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Peak Experiences

Back in late pre-millennial times of lava lamps and Rolling Stones, many searched for peak experiences, in response to valley depressences repressed suppressed, rather than panoramic, even revolutionary, resonant and resilient impressions. Peak experiences were, and still are, I am told by those who've had them, personal, individualistic, or possibly dyadic climaxes, but probably not orgiastic, which is more of a swarming bee thing co-spastic if I accurately follow their pollination story through its peaks and valleys. Abraham Maslow talked and wrote about climbing a hierarchy of sensory needs, from survival attachment up to thrival growing toward a more interdependently accessible peak and descending for a more independent survival battle to return to more cooperative peak health experiences of left brain articulating thought and right brain consciousness of up and down valley repression and mountainous impression feelings. Now in post-millennial times, pathology has become a climatic traumatic despairing experience of climate anxiety, prompting new internal/external searches for ways to optimize globally resilient peak experience. For this, we need the miraculous mysterious mysticism of cooperative win/win integrity in-between and among all ecological living relationships sailing up and down river systems and across mountain forests and through all creatures and creations, lovers and healthy loved, rhetorical lived events and historical reflective advents Tipping between yesterday and tomorrow resonantly lived ego peak safely and yet freely eco-valleyed spiritual health within flowing messianic times of natural wealth.

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Date: 7/5/2019 10:41:00 AM
scanned the poem...got lost...but we do see peaks from lowlands...andt to 'see' is to 'know' and that's all it takes if one is creative
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