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This piece sets a post-millennial context to compose something like a transposition of Laotse's "Keeping to the Female" (Wisdom of Laotse, Modern Library, Lin Yutang, 1948, pp. 160-161). In doing so, I play with a Taoist understanding of Yang as spatial information and Yin as temporal-non-spaciated information, co-evolving spacetime. This follows an ethological theory of Julian Jaynes that the speciation branch of bicameral Left-Right hemispheric awareness was a biological prerequisite to distinguishing "Self"Space from "Other"Spaciated-Time--the threshold for achieving contemporary "self" as ego-consciousness distinguishable from "other" as eco-consciousness.

Once within eternal time of pre-LeftBrain domination, I recall breathing in EarthMother's richly hued nutrition, and this Other inhaling me, purging lungs of misperceptions that I was Her any more or less than S/he was me. We owned this communion together, sacred breath co-arising back and forth, in and out. It could not yet occur to me that I might one day purchase or sell what owned me at least as much as I owed Her. She felt so omnisciently omnipotently optimally present toward me, To imagine possessing her would change my contented parasitic self attempting to devour the breast that feeds me. Symbiotic stewardship of shamanic Elder past gave way to defense of ego ownership, breathing in salvation, breathing out co-redemption, inhale-active and exhale-passive, as original sin of resource shortages were born of anthro-privileged perception: We're not enough for all. Now we begin to teach our kids to balance consuming and producing co-redemption, redacting logically thought assumptions to regenerate ecologically felt conclusions To sustain Earth's sufficient time, stay focused on breathing in and out with comprehensive compassion and sacred integrity, cooperative ecotherapeutic praxis co-redeeming EarthMother's prehistoric exhale economy of nutrition. Elder kids remind me of how it feels to lack respected space of introspective place to breath more polyculturally midst all the weedpatch of dislogical anthro-privileged disvalue hoarding wealth exhales lack of resonant health, competing micro-aggressions overwhelming integrity of what we take in with how we have loved to give out co-redemptively again. This TransUniverse Regeneration of balancing bipartisan breath, both Yang-in and Yin-out, worries and fears owning organic estates, real de-natured states of any unkind anthrocentric breathing entities, corporations, nations, tribes, persons While wondrously and synergetically claiming Prime CoRelationship of SunGod progenitive YangEnergy and MotherEarth's regenerative YinSynergy co-gravitating sacred Mass BiCameral sighted thought and deeply felt resound Sacred binomial liturgy of octave colored dance and cultured circling song PermaCulturating prance on Omni (O)mega Point incarnating collective breathing in what EarthTribe has blown excarnating out Upon this spacious timeless Tipping Point, we breath in humane prehension of OutsideYang's ecologic to breath out divine comprehension of InsideYin's regenerative economy Reconnecting wise discernment with all EarthTribe co-infested confederates of this worldview LeftBrain verbally dominant and now over-capitalized crowning HumanNature co-redeems what has appeared cut off, removed and reified And revolves/devolves inhales/exhales again toward now bicamerally re-balancing innocence as ego/eco-sense of unconditional warm balance double-breathing spacious time. Emerging conscious comprehension of binomially balanced ego-light and eco-power absorbing co-binary double-negative becomes our positive Midway Model of all ReGenerate In/ExForming Systems. Inhale/Exhale balancing principle for all EarthTribe, we grow enlightened power to predict polynomially positive prime principle inhales to cooperatively exhale Prime Non(0)-Nomial of double negative binomials, not not coredemptive again Wanting EarthMother's ubiquitous honor and glory OmniEco core identity remains nocturnally obscure darkly dreaming fertile peaks and valleys of EarthTribe's Climaxing (O)mega Time again Being exhaled Becoming eternal wisdom's inhaled power to discern what sustainably suffices light evolving nature's bicameral integrity of EarthMother's beloved (0)mega Communion, again conjoining sacred Present to spacious organic Here conjoining timeless Now felt exhaling back through pre-bicameral time again Deductive breaking up organic systems Beloved networks reconnecting enlightened design empowering breathless shape of co-redemptive wellness strategies and co-passioned tools for cobinary bicameral discernment. In the hands of inhaled YangLaws and exhaled YintegralPolicy, egotherapy becomes ecojustice, if and when, we cease to sever what EarthMother naturally breaths in universal spiritually intelligent in-formation from bilaterally breathing out again OmniPolyCulturing Universal climaxing Beloved Unitarian intent. Yet, this LeftBrain dominant enlightenment also remains Once within eternal empowering time of pre-bicameral decomposing language EcoPolitically unconditional inhaling regarded thoughts exhaling warm feelings this TransMillennial Tao Here and Now Yang with Yin Out with In, Breathing Out with Breathing In, ReGenerate again and again gaining healthy wealth again.

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Date: 6/15/2015 2:32:00 PM
Gerald, very intresting write." Breathing Out with Breathing In, ReGenerate, Again." the breath we take to survive to continue to live or exist, especially in spite of danger or hardship.
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