about closeted upper caste defensive deviancy,
feelings of undemocratic evangelical supremacy?

I’m hoping those are rhetorical questions?

Oh ye of little love without conditions,
faith inadequate to anticipate opportunity
to more deeply learn
who we are becoming together
as an inter-religious polycultural health wealthy tribe,
a global neighborhood communion of bodhisattvas,
a diverse mutually absorbing ultra-nonviolet community
free of dreaming up more red fear
and blue/green free for transparent cooperative curiosity
and winSpirit+winNature co-empowerment
and holistic EarthPeace co-enlightenment.

Now who’s bullying
and overpowering
and not effectively communicating
so much as competitively evangelizing?

Who and what do your religious dogmas
exclude from grace
that your spiritual and natural cultural interests,
your attractions and anxieties
would include as stretch goals
for better healthy wealth of communication
which includes respectful listening more
and preaching disregard less?

If you wouldn’t mind,
could we turn your question around?
How does eco-political you,
and how have we forever audaciously become,
gospel pro-life
polyamorous
ecotherapeutic
compassionate communicators?

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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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Defining Delineations

To define is to articulate what lies within
a concept,
a population,
a word,
a paradigm.

To delineate is to articulate what lies beyond
boundaries of a concept,
a population,
a word,
a gestalt.

To extend learning,
and loving,
is to stretch this evolving articulation of boundaries
between what lies within
and without
a concept,
a population,
a tradition,
a still evolving word,
a revolutioning,
multiculturing,
transforming paradigm.

When we become lost in reductive delineations
we can become distracted from expanding
deepening
thickening
capitalizing
heightening polypathic definitions.

For example,
Republicans, and, to a somewhat lesser extent,
Democrats, in the USA,
have begun a new tradition,
and not a healthy one,
of becoming more articulate definers
of what it means to be One
by loudly proclaiming we are not of the Other.
Something similar could be said, unfortunately,
about feminists and patriarchal caste preservationists
as anti-feminists;
which does not really evoke strong hetero family values
in any traditional healthy
wealthy
or wise sense I can think of.

I guess we could call rape a form of intercourse,
but not one that anyone would hope for
in any semblance of sanity,
much less integrity.

Anyway,
when Trumpians try to define the benefits
of their proposed health care legislation,
the first, and often last, phrase I hear is:
It is not ObamaCare.

Perhaps the only difference
will be measured by comparative NonCare,
leaving further delineating boundaries
between Trumpian and Obamian Care
to evolve further at a later excluded time
for continuing to expand healthcare.

But, in today’s polarizing environment,
health affordability and sustenance
and pathology prevention issues
are increasingly above our active political leadership’s pay scale,
beyond our collective rhetorical mission statements,
now becoming who we are constitutionally not,
because too internally divided by kleptocratic v democratic complexities
of who we might have become
together,
in and among a healthier
wealthier
regenerative space/time
body/mind extending religion
appositional word-pair
liberating population
transforming paradigm.

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