Militarism,
and its xenophobic Nationalism brother,
are among a polarized USA’s most basic political habits
and economically competitive behaviors.
Violence with and against others
is among the most difficult and sensitive climate pathologies to deal with,
and yet at the heart,
in the heart,
of ecologically polypathic mindbodies,
nondually co-arising
climates of ego- and eco-therapeutic hope
for less violence
and more contentment,
within as without.
In and around Auschwitz
Barbed wire still weeps
through too long denied rain.
In and around Annihilation
Denied climates fast creep
toward pathology’s pain.
Through surrounding Anger
Charged hate denies sleep
for those who must explain.
In tyrannic Acid
Barbed boundaries sweep
out lies of monstrous strain.
If John 3:16 is read as,
For God so loved Earth
that S/he gave up Her only begotten-beloved Child,
so all future regenerating generations
might have eternal timeless love lives.
it doesn’t feel quite right.
It doesn’t even sound rational,
nor consistently benign,
and echoes with justification for wars
and death
and loss
and suffering,
all beginning to smell
like unfettered senseless abortions
of Earth’s regenerative full potential.
Why does changing to a more matriarchal gender
have this more inclusive effect on how we see
economies of cooperative redemption?
relentlessly consistent with political empowerment
that does not include degenerative disempowering
Win later by Lose now
short-term dis-investment strategies.
Why is it OK for fathers to give up their sons
for redemptively justified wars
as if we were just paying a surtax
but if mothers give up their children
for longer-term redemptive investment purposes
some of us call it unjustified abortion
of matriarchal WinWin moral-ethical responsibilities?
Why is it not OK for Goddess the Mother
to sacrifice the health of a beloved child today
on behalf of a wealthier life for self and others tomorrow
but maybe it is justified
for God the Father
to economically and politically invest in suffering and crucifying loss today
to redeem our more regenerative future?
The science of neuro-anatomy
appears to also be the still evolving history
of Elder Survivalist BrainStem
giving WinLose, yet still beloved, birth
to our WinWin bicameral-stereo appositional cerebral cortex.
Within this sacred regenerative internal ecology,
John 3:16 might be historically mapped as,
For Elder WinLose BrainStem,
so loved by and for and with and of Earth’s DNA/RNA energetic his/herstory,
that S/he gave birth to WinWin dipolar co-arising CerebralCortex
to co-mentor only both WinHealth Today
AND Win ReGenerative Tomorrow’s co-optimizing wealth
of cooperative optimizing opportunity.
A problem for fascist and communist and any WinLose totalitarianism
is that, Win or Lose,
eventually even the most Central Committee or Cabinet or Cortex
either paranoid blows up in warring territorial flames
of ego-centric elitist nationalism
or dies from within
through corrupt hoarding too entitled much too long,
trying to fool all the people, including each other,
all the time
about why we are willing to invest other’s sons and daughters
in our ecopolitical WinLose skirmishes of terrifying violence.
Nationalistic short-term navel-gazing grows elitist in the Core,
and cancerous
cells and organs and parties of WinLose ecopolitical self-empowerment,
without long-term Other nurturance.
Reptilian WinLose survivalist BrainStem
preys and extracts
prays and re-invests through competitions of short-term thinking
in response to self-predicated crisis,
while WinWin cerebral cortex
soars global opportunity
through long-term multiculturally regenerative design and planning
and yet also slugs on through further Business as Competitively WinLose Usual,
through OldBrain Systemic monitoring defense against unnecessary risk
of loss and suffering within this eternal-felt co-empathic now of trust
and synaptic felt antipathic distrust of pathological threats,
especially to Her/His beloved begotten children.
Each humane god/dess so beloving Earth
that we are willing to give up freedom of regenerative
reflective-reflexive internal privacy rights today
to co-mentor this co-redemptive ecopolitical society
of tomorrow’s WinWin health-wealth,
regenerating further promise of bilateral Cerebral Cortexes
of co-empathic BrainStem trust.
To all young officials wearing uniforms
and guns,
I am sorry you must respond to too many challenged residents of Earth.
It breaks my heart,
to open my compassionate mind
to this dysfunctioning society,
as you must see us every day and night,
both potential victims and potential criminals,
while all our good grace news fades into invisible understory.
No justice, much less mercy,
is possible in such a Kafka nihilistic culture
of booming chaotic rabid overpopulation,
emerging paranoid manic pathology,
while your pursuit of peace,
internal and external,
longs with us,
those without uniforms or weapons,
for a more abundantly healthy wealth
of good humored climates.
A gentler caution;
Whether we are all in a messy investigation involving,
rather than excluding,
victims who are also sometimes guilty of criminal activity,
is within your responsibility to lead,
as opposed to flying apart with assumptions
of competing truths and active distrust agendas.
If your ecopolitical outcome hopes and dreams
include more health as less social pathology,
stronger good-humored climates,
so fewer mean-humored,
vaccinations against violent actions and conversations
may need to begin with you.
Oaths to do no harm
in pursuit of healthier outcomes
apply to all who would serve therapeutic peace with justice,
mercy as basic non-judgmental interdependent co-presence.
If all challenged residents,
uniformed and not,
potential victims and criminals alike,
have turned you into a challenged officer for peace,
then time for some internal ecotherapy has become overdue,
for your healthier climate
and ours,
together.
Good Humors Create Healers
Humorless weaponed officials
applying laws
to challenged and challenging
unarmed natures,
is like expecting a rabid rattlesnake
to advocate with and for patience,
understanding through merciful listening,
to apply active love’s empathic trust,
which no just law, or practice thereof, could prohibit.
The truth of complex situations,
so necessary to uncover for wise application of our ethical codes
for ecopolitical behaviors,
is best accessed by vulnerability of co-empathic trust,
active listening,
Basic Attendance,
as is intelligent good humor.
Loss of humor’s mutual equanimity
is an ominous spiritual and natural sign
Yet another rabid rattlesnake
with too little more moral intelligence.
If you are feeling like delivering toxic venom,
rather than inviting kindness in return,
then probably best to stay home
and curl up on a warm rock.
Hard-hearted criminal intent
to neglect and abuse others
is not softened or redeemed
by anything less or more than orthopraxis of loving kindness
with a smile, as possible.
Those who expect citizens to behave civilly,
best mentor what they would optimally hope to see
on our streets and roads
and life’s Business As Usual highways
and byways.
Front-line customer service to those suspected,
or even known,
to struggle with sociopathic tendencies,
cannot be optimally effective
by treating them to further misdemeanors of humorless
cold-blooded
sociopathic
paranoid rabidity.
Are you in our shared health business,
or in our anger/fear pathology too-busyness,
or both?
If both,
which vocation seems to bring you,
and the rest of us,
better ecopolitical outcomes?
Coldly calculated
deliberately intended
terror-inducing violence,
physical and/or verbal,
is motivated by anger and fear,
but also sometimes, on a larger scale,
by beliefs that vengeance can be,
or at least eventually become,
ecopolitically justified means
toward an egocentrically healthy outcome.
Corollary: Nihilism could help me one day
feel and think and breathe OK.
Anyone who has been properly raised by four,
or perhaps even two, teenagers,
each of whom believes it is his or her,
or whatever in-between, duty
to update your more cooperative networking skills,
hopefully will have learned
that both belief in vengeful nastiness
and its nihilistic corollary
are errors in ecopolitically healthy
and correct judgment.
TO: Police Officer Training Schools
FROM: Parents EcoPolitical Cooperative for Healthy Climates
Thank you for listening to our mutual concern about escalating violence between our multicultural children
and your multigenerational health and safety vocation.
We have a few communication suggestions
that our kids have taught us over the years
about more civil responses
and authoritatively kind welcoming conjectures
and shared concerns about not-so-civilly uncooperative behaviors.
We would like to share our orthopraxis of active peacemaking
through less violent communications.
It is so important to begin and end each day and relationship
mentoring please and thank you.
Also remember to reward You’re Welcome
as always, in our shared civil lives.
We find that when we have chased a speeding stoned-out son or daughter down,
it helps to begin with
“Thank you so much for stopping.”
With a genuine smile, if at all possible.
This generally provokes shock and awe about our unusual restraint.
Within this pocket of silence
we recommend planting a kind, but quick, follow-up
“Would you please be kind enough to show me your license
to drive your mindbody vehicle in this way
at this speed
in this ecopolitical environment
of health risks and opportunities?”
Usually, our kids are only too happy to share their documentation,
such as it has become, to date.
When this is the case,
please do not forget to respond with gratitude,
“Thank you so much for your cooperation.”
If our young offenders fail to respond with
“You’re welcome”
Please do remind them that their mothers might have taught them
with more gratitude for civil public lives and roles
of responsible authority.
To remember “You’re welcome” is everything
From economics of beginning faith
to politics of ending with multicultural grace.
Sometimes translated as
Aloha
Namaste
Peace
but never Whatever…!
You’re Welcome is our mantra of cooperative ecopolitical civic lives.
You’re welcome
because we know you’re doing the best you can,
bless your competitive little egocentric heart.
You’re welcome
because we’re all on this road together,
racing through lives
screaming for a more civil pace,
we are diversely enculturing mentors of welcome,
Namaste.
If not,
then try to recall, as we do, when Police Officers
might have been known as Officers of Peace.
This pleasant morning I began
my retiring day as usual
with more reflective readings,
today from “Pronoia is the Antidote for Paranoia”
Rob Brezsny.
“In January 2003,
a Muslim gas station attendant saved a New York synagogue from arson
with his phone call to 911.
Pakistan immigrant Syed Ali watched as a man bought gasoline,
marched across the street,
and began dousing the front of the temple.
Police responded to Ali’s call in time to stop the crime.
Ali declined the mantle of hero saying
‘It was a sacred place he was going to destroy.’”
Geraldine Weis-Corbley, goodnewsnetwork.org
Geraldine is right
this is not news.
This is who we already are.
Nearly anyone in Ali’s shoes would have done the same.
Probably even Donald Trump would have called 911,
although would this be because it is a sacred place?
“As either violence [mutually-immune antipathy] or pleasure [blissful co-empathic trust] goes up, the other goes down.”
James W. Prescott
Violent absence of care comes from within
in response to hated feelings
of ego-diminishing displeasure without.
Pleasure comes in from co-empathic trust without
in response to multiculturing truths healthily syncing with beauty
empathically entrusting confluence within
from generation through generation
toward Time’s further evolution.
We all want to desensitize violent fears and aggressive angers from within.
We all want to resensitize to mutually-held and offered pleasures without,
even the awkward pleasures of calling 911
to watch the police lock up a real live Hater
and throw away the villain’s key.
We all want peace offerings of polycultural
multiculturally synergetic and magnificently transcendent beauty,
goodness
Earth-rooted moral-natural equivalence,
respect,
dignity,
mutually reassured trust,
massaged and absorbed and ringing-singing
through as many of our sensory receptors as possible,
extending our relatively monocultural-egocentric boundaries of co-empathic trust
for and with and of mutually nutritional caregiving,
as did Ali
in the story of the Hater v God’s Sacred People,
each yet another bicameral balancing sensory-empathic network story,
TaoMind as Humane Bodhisattva,
struggling with violence within
resisting co-empathic trust of Earth’s PolyCulturalingARingDinging
SacredGrace Offerings without.
Today we honor those who paid our price of violence
to protect us from each other’s monocultural excesses,
we remember deep respect for those who have done their best
when this was too often not sufficient
to return to a sustainably healthy life together
in their own families, prior loves now wilted.
We recognize and would redeem
returns to less peace
found in Business As Usual social reimmersion.
We wonder with their own feelings and thoughts,
reverberating through second generations of domestic stress,
about political seductive and reductive economic values
within normal human enterprise.
How and when war and terror might re-erupt
this premonitional memorial silence.
It’s not that I mistrust you,
though sometimes I feel I must distrust
either me or you.
I ambivalently choose both.
So yes, of course, this is about your behaviors
in relationship with mine,
aggressive and impulsive.
Behaviors of addiction
to a child’s malignant sense of humor
and anger as synaptic fear
of loving inalienable powers of freedom
from and to yet further behaviors,
too often aggressive and impulsive,
too seldom shy and demure
as water flowing into deeper gravitas.
Behaviors inspired by Assertiveness Training
on steroids,
mainlining a fix
to fill recent behavioral abstinence,
dreams and fantasies standing in for life,
addiction to action
not counting absent minutes of no behaviors.
Do not remind me
“actions have consequences.”
How is this not a vacuous tautology?
merely repeating response meets stimulus,
nouns regenerate verbs
as subjects pursue objectives.
We do not really need dualistic behaviorists
as much as we crave nondual interpreters of patterns,
feeding those with cooperative intent and, yes, behaviors,
but action, response, as praxis,
walking a cooperative walk
outspeaks talking a competing game of good v. bad behavior.
Hoping for better health next year
while pouring chemicals on our lawns
and down our throats
feels like an ecotherapist observing toxic relationships,
enumerating nutritional transactions,
despising monocultural weedpatch development trends,
counting numbers of deaths v. births through minutes passed,
only to conclude that actions,
like inactions,
have consequences,
and lack thereof.
Behaviors ebb and flow ionic,
nondual bionic,
as communication reiterates iconic truths
of history’s encultured wild addictions
fighting freedoms to develop love,
sometimes more quietly,
freedom from addiction to aggressive impulses
to share this love and fear,
lovely fear,
fearful love,
in life’s conflicted ways,
supported by ecotherapists of active communication
rather than behaviorists of counting
endless predictable cycles
of destimulating response.
It’s not so much I distrust behaviorists as scientists,
though sometimes I mistrust nondual us.
Failure to control global and national mindbody impulses,
resulting in anger-induced responses
and fear-reduced reactions,
is a failure to control climate sustainability
through indulging competitive addictions.
Regeneratively effective healers speak not as mere behaviorists;
co-mentors immerse baptized within this polypath pilgrimage
toward better communicated enlightenment,
sometimes shy and demure,
but always nondual love-management intended,
most certainly always, always kind,
though nature’s kind co-teaching/learning evolution
can feel harsh to swollen Ego’s feet,
walking in habitual circles
toward nowhere good
or true
much less divine.
What good are a child’s safe hands
with no safe mind?
What benefits emerge from kind and loving hands
tagging along with healthy motivated feet
to sustain ecologically balancing mindbody co-operators,
solidarity of EarthTribe’s EcoMentors,
too busy managing our bugs and parasitic ways
to build political economic empires of surfing sand.
I distrust myself
when reduced to behaviorist judge
of self and others.
I trust us to induce healthy communication of love as life,
robust through healthy wealth.
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