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The Christian-Taoist Continues Standing

I was baptized as a Christian, once or twice. It's not so much that the baptism ritual malfunctioned in some series of unfortunate events; It's more like Taoism as my primary ecopolitical health system, or religion, or metaphysic, or whatever kind of evolutionary, perpetually eisegetical-hypothetical, label you choose to slap on the box you decide to keep me in, was (0)Riginally Intended as an ego-hyphenated eco-system. That works out well for creating hybrids of anything cultural: Christian-Taoist, Judeo-Taoist, Islamic-Taoist, Zen-Taoist, although that would be highly redundant, Hindu-Taoist, Zeroist-Taoist, although, again, be prepared to fall asleep as metaphysically orthodox ethologists debate whatever there is of any phylogenic difference between the Yang and Yin positions within that notnothing nondual hybrid. So, as a baptized Christian-Taoist, it's easier to see syncretic bridges between cultural faith-learning systems with those who do use the Christian label for themselves and with those who would adamantly declare their enthusiasm to be, and always and forever remain, anything but Christian. I run into this a lot with atheists, who are also climate health activists: No! I'm not a capitalist-fundamentalist Christian EarthRaper, I'm an Atheist, always with a capital A, or I'm a Unitarian Universalist, although these are more like UnTheists, or I'm a Humanist, or a Wiki of some nature-spirit nondualist-feminist matriarchally self-other cooperative empowering-with-not-over persuasion. So, being a Taoist, when speaking with a Christian ecologist, just means I'm a not YangLeft Dominant or YinRight Dominant Ego/Eco climate-health balancing charter member of the Bodhisattva MindBody of Christ. Not meaning to make that sound like a cake walk, but I'm saying my Taoist sensory awareness of nutritionally regenerate v degenerating evolution of internal LeftEgo and external RightSacred-Integral Eco, Yang-Yin EcoSystemic (0)-sum Balance, is about as multiculturally and polypathically PermaCulturally Design-ish of co-arising nondual Climate Health as I've been able to hunt and gather during my polypathically extending Positive Psychological family journey, so ecopolitically WinWin far. I'm a Christian-Taoist, coredemptive learning cooperative economies means I'm always politically open to nutritionally-intended suggestions for further regenerativity.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2016




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