Three Faces of Wisdom

I am reading minds and potentially wise political bodies with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, again. He speaks of three interdependent aspects of wisdom. The first is rooted in ecoconscious comprehension of how and why knowledge, deductive information, facts, beliefs may be both regeneratively positive and degeneratively negative. Wisdom begins with knowledge but ends in polypathically comprehensive comprehension. As knowledge evolves, grows, that it does so following ecologically regenerative trust and yet also ecopolitically degenerative mistrust principles of natural symbiotic and entropic procedures rooted in nature-spirit Earth systems, becomes what Bucky Fuller called synergetic comprehension, and what Edward de Bono called the combination of LeftBrain vertical with RightBrain lateral thinking to become bilaterally comprehensive in a deep ecological comprehension wu wei wisdom way. The second face of wisdom is yang-virtue, rooted in the Roman nomial for man. While ecologically comprehensive consciousness thinks the nurturing thought, virtue walks the walk of Bodhisattva righteousness, of acting with integrity rather then wading through hidden paranoia about internal hypocrisies threatening to become public nuisances, public knowledge, publicly marginalizing issues, where public may be as small as one's spouse or most nuclear family. The combination of ecoconscious awareness maturely integrated with virtuous lifestyle, including, for some, healthy rich family relationships of mutually cooperative integrity, derives the third face of wisdom, which Csikszentmihalyi expresses as happiness and which Laotse felt as self and other nurturing contentment; a kindness that is uniquely accessible to humane nature in full self-governing maturity. Where comprehension and integrated virtuous, honest, action do not result in contentment, the seeker of wisdom is suffering losses through cognitive-affective dissonance, dismay, often chronic depression. Where comprehension and virtue, ecopolitical deep learning and integrative choices do not easily settle for our WinLose ecopolitical norms, when WinWin is the more obvious healthy and wealthy choice, polypathic comprehension can be seriously compromised by LeftBrain dominant paranoid dissonance, rather than Left/Right balancing psychological and political outcomes of Ego peace with Earth justice contentment. The remaining distance between comprehensive thought and virtuously rewarding actions results in internal contentiousness, which presents chronically as depression, a withdrawal into existential despair, absence of hope for ego's capacity to integrate given current ecopolitically competitive and sometimes even anti-ecologically terrifying climates of pathological enculturation. Polypathic wisdom, with active love praxis, brings multiculturally evolving contentment within, psychologically, as without, ecopolitically. Actively shared contentment of cooperative intent, as opposed to secretly held contentiousness of competitive WinLose intellectual elitism, speaks more co-mentoringly of wisdom's potential, optimizing permaculturally nutritious design integrity, within as without. Let us not be collectively fooled into suboptimal choices between wisdom and healthy regenerativity. No such choices could be truly necessary to further humane evolution of self, other, and Earth. Perhaps it is of interest to Jungians, at least, the Trinitarian dynamic of wisdom's three faces, beginning with the EcoConscious Universal ReGenerative, integrating with the Virtuously Righteous CoRedeeming Yang-Sun, together nurturing a Holonic EarthSpirit Nature of co-empathic trust contentment outcomes; and yet also, sadly, continuing antipathy, mistrust, internal as external climate pathologies, rooted in paranoid LeftBrain dominant premillennial WinLose histories of contentiousness. Why do I suspect a more revolutionary history of nurturing contentment would also speak of matriarchal power-with enculturation? The medicines of co-passionate midwife nurses more than reactive from-above surgeons.