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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.