Sacramental Dialogue
Let's do a bit of sacramental gaming.
Oh no, Dear!
That smells and sounds coldly inappropriate.
What would your great-grandmother say?
OK, well...
how about a mutually refining discussion
about theological system development?
That might be alright,
although heavy.
But, don't you mean the development of systematic theology?
That too, I suppose,
although I have not thought about processive faith-systems
in quite that systemic way and means of growing love.
This refinement game,
then,
has already begun?
How do we define winning,
and why do we refine losing
as we inevitably do?
Let's try winning
as defined by cooperative Systems Theory.
When two or more networking systems
intend to optimize mutually reiterative WinWin outcomes,
producing cooperatively positive outcomes,
these derive from synergetically healthy incomes
of balancing energy
as also harmonically resonant
and contenting
and cooperative information in
and nondually cooperative exformating outcomes out.
That seems a bit twisty.
Sacramental spirals of spacetime,
we might say and think and feel.
This reminds me of ekklesia,
cooperatively owned
democratically managed
models of faith-filling experiential communities.
And of church as
head cooperative sacrament administrator
of and for positive ritual faithfulness.
Not to change our subject,
but did you know
experience of polypathic consciousness
has been associated with sacramental epiphany?
Do you think and feel experience of positive faithful cooperativity
when you hear these two words?
The Church!
Not so much,
although i wish I had been reborn
into that last word's ultimate fulfillment.
How about cooperatively created
and designed
and organized
and implemented
and evaluated sacramental life?
Are we refining church
to become experience of cooperative sacramentum,
ekklesia?
Could that fit with any experience
of sacramental consciousness
we have ever faithfully had?
I have not experienced perfectly cooperative
and multiculturally polypathic democracy.
Yet, I can imagine such syncretic harmony.
It feels and sounds and looks
more like a musical comedy,
with tragic still-competing undertones
of tensioned climates,
lapses in faithful sacramental bilaterally interrelational moments
where we remain cooperatively connected
through our creolizing ecopolitical dramatics,
our sacramental system
of each spacetime's sacramentally faithful
storied moment,
promise of fulfillment.
This is rich.
And deep.
And wide.
Positive!
And double-binding notnot negative dualdark
as equivocating ambivalence
delineating WinWin Yang bilateral
co-arising notnot YinYang sacramental consciousness.
I liked deep and rich promise
of cooperative fulfillment
way better.
It fits more fully and harmonically
into our nurture refining enterprise,
peaceful sacrament
musical-heroic experience,
empathy
growing bilateral polypathy,
bicameral creolizing democracy,
positive Golden Rule Promise.
And, don't forget
your faithful nurturing fulfillment.
How could I?
You won't let me.
You're so controlling.
Refining.
This is a dialogue
with equivalent powers.
My strength is bilateral intuition,
not so many refining
defining words.
Of which you insist
on controlling
by speaking last,
hopefully listening first.
[No further refining response available...N(NP).]
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2017
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