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Rev. Julian Jaynes quotes are from his "Coming to One's Self" homily, published in Magic Wells: Sermons..., 1922.  As noted in prior pieces, I read Reverend Jaynes's theology through his psychologist son, Julian Jaynes, who wrote a seminal evolutionary theory of bicameral consciousness development, very much in synchronicity with Gregory Bateson's concept of Sacred Ecology.

"And when he came to himself" Luke 15:17 In another millennial time and Chinese/Russian place, Taoism began as aphorisms and poetry about political philosophy, articulating a bicameral tension between Conservative Yangers, patriarchal universalist ego empire builders, and Unitarian Progressive Yinners, WinWinners, a matriarchal cooperative polypathic multicultural integrative network of nurturers, (the longer the list of adjectives and adverbs, the less important history would prove us to become cooperatively disintegrated) empty of any sectarian-deductive labeling, and supremacist framing, function. Hence, everyone knows the principles of InterdependentYang and EmptyYin, and usually metaphorically associate them with Male and Female, and Positive and Negative, yet few have economically and/or politically defined the governing power of Tao. We have the Tao of most everything, without necessarily being clear about what the label Tao adds to most anything. In another millennial time and New England and Baltimore place, Reverend Channing proposed to replace the Holy Trinity with God the LeftBrain Dominant patriarchal EgoFather[Mother], with universalist regenerative credentials of deduced historic effectiveness, and the RightBrain Unitarian matriarchal OverSoul of Grace and Flow and Karma and Princess (0)-Sum Prime Relational Energy of ecoconscious integrative potential, all four nondual sisters co-arising cooperatively together in ecopolitical health and bicameral safety Paradise of DNA with RNA Solidarity in fractal-nutritional seasons with reasons of regenerative health, Original Tao Intent. Or, something LeftBrain Universal God and RightBrain OverSoul EcoConscious Unitarian like Yang Ego discontinuous competitions with Yintegral EcoIntegrity CoOperative Networking and WinLose evolutionary model of mutual degeneration with WinWin ecological model of regenerativity. It is this Unitarian 0-sum RightBrainBody OverSoul that Reverend Julian Jaynes explores as how we are prodigal son and daughter and transgender Egos, and OverSoul Atman PolyPaths of EcoConsciousness, Prodigal Unitarians progressing Ego health and safety Conservationism, played WinWin with LeftBrain ego-centric ecological discernment of optimally cooperative evolution rather than BusinessAsUsual LeftBrain idolatry of competitive capitalistic revolutions, and concomitant WinLose violence in the name of peacemaking, and pathological lack of long-term consciousness in the name of climates and landscapes of and for healthy freedom, optimally self-liberating safety, nurturance, regenerativity, polypathic integrity. "...[T]here is something else to be observed as you study your own [prodigal bicameral] nature. It is a something of supreme importance.... Suppose you observe [several of ego-you] in your daily consciousness, now one, now the other asserting itself in thought and behavior; who is it, let us ask, who is it or what is it that does the observing?" Polypathic ecoconsciousness of time's flow, regenerative and too often chaotically Left-Right dissonant. "Are you not conscious of still another [Elder RightBrain] self, larger and more inclusive than the others, that seems to be standing outside watching them, counting them, criticizing them, applauding them?" OverSoul, Atman, holonic matriarchally cooperative face of Father Patriarch LeftBrain. Brahma is Tao of Gaia. "Who is it that wonders?" Which God and/or Goddess do you most idolize as RightBrain BiCameral OverSoul? "There are times when you fall so completely into the possession of one of these smaller selves [Ego-ideals], that you lose all consciousness of the one [Earth-Matriarchal ReGenerator] watching outside. It is only afterward that the presence of the [Gaia-Climate OverSoul] watcher is seen and felt. There are other times when the [ecoconscious] watcher seems to be on the guard [silent defensive-dissonant-repressed] all the time, and while the lesser personalities [LeftBrain Dominant ego-idols] are having their way, is continually sounding the word of [condemning patriarchal] rebuke or [matriarchal health and safety nurturing] encouragement.... You may call it [prodigal] conscience, or moral [polypathic] sentiment-- anything you please. I like to give it the name I have already used and call it the real or the larger [OverSoul, RightBrain EmBodied NonDual CoArising] self." A rational matriarchal Gaia theistic belief in an Original ReGenerative Source could be both theologically universalist with regard to root source of divine intelligent ecopolitical empowerment, and teleologically secular-unitarian with regard to evolutionary Omega Point of humane polypathic healthy, wealthy, and rationally co-mentoring abundance. Both history and science, our own eyes and ears, remind us phylogeny is polypathic across both DNA and RNA branches of our regenerative tree of life. So it is our Earth's systemic ecology is polyculturally progressing across all economic/political nutritionally positive/positronic relationships. In this post-millennial time in Gaia's growing climate pathology, Tao means Conserve/Progress ecopolitical healthy climates of positive cooperative regenerativity, resonantly inside as reiteratively outside, below as above before Space as after Time positive as double-binding negative Yang as YinYin WinWin (0)-sum PolyPathic Prodigality.

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