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Premium Member Exodus To Genesis
With Julian Jaynes
we find an egocentric languaged LeftBrain
developing reasons to sacredly love our healthy RightBrain inductive-integrative SacredPower feelings of Earth's co-relationship with LeftBrain's Self-ReGenerating Identity
of BiCameral Ego/Eco-Consciousness.

Later on in the evolution of Positive Psychology,
we find...

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Categories: formative, culture, health, nature, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member Badboy Monotheists
Where do we think all this economic and politically empowering
cooperative
nutritional
organically luscious imagination
and ecologically exegetical orthopraxis
started?

George Lakoff speaks of strictly straight stern paternalistic God the Universalist Fathers,
vertically Winning over an otherwise Loser, yet highly competitive, ecopolitical...

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Categories: formative, games, health, integrity, math, peace, political, psychological,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Continuous Quality Improvement
"It [Communion] is the liberating experience of the Authentic Self recognizing itself in others--the many coming together as One in egoless freedom and the mutual conscious intention to evolve."...

"It [Evolutionary Enlightenment] is a new and...

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Categories: formative, analogy, beauty, destiny, miracle, nature, science, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Attitude with latitude
Attitude with latitude

originally written January 19th, 2019
and tension defines the dynamic

Valiant prince sip pulled effort
rebuffed, snubbed, thumbed
courtesy eldest daughter
uncontested vainglorious woke
mine genuine apology,
viz sincerely yours truly
psyche asper paternal overture
toward aforementioned offspring
smitten with opprobrium
figuratively smacked upside...

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Categories: formative, abuse, anger, anxiety, betrayal, family, father daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Chapter 1-- Damian Hakim: the Making of the Man- Damian's Early Days
Date 2008 these are Damian's 
Formative days. Damian Hakim 
Was born 2001 August 10th.
8lbs 7oz. Big baby boy! Damian 
Lived in west Virginia with his
Mother Lucinda, father Carter 
Hakim and his siblings. Now 2008
Young Damian...

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Categories: formative, black love, color, confidence, mental health,
Form: Prose



Stricken With Anguished Nausea
Stricken with anguished nausea

Written three years ago tomorrow, 
yet superimposed (likened to 
emotional palimpsest) upon 
mental state of yore
recent post traumatic stress 
triggered courtesy war
torn legally tendered greenbacks, 
where enemy bonded, heisted, and netted 
mine...

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Categories: formative, abuse, age, analogy, angst, anniversary, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Disconnecting Dogmatism
Our humane-empowering species,
steeped in regenetic history
of human nature connecting
disconnecting
reconnecting
preconnecting,

Has an unfortunate tendency,
especially in Abrahamic historical traditions,
to imagine that our own religious tradition
is not only free of historical-cultural adaptation
but also the one supremely right-wing Way
orthodox Truth
healthy...

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Categories: formative, culture, education, health, light, power, psychological, religion,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Postmillennial Virus
What remains 
when gratitude for learning
totally evaporates?

I don't know...
Totalitarian senility, maybe?
I guess I don't understand
the source of your question, dear.
Do you feel less grateful for learning
than in more formative years?

No, I don't
but I sense younger...

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Categories: formative, art, earth, education, environment, health, money, science,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Democratic Health Images
Imagine your healthiest body
is a democratic
self/other empowering organism

Ideally,
most nutritionally,
nurtured by an also open,
living,
dynamic win/win preferential,
evolving,
revolving planetary universe,
in many sacred times and places
also known as MotherEarth.

Notice
your democratic bodymind
is an open
holistic
ego/eco-centering
co-invested re-centering,
co-acclimating interior and exterior
bilaterally systemic infrastructure
for...

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Categories: formative, education, green, health, heart, integrity, power, psychological,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Cooperative Health Expectations
We might expect LeftBrain deduced beliefs and monoculturing values
to develop a discontinuously co-arising energy and information base,
becoming  dualistically dysfunctional,
degenerative
of Earth's limiting fossil-fuel declining energy,
and yet with more reclining information supporting slow-growth
of recycling resources
such as...

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Categories: formative, destiny, happiness, health, love, peace, psychological, science,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Moose Medicine
If love is a metaphysical word
for physical synergy,
and synergy is
Fullerian-Eulerian-Einsteinian-Jaynesian 
prime binomial integrating TransParency,
ProGenitor Time of Tao's
nondual co-arising gravity,
merging and emerging in-formation
into this continuing
yet culminating
Great Transition Evolution
of Left-Right bicameral eco-consciousness,
co-empathic ecopolitical trust,

Then,
to nuance Joanna Macy,
"Active...

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Categories: formative, destiny, dream, introspection, joy, love, nature, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bucky's Wealth of Information
Universal information,
form emerging from multisystemic diastasis,
is composed of fractal syntax,
primally illustrated by looking at RNA,
then DNA,
binomially re-cognizing bilateral temporal memory
as formative id-entity.

Polynomials are to in-form-ionization
as polycultural outcomes are to universal
organic-unitarian-integral-cooperative
life-systemic
syntax.

Not-Not Polynomial unitarianism,
double-bound nondual integrity,
is both...

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Categories: formative, culture, math, nature, religion, science, seasons, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Contenting Tree of Life
Futility of Contention
absorbs into Utility of Contentment.

To preserve wholeness, mutually accommodate;
    yielding preserves whole.
To become straight, you must begin bent;
    bent potentiates straight.
To become filled, its best to begin...

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Categories: formative, beauty, creation, culture, health, integrity, nature, philosophy,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Across Figurative and Literal Blackened White Board
Across figurative and literal blackened white board...

Where death of democracy writ large,
nevertheless psychological strength predominates
unlike earlier chapters of mein kampf.

Mine hardscrabble existential debacle 
spelled losing game
swept me up in malevolent mindset 
far adrift from harbored...

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Categories: formative, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th grade, 8th
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Reverse Creation
Taoist Principle of Reversion
grows metasystemic decomposition
degeneration
reverse creation
organic time and memory moving backward toward rebirth
of a Paradise Pleasing Planet.

Reversion anticipates the Yin-reverse action 
of indigenously wise integrity.
Decompressing reimagination of effective/causal Time 
within organizing space and sacred...

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Categories: formative, culture, nature, philosophy,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Hindsight Always Equals 20 20
Hindsight always equals 20/20

Acuity absent amidst domestic turmoil,
passage of time nsync with diminished
pitched family emotional battles relieves
blinded insight allowing, enabling, and
providing painful awareness incumbent

to mourn the absent paternal maturity, I
reach out with genuine non petty...

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Categories: formative, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Motherearth's Resilience
So, Mother, where do you get all your creative ideas?

Outside, of course.
I'm not known as MotherNature for nothing
after all Earth's regeneration
is too often said
and too seldom done
with unconditional regard
for our Green Vegetation Tribes.

OK, that almost...

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Categories: formative, earth, environment, health, humor, integrity, mother, power,
Form: Prose Poetry
Spindleshanks Ain'T No Legend
Spindleshanks Ain't No Legend...

But sits here donned in his foreign
aged (not so lovely) bag of bones
barely functioning surviving, but by
skin off his teeth, (which explains
dentures) regretting, revisiting,
ruminating hellacious bout with

anorexia nervosa, approximately
five dozen (multiply) orbitz...

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Categories: formative, 6th grade, 7th grade, 8th grade, 9th
Form: Prose Poetry
Rational Awe
a non-believer in the great fictions,
the ridiculous notions of the organized
religions of the world
does not walk around 
without the ability to experience the 
wonder of this world
this only world
in which we exist for an extremely...

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Categories: formative, life, world, people, people, , literature,
Form: Free verse
The final frontier post consciousness
The final frontier – post consciousness

as imagined by cogent, fervent, intelligent,
lucent, occident, reticent, and uneminent 
nonestablishmentarian.

The following disquisition initially describes 
emotions prior to experiencing corporeal death, 
yet unbeknownst to this skeptical atheist, his 
anticipatory anxiety...

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Categories: formative, absence, adventure, angel, atheist, celebration, cry, death,
Form: Free verse
Amelie Beth Harris Mcgeehan
Amélie Beth Harris-McGeehan

December first 2020 equals
thee above named sibling
whereby she completed
LXIII earth orbits around the sun
therefore incumbent upon me
(cuz yours truly to wish happy birthday

at receiving end of much largesse)
to wax poetic regarding beloved sister,
which...

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Categories: formative, age, birthday, blessing, celebration, december, devotion, health,
Form: Free verse
Schooled In Hard Knock Sufferance
Schooled in hard knock sufferance... -
soulful scribe matt er fact - seeks solemn sanctuary

Despite always pledging
allegiance to the flag
academic performance traced, narrated,
graphed... unfavorable zigzag

vertical lined spikes across
x-axis and y-axis displayed
dramatically sharper increased crag
when promoted one...

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Categories: formative, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form: Personification
Premium Member Mechanical Flies In Organic Systems
In Systems Theory
there hides a transparent bias toward positively resilient systems

And there hides an unfortunate bias toward magically created
mechanistic systems

Competing in hierarchical global networks
empowered from sublime Above
and from Outside
domination by missionary zealous soldiers,
LeftBrain elitist owners...

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Categories: formative, anxiety, care, caregiving, health, integrity, psychological, trust,
Form: Political Verse
The Watcher
when she gets home
after working a ten hour shift
he is sitting in a chair in the living room waiting for her---
on one hand he wears a white glove
it is still clean,
and he smiles at her,
telling...

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Categories: formative, life, care, care, sleep,
Form: Free verse
The Missus Discerns a Glimmer of Empathy Within Her Spouse
Finally after twenty two plus
years of marriage,
a husband (namely yours truly -
hitherto known as Matthew Scott Harris)
exhibits glint of care and concern
toward his significant other,
which wife bemoaned
absent expressions of love
particularly before the
honeymoon even occurred.

I readily...

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Categories: formative, absence, art, blessing, devotion, encouraging, giving, husband,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things