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Unhealthy Caregivers

"If I could turn you on, if I could drive you out of your wretched mind, if I could tell you I would let you know." R. D. Laing Ronald Laing was a troubled psychotherapist and a notoriously terrible non-dad who heard dark voices in double-binding schizophrenia. Knots of contradictory negative emotions, needs, troubling demands and troubled expectations non-verbally underlying attachments, sensed relationships between two people and within families, and other, larger eco-politically Stated, and officious, Voices. I need you to want to be with me not because I need you to care for me and about us. I do not need you (society, Earth) to want to be with me because I need you to care for me and about us; regeneratively double-bonded. Laing could not see these two "not"s as both/and resiliently knotted at peace with each other's harmonic in-between strains; The geometrics of and in-between not-not can equal a positive. His solution was inclusive rebellion. I wonder what mine will be, has been. I hope for a 2020 revolution revisioning not-not health-wealth sexual-sensory natural-spiritual left/west-right/east hemispheric yang-yin strength-flow outside-inside precessive-recessive (B. Fuller) outgoing-incoming ex/preformed cognition-informative emotion not yet/still polypathic-polyphonic holonic integrity-holy synergy ecological prime relationship-theological compassion (+)polynomial + (-,-)polynomial = +/-,- Win/Win ZeroZone, multicultural Integrally co-redemptive bicameral 20-20 re-creations, left-brain secularly metric and right-brain sacredly mindful Every sacred day and night psychotherapeutic choice is more resilient when right-brain integral attachment rooted rather than left-brain detachment deflowered.

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