Politeness,
like kindness,
may not sell newspapers
or win the partisan debate
Civility,
unlike deviliciousness,
will not win the civil war
nor leverage the biggest tax rebate
But integrity
is the world wide web of nature
that composed the paper
and incubates
the peace we celebrate
when impolite love to hate
of systemic trauma gates
recede well past faded
therapeutic empathy,
becoming civilly sedate
Singing while dancing
in politely well-said company
not seen
or heard from
of late.
Impressive values,
like love,
claim resources that liberally breed
ecological
natural
physically happy health
and conservatively feed
emotional
spiritual
mentally glad wealth.
Oppressive disvalues
like homophobia and racism
and sexism and ageism
and ableism
and monoculturing disregard
for threats of global anthro-supremacist ecocide,
express what we are against
because these are sources of sadness,
bad health suppressions,
sad impoverishing depressions,
even mad disrepairing
retributive repressions,
investments in revenge,
apartheid demands for militarized retribution,
negative win/lose 0-sum
closed system reparations
repeating historical-monocultural
entrenched distrusted dissociations
Continuing viciously recycling
straight white patriarchal injustices
rather than positive win/win restorations
of positive
herstorical virtue circles,
polyculturally spacious
inclusive webs of EarthMatriarchal Peace.
The proposed 8th prime principle
does not positively promote
therapeutic justice.
Decontextualized focus on what we are against
betrays giving full mindful 4th Principle witness to
our disvalue shadows
against economically exploitive monopolies,
colonizing monocultural trauma,
white patriarchal monotheistic supremacy,
straight cisbinary monotony,
monochromatic anthroprivileged risk
overwhelming Earth’s resilient therapeutic opportunity.
Our health and environmentally safe wellness values
for compassionately mediating our 7th positive principle
breed universal health
and feed unitarian wealth
of sacred EarthMother’s unconditionally warm working web
playing interdependently win/win games
promoting resonantly sentient love lives,
resources,
seeds,
nonviolent wombs
polyculturing sacred communion
Like 8th Principle sperm
universally purposed
to conjoin EarthTribe’s unitarian
green/blue 7th Principle egg.
Our 7th Principle declares our positive joy
for healthy natural life
and wealthy spiritual love
embedded in sacred EarthMother’s empowering web
valuing co-invested AnthroPeace Warriors
co-infested Muses
co-passionate Sages.
Do we need and want an 8th Principle
taking a bold
unprecedented
revolutionary further step
to explicitly articulate what we actively disvalue
as the ecological antithesis
of Earth’s sacred systemic 7th Principle
of a polyculturally inclusive EarthTribe
restoring our sacred green/blue indigenous communion?
I believe our positive principles
of therapeutic health,
happiness,
empowering a wealthy sacred win/win web of polycultural beauty,
enlightened Earth/Anthro balance,
grows non-violently profound neurosystemic peace,
culminating in peak experiences
of our most recent 7th Principle.
And I believe in the synergetic completion
of perfectly pitched 8 octaves
for articulating MuseTherapy Resilience.
When the first photograph
of Earth’s revolving
green-blue living egg-womb
was broadcast back to Earth,
anthro-privilege could physically see Her
sacred healthy wealth
of profound eco-political value,
in Her health-wealthy prime
7th unitarian value
of PolyCultural Communion.
Now, in this new post-millennial Anthropocene,
we already begin to feel threats
of EarthSystemic oppression,
neurosystemic chronic trauma,
EarthTribe depression,
anxiety,
onset of anthrosupremacist remorse,
rabidly defensive denial
of rapaciously incorporated overpopulation,
despair that Win Universal Earth
and Win Unitarian Anthro healthy 7th Principle Consciousness
of herstorically positive indigenous intent
for whole-systemic thrival
too quickly fades,
foreshadowing today’s 8th Principle dispassionate discernment.
If we would dismantle sacred Earth’s historical-monocultural
systemic trauma Oppressors
of organic regenerators
recreating love-life’s multigenerational
PolyCultural Communion,
Then we might choose to restore 7th Principle EarthJustice
by letting go of less resilient
traditional win/lose anthrosupremacist images
breeding neurosystemic dissociation
and feeding toxic disvalues
of patriarchal monotheistic colonization,
monoculturing cisbinary predation,
capital economic monopolization
of therapeutic EarthMother sacred healing values
choosing regeneratively felt win/win
universally open, transparent
and unitarian holistic, vulnerable
ecotherapeutic webbed, nonjudging
nonblaming
nonshaming systems
for restoring PolyCulturing Communion
Thereby dismantling 8th negative anti-trauma disvalues
confronting Anthropocene privileged systems
of history’s monotheistic imaged
patriarchal natural capitalistic maninfested destiny,
a win/lose devolutionary privileged assault
and dispassionate battery
overpowering EarthTribe’s restorative peace
ecotherapeutic resources.
Can Earth’s monotheistic major force
of retributive injustice nature
grieve
and repent
and commit to restore
7th Principle panentheistic wisdom peace
for this,
and the next 7 sacred millennia?
Bicamerally indigenous compassionate minds
want wealth conserving hearts
and need health liberating bodies
to wisely know
life-loving
neurosystemically intelligent
Win/Win 7th Principle
therapeutic opportunities
for EarthTribe sacred healing
AND Monoculturing AnthroSupremacist
Win/Lose 8th Principle
trauma warnings
against further EarthMother dissociative harm
Against impressive values,
reconnecting love,
reclaiming 7th Principle resources
that liberally breed
ecological
natural
physically happy health
and conservatively feed
emotional resonance
spiritual resilience,
mentally glad wealth.
Yogi Berra said:
In theory there is no difference from practice.
In practice, there is
Applying this to communication theory:
In nonviolence theory
there is no difference from practice
of win/win compassion.
Yet, in Business as Win/Lose Usual
Patriarchal political monoculturing practice
and Capital monopolistic economic intent
there are no virtues calculated for compassionate communication,
for merciful creolizing political views,
and restorative forgiveness
for matricidal sins
of our StraightWhite Patriarchs
Ignorant about healthy polycultural,
resilient
therapeutic integral relationships
in response to systemic trauma.
Nonviolent communication orthodoxy
enlightens everything
but nothing positive win/win prevails.
Compassion’s transparent and vulnerable win/win practice
unveils every positive relationship
becoming co-empowered
but no one person knows why.
In our EarthRestorative lab,
nonviolent verbal theory
and compassionate nonverbal practice
are bicamerally combined:
nothing win/lose prevails
and every resilient relationship
compassionately feels why
0-sum theoretical assumptions
do not comply
with Earth’s Whole Open Systemic
virtuously therapeutic practice
of avoiding viciously competitive theories.
Enjoying Earth’s promised land
of compassionate
multicultural communion,
we share a preference for deep
rich soil
and fertile green-blue
resonating surf
As our bodies adjust
to rocky and prickly
either me
or not me space
And our minds flow
back and forth
through gooey both “me”
and organic neurosensory “we”
peace searching times
of glad/bad memory,
healthy peak and unwealthy valley
remembering felt body trauma
and mindfully resilient therapies
Inhaling Earth’s past sacred unions
Exhaling into conjoined future
compassionate communion.
These reflections came to mind
this morning
as I recalled a recent clergy question:
“What did you FEEL
when you first read
this proposal for a change
in our corporate
orthodox
Universal Salvific
and Unitarian CoRedemptive
liberated feminist tradition.”
I remember listening for neuro-sensexually
enlightened language
for distinguishing core
empowered/disempowered Feelings
primally limited to:
Glad-anticipating win/win peak mind/body experiences
Bad-anxious about lose/lose dualdark valley experiences
Sad-depressed about my own win/lose long-term chances
Mad-about suppressed short-term survival
odds against overpowering PatriarchalGod’s
timeless dispassion.
My gladness trying to thrive
despite an unholy trinity
responding to trauma history
of multigenerational peak/valley surfing
change
Transitions
in glad health opportunities
reforming bad unease
sad disease
mad missing ease
invoking dissociative
neuro-sensexual despair
informing future opportunities
for compassionate repair.
Out of twenty
LeftBrain verbal dominant responses
to this spirited natural feelings question,
only two mentioned feelings
underlying
predicting positive
and negative
and ambivalent thoughts.
One said both glad about opportunity
for deep communal dialogue
and sad about lowly lay victims
speaking against too powerful and unenlightened
religious professional orchestrations
Us v them rhetoric
creating a polarizing culture
of win/lose
0-sum
closed-off
competitive
destabilizing trauma
Lack of EarthPeace
and Restorative Justice
in the deep rich soil
and fertile green-blue surf
of nature-spirited communion
opportunities for peak dialogical experiences
of LeftMind/RightBody
enlightened/empowering
FatherSun/MotherEarth co-passionate
revival.
Another wise woman elder responded
with “confused”
which encompasses,
without resonantly resolving,
all of Glad and Bad
Sad and Mad
chaotic flowing mind
feeling toxically disembodied
from sacred healing peace
restoring EarthTribe Justice
co-passionate mission statements
EarthTribe healing vocations.
What no one said
was “compassion”
for the romantic-comedy of peak experienced Glad
and the traumatic-tragedy of dark valley experienced
Bad’s
short-term Mad
and long-term chronic Sad
Lose/Lose absence
of healthy
enlightened
messianic minds
Surfing through empowered
co-redemptive neurosensory
bodhisattva bodies
of spiritual/natural
mental/physical
co-passionate communicators
Win/win naturally resilient
co-mediating spiritual practicers
rooted in peak experiences
of comprehensive synergetic feelings
more resiliently Glad
than dispassionately Bad
Speaking our restorative justice
free and co-responsive win/win
searching truths
to patriarchal/capitalist
win/lose systemic trauma.
Back in the day,
before right hand
leftbrain dominance
became our mean girl
weaponized thing
Our bilaterally balanced grandmothers,
whether Eastern Taoists
or Western Animists
(and almost certainly both)
did not think to separate
Left from Right,
mind from body,
passion from pleasure,
if only because our peak experiences
are more co-passionately resonant
than mind v body dissonant,
unhealthy spirit v nature dissociative.
Our great-grandmother MindBodies
could feel
and touch,
smell
and taste,
hear
and see sacred ecology
long before patriarchal SunGod priests
started assuming monotheistic anthrosupremacy
While their grandmother partners
remembered more unitarian synergetic experiments
arousing healthy passion values
rooted in cooperative win/win
nondualistic pleasure.
To this day,
when we sing and dance
mind/body co-embedded,
preverbal indigenous wisdom
looks through capital-crown chakra
passions
and feels through pelvic-root chakra
pleasures
Centered,
neurosystemically emerging up
and branching out
from souls of bilateral feet,
crown/root holistic
open-heart wu-wei engaged
muse motion
depolarizing emotions
anticipating passionate in/ex-haled pleasure.
This looks and feels quite different
than the monotheistic priest
invoking his LeftBrain dominant chant
through his crown chakra
filled with orthodox information
coming off the black and white written
notation page
Read through eyes
to be translated by his throat,
supported by his anthroprivileged abdomen
to produce correctly transcribed sounds
emerging out of his well-capitalized mouth
Correct words
rhythm
beat
rests
pitch
premeditated intervals
Desecrated male bodies,
half-living in LeftBrain dominant minds,
reflect west European verbal expression
from the neck up,
with support from the heart chakra core
to orchestrate correct instrumentation
While indigenous RightBrain mindbodies
muse full-souled engagement
anticipating peak compassion pleasures
reflecting UniversalMind
and UnitarianBody
Yang/Yintegral embodied
head dancer and groin dance
resonantly and resiliently
orchestrating and co-mediating
passion and pleasure
co-climaxing indigenous engagement.
What do top and bottom
above and below
leader and follower
day and night
mountain and valley
up and down
above and below
high and low
pole and hole
convex and concave
vertex and vortex
frontsides and backsides
dominant and recessive
north and south
colonizing and creolizing
without and within
transcendent and indigenous
crown and root
sperm and egg
knowledge and wisdom
thought and feeling
mind and body
orthodoxy and orthopraxis
light and power
enlightenment and empowerment
exegesis and eisegesis
capital and corporal
SunFather and EarthMother
salvation and co-redemption
justice and peace
orchestration and co-mediation
accountability and co-responsibility
investment and infestment
co-arising and co-gravitating
have to do with
causing health-loving Egos
and effecting wealth-living EcoSystems?
Asked his
MonoTheistic Yangiversal
messianic thoughts
of her
PanenTheistic Yinatarian
bodhisattva feelings.
Not sure,
s/he replies,
Perhaps messiahs sing
while bodhisattvas dance?
This brisk, sunny March morning, I return from delivering my son to his adult daycare van.
Upon opening The Norwich Times, I delight to read the new Center for Safe Futures “will be taking a huge step forward in how well we can serve the growing number of our neighbors who need help with domestic violence…”
After reading the article, I am delighted about this significant half-step toward a more integrated and holistic service structure to improve safety and well-being outcomes for victims and survivors of violence, assault, stalking, physical and verbal hate-crime abuse, black-market sale pricing for using powerless and unheard and unseen and uncared for human bodies commodified to provide third party capital profits, and other disturbing forms of predative trauma.
Violently polarizing drama threatens trust in neighborhood-felt survival, and our civil, compassionate community thrival, every time we hear, and, god forbid, exhaustively watch depressing, national history-making news brought to us by our uncivil, wounded and wounding retributive criminal justice systems; uncaring, unhealthy, and certainly not holistic empowerment systems for nonviolent reconciliation.
My colleagues on the Norwich Youth, Family, and Recreation Advisory Board have become used to my eagerness to celebrate half-steps toward win/win strategic restorative peace while simultaneously sternly reconsidering our missing nonviolent communication step away from retributive win/lose justice systems. World wide webs pitching prey against predator, cultivating my despair about polarizing dissociative drama rooted in divisive demonizing trauma systems that do not empower resilient health and safely resonant domestic wealth.
Down near the bottom of the first front-page column I read, “Service providers and community partners will work together to break the [systemic trauma] cycle of violence and abuse.” Wow! Now this is an unexpected good news mission statement!
On second thought, it does echo messianic scriptured messages about the Christian Prince of Peace’s salvific mission, and that, so far, feels like an aging, poor in spirit, and increasingly despairing half-empty step toward downsizing EarthJustice expectations for global nonviolent peace and justice.
In my wild decaffeinated morning meditations, this eagerly anticipated aspiration, to break the win/lose bonds of systemic trauma, reminds me of a huge covenant change proposed for discussion at All Souls UU, in New London.
“We covenant to dismantle racism and all forms of systemic oppression.” I wonder how we would practice such powerful “Beloved Community” passion. How could our faith communities help break the vicious cycle of violence, abuse, and emotional neglect fueling neurosystemic trauma?
Perhaps Restorative Justice and Peace Reconciliation practices of nonviolent communication could empower transparent and vulnerable dialogue between defendants and predators, so often brought together and stuck together by addictive codependence–which feels safer, and economically healthier than aching loneliness, emptiness, hopelessness, despair of punishment, shame, blame, Othering judgments that we do not merit unconditional warm regard.
My own therapeutic feelings of hope, informed by Multicultural Community Mediation, focusses on safer and healthier and emotionally wealthier compassionate relationships. Empowering intention and win/win designed retention I cannot find in this article. It misses a redemptive half-step that could prophetically declare we will not tolerate the “vengeance is mine” heresy that perpetuates future victimization. Excommunication brought to us by judicial and police systems inciting weaponized trauma among those voted least likely to succeed by disassociated peers.
Is it reasonable to hope this Center for Safe Futures, and all the best intervention and prevention practices advertised by an expanding Family Justice Center model may be fully baptized in the peace-making waters of Restorative Justice?
Will domestically healthy and safe mission statements survive the ribbon cutting to become resiliently saved from past systemic trauma sins of our Straight White Patriarchal fathers?
I guess I’m still waiting, as my acidic coffee stomach turns cold with impatient curiosity, for some other brilliantly brighter good news front-page article announcing the multiculturally grand virtues of neurosystemic trauma-informed therapeutic projects to ReCenter Healthy Bodies and Safe Mind Wellness Futures.
Compassionate futures that restore virtuous communion circles of therapeutic repair–and not viciously retributive, accountability trauma hierarchies continuing to promise more efficiently enlightened from-above services, still half-stepping toward managing a universally disunitarian pandemic of dissociative despair.
While the sacred ecologist within
re-cognizes Bucky Fuller’s pre-millennial insight
What appears,
from a transcendent distance,
to be a static
entirely monocultural
universal Vertex,
A Black circular Whole
at New Moon midnight,
while circling outside
physical Earth nature
May also feel
like an ecstatic unitarian Vortex
from a co-empathic inside
panentheistic spirit
of complexly synergetic compassion
Especially when experiencing
a peak polycultural
mountain/crown-1.00% SunLight
valley/root-0.00% EarthPower
1 Prickly Here
enters co-invested Gooey 0 Now,
inserts the ghost of Allan Watts
conserving Red
nutritional economic AnthroPrivileged
LeftBrain precessive Vertex
reconnecting with Green
nurturing eco-polycultural EarthTribe
RightHemisphere recessive Vortex
BiCamerally polypathic,
binomially polymathic
throughout Full Moon
peak and valley surfing
in and out-side
In bodied Here
and back out expiring Now
vortex/vertex
mind/body
metaphysical/physical
spirit/nature
immanent/transcendent
valley/peak
womanist/patristic
womb/phallic
0/1 iconic Peace Warriors,
ironic MusEcologists,
ionic Vertex/Vortex
Crown/Root Sage MetaPhysicists
in hypostatic triune reunion
Right-felt/Left-thought communion
EarthTribe reconnecting
under a Full Moon,
peak and valley
vertex and vortex
crown and root chakra
mind/body
compassion surfing
in solidarity
with the indigenous wisdom
of prickly Crown MotherTrees
nurturing gooey RootSystemic
co-infested peak experience
Empowering further orthopraxis
with BlackWhole root systemic compassion
EarthTribal
universal/unitarian
vertex-from above
and vortex-from within
panentheistic Integrity.
At sixteen
People’s Bible Church
sent me from rural Michigan farm lands
to Moody Bible Institute
in siren-screaming Chicago
Church fathers assumed,
despite curious evidence to the contrary,
that I was a StraightWhiteMale
born-again
wanna be choir director
Because I could sing with gospel appeal
and dance with evangelical zeal.
It was in Chicago
I learned some LeftBrain orthodoxy
of RightBrain orthopraxis
I had always felt,
from the Muse within.
This mind/body orthopraxis of singing
peak and valley embodied feelings
as opposed to merely memorizing lyrics
and vocal intervals
and rhythms
and sacred silent rests
in Earth’s indigenous Wisdom
Would sometimes swell up and out
from the souls of my Yang conducting feet
Music beginning with primordial
root chakra Yintegrity
positively impressing our full
sacred neurosystemic embodied
Muse
Heading up and down
and all around my heart chakra
mind/body double-binding
co-arising
in-between nonboundary
where transcendent monotheistic gospel
orchestrating, from above
cherishes EarthMother’s immanent empowerment,
mediating, from within
moving soulful choices
inviting good news Yang voices.
Those instructors who were planning
to more comfortably conduct
with their dominant right wing
orthodox uninspired messaging bodies
did not actively encourage us
to move below our stagnant necks
On the other hand
we had one woman of color
who invited each morning
conducting from the souls of our feet
with sufficient passion
to raise FatherSun’s
octaves of co-enlightenment.
She conducted warm-ups
considerably more athletic
than eremetic
Stretching compassion’s inside muscles
primal joint relationships
bicameral minds and lungs and hearts
while reaching
teaching
preaching outside ancient light/power
Musing memories
of dance
and prance
and, occasionally, communal trance.
Sadly,
merely sixteen,
I returned to conservative
rural homophobic xenophobic patriarchal anthro-privileged
RightWing dominant
People’s MonoTheistic Bible Church
more comfortable making metronomic
1-2-3-4
points like the 4/4
fractal sign
of a triumphantly crowning cross
While singing,
from my own entitled head-voice
repeating orthodox melodies
from disembodied traditional memories
At my peak experience best,
from my core heart chakra diaphragm
breathing in dogmatic history’s choices
while expiring more sacred
gay and trans-inspiring
transporting
orthopraxis
of ancient healthy sung passions
and wealthy moving beauty
written across every bipartisan resonant heart
Good news singing
and LeftBrain orchestrating
but not really great shoes moving
and RightBrain mediating
cooperative engagement in communal resonance
and community full-bodied
root-systemic resilience
Strong enough to carry
through six days
of secular ecocidal
lack of sacred Yang/Yintegral orthopraxis
transcending mere orthodox
religiously repeated narratives
To more fully embrace
wellness-souled
song and dance
gospel-passioned praxis
orchestrating FatherSun’s Yang dusk
while mediating MotherEarth’s Yintegral
empowering redawn
of indigenous nondualistic
nonviolent
nonverbal wisdom
Wellbeing mindful sung
and
Wellness rooted dance
up and out
from the souls of our feet
on EarthMother’s natural beat.
When personal narcissism
and tribal autism
choose our words
as hurting
threatening
weapons of trauma defense
Rather than choosing wealth
of healing tools
for compassion’s therapeutic unfence
We soon find
that no one cares
to impatiently listen
outside our partisan walls
For whatever future win/win kindness
and EarthCare forgiveness
we cannot trust
will last.
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