Narcissists Anonymous
...I might feel grand
aspiring to omnipotent
omniscience
Whereupon omnipresence
might feel less necessary,
or even possible,
or desirable
In a secularized
reduced
dissociated apartheid,
sa...
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Categories:
anthropocentrism, god, health, love, passion,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Compassionate Allies
...How might capitalism
and egocentric competitive allies
of patriarchalism
racism
sexism
monoculturalism
totalitarianism
binary double-standardism
anthropocentrism
remind us of which competi...
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Categories:
anthropocentrism, appreciation, earth, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Neglecting Democratic Health
...I'm feeling some civil
democratic health
neglect
To re-member
monocultural anthropocentrism
is a mental health crisis
In our U.S. Win/Lose normative
miseducational systems,
In our anti-...
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Categories:
anthropocentrism, caregiving, community, education, health,
Form: Political Verse
Supremely Courted Systemic Feelings
...I believe it was Alfred North Whitehead,
an early developer of cognitive systems thinking,
who observed frequent miscommunication
and confusion
and chaos
over bilateral complexities
of Set v is...
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Categories:
anthropocentrism, culture, earth, education, health,
Form: Political Verse
Seminal Enlightenment
...When I was in an interfaith seminary
I noticed three models
for understanding a faith community's purpose
in a democratic and diverse society.
1. Conservation of SelfRighteous Anger
To compe...
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Categories:
anthropocentrism, community, faith, health, political,
Form: Political Verse
Philosophy of Integrity
...Is also a metaphysics of integral co-relationships,
which would make an even worse title
for drawing you into
our shared land of bicameral consciousness.
Philosophy of scientific method
could ...
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Categories:
anthropocentrism, community, environment, health, philosophy,
Form: Political Verse
Privileged Cultures Afterthought
...It feels fascinating
that horny voracious passions
dissipate in the presence of ego-centered fear
of pain and suffering
and ego-defeating loss,
disability and predative performance anxieties,
w...
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Categories:
anthropocentrism, health, integrity, peace, power,
Form: Political Verse
Unnatural Climates
...Speaking of climate health
and multicultural wealth,...
Yes. You have a question?...
Were you here for our previous session?...
No, I mean our most recent dialogue,
published just before t...
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Categories:
anthropocentrism, earth, environment, health, nature,
Form: Political Verse
Interdependent Americans
..."I do not see what right any one would have
to object to calling this part
[the South American mainland],
after Americus
who discovered it
and who is a man of intelligence,
Amerigen,
tha...
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Categories:
anthropocentrism, earth, health, history, humanity,
Form: Political Verse
It Feels Unfair
...It feels unfair,
the doctor said,
to blame all pathological -isms
on LeftBrain dominating
NorthWestern enculturation;
Too geopolitically ecological,
too globally sweeping,
where my reason lo...
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Categories:
anthropocentrism, community, earth, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
The Big Tent Elephant
...Once upon eternal time,
all philosophers
and theologians
and ecologists,
published and unpublished,
credentialed and indigenous,
elders and children
and all ages in-between,
alive and dead
a...
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Categories:
anthropocentrism, health, humanity, humor, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Investments In Health
...Gaia continues running on a Health Platform,
healthy democracy
for wealthy economy
for healthy ecopolitics
for wealthy democratic energy.
The idea of free markets
as those embedded in democra...
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Categories:
anthropocentrism, community, earth, health, nature,
Form: Political Verse
Comedy of Impeaching Errors
...The Republican congressmen,
and I do mean white privileged straight men,
came to their Democratic opposition
concerned about how depressing
December can be,
and all of winter,
come to think and...
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Categories:
anthropocentrism, caregiving, earth, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Peace For Parenting
...So what sane parent
would intentionally lead their family
into internal
or external war,
right?
Well, apparently former political
and religious extremists,
neonazis,
Islamic fundamentalist...
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Categories:
anthropocentrism, america, christian, earth, health,
Form: Political Verse
To Solidarity
...Do we still belong together,
long to compassion with each other
more than against?
Do we still believe
Earth is more of a regeneratively developing memory
than a degeneratively unraveling lack...
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Categories:
anthropocentrism, community, creation, earth, games,
Form: Political Verse
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