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Statements by C are drawn from Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, as is the title of this piece, pp 169-170,The Evolving Self: A Psychology for the Third Millennium, 1993. With deep ecological appreciation.

Herein, the evolutionary positive psychologist's voice is that of C, leaning sometimes toward the yang-ego identity side, while the evolutionary ecopolitician's voice, doing his best to play WinWin ecotherapist, is D. C: The best way to live is by learning to control [Ego-Left] consciousness D: by also deep learning to ecologically extend RightBrain flowing ecoconsciousness. To do so, evolution, whether personal or political larger stage, cultivates certain permacultural-multicultural nurturing skills. C: Ego acquires a discipline that at first may seem like mindless ritual D: to acquire integrative flow, at first feeling too mindfully rich with interdependently intuited trusting truths, senses, expressions, analogies, nutritional potential, vibrancy, buoyancy, bliss, even manic loss of clear-cut identity boundaries. But, together, these Yang-Left with Yin-Right conversations, ecological health discernments, slow-grow integrative deductive-vertical and inductive-bilateral spiraling revolutionary flow with our universal-Yang/Yintegral unitarian order; where Yang is to universal patriotic political wealth as Yin integrates unitarian matriotic nutritional health-flow. C: Unless a person learns to control [Left-Right Balancing therapeutic] consciousness, he or she cannot achieve harmony with the cosmos, but will forever remain prey to the random forces of biology and society. D: And, as we all ecologically learn to both control and communicate LeftYang/RightYintegral harmonic ego/eco-consciousness, Earth will continue evolving toward diastatic ecological harmony within our shared interdependent deductive/inductive climate flow, but will remain LeftBrain dominantly vulnerable to co-arising nondual coincidental pathological faces of Business As Competitively Usual economics and political divestment of sustained health relational time, and, oh yes, money. C: Nor will we know how to direct evolution toward greater complexity unless our [ego] consciousness becomes more complex. D: Nor will we polypathically know how to co-mentor multiculturing evolution toward greater regenerativity unless our ego/eco-conscious energetic balance becomes more integratively extended. C: What makes us different from other animal species is the variety and mutual dependence of our psychic processes. D: And what makes us polypathically and ecologically similar to other primates is this same integrative-symbiotic variety and multiculturing interdependence of newer deductive/reductive Left-Yang patriarchal dominance emerging from Elder Right's matriarchally embryonic nurturance. C: Evolution is the [deductively rewarded] history of the complexity of living matter. D: And, EarthTribe's revolutions, within evolution, are the inductively integrative matriarchally nurtured regenerativity of ecologically extending families, networks, ecosystems destined for multigenerational Paradise, predestined by embryonic DNA/RNA solidarity of reweaving healthy wealth memories; time as light's fertility with dualdark aptic-integrative hibernation, in-between, MidWay dancing wu-wei CoMentors. C: We cannot easily advocate a certain preference for complexity, or relinquish our [ego] responsibility for helping evolution along D: by seizing our regenerative ego/eco-conscious cooperative opportunities, investing our eco-integrative RightBrain invitations to co-mentor multiculturing polypathy along.

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