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This pleasant morning I began my retiring day as usual with more reflective readings, today from “Pronoia is the Antidote for Paranoia” Rob Brezsny. “In January 2003, a Muslim gas station attendant saved a New York synagogue from arson with his phone call to 911. Pakistan immigrant Syed Ali watched as a man bought gasoline, marched across the street, and began dousing the front of the temple. Police responded to Ali’s call in time to stop the crime. Ali declined the mantle of hero saying ‘It was a sacred place he was going to destroy.’” Geraldine Weis-Corbley, goodnewsnetwork.org Geraldine is right this is not news. This is who we already are. Nearly anyone in Ali’s shoes would have done the same. Probably even Donald Trump would have called 911, although would this be because it is a sacred place? “As either violence [mutually-immune antipathy] or pleasure [blissful co-empathic trust] goes up, the other goes down.” James W. Prescott Violent absence of care comes from within in response to hated feelings of ego-diminishing displeasure, or even chronic apathy, without. Pleasure comes in from co-empathic trust without in response to multiculturing truths healthily syncing with beauty empathically entrusting confluence within from generation through generation toward Time’s further evolution. We all want to desensitize violent fears and aggressive angers from within. We all want to resensitize to mutually-held and offered pleasures without, even the awkward pleasures of calling 911 to watch the police lock up a real live Hater and throw away the villain’s key. We all want peace offerings of polycultural multiculturally synergetic and magnificently transcendent beauty, goodness Earth-rooted moral-natural equivalence, respect, dignity, mutually reassured trust, massaged and absorbed and ringing-singing through as many of our sensory receptors as possible, extending our relatively monocultural-egocentric boundaries of co-empathic trust for and with and of mutually nutritional caregiving, as did Ali in the story of the Hater v God’s Sacred People, each yet another bicameral balancing sensory-empathic network story, TaoMind as Humane Bodhisattva, struggling with violence within resisting co-empathic trust of Earth’s PolyCulturalingARingDinging SacredGrace Offerings without.
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