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Kimmerer quote from "Braiding Sweetgrass" p. 37.

I studied liturgical theology in seminary. Even so, I was struck by the simplicity of Robin Wall Kimmerer's First Nation observation, "Ceremony is a vehicle for belonging-- to a family, to a people, and to a land." But, what is necessary difference, if any, between ceremony and life, between liturgy and loving words and actions, between medicine and healing therapy? Language is a vehicle for RightBrain sacred personal meaning and LeftBrain exegetical purpose-- for co-arising ethology of Earth's sacred creation and ecology of evolving and revolving, spiraling lands and oceans speaking in plant through harvest voices, then Advent silence in-between this great secular-sacred nutritional cycle and divide. Language of four-dimensional RealTime Seasons with sacred and secular co-arising dynamic Reasons, cooperative purpose for gift economies Flowing back toward (0)Soul Prime Relational meaning for bilateral revolutions of exterior Yang winds covering interior Yin co-bilateral evolutions of Earth's Sacred Baptismal Waters Water minds flowing winding bodies. Elder Sacred Right speaks through ceremonies of cooperative light, ethology of Western Grace and Eastern Karma, co-arising Sacred Ecology of polypathic love, surpassing any creed, language, ceremony Both (0)Sum Prime Relational Source but also divinely sacred expanding love, more perfectly cooperative Unions, radical ecopolitical Welfare of a species within Earth's Great BiCameral Tribes Speaking sacred Right meaning and secular Left purpose of restoring co-redemptive global vocations, ego- with eco-therapies, meditative medications, bilateral secular-sacred co-intelligent consciousness. Some of this goes a bit deeper and yet wider than what I love most about Ecological Liturgy Studies. So, consider our (0)Soul BiCameral Source, breathing Yang meaning and purpose in and up, exhaling Yin ceremony and therapy out and down Left 4dimensional SpaceTime Special Case, Right Sacred PolyPathic OtherWise.

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Date: 10/27/2017 9:03:00 AM
Love yer brain! :) xomo
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Date: 10/27/2017 9:13:00 AM
Thx, these are remarkable bicameral gifts written across each and every heart--so if not a brain we cooperatively share, then a brain gone off into competitive hubris. So, much appreciate your brain saying so, to mine, and ours. GD

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