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Adapted from p. 17 of Justice on Earth Study Guide, by Gail Forsyth-Vail and Susan Lawrence, in turn quoting from and summarizing Sheri Prud'homme, writing about ecotheology.

Speaking With NonBully VoiceBoxes Dissociative injustice, like racist slurs and disinvestments, retributive oppression for not being SWM enough, has ecological roots in LeftBrain anthro/ego-centered fruit of fragile disconnected autonomy, against all competing odds still struggling to win against all other elitist competitors for greatest capital gains over losses. Here, in RightWing militarized marching squares, LeftBrain monocultural EitherNature/OrSpirit dualisms place anthropocentric narcissists at the SWM Western apex of a cognitive/emotive intelligence pyramid, made in Father God's whitest image, Privileging SWMs over not-SWM also-rans, and championing all loyal trustworthy humane Earth residents as endemic only to USA RedWhiteBlue PatrioticLoyalTrue nationalists jingoists immorally and anti-redemptively overruling the dark remainder of ecofeminist systemically entrained bonded compassionate warm and wet EarthWomb-inspired consciousness; Lacking the LeftBrain verbal communication obsession to imagine only the idea of God as Other than self-identifying Gaian nurture presence, health advocate true defender of nutritional wealth. Reflected in each holy living system, a co-passioned win/win expression of, and participation in, this ongoing Great Transformation of Gaia's rebirth into indigenous LeftBrain consciousness of RightBrain's interdependent faces resisting Earth HealthLoss and mortal EgoLoss, Gaia's sacredly immanent warmth required to feel safely connected to cognitive/affective resonance with Earth's secular/sacred balancing climates of yesterday, and tomorrow. With that said, we warmly invite ourselves to ask: How has my own eco/theo-logical and anti-logical dialogue with co-emergent God/MotherEarth relationship entrained double-bonded constrained within internal/external holy communion articulating global ecosystemic metaphors favoring all communicating healthy, nurturing, nutritious warm co-presence? Yet, how do we still struggle with win/win active hope left/right west/east north/south challenges, appositional (both/and, not only either/or oppositional), yang/yin competitions? In this LeftBrain dominant RightWing USA or the HighWay monoculture, insufficiently responsive to our ego and environmental health crises overpopulating and carbon-burning Gaia's former wealthy climate, now facing self-effacing lose/lose trend-analysis without healthy communication of cognitive and emotive democratic co-authorizing resonance today.

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