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This piece borrows heavily from the important work of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, The Evolving Self, especially pp. 233-238, speculating on healthier and more mature Future Selves.

Future selves recycle past dynamic imaginations, Greek Gods as muscular Yang athlete images evolve from older internal messianic bodhisattva Yin, double-edged incarnations of power. It is in this coincidentia oppositorum, claims Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, that the peaks, the Taoist Tipping Points of wu wei human regenerativity become interdependent integrity. Cosmic Christ CoMentors permaculturally parent integration of ego within larger regenerative ecosystems, culture images no longer limited to anthrocultural imaginations, climates refacing interior and exterior landscapes of regeneratingly sustainable ecopolitical wealth. Teilhard de Chardin charts a hopeful healthy (0)Mega Point assuming evolutionary models deliver intrinsically valued meaning, purposes for bicameral imaged imaginations of Cosmic Christ as ecoconsciously balancing YangFather Sun with YinMother Earth's grace of regenerativity begun within Eden's ecopolitically polycultural balanced landscape, human and otherwise, gardens ebbing and flowing Omega Tipping Points toward ecological healthy wealth within as Cosmic Christ without. EcoPolitics of Earth's optimal regenerativity, future Cosmic Christendom, develops through anthrocentrically interdependent development of a child with biological health needs and pathological self-isolating aversions, immunities learned through long-active mistrusts, cognitive and affective dissonance, best replaced with nutritional comforts as embryonic mindbodies begin deep learning how to regeneratively self-organize to interdependently care for their health wealthy needs. With co-redeeming practice, supported by a helpful, not condemning, family and community and ecopolitical climate, infant powers with others expand from needs to be accepted, so also wants to become accepting, from needs to be loved, so also wants to be Cosmic CoMentoring Lovers, from needs to be nutritionally respected, so also wants to become polypathically healthwealth respectful, through all economic transactions as also politically empowering and disempowering relationships with others, within Earth's ecological TaoTimed balance. YangEgo LeftBrain deductively remembering reweaving Elder RightBrain's Yintegration, Earth's nurturing proportioning fractal-flow toward bicamerally balancing ecopolitical maturation, replete with DNA/RNA Solidarity drive to appositionally explore this balance of independent Yang monocultural powers over others within interdependent Yin polypathic powers with Cosmic Climate co-passioning health wealthy others; fully DNA balance potentiated, uniquely integrated biosystems, primarily invested in ecopolitical health for ego as ecological wealth for healthy all. Now EarthTribe re-approaches bicameral wisdom to co-invest in broader nutritionally cooperative goals, deriving future self satisfactions cooperatively helping, and certainly not competitively condemning, this Cosmic ClimateHealth Cause multiculturally even greater than self-diastatic Cosmic Christians because of now adding ecologically reasoned regenerative conviction. Ecopolitical ontogeny, internal landscape nutritional development, recapitulates ecological phylogeny, external climate health v pathology. While future selves may continue increasing competitive either/or LeftBrain dominant Business As Competitively Usual, we remain more permaculturally attached to Taoist independent/interdependent action and RightBrain balancing empathic visions favoring trust over mistrust, as if co-mentoring helpful health were evolution's trump-suit, stronger than self-condemning competing pathologies. Earth's climate devolution, melting of ice, reminds of nutritional values informing ecoconsciousness of a viral cooperative revolutionary growth toward bicameral balancing ecopolitical majorities, multiculturally polypathic evolution of CoMentoring EarthTribes. To experience ecopolitical flow, adds Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, we first identify our favorite Yang challenge to LeftBrain egocentric heroism through letting go of power over others as extensions of oneself. The second face of this Yang challenge represents RightBrain's regenerative Yintegration skills. Cosmic EcoPolitical Polypaths harmoniously combine these appositional tendencies, universally original Left-ego yet unitively networking Right-eco-capital-home, authoritatively independent Yang yet harmoniously co-responsible Yin, politically bold yet economically cooperative disciplined, monoculturally rational yet polyculturally intuitive, integrative integrity, deductively systemic yet inductively nurturing. We each have sought, since still within Earth's womb, Yang's unevenly mature uniqueness with Yin's deep nurturing co-mentorship within multiculturing nutritional networks of Earth. As either/or oppositional competitions of LeftBrain dominance balance both/and appositional cooperations of RightBrain flow, then we become regeneratively EarthTribe resolved, participating in Tao-optimizing flow of Earth's revolution.

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