Religious Ties That Bind
Religion
could be more spiritually grounded
in healthy ecological relationships
were theologians and governors
to remind each multiculturing Other,
This re-connecting work
of religious economic and political enculturation
is less about unchangeable past history of TruthSpace
and more about continuous,
resonantly reculturing
EarthBeauty Time
Less about petrified fear
anger
unhealthy distrusting demonic place
and more about fluid compassion,
safe
timeless double-binds of graced eternity.
Double-binds are sometimes recognized
in moral theology--
damned if you do
and damned if you don't;
Seldom blessed if you do
and grace if you don't.
Two negatives equal a positive
but two polarized positives
equal a mess of confusion.
R.D. Laing connected verbal communication
between individual victims
and socially empowered authorities
like parents
and teachers
And perhaps evangelical theologians
demanding we love God
more than Ego,
Yet if we understand Ego
as merely autonomous from God's omnipotent grace,
then we have not yet
personally enough
accepted God's love
into our self-made hearts.
Double-binds are double-negatives
as double-binary x's and y's,
1's and 0's,
binomial prime relationships
like Yang and Yin
and dipolar bonds of appositional association
Co-defining
eco-refining Earth's regenesis
with fractal DNA and RNA
double-bilateral structures
Like 4-dimensional spacetime
of co-arising
co-acclimating bi/di-polar dynamics
either/or AND both/and
left resonant
with right hemisphere interdependent communication
non-violent,
so, compassionate--
These are not often enough
positively re-ligioned
re-connected
rewoven into the fabric
of double-binding win/win choices,
healthy, mutually trusting, democratic discernment,
nondualistic dialogue
theological and ecological,
psychological and neurological,
organic and democratic,
sexual and sensual,
historic and cultural,
memory and mysterious hope
For dipolar co-gravitating
spiritual death and natural life
ecosystemic experience,
systemic divine climax,
sacred wonder
and secular
spiraling
recycling
regenerating awe
Root
to branch
to flower
to seed
new/old root re-ligioning systems.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2020
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