Teaching Power

Teaching can feel depressingly predative to younger minds preferring to not evaporate while preyed upon. Mentoring can feel more hopefully symbiotic with younger, fresher, less domesticated minds preferring to mutually stalk shared prey of symbiotic and creolizing truths between generations, ancient to yet unborn. Parenting can feel parasitic to younger minds and bodies ready to break free of aging hosts, relentlessly hoping to pass along some semblance of grace as gratitude for Earth's co-investing gifts. Parenting could, in hypothetical theory, invite mutuality, more like benign parasites, who know and love each other, moving from harboring co-dependencies to seeking mutual interdependence for further good-humored yet vulnerable exploitations of honest life as mutual gifting forward. Power, energy, nutrition, even vibrant health can feel like unmitigated competitions where if I win then someone else must lose, when all the most important choices are between Either Yes Or No. I suppose power could feel more limited. Power to mutually avoid and live in side by side autonomous silos of live and let love, where if I win then so must you and if you win then so must I and if this generation wins then so must future generations where all our mutually avoided choices issue forth within Both Yes for me And NotNot No for you. Teaching power can feel predative, as mentoring interdependent powers invites deep harmonic ecology, sacred symbiosis of me as also notnot you.