Polypathic Political Scientists

I have had a highly redundant, one might even choose polypathic, graduate studies experience spanning my adult life to date. This began with a semester of Philosophy. Just enough to learn I wanted something more experiential, a more embodied communication environment of Applied Metaphysics, perhaps even polymathically experiential. So then I began, and soon completed, studies for the Master of Divinity degree, which has an arcane ring to it, but basically the title implies just the opposite of what degree candidates most hope for, to be Mastered by Divine Love, to economically and politically co-operate both humane and divine theological compassion and ecological economic systems co-invested in resilient peace-pleasured organic systems. Those receiving the M.Div. hoped to apply their ecopolitical science of co-empathic trust, our mutual Positive Association ConScientiousness, to synergetic life systems as liturgical love ecology or at least teleologically benign resonance; to appreciate the organic love relationships today we sacredly proclaim to restore pleasures of peace tomorrow, rooted in our humane-divine nondual nature-spirit organisms of ecopolitical integrity Organically synergetic economies becoming sacred political pilgrimage, The ReConnecting Ways of DivineMind/HumaneBody, co-mastering organic life and sacred love re-ligiously together. Fortunately, when I landed in a rural Colorado parish, the beat-down aging poor mutually-marginalizing Mexican and Anglo faith community invited me to reconsider further investment in administering sacraments disconnected from ecologically healthy outcomes of co-empathic trust. To continue as individuals, families, and as a multiculturally rich community of mutually holonic, respected, cooperative faith, we needed more of a Total Win/Win Makeover, a gut economic/political rehab, an economic design to fuel a more confluent political incarnation into the Beloved Therapeutic EcoPolitical Community we each long to belong synergetically within, as religiously re-connecting integrity without. Responding to apparent hope for stronger organizing and planning and budgeting and ecological design and implementation, and evaluation and socioeconomic progressive organic trust skills, I accepted an invitation into a double Master of Public Administration and Community [Economic] Development degree program, primarily taught by PhDs in Political Science; my first among too many loves as an undergraduate at Michigan. Here I learned, once again, that politically correct administration of bipartisan co-empathic healthy democracy and wealthy cooperative economic norms mistrust 0-sum win/lose competition games, and actively distrust authoritarian irreligious monopolistic relationships of militarized colonization patriarchal history. To win/win historically and culturally thrive "follow economic wealth" also means responsibly invite polycultural political wealth as you would desire a personal economy of ecological health a nondual sacred-internal/organic-external Golden Rule of bicameral politically enlightened Mind and economically empowered Body nondualistic co-intelligence. Humane ecopolitical landscapes are healthiest and wealthiest and wisest when ruled by active hope Cooperative win/win peace-pleasure potential within as divinely polyculturing peak pantheistic ecology without, polypathic faith in love's synergetic trust and organic life-empowering discovery and curious regenerativity of enlightening co-empathic imagination. The U.S. Declaration of interdependent politically peaceful Independence and ProDemocratic Life Constitutions were born of Enlightenment CoOperative EcoPolitics. Applied polypathic ecopolitical science looked a great deal like experiential polymathic teleology, healthy compassionate purpose, therapeutic polycultural meaning. Democracy discerns organic win/win wealth through co-empathic polyculturing health, moving toward inclusive resonant resolutions of complexly interdependent ecopolitical issues, risks, opportunities Win/win social investments re-ligiously replacing win/lose historical-cultural divestments Actively intending improved climate health and less monopolistic monocultures of pathology, whether too hyperactively warm or too near to flat-line fading frozen in tragic Lose/Lose despair. Global WholeSystem economic and political problems for effectively developing polycultural healthcare systems, by denying anthropocentric dis-ecological pathologies, led my confusion about a great transitional divide between two vocational labels: 1.AnthropoCentric NonTheistic Political Scientist, and 2. EarthCentered PanTheistic PermaCulture CoDesigner. This great cultural divide appeared front and center more recently when I became certified as a Permaculture Designer. It helped me to look more carefully at the functional intent of "political" narcissistic, anthro-autistic nation-based predative monoculturing, dissociative objectives retributive, win/lose, 0-sum, RightWing systemic trauma, exclusively disembodied, AnthroMind v EarthBody goals as compared to land-based "permacultural" use-of-power anthropocentric objectives and polycultural ecosystemic associative and re-associative restoring systemic peace/pleasure/compassionate, co-binary 0/1 re-ligioning zone win/win nurturing inclusively-embodied, AnthroMind/EarthBody goals. As I thought more about how our normal day-to-day scientific investment in learning about power includes learning primal differences between multicultural designs and monocultural monopolies of totalitarian mistrust leaning toward distrust chaos, dissonance, then polypathic confluence of design and pattern correlations emerge as the compost, the food, the fodder of our ecological as ecopolitical Whole Gaian Hypothetical System learning enterprise. "Permaculture" was chosen to distinguish perennially designed and democratically self-governing landscapes from more traditional annual economies of "Agriculture" business, with more of a replant, spray, and harvest of chemically treated quasi-edibles, nutritionally malignant regarding fertile health of Earth's soil, leading to well-established suboptimal health-trends of ecopolitical Business As Usual. Permaculture designs are for and on and about and composed of information rooted in past positive polyculturally balanced community landscape outcomes. These polyculturing ecopolitical landscapes began as maps of nurturing health plans for exteriors only, like gardens and farms and river banks. But, this organic economic and political view of power-with ecological balancing climates has moved from exterior to increasingly interior ecopolitical health landscapes, like bicameral full-octave nature-spirit nondual deep learning healthy multicultural mindbody landscapes, dialogues, stories, evolutions. If you believe IN evolutionary processes that you do not believe also believe in you, cooperatively together, then you are less likely to achieve healthy nutritional ecopolitically sustainable outcomes, while you are waiting for SomeOne Other to grace you with His Transcendent compassion/pleasure pronoia peace presence. If you believe WITH ongoing processes of ecosystemic health, then you have joined the evolutionary permacultural partisans of healthy regenesis, wherein lies all evidence of co-creation.