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Opposites of Decadence

How you think about the life you are evolving at this stage of your continuing maturation you might best measure with how you feel about each day you wake up to unfold within Earth, among your Earth Tribes of sometimes cooperative sometimes felt too competitive climates of ego- balancing primal eco-consciousness. Abraham Heschel the last of a long line of eminent Jewish scholars and prophets watched as his own shared ecoconsciousness of Earth's potential for Sabbath was exterminated by elitist anthrocentric fascism, a fascism that preached ultimate loyalty to family and homeland and yet had no room for all of Earth's Tribes within this separatist stand, forgetting, ignoring our primal eco-home land as shared Earth and her healthy climates still struggling to this day to absorb unhealthy competing subclimates of despair decadence we continue to wake up to on far too many of our at-home unSabbathed mornings. "We are concerned for what is happening all over the country: so many broken homes, disintegrated families, alienated boys, runaway girls, parents in despair, teachers in disgust. It is a serious malaise, and let us not deceive ourselves... At a time when the institution of the family is in distress and under attack, it is important to be reminded that the home [eco-Earth] remains the finest model of human living and the [extended EarthTribe] family-- the finest form of fellowship [cooperatively eco-political]." Heschel Where is this day to which each of us ecoconsciously awakens each day of our cooperatively shared, listened to as well as spoken, days and nights revolving Earth's sacred reverent time together? Balancing our individual ego-identities with Earth's eco-regenerative intent, Left with Right, Yang with Yin, awakening to maturity of mutually cooperative integrity as holy as Heschel's Earth as extended family Sabbath, imperviously eternal against the climate pathology threats of narrow-minded anthrocentric supremacy of reified Ego identity. Whose day awakens you? Is it only yours? Could it also become for all of us? CoOperating EarthTribe Revolutions as Sabbath's climate co-therapy together? What day awakens regenerative co-messiah you into Earth's cooperatively sacred ecopolitical home of Sabbath Climate Health? Probably not so much decadent fundamentalist-supremacist LeftBrain uber-totalitarian testosteroned dominance; apparently the merely logical conclusion without further RightBrain ecoconscious maturation, steeped in Earth as polypathic regenerative Sabbath.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2016




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