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.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2019
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