Courageous Resilience

Like so many of my colleagues, I have finally started "Community Resilience Reader" edited by Daniel Lerch of the Post Carbon Institute. So far I would not compare "Reader" favorably with publications available from Permaculture Designers planting and harvesting polycultural slow-grown outcomes about how to, and why bother to, resiliently ReGenerate. But, I do share the Institute's interest in Systems Thinking, especially BiLateral Systems Thinking, Which seems to sweep in Positive Psychology and Game Theory and perhaps something like EarthSoul Group Theory, With its holonic and fractal and dipolar nondual dualities, its competing nomials acting relationally as cooperative-competitive binomials, its line and plane geosystemic developing polypaths dynamically spiraling 4-dimensional raveling and unraveling temporal octave polyphonics of light as color and harmonic scaled sound, DNA of EarthSoul Grace as also karmic integrity of sacred ecological gratitude. I was struck by the last of six essential characteristics of Resilient Communities, and Families and even Resilient WiseElders, regardless of synergetic Age, Time WisdomWay Truth Life. The word-choice in the Resilience Reader is "courage." Courage is necessary, although not sufficient, for building and maintaining Resilience. I agree. But I believe this choice misses a required prerequisite practice to discern differences between Courage and Foolishly Naïve. As Daniel Lerch writes why sustained resilience requires courage, he seems to most acutely speak of secular-sacred climaxing, maturing, Integrity. The big Four climate issues: energy economics ecology and equity are each Hugely global, planetary With devastating consequences for future generations of at least most Species if we continue lack of sufficient cooperative courage to successfully address all Four within resilience-growing communities of mutual cooperation. But, collaboration is easier where integrity of mind and body with EarthSoul are integratively practiced-- calling for synergetic cooperation of individual Egos with extended family economics and equitable ecological, positively integrating, renewable energy. Sticking with this Resilient Community vocation requires courage of growing integrity rooted in organic cooperativity of WinWin E-squared thinking, four-season developments of deep regenerative learning and then speaking, voicing together and then acting within secular-sacred integrity of purpose and meaning, EarthSoul positive intention. It takes grace and courage of integrity to work cooperatively with multicultural polyculturing outcome-oriented people. It requires grace, or karma, if you prefer, of integrity to succeed growing synergetic by fading pathologic systemic competing cooperative climate issues. It does require 4-faced courage of ecological economics as equitable energy co-investment born of experiencing sacred integrity, secular synergy, acclimated by and to and with secular-sacred bilateral consciousness. We courageously expect Left with Right mindbody integrity of ourselves and those we love by inviting synergies required to co-invest in transformations, in multicultural revolutions of cooperative BothAnd more than competitive EitherOr thinking, deductive-reductive dominant, Continuing to wrap and layer courage of integrating systems, integration of Courageous Community Resilience, Ego-courage of Yang, Eco-integrity for EarthSoul Yin-- WinWin SecularYang with SacredYin, rather than without.