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Another Cock and Bull Story

The highest and best purpose
of cocks and bulls
is to ejaculate
a strong natural and spiritual warm
wet vision flow
transparently cuming
into a spiritual and natural warm
wet throbbing receptor
vulnerably naked milking
sucking and releasing
waves of wanton,
yet sacredly inviting, place,
home,

Some divinely receptive
receiving
regenerating
reconnecting
democratically reconstituting
win/win space,

Just as a tree’s sappy purpose
is to produce a nut
by autumn,
preferably,
naturally and spiritually
without unhealthy climate performance pressures,

Just as an organically leafed stem’s secular purpose,
and sacred meaning,
is to produce at least one flower,

Just as organic empowerment’s
diurnal and nocturnal
monthly and annual
and life/death-recycling purpose
is to produce well-seasoned
healthy meaning
of wealthy enlightenment,

Peace just restoring
as secular ecological co-governance
communicates meaningful purpose
to reproduce healthy
multicultural
sacred theologically regenerative experience,
memory
images
imagination
complex thought/felt
secular/sacred reweavings.

Just as left-brain’s ethological
deepest and wisest
healthiest and wealthiest purpose
is to reproduce right-brain’s flowing intuitive
transparently vulnerable reflections

Erupting into herstorical
multiculturing
matriarchal DNA reMEMEs
originating univeral Yang
unitarian Yintegral
climaxing regenerative experience
re-memory
re-imagination
re-storation
re-demption
re-weaving
re-creolizing
re-volutioning
re-substantiating
re-incarnating
re-living anthro/eco-organic
Paradise/Pleasure win/win systems,

Natural
and spiritual
cocks and bulls
inside ecofeminists
they ejaculatively serve,
empower,
co-enliven
co-invest
co-enlighten

With highest and best multiculturing purpose
and sacred health/wealth
win/win
polycultural
polypathic
polyphonic
polyvagal
polypassioned meanings
deeply and widely regenerative.

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Sinister Ministers

I feel quite certain
can
is to canister
as sin
is to sinister

Lust
is to luster
and teach
is to teacher
as preach
is to preacher

But not mini
is to minister
as not what sinister sermons
are to lusty sermonizers.

It also feels
like cause
for pause
that war
is to warrior
but we have no equivalent language
for peace
is to peacer.

We do have blessed
are the peace makers
but not peaceful players

Or cooperative
equivalent to peace
and restorative justice
workers.

Now I feel curious,
so probably no threat of furious
I can not put this can
back in my canister,
ban my empowered banister,
or limit my ignorant sins
to neglecting intuitive sinister.

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Multiple ReGenerations of HealthCare

First Regenerations
merge into Earth’s ecolove
our individuating way

Tips pointed toward ego/eco-faith co-acclimating communities,
bilaterally balancing Either/Or left-brain dominance
monoculturing competitive economics

And Both/And right-brain polyculturing prominence
enlightening cooperative internally bicameral politics

Giving rise to Second Generations
of bipolar RightHand
and dipolar LeftHand
ego/eco-faith in healthy
trusted
resonant
non-violent communications

Inviting Third ReGenerative communities
of ego active hope
for individual salvation
within our original eco-faith
EarthTribe collaborative

For co-redemption
through cooperatively-owned communion
of individual EgoLefts
within communal EcoRight
integrity
synergy
win/win energy.

What happens in this Fourth ReGenerational Event?
This remembering moment
when ego’s active win/win hope
for non-triumphalistic sensory pleasure,
patriarchally precluding multicultural sexual paradise,
falls into cycles
and recycling hopelessness,
bipolar either/or
win/lose
all/nothing issues and concerns;

Degenerating
into a lose/lose global universal climate
of disunited despair

Looking back
to our original warm wet wombed,
nurturing and natural,
secular and sacred
health and wealth of win/win safety

How do we best and brightest
humbly recycle to this new ecolove
in Fourth ReGenerative win/lose risk
and win/win bicameral opportunity?

Toward revisiting ego/eco-faith communities
characterized not by whom we choose to hate
but by whom we could not help
but choose to love
in life’s polypathic integrity
and not Death monoculturing
polarizing dissonance
left over
from prior Triumphalistic Histories.

Do we,
Do I,
have sufficient courage
to cooperatively discuss
as yet undervalued ecofeminists
in my own win/win herstory?

Back toward Third ReGeneration
ego/eco-curiosity

Reiterative
Recycling
circular spiraling
actively revolutionary
depolarizing dipolar hope.

How does active secular/sacred faith
in win/win health and safety opportunities
continue to dipolar co-arise?

Not so much bipolar co-gravitate
toward inevitable lose/lose global monoculturing
further business as usual
climates of despair

Anthro-LeftBrain constitutions of privilege
over and against
EarthTribe RightBrain integrity

Further sacred
polycultural nutrition
polytheistic feelings
ecofeminist flow
healthy-wealth bilateral systemic function
of win/win safest empowering Left
and enlightening Right
co-opportunities
Fourth-Fractal ReGenerative co-invested

In further First through Fourth ReGenerations
of ecopassion,
ego/eco-bicameral win/win faith,
regenerating interdependent mindbodies
climaxing health and wealth of safety choices

To even further invest
in AnthroReMEMEbering EarthTribe prehistoric hope
commitment
compassion
solidarity
courage

Curious recycling
repurposing
redeeming
multiculturally reconnecting
ego/eco-original warm wet wombed
co-attachment
co-investing
dipolar co-arising EarthPeace
restoring justifying love

Of transparent faith communities
dogmatic only about GoldenRule perpetuating
actively co-invested empowerment,

CoOperatively enlightening original regenerations
of ego/eco-active hope
for ever greening
EarthTribe reconnecting
red hot passions
cooperatively shared,
communally owned,
win/win consciously governed
co-managed spirals
of fractal regenerative love

Faith,
hope compassioning recycles

Away from lonely win/lose individual hopelessness
and, thereby, toward win/win
communal eco-political opportunities
furthering multiculturally valued
democratically active
global green hope
for Climax ReGenerations
rehealthing 20/20 wealth.

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Faithful Thought Experiment

Imagine your favorite faith community,
whether sacredly vocationed,
or, more prosaic, secularly employed,
is also home to your local Green Freedom Party,
intentionally multipartisan.

This community intends to remain compassionately faithful
to short-term local
through long-term global
public and climate health
of all organic ego/eco-systems.

And you believe
it is your most fundamentally sacred/secular faith,
that polyculturing systems
are more resonantly felt,
and resiliently thought,
empoweringly experienced
and most golden enlightenment reflected,
to be healthy

While monoculturing,
predative,
competitive
win/lose ego/eco-systems
are more dissonantly
dissociatively felt,
and bipolar ignorantly thought
to be regeneratively stronger
win/lose capital-infested options
for retributively justifying
further business as usual investments
in ego/eco-unlogical short-term local
sacrifice of robust long-term ecological global intellighence
on the altar of patriarchal privileged
mono/theocratic original
from-above transcendent
top of the luminous natural/spiritual hierarchical
divine dividing humane from animistically enspirited
dogmatically divisive
apartheid bipolarizing degenerative structure,
anthropocentrically left-brain dominant

Rather than the circling
spiraling revolutions
of Great Interdependent GreenChain CoEmpowerment
for Ego/EcoLogically BiCameral Balance

Running from contemporary Zeroism
through Whole NonZero-Sum NonViolent NonDualistic Metaphysics
through Universal/Unitarian bilateral balance
of egalitarian democratic
multiculturally interdependent
Ego/Eco
Blue/Green EarthCommunion,
on back through Taoism’s Yang/Yin
Left/Right dipolar co-arising
co-governance
co-passioning bicameral experience
of empowering/enlightenment

Nearly timeless
and luminously spatial
loyal multicultural EarthMediators,
win/win strategic nature/spirit facilitators,
compassionate green/blue/red non-violent recommunicators,
restoring ego/eco-justice
yin/yang co-governing peace,
bilaterally co-acclimating
messianic ecofeminist bodhisattvas.

Where verbal violence
and non-verbal multiculturally healthy intelligence
are written across
and deeply within
this deep learning binomial language
best sun and danced synergetically
rhythmically
cooperatively
communally
organically
eco-politically
across each green/blue ecofeminist empowering heart.

From this eco/theological co-reflective center,
your Green Liberty MultiParty home
regeneratively invites your local interfaith dialogue
about how,
eco/theo-analogical secular/sacred
ego/eco-logically reflecting together
for integral restorative win/win EarthJustice,
you might progress
toward a healthier local cooperative win/win empowering dialogue
with more polycultural resonance
and a wealthier short-term local,
long-term global
co-invested economic ecological
ecofeminist alternative to further
self-righteous anthropocentric-winged
degenerative capital lose/lose projections

For evermore patriarchal oppressions
suppressions
depressions
win/lose monoculturing
left-hemisphere dominantly competitive win/lose
either/or dualistic LoseEgo/LoseEco
rabidly viral competitions
polarized red-hot debates
into global unhealthy disintegrating
anti-ecological deprivation
of both enlightening health
and empowering wealth–
a total public and climate health/wealth
lose/lose disaster,
division transparently undivine

Green Liberty MultiParty experiences
memories
predictions
self-perpetuating restrictions
on patriotic green multicultural freedom
for all potential healthy red-powered patriarch
and wealthy green-lit ecofeminist
dipolar co-arising BiCameral Community Allies

Reweaving secular
restoring sacred
regenerating natural
revolutioning spiritual win/win healthiest wealth
through and of and for bicamerally inclusive re-MEMEories,

Ecologically EgoYang
universal left-verbal strong explicit reflection
on theologically spiritual EcoYintegral unitarian

Ego/Eco-felt outflowing implied
bilaterally systemic-structured
co-empathic
polypathic
polyphonic
polyvagal-neural
polymathic
polynomial
polyfractal
DNA regenerative health-systemic
empowering/enlightening bicameral experience

More truthfully weighed
and beautifully tipping point balanced
when we feel at home
in our local co-governing
Green Liberty Win/Win MultiParty
for BiCameral Health/Wealth Platforms
Templates
Dialogical-Integral Frames
[not so much Dogmatic Debate NonCommunications]
MultiCultural Community Mediations.

Win/Win sponsored by your local/global
ego/eco-polyculturing
GreenHealth Earth-ReGenerNation

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Surprising Demise

Oh what I would long to see
and breathe
and free

This polypathic wisdom
of a root and branched
systemic tree

Nurturing
Yintegral root systems
breeding Me
while YangSun branches
reach up and out
nutritionally feeding We

Polyphonic remembering
systematic Theology
of naturally spiritual experiences,
humanity experiments
in win/win Ecology

Both non-verbally felt internally
as healthy win/win
despite unwealthy respite
lost in lose/lose metaphysicality

Thought through verbal reflections
on fraught externality,

Positive/Negative
ego/eco-organic organizationality,
bilateral dipolar integrity

NonZero Souls Summarily
Whole ego/eco-systemic bicamerality

Emergently left-brain verbal dominantly
Yang solidifying v Yin flowing plasticity

Resisting overpowering generations
of straight white patriarching
capitalist win/lose competitions
rabidly degenerating

Into a lose/lose DeathCuture, ecopolitical
Rabidly pursuing viral apocalyptic climates
unraveling a global pandemic
anti-ecological

Autocratic
automatic military devolutionary industrializing
colonizing
predative post-millennial disaster mongering
kleptocratic

And,
the opposite
of Making Nationalistic
Idolatrous
Supremely white racists Great Again

Against Liberal Lovers
of healthy eco-messiah feminists,
non-violent communicating bodhisattvists
YangChrist/YinBuddhists
exploiting only Ego/Eco-Originalists
within win/win ultra-nonviolet consciousness.

Oh what I would long to see
and breathe
and free

This polypathic wisdom
of a root and branched
surprisingly simpler
systemic tree.

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Egos DisTrumpian

Resiliently healthy ego identity
emerges from a lifelong process
of interdependent ecosystemic individuation

As LeftBrain verbal dominance
historically emerges
from multiculturing RightBrain synergetic feelings

Unchanging physical being
frames embodied transubstantiating
creolization processes of becoming co-acclimated.

All or Nothing dogmatism
arrests incommensurable divides
between naturally embodied ego health
and spiritually minded ecosystemic wealth.

Win/Lose leftbrain stuck
seeks rightbrain alliance
toward healthy Win/Win unstuck freedom
constrained by co-arising dipolarity

Such as deductive and reductive thoughts
left hemisphere verbalized;
Inductive and conductive feelings
right hemisphere non-verbally felt

Unchanging autonomous Ego
in win/lose evolutionary worldview
gestalt
opens and/or ecosystemic healthy co-acclimating
progressive views of natural/spiritual Earth-habitat

Created of and for win/win revolutioning life
death
relife
repurpose process
multiculturing views
of organic EarthTribe’s compassionate communion
communication

Global restorative justice
and peace communities

When secularized,
fundamentally severed from sacred Earth
spirited
processive
permissive Nature.

Sensed space
is to embodying processes
of dynamic transporting Time
is to changing
processing
democratically co-empathic
inside/outside bilateral Mind
ego/eco-revolving Earth’s seasonal revolutions
of transportive spiral SpaceTime

Bilaterally eradiating through disembodying space
surrounding out transportive
transcendent SunLight
of solar evolving systemic
sublime-Time
within universally emergent Space
without insufficient uniting Time

For co-laterally changing healthy compassionate
embodied space/time Minds
in sensory-spaced humane bodies

Of incensed EgoSpaces
are to constrained embodiment
as dynamically transporting EcoSystemic Time
is to spirally co-arising healthy
freeing Change.

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DisConnecting Dogmas

Our humane-empowering species,
steeped in regenetic history
of human nature connecting
disconnecting
reconnecting
preconnecting,

Has an unfortunate tendency,
especially in Abrahamic historical traditions,
to imagine that our own religious tradition
is not only free of historical-cultural adaptation
but also the one supremely right-wing Way
orthodox Truth
healthy Life.

And, further, guilty of inhumane hubris,
of condemning those outside our dogmatic Fold,
our LeftBrain dominant individualistic EgoFrame,
to lack of redemptive grace,
to after-life Hell,
to lack of true communion
within today’s Earth
holonic
regenerative Spirit
of inclusive win/win recommunication,
empowerment
and enlightenment,
sacred awe
and secular wonder.

Due to this patriarchally influenced
left-brain privileged assumption,
HumanNature lives disconnected
in a win/lose racing economy,
determined by our orthodox religious
and other monoculturally privileged associations
and dues,
catechisms
and formative scriptural over-simplifications
and decontextualized
unhistoricized
dis-enculted
starkly isolated from human experience
studies,

When the practices
and beliefs
of those raised inside the Fold
become obviously heterodox,
our too often StraightWhiteMale authority voices
move toward excommunication,
shunning future cooperative
mutually creolizing empowerment,
remaining true-blue
dogmatically zealous
about our hidden
left-brain dominant
Earth-colonizing
anthropocentric mission,
messianism,
millennialism

And this left-brain overpowered indulgence
has repeated this disconnection,
this unredemptive severance,
this patriarchal apartheid preference
since prehistoric nature/spirit indigenous tribes,
long before Abrahamic written stories of Judaism,
Christian redevelopment,
and Islamic reform came into Earth’s empowering
and enlightening
constantly changing
evolving
revolving
spiraling regenerative connecting
communing
communicating traditions
nutritions
communions shared by all God’s living creatures.

One way of reading the economic
and political turns in the Gospels
is to see the story
of Pharisees
Saducees
and TaxCollectors
as Jewish authorities
who wanted to excommunicate EarthCreator’s Messiah
for stepping outside dogmatic institutional lines
of orthodoxy
and institutional
corporate
empire investment.

Rather than adapting,
co-acclimating to Jesus’s spiritual experience
of a Creator Abba
of regenerative
nurturing
co-passionate Love,
These WealthyElite saw their own unchanging Torah,
established commandments
educational and administrative regulations
dogmatic structures
and long histories of authoritative rabbinical interpretations
of Jewish Law,
as a final
closed religious system,
too privileged,
too Chosen,
supremely endowed with Yahweh’s divine teachings,
to be inconveniently challenged
by anyone with a deviant spiritual experience.

Academic awareness of positive integral deviance
is a modern empowering
enlightening
reconnecting hope with good faith.

What might we learn from this disconnecting
dogmatic
dark side of our GoodNews epistles?

Perhaps less arrogant
and internally preoccupied authorities
might appreciate our more multiculturally healthy milieu
within which all historically developed traditions,
cultures,
religions
have emerged
to describe connection integrity
and proscribe disconnection chaos.

Perhaps our positive deviant minds
and hearts
and spirits
and souls could be encouraged
to find a better religious tradition fit
to become more integrally accepted
and interdependently valued
as s/he/they continue their spiritual/natural journeys
into empowering multiculturally synergetic Truths
enlightening Ways
compassionate Lives,

Rather than the current hubris
of excommunicating
from the one and only True sacred Fold
in divine flowing rivers
of polyculturally communing
sacred EarthTime,

Revolving
evolving
spiraling regenerative climate and culture Changes,
positive diversity,
healthy empowering Missions
for enlightening wealthy spirit/nature vocations,

Reconnecting where each individual
has been,
accepted as now experienced,
and pointed in a new community support direction
toward that good faith
we hope to multiculturally become,
tomorrow’s peaceful practitioners
restoring Justice For All,
with no one left outside Earth’s
empowering local
enlightening global
Fold.

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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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Turquoise Pond

Earth’s turquoise pond faces,
green life
blue reflecting

Re-membering under each calm surface
re-ligioning disparate
dispolarizing themes
of Spiral EcoPolitical Dynamics,

Surrounding forest factors,
time flowing forward
and re-connecting backward,
spirited and well-natured space,
health-reconditioning place,
win/win ego/ecosystemic democratic
developing pace

Awakens EarthHumane empowering systems
within curious individuals
living amid courageous global multicultures

Designed to win/win strategize with,
and co-acclimate to,
co-articulating BlueHealth/GreenWealth
calm-faced repositions.

Some individuals may be born
deviantly blue/green
in and out
through timeless spiraling time

Calm,
apparently placid,
yet full
ripe mindbodies

Win/win reset for a 20/20 turquoise millennium
just beyond green/yellow current depolarizing horizons
of most non-red Others
human and not not quite extinct
instincts of non-violent thoughts
with eco-feeling climates.

In this best of health/wealth EarthTime,
positive psychopolitical feminists
are revered as non-violent bodhisattvas
and matriarchal messiahs,
pathfinders,
20/20 peace-revolutionary visionaries.

In other bubbling
troubling
autocratic red-dominant times,
Turquoise ecofeminists are imprisoned,
burned-at-the-stake,
banished,
twitter-bullied,
enslaved,
raped,
pimped out,
polluted,
diluted,
seduced,
reduced

Reproduced
for a healthier
calming wealthier
pond-faced place
in Turquoise Timeless Time.

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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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