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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 co-binary in-between trans-boundaries where transcendent monotheistic gospel orchestrating, from above cherishes EarthMother's immanent empowerment, mediating, from within moving soulful choices inviting good news Yang strong resiliently resonant 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 gospel athletic than gasping eremetic Stretching compassion's inside muscles primal joint relationships bicameral minds and lungs and bipartisan hearts while reaching teaching preaching outside ancient light/power Musing memories of empowering dance and prance and, occasionally, communally enlightened trance. Sadly, merely sixteen, I returned to conservative rural homophobic xenophobic patriarchal anthro-privileged RightWing dominant People's MonoTheistic MonoCulturing 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, full-bodied community root-systemic resilience Strong enough to carry through six days of secular ecocidal lack of sacred Yang/Yintegral orthopraxis transcending mere orthodox religiously repeated predictably dull 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 mindfully sung and Wellness rooted dance up and out from the souls of our spirited resonant feet on EarthMother's naturally resilient beat.
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