God As Archivist
It is at least interesting to turn life's political economy backward
through reverse-time focus.
Life's memories of an uphill journey,
perhaps even a sacred pilgrimage,
toward an ultimate death of ego identity,
giving way voluntarily, or not,
to Earth's regenerative potential, or not.
Let's call this ecoconsciousness of light
As we mature,
we ascend and wonder
if and how and when we might ever reach what we so hope will be a WinWin
health and wealth abundant outcome,
somehow against the biological odds of decay,
for all future lives we dread leaving behind,
despite our original uphill problem
of egocentric death,
purgation.
As we approach older age of ominous portent,
youth's omnipotent hopes more or less dashed,
it is remarkably easier to turn our mindbody image backward
toward our original embryonic becoming,
and marvel at our journey toward this time and place,
this almost eternally summarizing moment
of ego identity emergence.
Now easier looking down the vista of distance gained
to encourage ourselves about how cleverly and often clumsily,
yet inevitably,
we have arrived on this pilgrimage toward ego death as ecoconscious freedom,
ascending,
continuing to co-arise
until we reach this Omega Point WinWin
as these ego-eco twin lenses
transubstantiate toward one EarthLight,
regenerating sacred purpose.
Looking backward,
down this pilgrimage hill climbed toward now aging autumn moment,
remaining opportunity feels easier and lighter,
more helpful, even compassionate.
To reframe Thomas Aquinas
with a Taoist both-and cause-effect twist:
S/he who considers
absolutely (0)Source Origins
the highest cause of the whole universe,
namely Earth's Creator God,
and considers sacred also these remaining effects of Earth's universal pilgrimage
toward diastatically fertile ecoconscious identity,
is most of all called wise.
If Yang God is cause
then so is Yin Goddess wisdom's flowing effect
most regeneratively both before and after sacred outcomes
on this pilgrimage we share
toward our co-arising WinWin Game
of and for regeneratively ecoconscious creation stories
about journeys toward our diastatic (0)Mega Light destination
from which each polypathic integrity of humane life
was ecologically fertile born.
If God is first cause,
then Eden Earth is final regenerative effect.
If our historic path is at least the story of our natural phylogenic evolution
then enculturation is also our orthodox creation story
of sacred theological revolutionary effects through egocentric death,
by merely imagining our mindbodies
continuing on this co-arising aging journey
but looking back through our long beloved,
and yet often frightening and angry ego, journey
so necessary to ultimately conjoin
God's polypathic ecoconsciousness,
weaving Earth's optimally regenerative WinWin outcomes
through love of co-empathic trust
in Earth's health-wealth optimizing time
along this retrospectively ecological uphill journey
toward egocentric death.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2016
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