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Imagine Perfect Thanksgiving

Imagine you live in a daily environment
where and when everything you like
is already yours if you simply ask with gratitude,
and is more frustratingly ungraspable
if you cannot acquire sufficient gratitude to ask.

And, it doesn’t even matter whom you ask.
So you need not be troubled by complexities,
historically epic narratives,
about who owns what,
and who does not,
because everyone you meet knows it is their vocation,
it is among their reasons for being,
to give you whatever you want
whenever you want it with sufficient gratitude.

How might you respond to such power and riches,
to both give and to receive
in an exchange economy
that only values gratitude?

How might we gratuitously seed our fertile black soils
and sparkling clear clean rivers,
and smile back at our perfectly protective blue sky?

I don’t imagine this gratitude power
is magical.
I would not want power to be someone else.
I could not gratefully behold beautiful body
great mind perfection
and also gratefully want to possess that mindbody.

You do have the power to ask them, with gratitude,
to help you see and hear and smell and taste their beauty,
but not to own other organic bodies
without sufficient independent power
to appreciate gratitude of desire

Becoming safely healthy polyvagal powers with others
grateful for our mutually grateful compassion,
vulnerability,
cooperatively trusting co-investments,
because your powers of acquisition
are constrained only by this fair exchange economy
of mutual free-will gratitude.

Imagine, as you mature in wanting control,
the organic chemistry of mutually engaged gratitude
when you were an unwounded infant,
without fear of competitively unresponsive
ingratitude

A polycultural pronoia economy
of positive attitudes
without any learned possibility
of experiencing negative ingratitude.

Imagine how you might have heard:
You can be anyone you desire to become
with sufficient gratitude.
You have cooperative powers
to acquire whatever you can gratefully imagine,
as innocent of longing for the unattainable
as an unborn infant

Imagine, from birth,
this divinely human experience
of continuously
relentlessly
without fear-inducing exception
without blame or shame
without negative judgment
becoming whom
and having whatever we wish for
within an ecology of mutually extending gratitude
perfectly predictable trust
having only felt warmly appreciated mutual regard

Without any magical wonder
or mysterious awe
that you are not discontinuously struggling
sometimes longing
needing to break through dispassionate unpleasant feelings
to become whom and have what other organic beings
do not gratefully wish for you.

Imagine that self-gratitude
automatically generates
re-evaluated other-gratitude,
and vice-versa
self-as-also-other regenerating gratitude.

Imagine you are a healthy organic body
with a wealthy sacred mind
living love where and when
all you can gratefully take in
is ours to give each grateful trusting other.

What happens in your imaginative chemistries
when Win v Lose games of Keep Away
revert into Win-Win nondualistic games of Give Away,
but only when productive for
and consumptive of
co-empathic gratitude?

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The Greatest Nation

Is there a doctor in the house?
A cryptic message from disunited nations,
looking for a credentialed healer
to surgically remove all our tumorous economic issues
and cancerous political tissues.

Those remaining after overdosing on pharmaceuticals
as media marketed
through normal incorporated competitions
for anthropocentric profit

Channels and parties and outlets
fed by gas-fired
over-heated
ballistic powers.

Unfortunately, our national party facilitator
and his great governance guild,
not rapid progressive therapists
but rabid regressive pathologists

Currently mad with apartheid medicines
further degenerating climate illnesses,
building sandbag towers
across drowning coastal cities
Earth’s poisoned oceans are reclaiming as their own,
in Gaia’s perennial rage against narcissistic nations
of irreligious usurpation;
predators, with overpowering mono-cultic intent

A TrumPublican tidal tug of war
between reductive FatherLand
against all-consuming MotherSeas.

But surgical strikes are not best practices
for responding effectively
to already raging and suffered madness,
badness
sadness,
never gladness

Therapeutic nurses
nurture more naturally spirited passions
responsively regenerating public health,
supporting cooperative sacred laws and organic orders

Composting richer climates
for poorer dysfunctional families,
polyculturing appropriate warmth
for optimizing wealthy public-sector inclusive,
not exclusive,
co-governing
multicultural Earth-garden uncovering
helpful-healthy community beloving
our uniting nations’ ecosystemically extending
neurosystemic expansive families

For proactive healthy societies
EarthTribe’s therapeutic guild recommends
co-empathic cooperative trust,
nurturing good political sciences
and natural arts
of healing medicines.

While weaponized surgeons
and authoritarian demented doctors
react against paranoid predative political nightmares,
health-nurturing nurses bring deeply resonant experience
reforming dark night scars
transforming light bright scores
of multicultural Paradise Dreams
singing and dancing
remembered EarthTribe childhoods.

Why seek yet another burnt-out
Win v Lose surgical pathologist
when we have so many healthy
Win Win bicameral
eco-therapeutic nurturers?

Trees
creating good from bad atmospheres

Pollinators
replenishing depleted economic soils

Polyculturing composters
nursing barren, climatically unhealthy,
erratically lost
partisan souls.

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Planning Graceful Oldishness

In my early 70s (not THE early 70s) I discovered, without having had the benefit of being properly schooled for old age planning, that “long-term lifetime goals” have become “longish term waistline objectives” over maybe the next decade or so.

The retiring, too quickly transpiring, nature of these hoped for outcomes has also triaged down to a more responsible mature adult scale of peace-making literacy:
good health plans for resilient physical dexterity,
(used to be sexual athleticism)
good humored anticipation of resonant mental acuity,
(used to be world-famous genius)
and good faith passion for integrity
(used to be making a living by doing something not hopelessly toxic to everyone, everything, everywhere, all the time).

Big surprise in the gerontology department, lesser quantity of life, but healthier qualities of love.

A Taoist’s pronoia version of fair trade.
(used to mean not-fair-trade paranoia about getting ripped off by suspiciously threatening Others, God, Aliens, Big Brother, Artificial Intelligence, Big Pharma, Big Government, Big Bullies, too much over-capitalized, and weaponized, Bigness, etc.)

Now I practice compassion-engaging faith and humor and health by responding to systemic TrumPublican trauma with music and movement therapy, and writing sexual politics poetry, for which there is not a large commercial market, and practicing good liturgical song and dance.

Now in my 70s, I’ve also noticed that good sacred music, like good humor, and good health, is not just about commitment to the stretching movement, but also to the silent rest.

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Gaia’s ReCentering HypoThesis

Positive psychology
of enlightened empowerment,
contrasted with economically unenlightened
and politically disempowering trauma

Through millennia of emergent anthro-hubris
monoculturalism
monotheism
and anthropocentric
value-monopolistic
capitalism

Brings us into each mindful conscious moment
of co-empathic win/win
AnthroMind/EarthBody health-wealthy trust

Faith in co-passionate LeftBrain/RightEmBodied bicameral
cognitive-verbal/intuitive-nonverbal powers
potentiating sacred co-passion
conjoining organic cooperative pleasure

In discovering co-relational health powers
and ecologically wealthy light
within both public and personal transformative domains

Neurological anthro-scapes
and ecological landscapes
positive win/win networking
toward culture/climate health,
interior as exterior

Powers to love,
to compassionately communicate
verbally and nonverbally
what we all wish to become

To give forward co-redemptive democratic health
and ecologically valued inter-religious wealth

Not ever-more privately condemning,
and publicly criminalizing,
marginalizing,
capitalizing against
eviscerating powers

To ever-more polyculturally engage
polytheistic
EarthJustice
sacred-mind/organic-body vocational destiny
of sufficiency
simplicity
compassionately pleasing peace.

Positive local-ego and global-eco balanced psychology
through more cooperative bicameral discourse
and less competitive anthropocentric debate

Co-passionate discernment
for happy, healthy, and kind multicultural ecotherapy

Not degenerating ever-more losses
into frenzied
cognitive v intuitive
thought v feeling
mind v matter
sacred v organic
brain v body
human v divine

Dissonance
dissociation
dualism
divorce
demented LeftBrain domination writ large

Global economic and political competition values
deemed more evolutionarily efficacious
than cooperative bicameral
dipolar co-arising
co-passionately co-empathic
peaceful pleasures
of AnthroMindFullness inside
EarthEmbodied integrity
inter-religiously manifest
outside

Together
embracing positive eco-psychology
of enlightened empowerment,
contrasted with economically unenlightened
and politically disempowering
irreligious RightWing trauma.

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Earth Therapy

Says Csikszentmihalyi,
“Social scientists
(Abraham Maslow, Lawrence Kohlberg, Jane Loevinger, [Ken Wilber, Edward Podvoll, Julian Jaynes, Jack Kornfield, Richard Dawkins, Clare Graves, Carl Jung] and James Fowler)
describe a dialectical [fractal] motion
between [Yang v Yin bipolar] differentiation
and [Yang+Yin dipolar] integration,
between turning attention inward [RightHemisphere preverbal intuition]
and then outward [LeftHemisphere verbal cognition],
between valuing the self [CoPassionate AnthroMind]
and then the larger [CoPleasuring EarthBody] community.”

Adds Don Beck and Christopher Cowan,
exploring their positive WinWin Thought Experiments,
about when and where and why and why not
knot now
equals both past neurosystemic wealthy
and best-trending future ecosystemic healthy relationships

“One [fractal] family is designated with warm colors [interior culture]
(BEIGE,
RED,
ORANGE,
YELLOW)
which represent Express-self,
‘I'[EgoMind-cognitive v EcoBody-intuitive]-oriented MEMEs.
The other [cobinary fractal] group is assigned cool colors
(PURPLE,
BLUE,
GREEN,
TURQUOISE)
and are the Sacrifice-self,
‘we'[EcoBody intuitive + EgoMind-cognitive]-oriented set.”

“If too much [AnthroCognitiveMind] ‘me’-ism is the problem,
then a form of ‘we'[EarthIntuitiveBody]-ness
will then be required
to restore [conserve neuro-sexsensory/ecosystemic] balance.
If the ‘we’ is excessive,
then liberation
of some ‘me’ [AnthroCognitiveMind, left hemisphere verbal differentiation dominance]
becomes attractive
if [cognitiveMind-intuitiveBody] harmony [healthy resonance]
is desired.”

My LeftHemisphere “anthro-me” neurological cognition
longs for inter-religious resonance
with RightHemisphere’s win/win “EarthBody-We” ecological intuition

Beck and Cowan echo indigenous wisdom traditions,
perhaps most cobinary articulated
within Taoist YangSage/YinMuse paradoxical co-governance
of AnthroMind-monotheistic SunGod enlightenment
and EarthBody-polytheistic EarthGaia empowerment

“The shift toward Communal/Collective coming to peace within
requires a [win/win pronoia] radar-like [neurosystemic] sense
so external [ecological positive co-relationship] messages can be picked up quickly
and accurately,
[+1 AnthroMindFull/EarthBody -(-0) copassion/not not pleasure] magnified,
and (win/win) feedback incorporated
to insure [enlightened liberating MeMind
empowering conserving WeBody co-governing] compliance.”

“The [LeftBrain verbally dominant] shift toward Individual
move against and take control
requires an internalized [bicameral cobinary bipolar/dipolar
either/or + both/and
oppositional = appositional
dialectically fractal] gyroscope-like intelligence
the self-directed [cobinary co-passionate neurological resonance] compass needed
to explore new [Me/We ego/eco-logicaly thriving] territories,
sail into uncharted [potential win/win synergetic] waters,
and break with the [un]safety of [survivalist win v lose
anthropocentric-monoculturing
either Me or We dualistic irreligious] traditions.”

Rob Brezsny’s Pronoia calls such synergetic dialectical emergence
“The Outlaw Catalog of Cagey Optimism”
yet others above may recognize dynamic nature-body/spirit-mind echoes
within Pronoia MindPsychology is also at least not Paranoia BodyPathology

A co-empathic sense of metaphysical sacred trust
as also physical organic EarthBody truth
and wealthy Anthro-economic healthy Earth-political
balancing indigenously wise beauty.

Pronoia’s Catalog includes
“AGGRESSIVE SENSITIVITY [courageous curiosity?]
Animated
by a strong determination
to be[come even more resonant Me-mind] receptive
and [resilient We-body co]-empathic.”

“ALIGNMENT WITH THE INFINITY [AnthroMind-now/EarthBody-here non-dualistic
non-violent non-verbal integrity?]
OF THE MOMENT.”

“BASKING IN ELDER [RIGHT-BRAIN] WISDOM.
A state of expansive [organic EarthRoot] ripeness
achieved through listening
to the [sacred AnthroCrown] stories
of [indigenous SageCrown/MuseRoot] elders.”

“BLASPHEMOUS REVERENCE.
Acting on the knowledge
that the most efficacious [resilient] form of devotion
to the Divine Wow
[peak human-MeMind/divine-WeBody climaxing coital experience]
is [neuro-sexsensually] tinctured with playful
or mischievous behavior
[co-passionate/pleasure resonance]
that prevents the [winMe v loseWe 0-sum competitive] buildup
of [LeftBrain/RightWing anthropocentric Me-theistic ideological]
fanaticism.”

“COMIC [COSMIC?] INTROSPECTION.
Being fully aware of your own [anthropocentric] foibles
while still loving your[EarthBody]self tenderly
and maintaining confidence in your ability
to give your specific [AnthroCulture wealth-crowning] genius
to the [EarthClimate health-rooting] world.”

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Federal SmackDown

If it please the Court,
I have a layman’s question
about this federal government shutdown.

I’m guessing you all have noticed
in the Constitution’s Preamble
that it’s purpose includes
to create a more perfect union.

I’m wondering if you are concerned,
as I am,
that when the President swore to defend that Constitution
maybe he hadn’t read
and actually comprehended his administrative responsibilities
toward achieving this “more perfect union”

Rather than throwing all his administrative resources
behind creating a more perfectly partisan disunion,
which I believe the background discussion notes
from the forefathers’ constitutional convention mentions
as something they all hoped
authentic democratic intention
would preclude.

With this historical-contextual conservative background
in mind,
I would like to hear your legal opinion
about the President’s constitutional right (or wrong)
to disproportionately shutdown federal government staffing
and financial resources
in those States where the majority did not vote for him.

I guess my follow-up question,

If this is the President’s constitutional right,
to create a more perfect partisan disunion,
then does it follow
that the corporations and private citizens
in Blue States
should be paying a reduced federal tax rate?
to avoid historical problems
of no taxation without representation.

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Tao of Healing Peace

Which comes first?
asked Justice Sage
of Peaceful Muse

Divinely inspired Peace
or Humanely expired Passion?

For amusing organic bodies
inspiring sage minds
perspiring pronoia purposes

While DivineSage minds
worship HumaneMuse bodies
anticipating deep sacred meanings

Unveil organic unitarian Muse purposes
flowing toward
prevailing universal sacred Sage meaning
peace forms

Pronoia Gaia’s hypothetical paradox
Gnostic God’s metaphysical orthodox

How could SageMind remember anticipating
organically resilient purpose
without MuseBody religiously conjoining
sacredly resonant meaning?

Why would democratically organic bodies
reproduce belonging
autocratically sacrilegious minds
seduce longing

For sacred AnthroSage inspiring Peace
love songs refueling
Organic EarthMuse perspiring Passion
justice dances restoring

Which sacred longing first
comes organic belonging last?
asked peace perspiring MuseBody
inspiring SageMind passions.

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Sacred Conservation Conversation

Gregory Bateson:
Pathology is a relatively easy thing to discuss,
health is very difficult.

Laotse:
Pathology provokes a dysfunctional concern for attention,
organic health invokes a functional nonconcern
unless you have switched our cooperative evolution thrival
for your personal competitive revolution for survival.

Bateson:
…the sacred is difficult to talk about,
because the sacred is peculiarly related to the healthy.

Laotse:
Sacrilege of anthropocentric profanity is difficult to confront
so long as sacred Gaian ecological synergy
continues to unfold abundantly healthy
democratically wealthy
ergodic energy systems.

Bateson, on the history of Western religious culture:
The proposition for which they were burning each other was,
on one hand, ‘the bread is the body,’
and on the other, ‘the bread stands for the body.’
…this whole argument is one of fundamental importance
when related to the whole of the nature of the sacred
and to human nature….
the richest use of the word ‘sacred’
is that use which will say that what matters
is the combination of the two,
getting the two together
[panentheism].

Laotse:
When is feisty body-bread v divine-wine
not yet feeling a pathological stomachache?
When is yeasty bread and wine
not predicting a resonantly healthy bodymind?

Bateson:
Because it doesn’t make any prose sense,
the material of dream and poetry has to be more
or less
secret from the prose part of the mind.
It’s this secrecy,
this obscuration,
that the Protestant thinks is wrong,
and a psychoanalyst,
I suppose,
wouldn’t approve of either.
But that secrecy, you see,
is a protecting of parts of the whole process or mechanism,
to see that the parts don’t neutralize each other.

Laotse with Jaynes:
Because it doesn’t make any LeftBrain
Either Yang Or Yin dualistically oppositional
non-paradoxical orthodoxically logical sense
AND
RightBrain Both Yang And Yin nondualistically appositional
non-prosaic sacred mystery
of organically interdependent healthy history
Sexsensory re-membered
re-ligioned
re-woven
re-vived in love-life musing dreams
and polyphonic poetry
and sacred ecological positive co-relationships

Bateson:
What are you going to do about the use of the sacred?
There is a very strong tendency in occidental cultures,
and increasingly in oriental cultures,
to misuse the sacred.
You see,
you’ve got something nice [healthy],
central to your civilization,
which bonds together all sorts of values connected with love,
hate,
pain,
joy, and the rest,
a fantastic bridging synthesis,
a way to make life make a certain sort of [re-ligious] sense.
And the next thing is that people use that sacred bridge
in order to sell things….
We can be influenced, it seems,
by any confidence trickster,
who by his appeals
makes cheap that which should not be made cheap.

Laotse:
How are you going to invest in/divest of these organically sacred
ecosystemically panentheistic relationships?
We have pronoia appositions polyculturing beauty
and paranoid oppositions monoculturing ugly,
kind and not kind,
in anthropocentric colonization
as in EarthCentric creolization,
bonding together all economic capitalist wealth
monotheistically autocratic disvalues
within all ecologically healthy
polytheistically democratic
positive co-relational values
our empathic trusts with our ecopolitical distrusts and immunities.

Those who would reduce organically panentheistic Earth
to what can be anthropocentrically bought and sold,
cheapen that robust polyculturing climax
which could OtherWise become even more densely
wildly
indigenously resonant,
resiliently rich.

Bateson:
…while it may be fairly easy to recognize moments
at which everything goes wrong,
it is a great deal more difficult
to recognize the magic of the moments that come right;
and to contrive those moments
is always more or less impossible….
to make human relations prosper is exceedingly difficult.

Laotse:
Recognizing moments at which everything goes wrong
as tipping points,
time to win and win appositionally depolarize
win v lose 0-sum risks of mono-protagonist
ir-religiously paranoid anger management
into opportunities of and for more panentheistic
re-ligious pronoia love re-development,
to consistently
predictably
normatively
climatically invite faithfulness toward co-empathic
de-polarizing
democratizing
creolizing panentheistic trust.

Bateson:
We are [monotheistically] arrogant about what we might know tomorrow,
but humble because we know [feel] so little today.

Laotse:
We are Yang-overflowing about what we may know of Yintegrity’s potential tomorrow,
co-arising Yang v Yin
ego’s neurosystemic organic humility
within Yang+Yin-ecosystemic sacred
SunFather enlightening
EarthMother empowering
win/win panentheistic tranquility.

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Innocence

Children fill in leaking emotional cracks
in home and family’s nurturing support
with deaf and blind lies
of eternal ever after
nursing happiness

Democratic healthiness
grasped quickly
before autocratic adolescence
turns down our brighter light.

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Universal Rhymes in Unitarian Times

If Eastern eco-redemption
integrates unitarian-longing bodhisattvas
perhaps
Western peace-salvation
engages universal-belonging co-messiahs.

When highly functioning just-us
CONSCIENtious organic bodies
are also
1 eco-zone of co-redemptive dancing

Then deeply flowing peace-full
RELIGious sacred minds
are also
0-ego-zone of salvific
EarthPatriotic/GaiaMatriotic
resonantly singing
resilient dancers.

Just because relationships resonantly rhyme
doesn’t mean they are always
and everywhere True
AND
Because resilient correlations rhyme
throughout reasoned time
and seasoned space
also does not kindly mean we are never
and nowhere
not amusingly
not paradoxically
falsely True
co-messianic universal singers
bodhisattva unitarian dancing
EarthPatriotic
and not not GaiaMatriotic

Just as PolyNomial OR Not PolyNomial
open questions
may invite
Universal PolyNomial AND Not Not PolyAmorous Unitarian
co-redemptive responses.

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