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Therapeutic Justice

When passion plants a permacultural seed,

then justice flourishes a polycultural flower.

 

These two words, permaculture and polyculture, grow holistic significance for our physical, and mental, cultural and spiritual health.

 

Permacultural, as I intend it this morning, refers to Yang’s power for cooperative sustainability of natural systems; power that is universally comprehensive consciousness. Permacultural wisdom is rooted in ancient Golden Rules and Ratios as balanced proportion and right relationship between ego and eco, between self and partners, family, tribe, environment.

 

Polycultural gardens and landscapes,

whether natural-exterior or human natured-interior,

are positive outcomes anticipated,

designed,

beloved by Permaculturalists.

 

The opposite  of  polycultural paradise

we might describe as:

  1. monocultural (not multiculturally therapeutic)
  2. monopolistic and dominating (not mutually cooperative governance, economics, or ecologic)
  3. monochromatic (not polymorphically natured, gened, generated, evolved, not full octave frequencies of color and harmony).

 

Permacultural development is to Yang’s force and power.

as Polycultural outcomes are to Yin’s therapeutic flex and flow.

 

 

And so it is that in this our permacultural parable, we reach back to through all Four Seasons in our UU ReGenesis Community’s polycultural co-passion story.

One winter of discontent, about 1000 years from now, and more, and less, the Universalist Prophets of Justice turned rather coldly upon the Unitarian Mystics of Warm Compassion.

“What happened to Truth, Justice, and the American Independent Way of Freedom; low risk, high yield economic and political life? Why do you overheat all your passion and love and ecological empathy, then serve it wholesale to every suffering, angry, self-medicating, felon and victim of violence and poverty, every socialist and sexual deviant, and those relentless feminist tyrants of chaos and public self-flagellation?”

“You Unitarian Mystics are way over the top, placing too-soft mercy where we need a more tough-love prophetic universal truth voice for justice. As much as you don’t like to hear this, may we most prophetically remind you that justice, like investment, trickles down from entitled power authorities and wealthy depositors from whom more is expected.”

So, as was their practice, these suffering ReGenesis Community Yin-Mystics of too-great compassion went off to hibernate this harsh dark justice, to decompose this permacultural puzzle of the thrival of the economic fittest, and yet also fattest. How could it be that competing weapons of bloated wealth are more powerful than our compassionate Gaia Goddess of ecological “why can’t we all just play cooperatively”  wisdom?  How could an omnipotent benign Unitarian Hostess give birth to litters of runtish parasites without giving them at least a flat playing field for winning more positive outcomes than the dinosaurs?

Having posed their question, the yin-mystics sang their langorous liturgical prayer:

[sung slowly and quietly first verse, building toward passion, second verse]

Twinkle twinkle litte star

how we wonder when you are.

Did you used to be more bright?

Is there still time to touch your light?

Twinkle twinkle too small star,

how we wonder when you are.

 

Twinkle twinkle shining star

how we wonder who we are.

Are you us when we are light

Are we you when we shine bright?

Twinkle twinkle shining star

How we wonder who we are.

 

Following gratitude for winter’s metamorphic suffering and chronically stressed tough-love teachers,

Grandmother Moon responded with polycultural wisdom of waxing and waning hope for spring’s new life:

 

“When winter’s suffering composts in each person,

compassion grows more inclusive and diverse,

richer, more fertile root systems,

arguing with rather than arguing against,

struggling with rather than struggling against.

 

Composted in the family,

co-passion will optimize wealth of nutritional values for all senses, feelings, awareness;

Composted in the neighborhood and your local cooperative economy,

and political platforms, policies, plans,

co-passion will positively slow-growth multiply;

Organically composted throughout the nations,

cooperative ownership and lifestyles could optimize economic and sociotherapeutic regenerativity,

recreating cooperative Win-Win cultural assumptions

from that old-school pre-millennial Win-Lose competitive economics,

permaculturaling our wealth of nations;

Composting Earth’s natural systemic information,

co-passionate comprehensive consciousness grows Universal Justice.”

 

“Therefore:

According to the individual’s compassion, the individual practices integrative justice;

According to the family’s compassion, the family practices inclusive justice;

According to the Beloved Community’s investment in downstream cooperative compassion,

the community practices ecological justice with and for communities

both upstream and downstream.

How do I know Earth Rights and Wealth of Justice evolve this way?

Earth’s natural flow and function is my compost,

as Her regenerative flow and function is your Elder.”

 

During the subsequent long warm summer days

of maturing gardens and wisdom,

the ReGenesis Community’s Universalist Justice Prophets of the Unraveling Future

and Unitarian Compassion Mystics of Reweaving Cultural Herstory,

stewed this steamy stone soup compost.

 

Each prophet and mystic, Yanger and Yinner, Universalist and Unitarian,

shares his and her struggles with injustice and need,

we sing our segregating sexual, racial, ecological, economic, political, historical and cultural hurt and disappointment,

we dirge our painful risks of exposure,

and anger about harm and violence to and with all Earth’s nature.

including every “my nature matters” message and slogan and sign of impending flying apart, rather than investing in flying together.

We decompose our chronic sub-optimizing economies of impoverishment,

our wants and hopes with literally evaporating faith in anthrocentric future prospects.

We grapple for life fully lived in the future,

at least as well as now.

 

These are gratefully shared

within our families and cooperative residences,

within our diverse ReGenesis committees and projects,

commissions and vocations,

within our PTA education-as-if-life-mattered consumer co-ops,

and our public policy production and vocation industries,

our homeless shelters, prisons, rehab centers, and asylums.

 

Our Autumn Perennial Harvest Report begins, “True justice is no more anthro-centric than ego-centric. No more ego-centric than Left-brain dominant.

 

“Perhaps our permacutural justice opera is sung in a difficult and challenging key, but it cannot be a song if there is no full-octave key accessible within each, and equitably shared by all.”

 

“Compassion seeds suffer and burst, struggle and strain, first within our dark winters,

toward ego-Left and eco-Right balanced root systems,

seeking peace-filling integrity of justice for ourselves,

and then others,

our interdependent co-passionate mentors and messiahs,

and then Earth Herself, with all nature’s species and Tribes,

within all revolving time,

advocate for all generations of life.

 

Universal Justice expands up and out Yang from Unitarian compassion roots,

Yang from Yin,

mutually consuming and productive cycles of becoming fit to thrive together.

 

Universal Justice flowers from Unitarian bicultural yang/yin balance,

as Left to Right hemispheric balance,

as West to Eastern cultural wisdom,

as space from time’s unfolding,

rhythm from rhyme’s iconic order,

rational logic from eco-logically informed systemic function,

deductive reason discerned from inductive,

experiential,

reconnecting wisdom.

 

Left from Right

as regathering nature from regifting Elder spirits,

as belonging grows from longing to reconnect,

as July’s bloom emerges from January’s gloom.

 

 

“Communication of justice,

to be communication at all,

must be a cooperative enterprise;

not a competitively punishing exercise in dominatrix.

 

Information about rights and wrongs,

to be informing,

to be formational at all,

to have integrity,

to become integrative,

Unitarian,

must be a transaction between cooperative subjects with a shared nutritional growth objective.

 

Life, to be fully lived,

and not decadent, diseased, dissonantly restrained, victimizing and violent,

to avoid rushing madly toward flat-line economic segregating death

while still breathing bad air

and beating bad blood;

This polycultural kinda “beloved” justice emerges from cooperative co-passionate vocations

with and for and of all Earth’s Tribes, species, trees and forests and oceans.

Polycultural justice equivalently loves all Earth’s mutually grateful, resonant, seasons and generations,

including summer’s heated gratitude for the suffering sadness of winter,

Polycultural justice invites all Earth’s Past and Future Redeemer Regenerations to Universally Permacultural Life.”

 

And, so, with this Great Transitional season upon us,

all Beloved ReGenesis Unitarian Universalists said:

Amen!

 

Benediction:

 

May we breathe out more fully Unitarian co-passionate light.

May we go forth full-breathing in Universal Light of Justice.

May we add our UUs together, to resolve this hot mess of compassionate Win-Win justice  for our ecosystemic bodies and soils, souls and minds.

May we suffer and forgive with gratitude each of Earth’s generous and lovely mutual mentors and messiahs,

transgenerationally revolving back to the beginning of Time’ Universal Integrity and Beloved polycultural consciousness.

 

Note: Remarks and Benediction prepared for USH, Hartford, CT, July 12, 2015.

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DiaLiturgical Dance of Time

We dance with the dreams of grandfather Sun,
we dream with the dreams of our grandmothers.

Spiritual practice shapes liturgical rites and steps of day,
Creative natural intent shapes linguistic flow and function of night,
invested with Elders emerging
from DNA’s RNA EarthTribal Codex Memory fields,
streams,
seasons,
and atmospheric sea of swimming time.

Dreaming death without sting,
seeing creative system structures and forms
within and without
evolving and revolving.
Grasping recreating function,
reconnecting yet longing to hear recreating frequencies,
fearing dissonant force,
competitive Win-Lose shallow economic ecologies,
hoping and faithing and loving ReGenesis each new day of opportunity
and risk,
coincidentally karmic cause-effectiveness,
mentoring cooperative co-regeneration,
from when we each emerged,
back to densely nutritious diastatic Beloved Community
organic seeds of time’s eternal bi-directional unfolding
of appositively relational informating space.

ReGenesis does not speak before acting;
Genes only speak without knowing time.
Fill up Solar System’s silent apertures,
Close Grandmother Moon’s open systemic doors,
Dull Her smooth-structured double-boundaries
and limned edges,
Untie Her double-knotted tangles of power,
Soften Her polyculturally bleaching light,
Decompose, submerg Her dissonantly contentious periods of turmoil,
–This is compassionate Mystic Unitarian Seasonal Universal Intelligence.

Then love and hatred cannot change ReGenesis dancers and dreamers.
Profit and loss cannot overwhelm Ecological Cooperative Economics.
Honor and disgrace cannot change ReGenetic Time’s pace.
Therefore ReGenesis Age and Time is the eternally sustained
powerfully self-optimizing regenerator of both worlds,
Positively Polynomial Physical Universe,
and Not-Not Poynomial Metaphysically Ecological Universe.

Paraphrasing Rumi,
Casting off disdain for death and cognitive dissonance
we see that purgation is not the end
but only camouflage
for a ReGenesis dense organic decomposing womb,
eternal diurnal time of Future mutually grateful
to at long last belovedly embrace our past potential integrity of grace
as race’s well-worn synergetic enculturation,
spiraling back through revolutions of Yang/Yin balancing diurnal
liturgical time and spatial dance.

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I Wish I Were a Universal Wiener

“I wish I were a Universal Wiener,

that is what I’d truly like to Be,

cause if I were a Universal Zero,

then everyone would be in love in me.”

 

“No, Jerry, its Oscar Mayer wiener.

Think more Jewish, kosher;

not so much Universal.”

my Christian evangelical mother replies

in my eight-year old imagination.

 

I wish I had been born into a Unitarian-Universal Taoist home,

rather than all the stress of growing my own UU-Taoist shell

out of my Christian Evangelical root system.

 

When I was eight a Great Horned Owl flew to message me,

then die.

“Our time as One Tribe is not yet here,

as it could have been before you learned to speak

I am dying in your bicameral ears and mind

so you will always remember,

redemption evolves a Universally Unitive economy,

as deep ecology echoes holonic harmonies

between Cytosine and Uracil,

Yin before Yang,

Self-teleology within Other-physiology;

coincidental Universal Information

grows with Universal Intelligence Wisdom.”

said my Owl of Wisdom through my permaculturing dreams.

 

During my sixteenth year

of living in a not-so-gay silo of negatively deviant sexuality

within a monopolistic hetero-normative Christian Evangelical culture,

Laotse came to me,

speaking word of wisdom,

“be cooperatively content–

not-so competitively Christian-stressed.”

“Fame or one’s own self, which do you love most?”

 

What I would love most is to be born into a skin

that didn’t have to choose one over the other,

where I could have my cake and nutritiously well-eaten.

 

“One’s own self or material goods,

which has more value?”

 

OK, another false dichotomy here.

Since when am I not inclusive of material goods?

Good for what, I would so much like to know.

 

“Loss of self or possession of goods,

which is the greater evil?”

 

Oh, I see,

a trick question.

The only logical way I could lose my Ego

if to perceive myself as a value that I own

as sole-proprietor,

like a self-produced GMO seed

that just magically appeared

within my mother’s otherwise virginal womb.

 

“Therefore: mutual subsidiarity produces most optimally,

while hoarding value evolves loss of economically sustainable balance.

Content contains no disproportionate disvalue;

Wu-Wei Wisdom knows when to stop with equipoised risks

sustaining optimal Yang Over Yin life-supporting systems.”

 

Oh yes, wu-wei,

Zeroism’s tipping point discernment of balance

systemic harmony in an audio-visually octaved polycultural world.

 

When I was 24 I began reading Buckminster Fuller’s

Universal Synergetics,

and was puzzled as to why the essential bi-polarity

of unitarian integrity

did not fill the shelves of his UU progeny.

 

“The principle of universal unitarianism,

or universal integrity, if you prefer,

states that the double-Yin primal binary

function embraces the vectoral,

explosive power of Universal form.

Convex Universal Form unfolds time moving forward,

as concave synergetic function folds time into

DNA/RNA fractally-organized

bicamerally processed

human permaculturating Memory and Language.”

 

Buckminster Fuller’s pre-UU teleological balance

encourages us to hold Universal sensory perspective

of a convexly contouring Yang-Justice Economic evolution

and our Unitarian integrative functional consciousness

of our concavely functional double-Yin Elder Right hemisphere

as double-elliptical

and double-knotted

and double-negatived

Deep Ecological Therapy,

DNA/RNA fractal structure.

 

When each side of this YangEgoJusticeLeft

and YinEcoTherapy Right equation

remains optimally balanced and normative,

harmonically ringing and resonant

redolent resolution of full-color UU octaves,

of nature-spirit dipolar optimal well-being systems

for information receiving

and for information processing,

using DNA biometric fractal-function

as cognitive confluence

or network filter for cognitive and affective dissonance,

dismay and irrationality,

lack of comprehensive comprehension

and compassion,

for all of us,

in this universe

unitarianally grazing and fertilizing

our shared DNA/RNA EarthTribe Commons.

 

The Tao is a human bicameral view of UU Time.

We are each a ReGenesis Cooperative Project,

a season of time,

singing and dancing,

thinking and angsting,

hoping and despairing,

within a sea of regenerating time,

in which Left dominant proposes information as received from Universe,

and Right double-Yin,

Win-Win Game Theory Logistics and Statistics and Logic and Ecologic,

dispossessed as merely Elder Brain’s RNA Prime Relationship intuition,

struggles with Left deductive

to reconnect Right inductive polycultural wisdom

of re-natured spirited

dynamically dimensional

fractally dia-octaved round Zeros

of primal composting mental health value.

 

“What must be remembered in considering all the foregoing

is that unity is plural

and at minimum two”

and here Bucky predicts the implied dualism

shared by both Taoism and UU,

where Universalism is YangExterior Left hemisphere,

and Unitarian dipolar synergy is WinWin Interior Right normative,

and absence of balance between these two bicameral hemispheres,

causes lack of justice, peace,

cognitive dissonance and dismay,

chaos and decay,

still finding their way toward polycultural balance

of Beloved Climax Community

a diastatic event of endosymbiotic evolution

that Bucky predicted would cascade toward global comprehension,

an ectosymbiotic revolution of polyculturally sustainable abundance,

both ecological and economic.

 

In my 64th year,

I reconnected with Bucky’s now Transmillennial Transition

into a new Group Theory,

with Gregori Perelman having mathematically proven

our Universal (0) smooth-structured EcoSoul

emerges as the fractal root of each RNA-decoding EgoCell,

where Yang Positive space tri-dimensionally emerges

from Yin Negative bilinear unfolding string of UU PrimalTime,

rhythm and pattern,

heartbeat and bicameral breath,

surfing seasons,

folding out Left’s Western Universal Yang,

folding in Right’s Eastern EcoUnitarian Yin.

 

Looking back over my redemptive ReGenesis Project,

I step into Fuller’s comprehension of deep ecology

as optimizing with a co-redemptive economic intent

and practice,

our Golden Rule includes our Ego holonically within each Eco-Other,

treating Earth and Self as

coincidental time mutually embracing our just race together.

 

“I’m glad I am a Universal Winner,

this is truly what I know to be,

cause as we grow a Unitarian Justice,

everyone will know this love with We.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PermaCulturing Time

Let’s imagine that you are, like Buckminster Fuller, karmically absorbed with Unitarian genes,

were there such a thing,

which of course there are not,

but perhaps something like an evolving Unitarian Universalist post-millennial teleology.

Basically, some shared sense of responsibility for,

and humility about,

our currently unraveling long-term thrival prospects,

as a globally interdependent species.

 

OK, so here we are,

Unitarians,

imagining our universe as a closed set life.

No reincarnation,

no egoic identity evolving into some SuperEco awareness

morphine against the suffering of human mortality.

Well, maybe reincarnation and SuperEco Gaia,

but that would be an open dynamic system,

essentially negentropic and synergetic.

In either case, whether open or closed,

dynamically exchanging values within interdependent relationships,

or static,

but actually, if this is a natural physical system,

then it must become diastatic in each NOW moment,

which would incarnate our universal spacetime interdependently equivalent

“moment” values of linear,

or sequential, confluence and dissonance,

because as every Unitarian knows

especially Bucky,

time flows forward and out toward our Western horizon of imagination’s future,

or time flows backward, implicating back in reverse of time’s solar sun,

toward Eastern horizon of memory’s permaculturally historic past.

 

Time is Prime Tetrahedral/Fractal’s Linear Progenitor,

as Space is Time’s informational umbilical string,

folding and unfolding in plasmatic tri-equivalently balanced space,

where c-cubed Yang-convex is born of +/(-)(-)0-sum neural,

and neur-ionically balanced,

present-NOW’s Eternal Prime Relationship Moment,

which is not yet future’s 50% response, or effective image,

and not yet past’s 50% stimuli, or causal memory,

each double-bound outside our incarnating karmic events

unfolding in our sometimes richly confluent,

sometimes sterile and bleakly dissonant,

with each other and this (0) Core Bicameral Soul

located in the heart of each NOW,

suffering and dissonance aversive,

contentment and confluence Positive EcoTherapeutic

and Multisystemic Eco-Logical Psychology.

 

Here, following our Unitarian and Universal string theory,

our Left-deductive hemispheres share an Ego-Centric Teleological Original Intent,

we find our meaning through our id-entity,

through Right-inductive hemispheres,

free of language yet ruled and ordered by icons,

balance, harmony, symmetry, beauty, goodness, truth, wisdom,

SuperEco’s dia-balancing Herculean blind-Samson Boddhisatva Warrior figuring

out what it might mean to become an interdependently speciated pupil,

a coincidentally conjoined Third Eye

comprehending purpose for reiteratively learning with Left-deductive

how to resolve our less than Golden Ratioed hot mess.

 

Unitarians reverse strings of unweaving Easter seasons

back toward our Black Hole cocoon of concave (-)Yin,

then float softly back with confidence

across Earth Day’s red sky morning,

ergodically gravitating toward synergetic emergence,

polyculturing implicate orders for what was

and could be again,

but is not NOW,

and thus dawn’s increasingly impatient warning.

 

Synergy is to energy,

as binary information is to binomial regenerative revolution,

or double-bound self-reiteration,

as tri-valent space is to dipolar linear time,

as Yang is to Yin,

as Positive is to Double-Negative,

meeting in this Unitarian Universalist NOW

Eternal Earth Day’s Post-Millennial PermaCulturing Moment.

 

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