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Revolutionary Para-Dimes

A difference between compassion and sympathy, between co-empathic passion and unilateral YangPatriarchal-empathic, ego-empowering intent, Compassion matures passion FOR into shared passion WITH. This same emergent fluidity cannot be said of sympathy for suffering of Other, who remains another dissociated Other Exempted from democratic inclusion in further considerations of constitutionally appropriate applications of Golden Rules to those who remain in darker xenophobic shadows more appropriate for retributive reaction than restoration to peaceful justice response. This same contrast and compare may also apply to political empowerment and more of the same competitive economic investment, to global enlightenment and more localized, and often nationalized, pockets of self-enrichment, to recreative cooperative love and to recreational competitive lust Now that some of us revolutionaries and evangelists of the ecological 1960s have been given this great green gift of old age wisdom, what on Earth shall we choose to do with such awesomely sacred/secular private/public sectoral nonpartisan WisdomCircle responsibility? Settle for fading sympathy, gradual depressive loss of sensory health awareness, of physical consciousness? Or, Reconsider ways to optimize active compassion, compassionately lively communication, fragrantTrue and savoredBeauty, bicamerally touched and binomially felt Pos/Neg/InBetween 1/0 double-binary positive polyvagal neurological systemic health structure [Wow! That was a lot to dispassionately ask. Sorry.] non-violently heard and green revolutionary 20/20 revisioned, Co-passionate DNA/RNA EarthTribes currently in living residential relationships growing hotly combative climates of anthro-privileged salvific empathy, Seeking more cool green Wisdom Circles of democratic sacred energy discernment within and among consensual multicultures of ecosystemic health-sensory consciousness. How is universal EarthWealth compassion different yet often felt the same as unilateral LeftBrain EitherEgo/OrEcoSystemic Health and Safety RightBrain Truth and Beauty in sacredly holonic CoPassion with great transition gratitude for this Old WisdomCircle healthy democratic gift of revolutionary evangelicals in cooperative multiculturing redevelopment.

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