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Bodhisattva Generalists

"Systems ecology recognizes that stable conditions give advantage to highly specialized [yet cooperative] species, but that changing conditions favour species known as [cooperative] generalists that can adapt to different food, habitat, or [and] other factors." David Holmgren, Permaculture, p. 63 Socially healthy humans have become and come from cooperative generalists as we remain communication generalists as we articulate being and becoming healthy-wealthy regenerative generalists, acting co-redemptively cooperative, which economists define as co-invested cooperative, and Christians delineate as co-redeemer cooperative politics, which is also co-messianic, which is also Earth's EcoMessianic Vocation to become fully humane, among Earth's Beloved MultiCulturing Communities, cooperatively owned and Golden Rule governing as One CoMessianic Body. Perhaps it is the ecological conclusion of PermaCulture Design to believe in Earth and all inhabitants thereof as One Messianic Body as also well captured in the Bodhisattva nurturing tradition, and other religious stories and themes in which humans are seen as most fully human as we become actively cooperative co-redeemers; a people, and individual persons, who are of people now gone who are for people and all creation here and not yet here on Earth, to co-invest, co-redeem our grace as WinWin cooperators, and not so much competitive divestors of capital treasures hoarded for individualistic futures or even for one's own direct patriarchal//matriarchal line of future co-regenerators. Seen this way, this One Body Messianic includes all those exposed to wisdom teachings, whether scriptural or mentored by healthy Elders, and, even better, by both, living within Earth's natural-spiritual multiculturing Beloved Communities. Meanwhile, whether using a secular LeftBrain lens or a sacred Elder RightBrain frame of BothAnd bilateral heuristics, we have and are two types of ecopolitical beings, and becomings, both socially cooperative and anti-socially competitive. We host daily and nightly lives lived and dreamed somewhere in-between all Yin Cooperative and all Yang MonoCulturing. But, redemption remains in appositional tension with competition's divestment, regardless of which economy you choose, and has chosen you.

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