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Once Upon A Christian Time

Once upon a Roman Empire building time
a brilliantly pleasing boy was born
of humble Jewish means,
named Jesus.

Born into autocratic occupation,
to avoid military police threats
of mass Jewish male child murder,
Jesus and his mom and dad
became EastBound immigrants,
away from Western kleptocratic ruin.

Jesus was thereby exposed
to more Eastern polytheistic
and pantheistic polycultures
before returning home
to listen and learn literacy
from rabbinical monotheists.

In this time of foreign occupation,
Roman military personnel policed and preyed upon
the prosperous
and innocent
and vulnerable

Creating a divide among Rabbi leaders,
some siding with the Zealot Party
who wanted to overthrow fascist red Roman Rule
and thereby establish an Israel nation-state
reforming Judaism’s land-based theocracy
into more of a Jewish nation-state
plutocracy.

Some rabbis found this too politically nationalistic
and not enough Jewish extended family spiritual,
rooted in Promised Land natural indigenous wisdom
enlightened by One SunGod Creator
shining more Torah manifestly
on His Chosen People

To grow pacifically fruitful,
and not always militantly at war
and threatening war
against Creator’s extended family

Chosen to passionate pleasure prosper
in a divinely manifest more perfect union,
thereby empowering YHWH’s open hospitality Way
of defending peace-fulfilling orthodox Truth
sacred green pasturing
a promised sacred Garden Paradise
of organically healthy EarthLife.

Jesus grew into a young messiah
Prince of SunFather’s enlightening Peace,
although surrounded by his Judaism Tribe
long hoping for a nation-building Zionist,
and not so much an advocate
of non-violent communicating
inter-religiously transformative serenity,
not fundamentally about reforming trauma,
the politically autocratic
and economically demonic face
of weaponized atrocities.

Despite lack of rabbinical support,
Jesus had a God is love for peace
healthy gospel message
inspiring His HolyBody-MindSpirit.

When asked if He supported paying tribute
to war- and fear-mongering Ceasar,
He said to give to Ceasar
what is capitalist coin-producing
military empire-building Ceasar’s,
leaving unsaid the remainder

His religiously mature PeaceTribe
would continue their domestic barter economy
and their Torah-teaching schools
and their walk a second mile
and turn the other cheek
gratitude Beatitudes,
to be known by their love for each other
and not by their fear of
or anger against
unredeemed Other.

At every turn
Jesus lived and taught Love’s way of peace,
consistently giving religious preference
to restorative peace-making
rather than zealous Zionist
Chosen Nation retributive justice
against those who spoke other languages,
against those immigrating from Othered cultures
against those who had sinned
and fallen monopolistically short
of One SunFather’s radically polyamorous
democratic glory

Light empowering even sparrows
and glorious lilies
and prodigiously faith-filled mustard seeds.

Jesus’s consistent retort
to toxic religiosity:
who among us hasn’t failed
Love’s relentlessly religious integrity
of transformational peace?

While Jesus was sad,
tearful about disappointing evangelical
IsraelFirst sceptics,
he promised that his pleasing compassion presence
would become more democratically accessible
upon his panentheistic Holy Spirit/Nature’s return,
sacredly organic
mindfully embodied
blood and bread indigenously wise
inter-religious communion.

And to this day
authentic Christians are discerned
not by their fundamental
scripture-based
“original-intention” orthodoxy
or their evangelical nationalistic patriotism
but by their liberally compassionate
Holy MindSpirit-BodyNature fruits

Including,
yet not limited by anything
anyone
any relationships
other than their demonic irreligious
fear- and anger-
and hate- and war-mongering opposites:

Peace: spiritual-mind/natural-body calm;
not unnatural/unspiritual chaos

Joy: deeply passionate contentment
not widely dispassionate discontent

Faith: spiritual-mind/natural-body confident curiosity;
not dispirited/denatured insecure Holier Than Thou religiosity

Kindness: compassionate care giving;
not dispassionate uncaring unforgiving

Charity: passionately pleasing Christian [peace-making] warm regard;
not dispassionately displeasing evangelical [war-making] disregard

Patience: thoughtfully considering trauma’s historically dissociative feelings;
not thoughtlessly dismissing therapeutic re-associative [re-ligious] faith

Gentleness: graciously considerate religious practices
not disgracefully inconsiderate irreligious malpractices

Modesty: CreationCentered respectful humility;
not anthropocentric disrespectful greed

Goodness: regeneratively moral integrity;
not degeneratively immoral hypocrisy

Longanimity (long-suffering): resilient revitalizing loyalty;
not fragile corrupt disloyalty

Self-control: engaging mind/body healthy opportunities;
not performing spirit-mind v nature-body unhealthy risks

Chastity: purity in associative actions;
not impurity in dissociative reactions.

And so it is
in this Make Christianity Healthy Again story
we might re-ligiously conclude

Zionism is to Judaism
in brilliant Prince of PeaceFull day
as Evangelism is to Christianity
in irreligiously nationalistic
dispassionate display

Dismay threatening to disintegrate
inter-religious peace-making
through merely MAGA evangelistic play.

What does transcultural Truth
transformative Way
Holy SpiritMind-NatureBody of Jesus
organic love-making (not hate-baking) do
and sacred peace-making say?

When re-membering
this greatest non-militaristic story ever told,
that once upon a Roman Empire building time
a brilliant Prince of Peace was born
of humble Jewish means,
named Jesus.

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Seeking Wealthier Questions

Said the evangelical
straight white male
God-privileged Pastor
to the UU lesbian black ecofeminist
Reverend:

You are not feeding your flock,
You are not spiritually nurturing
with scripture teaching,
You are not preaching
religious family value answers

Your faithful community
remains hungry for divinely inspired fulfillment,
redemption,
salvation from Heaven v Hell ambivalence
about moral and civil
Health v Pathology
values v disvalues
degeneratively equivalent
to regenerative equity
and communal interdependence
in Christ’s still-active
hopeful
faithful Holy Spirit

Of Patriarchal LeftBrain Thesis
as also Feminist RightBrain AntiThesis
cooperatively regenerating
ecotherapeutic mentoring
experience co-arising ego-recentering
deep listening
dipolar speaking
health and win/win
cooperatively-held
co-invested safety,

Our faithful want empowering wealth
of enlightening non-violent communion,
sacred
holonic co-attachment memories
of Christ’s gospel passion.

Said the lesbian black ecofeminist
in curious response:

You are right
to perceive your sacred
patriarch-worshipping
capital competitive
win/lose redemption accounting,
nature v spirit theological flock

Gathered in individualistic search
for eco-political Truths,
One right-wing Way
to eternally benign Life
of unhealthy theocracy,
for psycho-neurological Means
to optimize win/win restorative justice,

For multicultural-historical co-developing Lives
on Earth’s multi-regenerational
democratizing
humanely enlightening
natural GoldenRule
for co-investing
in holy
sacred Black/Green EarthSpirits
Non-Zero Sum
Wide Open Systemic
Yang/Yin
UniversalEgo/UnitarianEco non-violent communicating
Pulpit provided orthodox answers
straight from God’s unwavering
unilateral
tradition-invoking Voice.

But you are wrong
to suggest this is also true
of our faith community,
cooperatively owned and managed,
co-invested in our synergetic search
for better win/win outcome questions

Rooted in natural/spiritual nondualistic experiences
LeftBrain psychologically explained
and RightBrain neurologically asked
with both/and
ego/eco-therapeutic
win/win prejudice
against LeftBrain dominant either/or
win/lose undemocratic
unchanging
degenerative egopatriarchal-capitalist
unsystemic
non-compassionate
not co-empathic
absence of successful multiculturing communion

Secular ecological relationship
and sacred theological communication,

Analogically static-spatial
and metaphorically flowing-temporal,

CoVisioning dynamic health empowering Left
and co-arising integral wealth enlightening Right

Questions
Quests
ReQuests to EmPower
better enlightening interdependent webs
of sacred EarthTribe Life,
Democratic healthy Ways,
Ego/Eco-Therapeutic
CoInvesting Lives.

Where your folks expect you
to sell them some ready-made answers,
Our UU folks request
we discuss home-made questions
about empowering global natural health care
enlightening local spiritual wealth share.

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A NonViolent Glory Prayer

Share with me
this day,
this night,
what will feed my neighbors
as my hungry self.

Forgive me
my theocratic excesses
as I forgive my ancestors
for arguing anthro-hubrisisms.

Lead me
into Earth’s compassion.

Deliver me
into full bicameral consciousness.

For our wealthy bodies
are our healthy minds
eco-political power
as neuro-psychological grace.

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Hell of a Heaven

Both paradise and hell
have their detractors.

I find some exaggerated truth
in this belief–
one person’s paradise
is another’s hell.

An eternity
of worshiping an unchanging
omnipotent
omniscient
omnipresent
mono-egotistical god
is not my idea of healthy re-creation.

I have never heard this
in reverse–
One person’s hell
may be required
for another’s paradise.

Heavenly Capital Adoration
begins to sound like sexist
and xenophobic
and anthropocentric rationalizations
of rampant capitalism

Sublimation as extension,
perhaps a corollary,
justifying capitalism and slavery,
violent settlers’ colonialism,
systemic racism
and straight white male
and left brain deductive domination
over who is empowered
to define
and refine
and confine
and double-bind
winners’ Paradise
v losers’ Hell.

If paradise is a healthy
wealthy place to freely live,
And hell is a pathological
divested
infested
under-invested
patriarchal chested
rapaciously unbreasted
place to not be
ecofeminist sufficiently,

Then losing bad humored,
terrifyingly rumored,
anti-organically tumored
hell is a dualistically shocking way
toward winning good humored
terrifically enamored,
organically amored paradise
of integral win/wins;

Economic and political
Neurological and biological
Ecological and geological
Egological and theological

Secular and sacred
Natural and spiritual

Space and time
ZeroZoned and TaoBalanced.

That said,
I doubt
we are without
universal Paradise
as absence of Hellish attributes

Such as autocracy
and kleptocracy,
fascism and racism
are multiculturally known
and felt as hellish.

Healthy democracy
may not be
a monotheist’s Paradise,

Still,
democracy’s win/win potential
for cooperative ownership and management
speaks louder than capitalism’s win/lose reductions
of ego’s participative paradise
in omniscient theocracy.

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ReAttachment Therapies

Dr. Sue Johnson,
developer of Emotionally Focused Therapy,
rooted in an Attachment Theory
that organic creatures live healthier
more robust
compassionate
and prosperous lives
when their original womb relationship
and earliest parent/child interdependence
is more warmly attached
and less coldly detached,
and certainly not absent,
stolen for social protection disservices,
lost,
threatened,
and/or strategically bombed,
abused,
and then chronic Industrious Revolution neglected.

This Emotionally Focused Therapy
is also RightBrain emotionally intelligent Attachment motivated
counter-cultural to LeftBrain dominant patriarchal history.

Where LeftBrain Yang
applauds heroic autonomous
strong and silent messiahs,
and/or aggressive and loud Terrorists,
Narcissists,
and infamously Victorious Colonizers;

RightBrain Yin
flows out Her polyphonic non-verbal calming webs
of healthy domestic-internal nutrition,
cooperative
nurturing
integral
synergetic mutual emotional intelligence, co-passioning
ego-inside and eco-outside therapies.

Such interdependent therapeutic environments,
climates, if you prefer,
are also invited by Permaculture Design
as contrasted with patriarchal AgriBusiness,
factoring,
fracking,
fragmenting,
fissioning,
fracturing degenerative monocultural strategies
which historically appear as if aggressive and violent colonizing threat
is only worth mentioning
if we identify with the HumusTribe
or disposable tree commodities
or most any resident of an undisturbed sweet grass meadow

Under a sunny June blue sky
with billowing white cumulus pillows
floating like great benign ships, unStated
gracefully presenting a fragrant breeze,
flowing with an invisible
yet enlivening
downstream destination,
promising to return again
one perfect every day.

Or, should I say,
Former resident
of now paved and exhausted meadows?

ReAttachment Therapies,
rooted in original parent/child healthy interdependent experience,
are also found between resilient adult couples
and calm, slow-grown eco-village communities
and good polycultural faith communities
like organic extended family farms,
left-brain Universalists also right-brain Unitarians,
and Quaker Meetings for Win/Win consensus-building,
and in Zen Buddhist orgies of silent sensual stillness,
and Taoist ecopolitical Tipping Pointers
toward more Yintegrity
for less Yangominous narcissistic mendacity,
as if mountains were even secularly possible
without sacred valleys,

More liberal left love
for less stingy “I got my personal fundamentalist religious rights” anger
and fear of multicultural spiritually co-attaching values
and hate for elitist theoretical powers

[either/or unbalancing disambiguous
both/and balancing ambiguity]

through bad-humored
punishing patriarchal god-icons

[and good-humored
healing matriarchal goddess-incarnations],

Bear economies
leaving us lazy squirrels
and too lame
and slow
and tame Turtle Islanders behind
to smell more than our fair share
of Loser toxic exhaust
where once blossomed meadowed flowers.

ReAttachmentTherapy
is sometimes called Restorative Justice
instead of Retributive Patriarchal Punishment,
Cooperative Win/Win Game role playing
instead of Capitalism’s Win/Lose racist colonizing work,
Communion
instead of invasive LeftBrain dominant sexist fragmentation.

ReAttachment Therapy
is sometimes called active love, polypathic
instead of absence of requited, co-redemptive compassion,
polyphonic
well-sung,
yang/yin yinyang redanced
through past and future meadows.

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