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Paradox Reversion

Introversion explores an isolated ego voice

While extra-relational versions
speak a more complex eco-political choice
of historic context
embedded in sensory feelings
positively healthy memories
and those more negatively traumatic,
wealth stealing

And those stuck in in-between
and/or not negatively aptic
unresolved non-synaptic
not clearly either elastic
or emotively spastic

Win grace
or lose life's race,
true or false,
attractive
or repugnant face

Awaiting evolution's revolutionary cycle
slowly turning toward resolution
full and/or empty,
enlightening dark ego inside fears
and traumatic angers,
empowering memories of past dismembering
anticipations deeper even than anxious despair
for lack of active healthy wealth
rather than emotional constipation.

Monotheistic egos
evolving toward panentheistic
win/win living organic ecosystems
of EarthTribe immortal
inside nature as also HolySpirit out
not not polynomial
balanced wu-wei polypathic 
polymathic Tao.

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Jeff Kyser

Date: 10/18/2022 7:33:00 AM

Gerald, I find it interesting that you write within a relatively narrow window. However, as I read them out loud to myself, I find elements often have a rhyme-driven pacing that is interesting. Regarding content, I find panentheism repeats in a lot of your poems, a theme you clearly feel strongly about. I know in scripture, I read "In Him we live and move and have our being", but it also clearly distinguishes creature from creator. What are the aspects of panentheism that draw you?

Gerald Dillenbeck
Date: 10/19/2022 1:45:00 PM

Eastern worldviews, including religious views, tend to be much more animistic, as compared to Western. Iain McGilchrist says this also seems to be true of our left hemisphere and right hemisphere ways of processing neuro-sensory information. Taoism and Zen Buddhism speak in paradox and hope for balance between the universal governance we might associate with monotheism and uniting, synergetic interdependent relationships, the interconnectedness of time and multigenerational change which feels more like pantheism. In math, there is the Either/Or linear cause v effect difference of bipolarity and the Both/And circular view of dipolarity. These have all become an extended metaphor for a healthy ecosystemic, interdependent ego in my mind and embodied experience, especially peak experiences.