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Medicine and Sickness

Medicine and sickness satisfy each other. MotherEarth is medicine. Where do you find yourself? Zen Master Yunmen China, 800s Therapy and trauma require each other. Ecological Earth is nature-spirit therapy. Where and how and when and what and why and whom do you traumatize with small-ego identifying Self? You cannot resolve dissonance with traumatic thinking and feeling and competitive Win-Lose policy making and economic exchanges causing natural-spiritual anti-cooperative problems. You can solve problems with therapeutically inclusive planning and ownership and mutually grateful consciousness, cognitive/affective therapies for Win-Win overpowering Win-Lose past trauma. At what point does therapeutic integrity become headed toward traumatic disintegration, more cognitive-affective dissonance than coherence, transparency, safe vulnerability, rather than depressing this unlabeled suppression of integrity our bicameral selves, Medicine for all Earth's Tribes, for restoring virgin forests and pure oceans, seas, lakes, societies, cultures, rivers, streams, root ego/ecosystems? Before he was embraced by his Democratic Party, Senator Obama not yet nominated for U.S. CEO wrote about political compromise as contrasted with spiritual integrity. He quotes Benjamin Franklin, "I would rather have it said, He lived usefully, than, He died rich." The difference between living spiritual integrity and Business As Usual rich but dying Trumpism, as Franklin and Obama see healthy usefulness, is something too valuable to be bought and sold-out for; While Trumpism has no eyes to discern this difference between health and wealth, between loyal integrity of mutual Win-Win cooperation and hoarding excessive riches and influence against future Win-Lose competitions. Antagonistic plutocrats, including zealous evangelical supremacists filled with religiosity of doctrines and words and empty of spirituality informed by personal experience and consciousness, measure integrity by buying and selling their compromised competition values, while a truly integrated democratic disciple of integrity of healthy usefulness, uses cooperatively healthy v. pathologically competitive to measure different Tipping Points between positive and negative values, like hoarding, and other monoculturing supremacist negative tendencies. If I were an Obama Foundation, I would gather private and public foundations and community organizer Allies, to support indigenously owned openings of cooperative MotherEarth Cafes, where homeless and malnourished and criminalized and victimized and ostracized would gather in PeaceCircles to read our poetry, to dance our cooperative rhythms and cycles, to single our gospel anthems to feed on and breathe and absorb organic nurture of and for Audacious Hope, to learn to play smarter ecopolitical Win-Win games of healthy integrity. MotherEarth Cafes across these Uniting States hosting local Democratic Parties for their open microphone meetings, setting Town Meeting Agendas, PermaCulturing Designs for ReStoring Peace and Justice, in cooperation with Republican Committees and Libertarian Committees and Green Committees and Rainbow Committees and Feminist Committees and OrganicGardening Committees and any integrative cooperative ecopolitical party who bothers to show up sharing this belief in healthy usefulness for measuring authentically wealthy values and pathologically disintegrative disvalues. To contain anything is to exclude something, Whether we speak of our interdependent Universes or our therapeutic medicines, ZeroSum Not-ZeroSum and Not (Not ZeroSum). Therapy and trauma invite and engage each other. Ecological Earth is nature-spirit therapy. Where and how do you continue traumatic degeneration stories? And why?

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017




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