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.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2019
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