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Choosing Healthy PowerValues

What values do I choose
for a human body?
mind?
nature?
spirit?
sensory soul?

What values do we choose
for a humane embodied species?
for maleness?
for femaleness?
Yang and/or Yin values?
for empowering strength
and enlightening flow?

Do we choose these values
or do we inherit them?
Wholesale values
learned from marketable skillsets
developed from those now physically gone
yet metaphysically
and multiculturally forever?

Or do we also choose
as we mature in chosen/unchosen experience
to embellish
and extend
humane empowering memories
and enlightening imaginations
out to all Earth LifeTribe cooperative values,

And predative disvalues, rooted in anger,
flowering in retributive injustice systems
authorized by straight and/or white and/or male privilege,

And competitive misvalues,
choosing win/lose survivalist fear of change

To value profoundly regenerative
polycultural
multicultural becoming together
in valued sexual bodies,
evaluative sensory minds,
revalued sensually experienced hearts,
invaluable bicameral souls,
root organic energy systems
for enlightenment
left-brain dominant,
empowerment
right-brain multiculturally prominent

Morality of past light memories
for future EarthPower
humane-divine
natural-spiritual
secular-sacred
ecological-theological
resiliently-resonantly valued imaginations.

What healthy values
do we most wealthily imagine
for a human body?
democratically egalitarian mind?
unprejudiced nature?
compassionate spirit?
humane culture?
divine climate?
sensory listening soul?

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Powerfully Polite Imaginations

Imagine with me
that your local
political
economic community,
municipality,
bioregion
is a communication network
already at hand,
like a potentially benign kingdom
or mutually informed 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 secular justice communities
as architects for cooperative economic co-investments.

Within these secular and sacred,
economic and political,
empowering and enlightening
positive communication networks
are ecologically healthy,
and theologically wealthy,
robust and resonant non-violent relationships
of cooperatively positive compassion.

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

Of this particular empowering moment
and human enlightening place
on Earth
not merely opposing subjective functions of non-communication,
but actively embracing
externally natural experience
compared with internally spiritual memory,
as appositional compare/contrast experience,
appositive flow-forms
of dipolar co-arising functions
for power and light communion

Yang LeftBrain nature
actively communicating power
with Yin RightBrain spirit
recessively intercommuning light
with empowering secular Yang
with enlightening sacred Yin
with power
with light
communicating bicameral revolving spirals
bilateral
binomial community communication
positively viral energy.

Imagine we politically
and economically,
ego/theo-logically
and ecologically agree,
across all current
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 enlightenment
of all human-divinely inspired polycultural
polypathic
polyphonic
polyvagal neurological
positive win/win communication networks.

How would you
democratically
and 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 secular/sacred
bicameral
multilateral
democratic group win/win game
for empowering
enlightening
cooperative communication
life energy ego/eco-system?

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

Rather than judging
what empowers good faith rationalism
and what darkens bad faith superstition,
could we find ecological
and theological
power and light analyses
that actively research win/win comparative values
and lose/lose disvalues
and in-between win/lose suboptimal misvalues
for all of us
as one holistic
robust
resonant
resilient communication network?

Together urgently committed
to empowering local and global health,
to enlightening globally localized
powerful and yet polite wealth.

Imagine with me
that our local
political
Earth economic community,
municipality,
bioregion
is a communication network
already at hand,
like a potentially benign kingdom of God the Father
and a mutually informed Holonic EcoFeminist Spirit
of polite
healthy-power/wealthy-light
EarthJustice
restorative compassion network.

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Playing Kinder Power Games

To the Game Theoreticians:
Games are a subset of strategic systems thinking,
which can be rooted in systemic resilience theory
and in systemic racist theory
and probably not in both.

To the Systemic Theoreticians:
Groups playing leadership
and choice-making Games
may be differentiated by
win/win
win/lose
and lose/lose strategic outcomes
ego/eco-bilaterally recentering
health/wealth

Binomially balancing Systems
of YangOut
and YinIntegrity
synergy
regenerativity

Restoring win/win cooperatively good outcomes
for anthropoids and LivingEarth ecological systems

Or repeating Win/Lose
as competitively felt
in ecopolitical patriarchal systems
like capitalist games
among white privileged
and kinda snooty
Players
Beach Club
and Golf Club
and Gated Community paid up members
intending to keep out the multicultural ecofeminists
of radically liberal EarthHealth
matriarchal win/win
equals not loseEgo/loseEarth power analysis intention.

Lose/lose outcomes cannot prevail
or sustain,
as is also true of healthy communication systems,
nutritional economic resilient networks,
HumanEgo/DivineEcosystemic primal ZeroZone relationships,
Yang/Yin dipolar
co-arising
resilient communion systems
for empowering and enlightening
democratically GoldenRule committed residents.

Losing ego-individualistic economists,
and loser ecofeminist green cooperative communication
systemic designers,
use lose/lose scenarios
only as information about what not to xenophobically plan,
anthropocentrically implement,
nihilistically evaluate
to further straight white male
left-brain dominant privilege,
which politically disempowers
health/wealth win/win EarthCare systems

For giving empowering light
of sacred YinRight memory

CoEmpathically knowing/feeling
secular YangLeft CoDemocratic
Health/Wealth Prominence

4Dimensional fractal synergy
of not not ZeroSum NatureLose/SpiritLose
BiCameral/Bilateral health and safety
power and light analysis of life energy systems.

Theories of positive psychological root womb systems
of DNA NonZero Regenerative Zones
are rooted in flowering

Holonic 4D non-violent communication meta-structures
between past regenerative memories Green/Yellow
empowering/enlightening
and future degenerative imaginations
Red/White/Blue privileged
too defensive of angry memory
and too liberal with terrified lose/lose future
eco/ego-bicameral intelligence lost
to healthy DNA-structured 4-nutritional fractals

Emerging into Ultra-NonViolent Future/Past recommunication games,
sacred systemic transubstantiations,
communal groups for sacred/secular creolizations

All marvelously win/win systemic group game
eco-politically naturally healthy
as resiliently
and multiculturally
and spiritually
and neuro-sensory wealthy.

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Healthy Democracy Candidates for 20/20

Skills for best qualified candidates
for healthy democratic leadership
on my Ultra-NonViolent
WinEgo/WinEco-bicameral short list
for 20/20 revisioning

During a global climate challenge
and multiculturally-felt crisis
of left-hemisphere risk
of further red dominance
and right-hemisphere opportunity
of integral blue/green Earth-health potential:

  1. Commitment to,
    and demonstrated experience with,
    blending and harmonizing win/win dialogue
    within a resonant multicultural collective
    of interdependently co-refining
    resident-designed cooperative
    economic and politically co-empowering
    projects

e.g. Integral Permaculture Designed bioregional therapy
to make local-acting/global-feeling communities
healthy again

  1. Rhetorical record demonstrates consistent focus
    on health and safety
    of all living creatures
    as one integrated
    cooperative
    eco-political system
    designed for natural/spiritual
    yang/yin
    secular/sacred
    left/right
    west/east
    north/south
    separatistic/interdependent
    either/or thinking and both/and feeling
    bipolar dominant and dipolar recessive
    bilaterally holistic resilience.

e.g. MultiFaith Mediator
following ecological/theological systemically integral principles
for secular/sacred
capital/emotional
deductive/inductive co-investments
to expand ego/eco-systemic NonViolet Communion
creolization multiculturing circles
for one united local/global economy
of cooperative,
universally democratic,
co-empowerment.

  1. Mature adult experience
    using human LeftEmbodied
    RightMind tools
    for compassionate resonance,
    through nonviolent communication
    and positive faith philosophy,
    verbal and non-verbal,
    thought and felt,
    personal and interpersonal,
    local and global
    levels of organic organization.

e.g. Multicultural Mediation experience
of a critical public health issue
looking for co-investment solutions
to remediate pathological climate degeneration.

  1. Demonstrated capacity
    to clearly articulate
    personal ego-development
    as a sensory/sexual healthy holonic part
    of a planetary,
    eco-systemically We-conscious,
    natural/spiritual nondualistic Golden Rule
    democratically applied
    within our Whole OpenEarth System

e.g. Public Administration experience
with composing global cooperative economic network maps
and/or labor and tool exchange transactions
for enhancing and extending holistic health/wealth ecosystems.

  1. Ability to produce
    a coherent public and climate health platform
    for bicameral revolutionary green peace networking
    modeled after well-established
    Deep Learning ecological/theological
    polycultural health paradigms,
    environmental and neuropsychological sciences,
    and/or aesthetic metaphoric nature/spirit
    metaphysical relationships

e.g. Restorative justice reforms for remediation
to normatively replace retributive injustice deformities
producing politically toxic criminalization
and economic marginalization
and socio-cultural
multigenerationally systemic degeneration
decapitalization
decrepitude
and not so much positive
active faith in humane-divine
attitude,
much less healthy eco-political candidates

  1. Resonantly speaks and acts
    cooperatively
    for ego-minimalist choices
    and eco-passionate
    fully co-invested
    living healthy EarthWealth

e.g. Advanced training and experience
with non-violent communications,
philosophies
ecologically regenerative theology
with greatest health-sustaining secular effects
through least wealth of compassion’s sacred loss.

Note: Qualities for optimally democratic-cooperative change agency found in more condensed form on p. 287 of Spiral Dynamics, Beck and Cowan.

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A Healthier Patriotism

My own patriotic U.S. extended family,
historically,
and currently
remains StraightWhiteMale privileged
in our collective memories,
if not imaginations,
of spiritual communion
with all the more privileged saints
present,
past,
and future

But, we have also suffered
from rather too much faith in capitalism,
which, like democracy,
is frequently faulted as miserable,
but also lauded as better
than all the socialistic
communistic
devilistic
totalitarian
fascist
foreign
threatening
terrifying
anger-inducing alternatives.

Capitalism of our encultured
multigenerational minds
with left-hemisphere dominant brains
favoring natural secularized competitions
between saints and sinners
of diversely threatening monocultural privilege,
persuasions fundamentally supremacist
for democracy in theory
so long as not in perceived conflict
with self-serving capitalism in daily personal practice,
natural and spiritual,
secular and sacred,
ecological and theological.

We are egocentric
sometimes narcissistic
always bootstrap individualistic
evangelical redemption ecopoliticals
but focused on BadNews
of our need to invest in violent self-defense
against Marxist communism out there
in Hell

Not to be confused with commitment to GoodNews
of sacred divine communion
within our privileged StraightWhiteMale places
of apartheid worship
in awe and wonder
dogmatically committed to our StraightWhiteMale God

Made military-industrialized
in our best capitalistic,
not really quite so democratic paternalistic
image of left-hemisphere
StraightWhiteMale rightfully empowered
historical/cultural dominance.

So, there we have it,
this chaotic bilateral dissonance
between our powers of political democratic enlightenment
through whole open-systemic dialogue,
and our confusion about economic uncooperative self-empowerment
at the necessary (either/or thinking) cost of Other disempowerment,
gone sadly win/lose awry
through endless polarizing debate assumptions

That if someone wins,
then all others playing our eco-political game
must lose,
which sounds very much like
survival of the fittest
rightest
left-brain dominant species
OVER AGAINST
Earth’s whole open system
green/blue
ecological/theological success.

Like our dominant left-hemisphere academic theory
of secularized win/lose evolution
is more anthropocentrically capital-headed
and self-righteously defensively effective
than Earth’s sacred WINblue/WINgreen
ego/eco-politics
of polypathic political dialogue
empowering through GoldenRule democratic resilience,

And right hemisphere
polyphonic economic enlightenment
co-invested through Golden Octave Ratios
in interdependent multicultural dialogue,

Holonic nonzero sum,
polynomially left GroupTheory
and polyvagally bicameral right/left Win/Win GameExperience

My extended global
multicultural family
history and future
with more resonant
healthier cooperative democracy
embedded in Earth’s ecosystemic wealth,

Co-invested across multi-generations
of MotherEarth’s wise-dialogue
win/win eco-political
eco-feminist regenerators

Not of colonizing political
and anthropocentric economic privilege
but of democratically co-invested integrity
in sacred green/blue communion.

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LeftBrain Avatar

LeftBrain thinking,
not an avatar
of compassionately feeling
emergent healing systems,

Chilly baptismal waters
of equanimity
do not typically suggest a warm bath
in multicultural
and global
democracy.

Is it possible,
reasonable,
healthy,
therapeutic
to carry gifts of resonant love
and extend them to those
evoking a long history
of patriarchal anger
and “vengeance is capital-invested mine”
disempowering fear?

How would this,
could this,
“should” this,
might this be different,
better
than fueling codependent anxiety
without realistically anticipated reform,
curiosity with transcending cooperative courage,
win/win communication out
without
win/lose return
back in,
external faithfulness without active internal hope?

Is it possible,
and even responsible,
more or less therapeutic,
to deeply burn with anger against Trumpism,
the blind excesses of narcissistic fascism
somewhat democratically turned over to empower a fool
by a near majority of lose-ego/lose-eco ignorant voters,
inexperienced with sufficient cooperative bicameral ecopolitics
to discern enlightening differences
between democratic love
and autocratic fear
of losing face,
noble retributive reputation,
emotionally satisfying financial success
far beyond simple ecosystemic life sufficiency?

Who might we become
if compassionate patriotism
were so democratically inclusive
our object of win/win regenerate love
could settle for no less object
than sacred green/blue
yellow/red
purple/orange,
and black/white at night
polypathic
polyphonic
polynomial equals not not polynomial
democratic
sacred-secular equanimity
of rightmind equals left-embodied EarthJustice,

To be faithful
to nothing less than full EarthTribe compassion
within empowering
as without democratically enlightening.

For me,
if I can expand my sense of loyalty,
commitment,
appreciation,
love for Donald Trump,
at least as much as I fear
all the leftbrain reasons to to be angry with him,
angry about what he deliberately fosters,
angry about what has led him away from democratic We,
to the very threshold of self-righteous
inhumane fascism,
climate terrorism,
that he iconically represents,

Then I can expand into a larger picture
mirroring the loving kindness
deep learning Source
and ReSource
for all that brings us to this moment
in globally polarized Time
to find our unwinding way back
back
back

To all-embracing love
for Original enlightening
empowering
democratic
multiculturing
co-passioning SummativeSource

Of BlackHole degenerative
yet integral lives matter
splatter spacetime dances
flirting with joyful rhythms
in becoming undivided
once and twice
and thrice again

Within 4D spiraling revolutionary frames
of sacred grace,
compassion,
beauty,
serene foregiveness
for lack of history’s win/win
sin
of leftbrain win/lose thinking

Stinking
slinking lack of rightbrain win/win
democratic
EarthPatriotic
interdependently viral feelings
extracting and extending
out to all rationally angry
and systematically terrified EarthTribes.

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Integrity v Privilege

You, like all human embodied minds,
whether individual
or collective, tribal

Right hemisphere feelers,
sometimes left handed,
Left hemisphere thinkers,
dominant right handed,
have suffered wounds,

Self-esteem losses
for not being internally transparent
and externally vulnerable enough
for a holistic communion
of EgoLeft and EcoRight inter-hemispheric integrity
that comes only to a few,
usually with advanced mindbody healthy age,

Ego healthy interdependent bodies
compassionately expanding
throughout Right-hemisphere prominent
multicultural
resonant
interdependent
ecosystemic minds
attracted to other ecofeminist bodies,

Male yang strength of holistic
whole open EarthSystem Truth
with yintegral flowing Beauty

Left compassionate thoughts
supporting Right integral feelings,
sensory healing resonance
underlying sexually energized resilience

Restoring internal justice
overpowering historic wounds
of retributive violence
aggression
repression
suppression
oppression,
absence of win/win impression

Unjustly privileged StraightWhiteMale
LeftBrain dominant systems

Internally conditioned
because externally win/lose
strategically positioned

Capital infested atrocities
over minion invested democracy.

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Disempowering Systems

Systemic racism
is a social/cultural pattern
of racial prejudice
originating within individuals
and their anecdotal experiences
and lack of multiculturally enriching discernment

Shedding light,
and shredding dark,
power analysis,
political and economic,
on patterns of white privileged events
unveils systemic patterns of win/lose empowered privilege
and disempowering lose/lose prejudices,
race and male and heterosexual privileged
anthropocentric unredeeming
lack of communication
events.

Take, for example,
a power analysis of John 3:16:

For God so loved the world [Earth and EarthCreatures]
That He gave His only begotten Son [patriarchal frame]
So that whosoever believes in Him
Shall not perish
But have eternal life.

Literalist
Fundamentalist
Conservative
Evangelical Christians
(should this prove not to be a complex oxymoron)
have supplanted believing in God’s radically interdependent EarthLove
(first phrase)
with doctrinal belief in Jesus of Nazareth
as God’s only begotten, privileged
humane/divine hybrid Son of
StraightWesternWhiteMale
LeftBrain Dominant
Military-Industrialized
Retributive Win/Lose Judging God.

This substitution of belief
in the privileged sacred status
of a Jewish male Teacher
and Prophet,
sharing his potentially viral experience
of Jewish AbbaCreator
as win/win power of universal multiculturing
regenerative Love,
is a culturally profound
early straight white western
(not particularly eastern nature/spirit nondualistic)
privileged-prejudicial moment
of defining God’s economic
and politically empowering grace
in troubling oppositional terms:

First phrase, Regenerative Source is universal Love,
and, third phrase,
Regenerative Source is historically-culturally,
systemically racist.

If, to be orthodox and effectively Christian
is to be spiritually privileged,
then those not born into evangelical Christian homes,
King James Bible reading communities,
Western dominating cultures
are disproportionately
and systematically
and historically under privileged,
disempowered
unredeemed
with less win/win graced
direct experience of Love
Light
Word internal/external
ego-refining/ecopolitical-defining win/win
potential spiritual/natural life optimizers.

Jesus of Nazareth’s prime experiential teaching,
story telling
prophetic “God is multiculturing universal win/win Love”
not revengeful monoculturing
win/lose systemic
racist Judge

Is not resonantly heard,
not resiliently felt,
neither tasted nor seen
through eyes and ears,
hands and heart,
mouth and nose
of straight white male privilege

Too leftbrain dominant
to divinely know
and nondualistically respect
appreciate
primacy of empowering cooperative green/blue Love experience
over disempowering competitive redblooded Lust
for theologically dogmatic unecological lack of relationship,
anthropocentric
xenophobic
narcissistic
individualistic ego-salvific power

To claim sacred wealth of life
for yourself and only your Tribe
by denying truths of sacred/secular empowerment
through win/win cooperative everyday experience
of communion
throughout all EarthTribes

Divine/humane
right/left
yin/yang
green/red
nonviolent communicating Light
of ChristMass Love
Words
Stories of CoRedemption

Democratic,
not autocratic,
experiences both ecologically natural
and theologically spiritual;

Devoid
Cleansed
Wiped Clean of racist,
straight male dominant,
leftbrain misculturing
unhealthy
unwealthy supremacy.

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GreenDemocratic Health Images

Imagine your healthiest body
is a democratic
self/other empowering organism

Ideally,
most nutritionally,
nurtured by an also open,
living,
dynamic win/win preferential,
evolving,
revolving planetary universe,
in many sacred times and places
also known as MotherEarth.

Notice
your democratic bodymind
is an open
holistic
ego/eco-centering
co-invested re-centering,
co-acclimating interior and 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 responsibility,
leaving no individual organ or health function
irresponsibly behind.

Not an autocratic,
from above,
hierarchically patriarchal,
capitalistic
head-mind over felt-body matter,
unilateral authority
capable of long-term
win for leftbrain dominant mind
only at the cost of a lose
for rightbrain democratic
organic
interdependently felt nature/spirit
body/mind bicameral communion intelligence

Bilaterally ego/eco communing communication
looking for win/win neurological
whole system
democratic resolution of health issues,
pathologically autocratic cancers,
cognitive/affective predations,
viral dissonance,
rabid and rogue behaviors,
win/lose anthropocentric ego-inflations,
lose/lose terrors and global humiliations,
rather than win/win wonders
and sacred awe of 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/disempowerment
formative experience,

Embracing win/lose
either-me/or-you competitions
between empowered teachers and preachers
and not yet mature and experienced
sometimes you win,
usually you don’t,
children and adolescents
and young adults,

Many of whom,
especially those poorer and darker,
will graduate into military-industrializing subcultures,
where patriarchal
leftbrain dominant autocracy
of commanders
over enslaved
and rented both/and repowering bodies
become reduced to untrusting tools
and win/lose
high risk strategic weapons.

These young left-brain autocratic adults
will certainly not be gathering rich Trust experience
in democratic dialogue
over autocratic debate
about the weakness
of win/win EarthJustice restoring democracy.

So, is it possible to hear?

Families, like competitive classrooms,
intending young life healthy empowerment,
often autocratically disempower

An economic and political warning;
A challenge to overcome not-yet mature democracy
rooted in experience of robust cooperative Trust,
rather than an unintended civics lesson
in rabid leftbrain dominant autocracy,
as if capitalism
were patriarchally inevitable
as racial
and sexist
and homophobic
and xenophobic
and anthropocentric apartheid.

As if mutually mistrusting
competition for individual investment power
were democratically healthier
than win/win cooperative models
for shared mind/body
spirit/nature
sacred/secular
eco/ego-systemic wealth,

Resonant trust,
resilient love,
trusting compassion

Imagining our healthiest bodies
are democratic
self/other empowering
Earth responsible organisms.

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Religious Ties That Bind

Religion
could be more spiritually grounded
in healthy ecological relationships
were theologians and governors
to remind each multiculturing Other,

This re-connecting work
of religious economic and political enculturation
is less about unchangeable past history of TruthSpace
and more about continuous,
resonantly reculturing
EarthBeauty Time

Less about petrified fear
anger
unhealthy distrusting demonic place
and more about fluid compassion,
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;

Seldom blessed if you do
and grace if you don’t.

Two negatives equal a positive
but two polarized positives
equal a mess of 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
more than Ego,
Yet if we understand Ego
as merely autonomous from God’s omnipotent grace,
then we have not yet
personally enough
accepted God’s love
into our self-made hearts.

Double-binds are double-negatives
as double-binary x’s and y’s,
1’s and 0’s,
binomial prime relationships
like Yang and Yin
and dipolar bonds of appositional association

Co-defining
eco-refining Earth’s regenesis
with fractal DNA and RNA
double-bilateral structures

Like 4-dimensional spacetime
of co-arising
co-acclimating bi/di-polar dynamics
either/or AND both/and
left resonant
with right hemisphere interdependent 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
theological and ecological,
psychological and neurological,
organic and democratic,
sexual and sensual,
historic and cultural,
memory and mysterious hope

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

Root
to branch
to flower
to seed
new/old root re-ligioning systems.

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