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Thinking and Therefore Becoming

It is all very well for Mr. DesCartes to think with his mind and therefore be with his body, yet this fails to explain why when I think happy and healthy I feel like I am more, and when I think sad and depressed I feel like so much less. Somewhere back in the sleepy land of Cartesian dualism, we can still recover the WinWin contrast of Eastern philosophy's co-arising nondualism of mind and body, what is spiritual is what is also natural, what nurtures sacred wisdom with what nurtures secular rationality, but also other dualisms not merely appositional contrasts between inside-Right and outside-Left evolutions and revolutions, but oppositional tensions between ecopolitical health and pathology. Evangelical and Supremacist Trees Knowing Good Or Evil growing in Earth's original Eden forest, may feel more Eastern, and RightBrain seen and heard and smelled and felt, as WinWin KnowledgeTrees of NonDual CoArising Good AND Evil, ecological virtues with some egocentric sins, healthy climate governing decisions and those more deadly, and cognitively dissonant, and depressing and chronically stressing and decompositional, devolutionary, rather than Tipping Point nondual co-arising balancers of positive evolution, regeneration aptic contentment-happiness, Left and RightBrain collateral dominance within Positive Psychology and EcoPolitical Earth Sciences throughout parenting and educational systems and faith and trust building systems, communities of nondual co-arising (0)Sum WinWin nonduality as contrasted to Cartesian dualistic assumptions which are more (0)Sum WinLose, Either-Or deductive-reductive fundamentalism, rather than BothLeft AndRight co-inductive cooperative rationalism of SecularLeft Yang with SacredElderRight Yin ethological discernment re-combining both revolutionary regenerative health as cooperatively grateful life trends and evolutionary decomposing bilateral pathology through competing to subdue maladroit LoseLose death-trends. Our Western difference between sacred health of mind and reductive-secular pathologies of merely natural wishful-thinking therefore being bodies together provide a co-arising nondual bilateral view of what we nutritionally/toxically are each day, each year, each life, Yang cooperative and ecologically proudest for having achieved as part of EarthTribe's national Treasure, but also as Yin grateful for co-arising decompositions, recompositions, reweaving reunions through (0)Soul YangSpace-YinTime 4D Real SpecialCase HealthWealth Time WinWin self-governance polypathically and polynomially and polyphonically and polyculturally applied, noticed and appreciated, non-violently listened to and with, planted, fed nutritionally and watered through thermodynamic balanced root systems, harvested, decomposed, regenerated toward and re-invested through Seven ReGenerations of Trees knowing both good ecological nature and bad egocentric spirits paranoid about Earth's LoseLose Left v Right Cartesian dominant Western dualism. We are fortunate, but too seldom grateful, to learn at least as much from our fears and fear-mongerers (not to mention any RightWing dominating elitist names) as we have from our great sacred and academic loves and fellow lovers of healthy wealth for more humane acclimating climates within as without EarthTribe's natural-spiritual landscapes.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017




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