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Title, and use of "empathy" as indicator of politically positive cooperativity, borrows from Dr. Michael E. Morrell.

I don't think it's just me. I find myself challenged to change LeftBrain cognitive beliefs, languaged abstractions of personal feelings, perhaps because it is not possible to change Right Brain's Elder feelings of co-passionate trust where dipolar co-arising positive pleasure is not dissonant noisy pathology. I discover this issue as more of a question about changing my feelings by changing my beliefs about feelings as something that could be wrong, could be different, in a healthier, wiser, more beautiful world Would feel better if I were a better person. We would feel and think better, if we could comprehend our PanTheistic Golden SelfAsOther Win/Win Rules of sacred ecology Political health-power co-passion trends with enlightened economic polyculturing relationships. Sometimes when I feel like why and why not I believe something is not right balanced about what I think I should rationally define as correct, according to Business As Usual LeftBrain deductive dominance, should be win/win truth, should become gospel, emerge as multiculturally orthodox bodhisattva resonance, unquestionable feeling/belief in polycultural wealth is not monotheistic supremacy Also not Crown/Root chakra balanced indigenously panentheistic wisdom yet; truth-statement belief with emphatic glad trust v. bad mistrust, mad distrust sad untrust of dissonance chronically devolves into anti-trust, hatred, monopolistically sociopathic anthro-supremacism in more climatically critical disempowering and unenlightened monotheistic un-ecological fiction I am reading Dr. Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzaden's excellent "Social Movements in Politics". The more I read, the more troubled I feel about this choice of title. It doesn't feel like it fully matches the rich EarthTribe evolutionary messages unfolding behind these anthro-history lessons. For example, Zirakzaden, using Business As Usual academic-analytical narrative voice, articulates the evolution of West Germany's political/economic ecologically woke environment, this prelude understory leading toward more recent historical-cultural emergence of the Green Party, in the late twentieth century since the emergence of what became, as far as I recall from my religious history lessons, the Christian Party. Given the religious culture of West Germany's social-political systemic structures, if feels likely many Greens would prefer Zirakzaden's choice of title to have been "Political Movements within Judeo-Christian MonoTheistic Crimes Against Nature". How I feel about this story influences how I think I would healthiest step into it, empathize within these shifting thoughts and feelings, most informed by empathic power-enlightening trust in resonant feelings, in feelings which are healthy by refinement of their integrity, transparent honesty, vulnerable to pathological win/lose 0-sum beliefs as de-generative, diseased, dissonant, dissociative. Yet, co-passion invites a poli-economic choice in-between using EarthMuse v AnthroSage Voice, at least in theory not embodied in our great transitional digital cloud of not yet knowing. The Green Party emerges as a social-political movement away from MonoTheistic Traditions of Organized Pathological DisRapture, problematic when divorcing human nature from desecrated pantheistic nature of bodhisattva crown/root neurosystems win/win synergy sage minds as muse bodies Green as not not Revelations of MonoTheistic Crimes Against OurSelves, all Earth Tribes, Earth and Her regenerative open-solar co-arising PanEntheistic EcoSystem. As an EarthTribe Whole Spirit/Nature citizen, reading about W. Germany's Green emergence, I empathize with the Green Party as Political Movement Heroine/Hero EcoTherapeutic Story, virally inserting ourselves within every pore and cell of our Elder Judeo/Christian/Islamic Story including Crimes Against Earth now struggling to change our poli-economic key from minor to major TransCultural Development CoEmpathic Creative Design and Primal Purpose for Politics as a Science; an EcoTherapeutic Political Tao of Science. In "Trust in Black America" Dr. Shayla C. Nunnally explores comparative politics of trust, mistrust, distrust, and probably hate as measured in recent survey samples-- where haters would be unlikely to erupt from cynical closets. Here we find political trust, and lack thereof, follows ecopolitical history, power-over through Judeo-Christian-Islamic ownership as the full story about stewardship, while power-with through empathy co-arises nondual mutually subsidiary bodhisattvas of ecotrust, most richly found in indigenous animistic enclaves within embryonic Earth's OrganicTribal Congress of ReGenerate-Healthy Evolution. Even so, my historically nurtured empathic trust, like everyone else's, begins in embryo, the dynamic fractal-existentialism of DNA I believe and feel intends to grow out as polypathically as politically and economically possible from that safe wealthy NonZeroZone epicenter, ecocenter of healthy holonic humane life. Empathic Trust is cognitive-affective default on the love-peace side of history, absorbing enslaving other-as-self hate, anger-fear appositional warring about incommensurable positions yet still within our own political-economic identity equation. If we need trusting beliefs to fully embrace empathic feelings, do we also need untrusting pathological absence of belief to fully embrace fears of mutual immunity, internal ambiguities of unresolved Crown/Root, Left/Right, Ego/Eco ownership of mutually nurturing trust, not quite yet discovered? A mix of more active distrusting juxtapositions about fundamentals of ecobalance and more moderate mistrusting juxtapositions about proportional aesthetics of multicultural truths; diverse political positions internally and externally conversing, noticing and listening for Golden co-empathic trust to follow win/win in/out-side bilateral light. Equal polynomial primal synergy parts in-between past anger and future fear hearts.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2016




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