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Congressional Grace

I'm still reading Your Resonant Self,
by Dr. Sarah Peyton,
speaking of how contempt
destroys relationships
formerly cooperative
and, thereby, healthy.

Disgust about oneself
and contempt against Other
are interrelated,
like ego and eco,
like Yang and Yin,

"Humans seem to be capable of disconnecting from others
[and our disgusting selves]
on a large scale
or small scale." (p. 209)

I'm reminded of listening to the Trump Impeachment Debate,
hearing contempt for democratic dialogue,
for loyalty to win/win trust,
transparently positive energy democracy,
vulnerability to unmediated light,
healthy curiosity about unthreatening differences and contrasts,
courage to choose compassion,
for self and other solidarity default,
for ego and eco
inside and outside healing climates,
rather than contempt.

Not that congressional debates
are suddenly plagued by partisan win/lose rhetorical strategies.

As a communication
and a psychology major,
I learned ancient techniques for persuasion,
for attitude change.
But, an underlying safe 
non-partisan environment 
of mutual trust,
of loyalty to a healthy cooperative Earth,
is requisite for a resilient democracy,
and precludes giving way to the contagious temptations of contempt
against any OtherParty,
disgust about endemic economic and political corruption
of my own run-away win/lose internalized Party.

But, I have two points
seen more clearly through Dr. Peyton's bicameral "Resonance":

One,
we are capable of national disconnecting shared-identity contempt
against threatening Other
because we were born win/win capable,
from warm attachment healthy birth
of cooperative compassionate development
toward healthy adult/adult resilient relationships,
rooted in our shared destiny
as bicameral EarthDwellers,
EarthTribe,
Mother EarthWomb Integralists.

Second,
contempt grows nationalistic partisanship
because localized compassion can also go viral,
global,
primordially universal
contagious wealth of health-empowerment values
making resonant living systems possible,
re-creative potentiating

As darkness
can be noticed as dark
only by those capable
of remembering light,
power womb enlightenment,
empowerment,
passion,
compassion,
advent,
Christmas Birth,
Lent,
Easter EgoDeath,
Republic elite mediation,
Democrat non-elitism,
rhetorical contempt,
non-violent passion narrative,
red rightwing self-righteous rage,
green leftwing other-leftoutness synergy

Wishing all ego-parties
and ecosystems
healthy wealth of EarthPassionate ChristMass
political body-mind climates
economically double-bound nature-spirits
secular-sacred cooperative co-investors
both out and in,
eco and ego 
within Earth's dialogical CoPassion.

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