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Making Space For Love

It might take a more comprehensive review to explain why I thought it would make sense to read The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Anger: Using DBT Mindfulness and Emotion Regulation Skills to Manage Anger (Chapman and Gratz) AND Evolutionary Enlightenment: A New Path to Spiritual Awakening (A. Cohen) at the same time, in dialogue with each other. But, in short, Cohen is about optimizing love and happiness, joy and peace, while Anger Management is all about minimizing the negative emotions: anger, fear, envy, etc. How to emerge a love of life as light is also about how to reinvest an anger-fear-hate lack of life. I wonder, as I find this Love Evolution Story and the Anger Devolution Story not really addressing each other as nondual dipolar relationship, if developing higher co-empathic consciousness as "love" is like looking only at the front end of the proverbial elephant to fully comprehend "love-elephant", while dialectical therapy tends to focus more remedially at the ass-end of this same love-elephant. If so, how can this be fully dialectical, much less ecotherapeutically optimizing, if dialogos refers to dipolar and bipolar appositional and oppositional relationship and system-developmental dynamics? If a planet of perfect love is well-governed, full-dialectically self-comprehensive, ecoconsciously balancing and moderating elationally negative and positive emotions and cognitions, if anger is cathected to our individual and collective past, as projected time cathects to future fear, we meet this full-octaved elephant of love within a balancing bicameral harmonic spacetime's Positive CoPresent Presence. The elephant's rear view teaches what the front view co-mentors, we love our nutrient receptors, our trunks and eyes, mouths and ears, leading our holonic creation story's mindbody toward comprehensively discerning our best nutritional fields and meals and vocations, therapeutically heading toward a healthier love future, avoiding fore-knowable anger and fear of future threats. Which is front and which is back, which is cause and which is effect isn't necessarily the same question if we know these two are one nondual co-arising love-purposed elephant. It doesn't ultimately matter whether you are Left MindBody dominant, overly competitive Anthro- and EgoCentric, a Divinely Inspired Universal Host of Deductive Intelligence, or Right MindBody eco-parasitic inductive-intuitive, co-arising co-messianic mentor of (0)-interest economic karma investments, and political Win-Win grace and beauty, health and love balancing CoPresent Bodhisattva Warrior and EcoEarth Occupier both hemispheres, front as Elder Right Internal TemporalAptic Unity, back as Newer Left External Universe engaging Other, as long as together they make love, and not more angry fearful cognitive-affective dissonance and death. Either way, LeftMindNature or RightHeartSpirit dominant, or vacillating back and forth from moment to moment, or day to day, it appears that Julian Jaynes has this Bicameral MindBody nondual consciousness about right, as a species, so too as a humane naturally evolving individual within this co-arising species, we start out Right MindBody temporal-syntax dominant and non-languaged, in the middle of our creation story we emerge more or less bicameral intelligence as MidWay wu wei Balanced CoOperative Time Investors, some disturbing mix of Love, with Anger and Fear, then age toward less competitive cognitive/affective Left-Right dissonance of chronic, rather than climatic, anger, while catching up on our lack of dreamy sleep. Here, on this cusp of remembering BiCameral EcoConsciousness from which our DNA emerged, Business As Competitively Usual Elders and Cultures, with dominant "Don't Lose to Losers" enculturation and Ego investment, may well move into a terminal climatic stage of increasing fears about Ego's lack of sufficient time due to the increasingly high risk of disease and death. Yet, this climatic crisis in our Interior Landscapes may remind us of larger ecological climatic crises and cognitive-affective revolutions, contentioning content hoping contenting outcomes, that have led to ruminations and reincarnations of regenerative forms and functions and still-evolving PresentPresence co-creation stories, from process and ecosystemic teleologies through Genesis on back to YangPower equals Yin's dark past/future dialectic flow, as our EarthTribe regenerating ecotherapeutic language for how to both live and die with full-power and integrative diastatic nutrient faith flow, rich compost for future Time's ReGenerating PolyCulturally Balancing EcoElating ErosLove Story ReMix of PolyPathic SelfEgo/SacredOther EchoLoving CoArising His/Herstory.

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