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Surviving Chronic Eclipses

I was on my ambivalent fence about who to watch watch the solar eclipse, my alcoholic allies or the designer THC corporate investors. Wherever it was, we read excerpts from two permaculture designers, to get our minds ready for this great transitional event. Robin Wall Kimmerer, an Elder Native American permaculture designer and teacher of ecofeminist political matriarchal cooperative ownership, if there ever were such an actual RealTime person, tells a story of two ways to harvest sweetgrass. One eco-centered way plays WinWin in cooperation with each grass clump's root system, cutting and pinching harvests from the base of each individual sacred stalk, while more WhiteMan-centered investors, buyers and sellers, play WinSome-LoseSome capital-extraction in competition with uprooted and thrown away, culled and harvested and wasted root systems, ego-convex/eco-concave bilateral D/RNA-encrypted. Here, root systems are devoured in pursuit of entitled rights of ownership over individual nutritional-potentiated sacred systems, including economic rights of commercial capital rapacious growth through normative mutual Win/Lose legal political standards, Using strictly LeftBrain dominant secular ecopolitical values, for natural-spiritual dipolar dignity, beauty, (0) Soul bilateral truth, (0) Core root-systemic synergy co-invested, co-arising, co-gravitating WinWin nutritional Left/Right Yang/Yin wu-wei Tipping Point Deep Learning potentials. Meanwhile, David Holmgren, possibly a LeftBrain dominant ecopolitical PermaCulture Designer and Teacher, and Family-Householder (0)-Zone EcoRooted Mentor, reminds us the Turtle Island Garden of Eden, whether as consumer or harvester or LeftBrain dominant co-investor seeks a proactive Left with RightBrain correlational WinWin primal relationship, too often LeftBrain dismissed, marginalizing, and misinterpreted to mean your egocentric right to harvest any alternative WinLose way you passively and consumer-market oriented feel is your natural-spiritual right for Mother Earth as SkyWoman to breastfeed you. Some of us parents and teachers, mental health professionals and public health ecological cooperators, preachers and politicians, theorists and practitioners of health giving and receiving as slow-growing non-pathological climates and reweaving multicultures, need LeftBrain reminders we are always better off and on to let ecosystems, reforesting root systems, take their ecological (0)Soul bilaterally revolving slow-grown course. Others prefer invitations to RightBrain ecocentering harvests, where root systems are all cooperatively sacred potential partners, and only competitively merely secular opportunities for WinLose divestment, a natural-spiritual kick in the ass by the fear of a vengeful Patriarchal God of EgoMongering, and/or by our natural-spiritual love of co-investing with cooperative Matriarchal Earth, to wake us Left with RightBrain up to act to save our bicameral sighted selves. These two responses to WinWin empowering ecopolitics, over Yanged LeftBrain Prickly (A. Watts) and our under-Yinned RightBrain Gooey (also Watts) come to Left with Right CoLateral CoPresence in most of us in different times and development seasons of our youthful spring through mature adult harvest times, back toward (0)Soul bilateral origins of Design. Permacultural development of forests and families with Eden-WinWin ecopoliticians and parents, planters and harvesters, invest in small and great revolutionary transitions as both interdependent ecopolitical consumers and co-responsible and eco-authoritative therapeutic producers of polycultural health outcomes. This is our LeftBrain dominant Yang energy revisioning RightBrain repressed sides trying to more confluently, less cognitive-affective dissonantly, co-harvest and co-design re-investments with Earth evolving our deep learning root system of our currently eclipsing sacred ecological global environmental climate of competitive ecopolitical pathology, absence of EarthCentric (0)Soul bilateral ego/ecosystemic mindfulness, YangLeft--YinRight D/RNA ecosystemic fractal design rooted WinWin (0)Core Sacred EcoLogical. Too energetic Yang against too slothful Yin taking two double-binding cooperative breaks while hypnotized by an oncoming chronic solar eclipse, seeringly ultra-violent sun perpetually embracing GrandMother Moon's serenely ultra-violet brights and dualdark (0)-Soul polypathic sums and cores and climates and cultures of bilateral Yang/Yin ecosystemic politics, dipolar co-arising moon over sun revolutions by day, while Elder Right dualdark ReNewingMoon good breastfeeding by night of beauty trust bicameral non-verbal, dipolar notnot inductive, bilaterally eclipsing-arising truths of octaved light in SunGod's sweetspot slow-evolving Time.

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Date: 8/21/2017 8:45:00 AM
Amazing, touching, stunning long poem full of ideas and very proper to meditation as the saying of Plato: It should come near power only those who do not love it.Best regards.
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Date: 8/21/2017 9:14:00 AM
And, who love our power together most, without leaving anyone behind, as Gandhi might add.

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