Next To Godliness

What would you say, if yours to freely choose, lies closest to godliness: Cleanliness/purity, Integrity, Compassion, Resilient health, Wise wealth? Why? Does your answer change if this question changes to: What lies closest to Gaian Earth Goddessness for you? If your nearby synonym changes, why? If not, why not? These questions came up when I was looking for a dissertation topic for InterReligious Dialogue and InterNational Diplomacy. My Big Question statement began: The technology and philosophy of dialogue, diplomacy, conflict resolution, restorative justice, peace-making, non-violence, WinWin solutions, derive from philosophy, theology, natural and social sciences, and perhaps even experiential and abstract psychotherapeutic geometrics. Rather than asking the more classical academic questions of how are public health empowerment resources better and worse than each other, how do their best practices differ? Perhaps it is more fruitful to diversely and interdependently compare these health/pathology paradigms to search for their most resilient therapeutic WinWin communion and wealthy holonic promise. And so I began inviting the widest, most diversely multicultural, dialogue about what are our highest health and therapeutic priorities for cooperative people who understand godliness and/or Gaian-ness as at least sufficient power for synergetic integrity to generate light out of nondual darkness. Which, on living Earth, has produced some astounding evolution of compassionate grace history, polycultures, polyphonics, polynomial WinWin communication, polypathic ways and ego/eco-balancing and cooperatively centering means to godliness and/or Gaian-nest integral hypotheses.