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Powers Over Me

I once read, If I am a parishioner, (or a student or a child or some other non-elite ecofeminist identity) Then someone has power over me. It would have been more helpful if this "someone" had been named, finger-pointed outed. I am left wondering, Who could this Someone be? And, is this non-indigenous power used to empower and disempower me? And/Or, disempower and empower We? And possibly some of both, and all fractal four, above? Or, with the And/Or above, is this actually another variation on a perfect octave circling power-string? This "someone" could not mean clergy, usually civil, civic-minded more than uncivil; Called to suffering of servant facilitators, moderators, mediators of democratically inclusive theological reflection on real world experience, the scripture of ecological dynasties, Natural relationships learned as also, at our best and most resilient, theologically resonant health and safe-valued wealth of co-passions, positive equivalent to double-negatives, Stories and histories and herstories of double-binding bilateral ZeroZone Souls. Two intersectional stories for all relationships, secular Yang with sacred non-elite bilateral yin-squared power climates inside/outside, Fractals of positive empowerment and negative disempowerment forMe/ofWe Within ecosystems ego-sufficient and concomitantly co-arising ego/eco-empowerment; co-incidental transubstantiation When Ego equals LeftYang hemispheric framing lenses and Eco equals RightYin political GreenCommons network of interdependence, intersectionality, sufficient left/right co-affirmation I am a Taoist parishioner now wondering why Straight White Male Fragility would have unmitigated retributive powers over win/win restorative justice We So, when reading, If I am a parishioner, (or a student or a child or some other ecofeminist identity) Then someone slightly less LeftBrain dominant and more RightBrain affirming empowers warmly accompanying me.

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