Peace Mediating Poetry
Thanks so much for forwarding
these John Paul Lederach stories
of un-learning academic approaches
to peace mediation.
I wonder if you remembered
my ongoing certification process
for justice-restoring mediation
in complex multicultural conflicting histories;
which are typically antithetical to resilient peace
through ongoing safe and healthy relationships.
With this background,
I was struck by "un-learning".
To regain his poetic heart,
to remain resonant interdependently forward,
to give priority to emotional intelligence,
to retain active curiosity about multicultural context,
and win/win strategic roots of issue-devolution,
we do well to relearn left-brain dominant communication lessons
to co-arise right-mind prominent compassionate listening
before speaking of how to win more,
or at least lose less,
through competitive win/lose
either/or assumptions
contrary to the opulence of Nature-Spirit
function and flow ZeroZone patterns
everywhere immanently transcendent.
From this non-dualistic place
un-learning academic cognition hierarchical models,
maps pointing up to win
and down to comparatively lose conflicts
of self-survival interest,
feels more like relearning both/and,
higher and wider and deeper points
of left with right minded skills,
loves within interdependent complex feelings
thoughts
passions
curious cooperative historical interests,
emerging courageously power-with
2020 re-vision anticipations.
May Sarton, sometimes a poet, observes
"It is good for a professional
to be reminded...
professionalism is only a husk,
That the real person
must remain an amateur,
a lover of the work."
"...if to be a poet
means allowing life to flow through one
rather than forcing" love/life
"to a mold the will has" calcified;...
"If it means learning...
the day shape[s] the work,
not [just] the work,
the day,
and so live toward essence
as naturally as a bird
or a flower"
In a meadow
arrayed in warm-lit splendor
health and beauty,
healthy beautiful wealth
optimized by transcendent right-brain interdependence,
metaphoric neurological relationship,
analogical
ecological
theological re-communication,
holonic co-operation with Earth-wombed Mother's
healthiest past through future.
We are increasingly invited,
by left with right minded correlations,
to want to do
what our healthiest ego says we must,
and to love what we eco-must
do to ego-eco-theo-logically want
to retain wealth of cooperative inter-communion,
healthy immanent/transcendent relationship climates
becoming/being the opposite of excommunicated,
the apposition of impeached
by disloyal and hate-filled over-reactions
heralded by the insufficient love
of our hierarchical and too-monocultural forefathers
Invites us to restore EarthJustice
one momentary win/win relationship choice
in a lifetime of sacred multicultural invitations.
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