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My body restrains my mind. Logic as ecologically constrained, naturally rational, like rain does not fall up unless I am standing on my head. Embodiment also limits my mind. Imagination often resists such sparse frugality of powers, yet also thrives on simplicity more than duplicity. I can imagine pleasure of mind capable of visiting China for an hour one day and one night, a particular coastal town, a particular family, a particular other body looking back at me imagining how he would look and sound to someone like me from a coastal town in the U.S. And then my mind's eyes become his, looking out at his loved ones and actively distrusted ones and his vistas and landscapes and climate smells and hopes and fears. Then the tip of South Africa in the next hour, then visiting both Syria and Korea five hundred years ago to explore constancy and change in how we look and sound, smell and taste, how we feel trusting and mistrusting and how we might feel about my RealTime ego-mind, and then visit again five hundred years from now to notice in this same variety of ego- and eco-conscious ways. Yet, in all these disembodied images my frequent flyer yet frugal ego remains relentlessly enclosed by limitations of my own body's continuous memory of ego-eco centering mind, favoring simplicity of transparent confluence, aesthetics of balance and symmetric full-color harmony, ethics of mutual time travel empathically trusting and mistrusting out then breathing back in with equanimity. Becoming extended out through space and time, only and finally to come back to rest within multiculturally edified yet ecopolitically simplified creolizing presence of still ego/eco centering me, hoping you will love how I look and sound, smell and taste, feel and empathically trust at least as much as my mind can comprehensively engage this phylogenic embodiment we human natures each and all metamorphically breathe in, evolutionarily extend out to transcend mere ego, frugal befriending flow of trusting EarthTribes. My body restrains my mind as our phylogenic evolution constrains our empathic mindbody, as our embodied landscape retrains our co-empathic climates.
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