Rev. Gerald Dillenbeck Poet Political Verse

Notes About The Poem

Andrew Cohen quote from "Evolutionary Enlightenment: A New Path to Spiritual Awakening" (which strikes me as a benign oxymoron--new paths are the exception to the slow lifetime norm), p. 182, SelectBooks. my commentary, additions, and format changes are intended to cooperatively nuance Cohen's excellent and important work, to recommend him to you, not to discredit in any way.

Revolutions in Cohen CoEngagement

Nuancing Andrew Cohen

"If we are interested in learning how to engage with consciousness
at higher and higher levels,
to consciously facilitate its evolution within us
and between us,
we need to look more closely
at the extraordinary phenomenon of [nondual co-arising] emergence
in matter,
in biological life,
[in economic life,
and in political systems,]
and most importantly,
at the level of [Anthro-mind/Earth-body] consciousness.

We need to cultivate our capacity to visualize
and to emotionally connect
with what it would mean
for [positive] emergence to occur 
within our own interiors [mind/body landscapes,
co-dominant dipolar Left-Right bicameral Yang-Yin balance],

within our subjective
and intersubjective 
[peak-crown-head therapeutic
and valley-root-sensory/sexual body]
experience."

We LeftHemisphere hear 
and eco-politically translate 
in orthodox paradigms 
of prior enculturation
to speak 
and mind-0 zone
body-1/0 co-empathically transpose 
co-engaging win/win 
bipartisan reformation.

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Skat A December 2, 2015 at 8:59 AM Great poem, skat