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In My Right Mind

My healthy right mind is not one likely to retain left brain disparate details more than elastic and interconnected trends. So it has been with U.S. religious history recall. I live immersed in impressions of indigenous communities without investment in distinguishing relationships within ecological nature from communications between theological spirits; without language capable of recognizing difference between left brain either/or outside transcendent divides and right mind both/and inside immanent imminent dialogue. I remember early religious cultures were also natural tribal communities of profound communication resonance. I seem to remember prophets for change, for renewed faith communities, were those whose personal immersion experiences within nature/spirit ecological theologies were marginalized, considered heterodox and/or not colonizingly competitive enough to safeguard patriarchal fertility regenerativity sacred communion of Earth's interdependent health/wealth web inherited from faithful progenitors and projected to continue only without multicultural change by uniformly utilitarian future robotic generations. While U.S. religious history is dominated by exodus trends, advocates of old time religious revival often break off from frozen icebergs claiming it is no more possible for Earth's sinful nature to change than it is for a transcendent god of punishing jealousy to change His ever-loving mind about evil nature, fallen down and up in and out against good healthy HolySpirit. Yet this Great Transitional divide, when we consider global religious history back to indigenous nature/spirit immersion experience of multiculturing EarthTribes, appears like a Great Fall after, and maybe not before, this human species became supremely self-anointed prophets of self-inflicted divine realms inspiring more of a Great Rapture co-arising communal healthy wealth back when prophets and sages, seers and witches were being devoured by dinosaurs, decimated by protracted frozen winters, unseasoned steamy swamps of nature/spirit immersion in marginalization experiences. Could it be that ecological empowering relationship, or lack thereof, predicts theological communication, compassion, and lack thereof?

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