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Growing Healthier Hopes

For measuring fleeting successes
of punishing policing justice,
we have overly relied on recidivism rates
in response to curiosity about
How to decrease crime.

For enjoying compassion
of restorative
healing justice,
we rely on win/win mediation
to grow deep resonance
and widely resilient integrity

In response to curiosity about
How to increase health
and safety
and happiness
locally egotherapeutic
and globally ecotherapeutic.

Retributive justice
fails a healthy and safe
wellness society
as it continues to punish
and excommunicate wounded
win/lose damaged criminals.

Meanwhile
community-based visions
for restoring wellbeing
equity
justice
become increasingly effective
and resilient
as parents
and teachers
and leaders
shift our victimization focus
from CRIMES, violent and/or financial,
to healing victims of TRAUMA

Personal
and systemic,
political
and economic,
locally genocidal
and globally ecocidal.

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On Religious Integrity

Let us begin
by explicitly undressing
what may have been
implicitly held
multicultural feelings:

  1. For the overwhelming masses
    of teeming and scheming
    healthy human adults,
    and especially adolescents,
    peak sexual experiences
    are also our peak
    lifetime
    spiritual experiences
    of compassion
    co-passion
    shared orgasmic passion.
  2. Our elder right hemispheres do not,
    because they cannot,
    distinguish between spiritual
    and mental
    health,
    brain
    and body wealth.

With these two declared assumptions,
please join in revisiting
public sector sensitive issues
about constitutionally protected
religious freedom
in the USA,
and probably in other
monotheistic
left hemisphere dominant
cultures,
making privileged spaces
for straight
male sensory places.

Religious expression
is rooted
in spiritual/mental
healthy felt connected
safe experience
of win/win nonviolent communication,
compassionate communion
sacred memories.

Family businesses
and corporate executive boards
and healthcare professionals
are constitutionally allowed
to make choices
inconsistent with our own
interdependent spiritual/mental peak
win/win
panentheistic organic experience

But, such a profound lack of integrity
does not help us develop
a more universally democratic
and multicultural frame
of spiritual/mental health care,
well-being
prosperity
resonance
resilience.

Whether nonviolence practitioners
can be constitutionally obligated
to pay war and military,
violence and win/lose aggression,
consumptive capitalist exploitation,
and weapons development and production
taxes
and yet retain meaningful constitutional protection
for spiritual freedom of co-passionate conscience
becomes left brain cognitively complex,
if not downright chaotic.

Whether faith-based communities
can continue to be tax-exempt
feels as clear as democratic
multiculturally celebrated
separation of nonviolent religious expression
and nation-state defensive affiliation

Why a minute of silent
compassion-focused spiritual/mental experience
feels both constitutionally appropriate
and healthy democracy useful
for opening self/other governance meetings,
team huddles,
graduations and commencements
from and into great
and even smaller public transitional events,
bolstering spiritual/mental health resilience
of shared trust consciousness.

Whether inclusive multicultural
non-supremacist religious symbols,
such as a PeaceDove,
a Chalice of communal hope,
a messianic Manger scene,
and a Menorah,
can be installed in public spaces
to evoke spiritual/mental health experiences
and not toxic memories
of homophobic,
racist,
sexist victimization,
trauma,
and chronic stress experiences,
may depend on how inclusive
and compassionate
our own childhood
and adolescent
peak social health experiences
were celebrated,
revered,
honored,
appreciated.

Whether spiritual/mental health education systems
can effectively exclude
non-supremacist expressions
of positive faith
in peak sensory experiences
in the classroom
may depend on whether we believe
a healthy democracy
is rooted in trust
or in capitalism’s competitive
mutual mistrust.

Whether faith-based non-profits
can apply on equal egalitarian footing
with secular corporate privileged organizations
for compassion regenerating
governing grants
to increase spiritual/mental health experiences,
may depend on whether we are remembering
good faith peak experiences
or bad faith competitive
fear of losing out
bullying experiences.

Whether healthy win/win
faith-based communities
and individuals can,
and even must,
advocate for public policies,
including integral health care,
that are consistent with their membership’s
most personal spiritual/mental health experience,
or not so much

These issues
and peak spiritual experience concerns
about loss of healthy wealth
also pertain to freedom
of nonviolent communication speech.

Compassionate communication,
win/win freedom
of resonant
primal inter-relationship,
is the fundamental healthy democracy
trust experience
on which all other integral rights
to spiritual/mental health
are rooted,
wombed,
incubated,
rewoven,
morphed,
regenerated.

On the other hand,
if we begin with different,
more dualistic
and monotheistic assumptions
about this relationship between synergetic religious
and peak spiritual/mental experience
of everyday sacred connection,
then our constitutional conclusions
may vehemently
and irreconcilably
and dogmatically
differ.

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Strategic Considerations

Maybe it’s just me, hanging around with nonviolent communication students and teachers too much. But,

Always the big, “BUT”

But,…maybe AND is more appropriate.

And, if Putin’s big concern is to spoil Ukraine’s hunger to join NATO, then a full military assault seems maybe counterproductive, killing women and children, bombing bread lines and schools. Wouldn’t that kind of thing be why Ukraine is looking for NATO alliance, because of concerns that Putin and his overpaid Generals might forget that carrots are more effective than sticks when you are trying to persuade less wealthy, and more hungry for safety, people that your big stick next door isn’t an unfortunate event threat to their carrot crops and tops, and all those other greens and blues and even reds; who seem to have a peculiar affinity for ballistic sticks, even when spoons of sugar are so much less expensive, less damaging to well-manicured nails, and landscapes. The important classy stuff making up a delicious series of more fortunate events.

When I was trying to persuade those bratty neighbor children that they need not gang up against my less-affluent kids, it didn’t occur to me to lob grenades over the fence, instead of suggesting a pizza party. But maybe that was mainly because I was hungry too, for food, and health, and safe nonviolence.

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Addicted to Suffering Loss

So, she said,
much to everyone’s BusinessAsUsual
StraightWhiteMale
surprise,

Sew,
I run into your aversion
to unpatriarchal Principles of Reversion
whenever I deeply listen
to your dark passions first,
then redial,
notice,
[occasionally speak]
as if I trust what I can win/win hear
in PreVersed
unrehearsed response

To liberal GoldenRule applications
of sacred theological Law
restoring ecological
Synergetic Order

Smelling and tasting,
Touching and feeling
and seeing cooperative reversions
redeeming dipolar sacred co-investments
in ecosystemic reversals
of secularizing bipolar egos inside
repurposing competitive god-like divestment
away from healthy choices
outside

Extractive
uncreating
pathological apart-heiding

Liberally enlightened co-passioning Left
and conservational empowering Right
disassociatively blind

Meaning double-binding repurposing
lose/lose reversion
illicit perversion
of unrehearsed win/win
integrity pre-versed.

Reverting win/lose depressing bipolar answers
into win/win impressive sacred dipolarizing questions
of what might
left and right
more cooperatively bright
resolve resiliently win/win?

Political democratic health
AND economic ecological wealth
co-transubstantiating
positive redoubling binary
reverse transitioning

As I recall domestic unvoiced revolutions,
Freud’s Principle of Reversion
has something patriarchal to do
with sexual perversion bisexuality
ambiguous both/and,
transgenderal sacred EarthMother
foreshadowing Father
non-resolved reverse attachments

Preversions of something extracted
distracting
retracting
Sigmund could not hope to positively experience
in a rapturous neurosensory way,

Even in his wildest polyvagal
non-heterosexual forced
found
bound
and gagged violent communication
kind of reversing sexual humanity
back to beast-animus/sacred anima
distant god/goddess rememory

YangHeaven overpowering
unenlightened EarthYintegrity
of dipolar/bipolar co-reversioned
liberating synergy

Which reverses degenerativity
in LaoTse’s Principle of Reversion
to Yang/Yintegral co-bodhisattva balance
in NonZero sums
of Original WholeEarth ReGenerative
dipolar energy

Supporting and healing
polyvagally egalitarian ego identities
while also interdependently individuating
organic peace and bionic justice ecosystems,
bicamerally communicating,
multilaterally congregating,
networking,
interfaithing,
multiculturing,
creolizing,
transubstantiating,
co-reversioning,
restorying Win/Win hopeful thinking
reverting lose/lose faithless feelings.

Taoist God/Dess integral Reversion
principally
primally reverses LeftBrain spatial subjects,
egocentric and metaphoric,
physical and metaphysical,
with RightBrain temporal interdependent objectives,
ecosystemic and analogically ecological
theologically synergetic

God v Goddess fractious ZeroSum integrity
inside ego-fractal NonZero Wholistic
metaphorically polyphonic Systemic
polynomially polypathic
polyvagally polymathic

NeuroSensory
Not(NotZero) wHoley enSpirited interfaith
polyculturally non-violent principles
of ultra-nonviolet re-communing language
wealthy choices

Peacemaking
the reverse of unhealthy war-building injustice

Reverse polarity
win/win restorying
EarthWealth enlightening peace
empowering justice
Principled Reverse of shouting

Dialogical harmonic singing
and interfaith synergetic dancing
metaphonic restorying
GreenGoddess ecofeminist
global ChristChild performance poets
slowdown listening
for ClimateMessianic healthy voices.

Unsew
what you have reverse reaped
so, S/He will resay,
much to everyone’s BusinessAsUsual
StraightWhiteMale
awesomely healthy unsurprise.

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Momentous ReTrainStitions

Icons are funny things,
she thought.

Heaven feels like a warm light circle
when we are thriving
and more like a cold dark triangle
of weaponed tipping points
against me
and mine
competitively not communicating
when we are barely surviving
above the mortally terrifying bottom
of God’s most worthless non-elite.

Ancient right-brained heaven
a circle of prominent light
shining down on a mountainous YangEarth
of triangulating Power
to discern Win/Win co-empathic outcomes
for co-redemptive sacred relationships
of YangHeaven/YintegralEarth.

Newer left-hemispheric Earth
a reasoned tipping point hierarchical AnthroEarth
win/lose zero-sum whole Earth-systemic view

In-between Win/Win supreme choices
at God’s most enlightened transcendent Top,
and Lose/Lose survivalist voices
bedeviling our least empowered
despondent AnthroWeaponed
violently nonverbally uncommunicative
bottom of hopelessly non-democratically enlightened
existential despair.

Here, sun’s circular warm light
co-empathic embracing right
is ironically entrapped
by win/lose survivalist capitalistic
elitist
patriarchal
heterosexist monoculturing might
of hierarchical pyramids
to past unchanging royalist traditions
of might makes God right
more than win/win liberally loving
left win/lose verbal cognitively weaponed
mind heart-disembodied egocentric
anthro-privileged comparisons
to improve strategic competitions

Where Heaven
shining down on gratefully receiving Earth,
researches win/win natural/spiritual
co-impassioned
WholeSystemic
EarthTribe
seasoned cycles
surrounding left embodied hierarchy
for surviving unhealthy ego v eco
left competition triangles v right cooperative circles
minds v hearts
yang strength v yintegral flow
heavenly light overpowering Earth organic powers
of reflectively experienced
sensory life
revolving in seasonal light/power circles.

Heart paths are circular
spirals
while mindbody triangulated
win/win
v win/lose
v lose/lose bottom nihilistic predators
longing to resume rightful thriving sensory space
atop this iconic triangle

Elite Yang
v integral Yin
vulnerably transparent weakness
unweaponed
for linear time’s relentless devolution.

Now,
with verbal language
and geometric icons meeting
greeting re-emergent
re-volving
re-transitioning
re-connecting
re-ligioning conscientious re-memory
of God’s divine eye
looking down
judgmentally?
benignly?
compassionately?
on warm-lit
pyramids humanely made
on mountains divinely designed
left-brain verbal communication dominance
so appropriately tooled
for winAnthro overtop
of threatening EarthClimate survival issues,

Now returning to equilibrium,
interdependent waves
of interdependently EarthPatriotic grain
growing in well-seasoned healthy cycles
of fractal Annuals
growing under full-octaves
of ultra-nonviolet light
encircling win/win bright
health/wealth thriving circles
encompassing left-brain enlightening tipping points
north greets south,
east meets west

As enlightening SunLight
empowers all EarthTribes
here deeply and widely learning
listening for compassionate communications,
bicamerally co-mediating EarthMatriarchal
with SunPatriarchal co-empowering intent.

Great Green ReTrainSituation
emergent now needing
to switch from Yang strong autonomy of voice
to balance in win/win communication
with Yintegral strong light
flow of Yang empowering
resilient Circle/Triangle
Triangle/Circle co-reflective strength

LeftBrain cooperative win/win
ego/eco-balancing
politically co-invested choice-making

Prefers EarthCentric outside pleasure celebrations,
natural/spiritual indigenous story-retelling,
singing and dancing,
discussions
discernments
replacing monoculturing left brain dominance
of win/lose bottomless triangulating debate
strangulating self-infested compulsive competitions

Of overly secularized
disconnected egos
straight white privileged advancement
through military-industrialized
violently weaponed BusinessAsUsual
racist
patriarchal
deductively
reductively dualdark lose/lose
dissonant win/lose
cognitive hierarchical world views
overpowering inductive encircling views
of sensory seasonal recycling

Reiteratively rationalistic
impatient
compulsive bipolarizing disempowerment,
lack of health wealthy systemic light,
chronic stress
inducing further lack of peaceful sleep,
critically reduced right brain dream
warm circling yellow/green light
ego/eco-therapeutic
copassionate communions

Ironic recycling
great retransitioning
Earth/Heaven
Circle/Triangle revolutions
are funny/tragic bicameral relationships
s/he co-arisingly win/win felt,
then thought.

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Violence Separates Us

My senior minister just now
pointed out and in toward Washington
aware of this extraordinary Time.

Violence separates us
from the ordinary
every time,
she speaks from her own experience.

I quickly agree.

Then, notice ways I do not agree
if violence denotes
feelings of violation.

Violence does not separate military time
from ordinary civilian time;
we call that chronic stress disorder,
mental problems,
spiritual issues,
weaponized opposition.

Violence does not separate
poor people
marginalized people
ignored, neglected, and abused species,
animals,
trees,
rivers,
oceans,
soil,
air,
Earth,
from ordinary
Business As Usual Time.

This statement reminds me
of two opposing experiences
in my own life,
white privilege,
where violence is what happens to other people,
and gay male child,
all growed up in a homo-hate environment,
where ordinary violence was about what I deserved
if I were caught
being me.

We want violence to be the exception
to cooperative economics,
nonviolent communication,
restorative EarthJustice politics,
empowerment,
enlightenment experiences
of multicultural healthy wealth,
for all EarthCreatures
and living ecosystems.

Still,
on this dark night
it feels hard to painfully remember
that violence is more exceptional
to ordinary experience
for some Haves
as compared to HaveNots.

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Rome v Home

It is not necessarily established as True
that all capitalist
and patriarchal red roads
lead back to EmpireBuilding Rome

Ancient Rome as original win/lose supremacist Home
unveils no more than an intuitive health preference
for global eco-political win/win consciousness
as both ecologically True progress
way to restore win/win home
and Beauty’s economic co-redeeming GreenWealth
of peaceful bull-curved
syncopating bicameral heart-beat
within healthy win/win process home

In patriarchal survivalist competing climax
and in matriarchal thrivalist cooperative rest
and mostly in-between
with some middle mediating multicultural class
and polycultural healthy sass,
impassioned compassionate
ego/eco-nonviolent
win/win ecopolitically co-impassioned conversations,
history enculturing intelligent process
depicting depolarizing both/and
healthy progressive red through green
democracy roads
lead to EarthMother Home

In local communities
with cooperatively mentored hands
on both up and down hill
thrive and survive bilateral pulses,
best day ecological green commitments
and worst red days of egocentric challenges

Inviting further journeys back
through cooperative communication histories
concerning transubstantiated ecopolitical Trust
that all cooperative
and ecofeminist creolizing tidal rivers
ebb and swell
re-connecting secular/sacred
healthy seasoned HomeGrown
green wealth

Is cooperative
co-passionate Red/Green multi-paths
refined in disciplined Beauty
through all co-invested and matriarchally creolizing seasons
leading back and forth
in surfing green ecofeminist win/win Wombs
progressing
empowering
enlightening
communing
sacramenting
re-connecting
re-ligioning
Earth HealthyHome

Green integrity outdoor shines
enlightening transparent red historic
inside hoarding empirically specialized
military-industrialized vulnerable powers
of economic monocultural privilege.

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ReStoring EarthPeace

Now that Restorative Justice
has raised her Gaian ecological purpose,
to restore multiculturing peace
in polyphonic
polypathic Turquoise Eden,
how do you continue to justify
a win/lose Retributive Justice evolutionary philosophy
of law and moral order
as contributing to healthy
win/win
regeneratively revolutionary democracy?

Asked the ecosystemic Judge
of UnitingNations jurisdiction.

Restorative Justice
was never intended to be effective
where either victims
or predators
are unwilling,
often incapable,
of re-engaging in cooperative
interdependent
win/win dialogue,
egalitarian discernment
in-between Trust
and MisTrust
and hostile DisTrust.

So you argue
win/win regenerative assumptions
of natural/spiritual creatures
are not safely,
and not realistically, accessible
for all the healing dreams and purposes
endemic to our Gaian muse of Justice?

An insufficiency
of experience
with healthy democratic peace;
yes.

And,
how will continuing to primally rely on win/lose retribution,
where victims and a healthy society
are presumed to Win
by punishing criminals
and Loser scoflaws,
lead us toward this noble,
and globally multicultural, goal
of achieving 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 actively remediating peace,
domestic
or international,
private
or public resonant health.

How do you respond
to peace therapeutic win/win possibilities
of multiculturally mediated dialogue
to bring together victim compassion
with wrongdoer remorse,
without hyperactive threat of criminalization;
As compared to current Retributive Justice outcomes,
case loads,
imprisoned and exploited populations
of marginalized misfits,
disproportionately poor
and dark-skinned?

Traditional patriarchal systems
do not over-invest
in democratic health
or rights
of our predative
and victimized,
traumatized
feminized
marginalized
raped and pillaged citizens,
as these are not well-established
in win/win cooperative investments.

I’m not sure
arguing for further patriarchal
competitive win/lose capital-investments
helps your justice through win/lose punishment
cause.
You invite the Court to question
whether anyone is capable of sufficient Trust
toward resiliently democratic peace,
internal as external,
to actively communicate egalitarian
restorative
healthy democratic choice-making,
Facing toward compassion,
facilitating win/win disciplines,
expanding ego-recentering non-violence
therapeutically mediating ecosystemic compassion.

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Back the Black and Blue

What do you do
when you’re a black cop
at a Back The Blue protest
with a Black Lives Matter
counter-protest
in front of you,
to left and right,
and possibly pursuing your rear
and career?

Which direction
does your identity choose,
if not to feel troubled
by a false choice
either way?

Is there some platform,
strange principle,
peculiar position
among Mattering Political Black Lives
that you cannot have
a healthy vocation
while carrying a ballistic weapon
and continue being a Black Life
in good and valued standing?

Or, to Back my Blue,
must I succumb
to StraightWhitePatriarchal Privilege?

Are there any color boxes
still widely open
and deeply inviting?

Can I not aspire to become
a non-binary bound,
non-white,
ecofeminist for EarthRights
to health and safety
and peace
and restoring green justice?

Recognizing
and appreciating
only Earth as Master,
Mistress,
Goddess,
Sacred Eden.

Discarding old school memories
of enslaved custody of imprisoned eyes
and ears for hearing,
suppressing custody of healthy taste
and fragrantly smelled beauty,
of cooperative touch
and globally compassionate feeling,

Regarding green lives matter schools
and reschooled deep learning
full 20/20 ownership
of Black and Blue
and Green proud lives
for multicultural mediation.

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NonViolent Communication

NonViolent Communication
might become more
democratically and multiculturally accessible
as NonDissonant Communication,

Affectively and cognitively bilateral
and, at least potentially,
multiculturally polyempathic,
inclusive,
contextually intelligent,

Articulated more positively
as Confluent Communication

About experiences of communion
and anti-communion
and miscommunion,

CoPassionate Communication,
about multicultural
EarthTribe Healthy Communion.

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