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Both paradise and hell
have their detractors.
I find some exaggerated truth
in this belief--
one person's paradise
is another's hell.
An eternity
of worshiping an unchanging
omnipotent
omniscient
omnipresent
mono-egotistical god
is not my idea of healthy re-creation.
I have never heard this
in reverse--
One person's hell
may be required
for another's paradise.
Heavenly Capital Adoration
begins to sound like sexist
and xenophobic
and anthropocentric rationalizations
for rampant capitalism
Sublimation as extension,
perhaps a corollary,
justifying capitalism and slavery,
violent settlers' colonialism,
systemic racism
and straight white male
and left brain deductive domination
over who is empowered
to define
and refine
and confine
and double-bind
winners' Paradise
v losers' Hell.
If paradise is a healthy
wealthy place to freely live,
And hell is a pathological
divested
infested
under-invested
patriarchal chested
rapaciously unbreasted
place to not be
ecofeminist sufficiently,
Then losing bad humored,
terrifyingly rumored,
anti-organically tumored
hell is a dualistically shocking way
toward winning good humored
terrifically enamored,
organically amored paradise
of integral win/wins;
Economic and political
Neurological and biological
Ecological and geological
Egological and theological
Secular and sacred
Natural and spiritual
Space and time
ZeroZoned and TaoBalanced.
That said,
I doubt
we are without
universal Paradise
as absence of Hellish attributes
Such as autocracy
and kleptocracy,
fascism and racism
are multiculturally known
and felt as hellish.
Healthy democracy
may not be
a monotheist's Paradise,
Still,
democracy's win/win potential
for cooperative ownership and management
speaks louder than capitalism's win/lose reductions
of ego's participative paradise
in omniscient multicultural theocracy.
Divinity’s Pew
The truth stands in contrast
to only itself
Once mentioned eternal
when thought and then felt
It lives in the ether
past fortune or fame
Conscripted by conscience
no praise and no blame
The truth beyond reason
beyond lies or consent
The lucky among us
to follow its scent
Its trail leads to faith
divinity’s pew
Transforming the moment
— you first say I do
(Rosemont College: February, 2024)
Freezing The Moment
Are you the
lead actor
within your own myth
The script
ever changing
the past in its crypt
Can you freeze
the moment
with only one word
The Angel’s
applauding
— the devil unheard
(Rosemont College: February, 2024)
Salt Lick
Politicians
endow a sword
to the few
— to command the many
(Rosemont College: February, 2024)
Modern Education
Learning more
about less and less
Feeling torn
in great duress
Faith attacked
we hide from myths
Real love scorned
— ourselves we kiss
(Rosemont College: February, 2024)
Marx In Hell
Political salvation
the god of failure
Beatifying the collective
— on the devil’s throne
(Rosemont College: February, 2024)
Gnostic Dreams
The brighter the glare
we discover around us
The darker the light
stays hidden within
Secular salvation
a digital failure
God’s imminent nature
— indistinguishable from ours
(Rosemont College: February, 2024)
‘Sage To The Court Jester …’
God’s truth — Man’s truth
bridging the difference
trust in the Muse
(Rosemont College: February, 2024)
With all the impeachment talk,
worried about ecopolitical Trumpian aristocracy,
five more years of narcissistic nonsense,
of white privileged entitlement
of second and third deadened generations
of rich by kleptocratic theft,
Republican APart-heid Oligarchy
I keep wondering
and stressfully worrying
about lack of attention
to everyday Business As Usual
Republic for Religious WhiteRight
Oligarchy,
An overpowering sacred and secular government
in which all divine Power
is invested in a few WhiteFragile patriarchs,
a missionary dominant LeftBrain class,
evangelically predative,
corporately patriotic,
a self-anointed segregated sanctuary for PeronsalDivineTruth
and xenophobic distrust of OtherTruths,
I smell a cancerously monocultural government
by the supremely self-selected few
made in God the WhiteFather's true capitalist greedy corporate image,
jealous
self-righteous
competitive against Earth-worshiping beauty,
NeoFascists
of My One Way,
My Republic
for which Capitalist Business Stands In For Truth,
My smugly Elitist Life,
Heedless of Earth's incumbent
all-inclusive
radically democratic recombinant
multicultural Death, decisive
Without any future hope
of further Oligarchical Republics
for RightWing Rapture.
Ran into an old friend
just the other day.
Has to have been
50 years
another way.
She made that big mistake
of asking what I've been up to.
Well, I've been studying
systematic multicultural theology
and, then, regenerative ecology.
Oh,
that sounds nice.
Probably keeps you out of trouble.
Yes, well, I guess it is nice,
but not trouble-free.
Another word
might be "athletic."
Like soccer?
More like gymnastics
and long distance running.
Anyway,
have you ever heard of Process Theology?
It has a first Christian cousin
in Creation Theology,
Brought to us sytematically
by Matthew Fox,
but also rooted more experientially,
synergetically,
by both Eastern and Western nature/spirit mystics.
Well, sounds like I have some homework
to do--to catch up.
Just Google process theology
or creation theology
or, better, both
and see if you can see
positive correlations
for those with ears
to hear.
Ok, well, thanks.
I'll get right on that.
Then, look up regenerative ecology,
restorative environmental justice
and try creation ecology--
and maybe positive psychology's Theory of Original Matriarchal Attachment.
See if they all sound alike
more paradigms for sprouting polypathic
feeding
watering
nonviolent ecological communication
and experiential regenerative theology.
Well, my goodness!
Look at the time...
Exactly,
the space within bilateral time,
Here within timeless Now,
Yang strong atoms
Yin flowing spiraling strings of waves,
LeftBrain dominant monoculturalism
undermining RightBrain prominent multicultural communication
unfolding in-between
chaos and complexity
Alpha and Omega
One and Zero bionic
bilateral double-binding
bicameral
natural ecological egos
and spiritual theological-neurological eco-habitats
sacred within as climates secular without
health reforming multicultural wealthy experience,
collateral compassions
of Zero NonSum-ologies;
Each of these
WinWin strategies
for healthy resilient systems.
Sorry,
had to check my texts.
Kids, you know.
Never stop being a responsible parent
or friend.
Were you still talking?
If a verbal communicator
stands
or sits
or squats in a forest
of non-listeners,
is the cooperative communicator speaking
or just talking within myself?
The sky is blue the hue too
Upon my bed, my body rest, and my reflections shine through my precious square bed by the window, the birds pass by my windowsill, to sing and upon my bed, my pillow caressed my head. Joy has come in the morning as promised my soul rests in peace with the promises of God's love flowing in what was said when God blessed the soul pay however upon my bed where I rest my head my soul, my spirits my flesh three different worlds to become one when a mirror reflex back to me myself billows roar across the lost the cost of my singleness my once was young but now my age growing old my wage my debts to pay my cross to bear the cycle of life rejuvenates sometimes how bad the cycle dresses the stage throughout without sproutsTemptations, abominations flirtations,ovations nerve races, seven heavens greets the stage with Material Heaven, Mystic Heaven Earthly Heaven and four Silent heavens Sectarian Heaven, Secular Heaven, and the Third Heaven and all need to birth. What about my flesh? My heart kneels my soul will birth in the upper realm but what about me the flesh? So this truth demanded me to open my eyes to look to hear the Voice of Reasons for so many years yet still stand to wait for you must not!
Yield not to temptation for yielding is sin each victory will help you some other to win this is a temptation Regret the Birth of Desire when it is conceived gives birth to Sin then the birth spirit sin grows and grows and when Sin and desire the temptation becomes fully grown it births Death. The wages of Sin is death So what do I wait for I guess the Grave for I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities nor powers,nor things present, nor things to come nor height, nor depths nor any other creature shall be able to separate me from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus!
Upon my bed, I sat on the edge and do wonder who will be able to be saved
Emotional intelligence
is best watered
with transparency
and fed through vulnerability.
Vulnerability becomes accessible
through practicing win/win courageous expectations
even in the most enduring partisan win/lose spaces,
secular and sacred
Transparency becomes articulate
through practicing multicultural curiosity
active and benign and free of prejudgment
and western white straight male
military-industrialized,
sometimes too fat and monoculturally self-satisfied
to become more than tolerant,
throwing outbound left-brain dominant
impatient-worded weapons
where right-brain interdependent active curiosity
listening tools
and win/win moderating skill-sets
for watering left-cognitive
and right-emotive
polyphonic intelligence
might foster rational reasons
to support resilient ego/eco-health care,
Receiving and giving balanced economic
ego-logos/eco-mythos
emotional intelligence,
emotive motives
best curiously watered
with courageous transparency
and fed through con-celebrated vulnerability.
Winter survivors
open downstream
thawing toward cooperative green thrivers
Spring green economic
and democratic empowering,
multiculturing fertile resilience
On through summer climax
and then autumnal equinox 0-range
Transitions back to winter's more vaccinated closing
Closeted fear of losing
survivalist right brain terrified
by white privileged winter
punishing winds
Of depressing changes
against all EarthTribal joy
unseeded
unbreeding
dispassionate left brain red
rabid intolerance
of repressed right brain green
ecofeminists
Holding cooperative worldviews
blue/green compassionate EarthCentric
nutritional re-investments
in timeless spring EarthDays
Liturgical warm Yang easy
stretching downstream thaws
Also draws
yintegrity's timeless flowing feelings
more sacred poly-entheistic
downriver dipolar co-arising
toward EarthDay open
light empowering Seasons
Less secular monopolitical econo-mystic
values counter productively red
hotly profligate
in straight white patriarchal privileged
mutually assured destructive USA red
and unEarthly unsacred blue white
deep left brain freezes static
intended for surviving win/lose
ancient winterish wounds
Of historic
monocultiural
left brain dominant
lack of spring outside sacred
regenerative eco-health care
Planting and thereby receiving
green wealth developing
health survival systems
flowing downstream
time for win/win cooperative
warm green resonant
thrival.
I wonder if a difference
between a mature
health care bodhisattva
and a less experienced
potential peace messiah
Could be uncovered by noticing
a wisely curious genius
gathering all sacred passionate values
While sadly believing
s/he can access only the wrong
insufficient
benighted
disappointing
unwoke audience
And/or these personal cherished gifts,
enlightened powers,
have ripened at the wrong cultural time
for acceptance
in a deeply wounded
weaponed climate
of narcissistic
anthrosupremacist discontent;
A depressing
wounding
isolating experience
that EarthTribe is not ready
to receive these sacred wonders,
this profound meaning,
sacred win/win resolutions
to stubborn win/lose secular problems
Of insufficiency
mortality
disease
trauma
unease
stress
anxiety
distress
Political repression
economic suppression,
lack of positive
health wealthy global impression.
While a healthier
more resonant Bodhisattva
serenely celebrates
compassion's ecosystemic resilient wealth
already at Right and Left hand
Potential to no longer divide
EarthTribal humane audiences
from Earth's sacred journey performances
into divinely gifted co-empathic meaning
Between personal power space
and politically enlightened timeliness
Seamlessly reconnecting
in-between our humane place in salvation history
and ecosystemically redemptive
divine revolutions,
Daily spiraling spins
of Earth's empowerment
around enlightening Sun
Centered synergetic,
universally co-gravitating
unitarian ego-systems
of nonviolent spacetime,
win/win bodymind
inside/outside
deep and widely shared
communications
Of One egocentered integral
mind-full web
reflecting ongoing revolutions
within an active not not Zero
universal expanding
yet not extracting system
Divinely vast
timeless communication
sacredly unfolding
Abundantly underestimating
Healthy EgoLife needs
are already Wealthy EcoLove wants
deeply
widely felt,
integrity's potential
co-redeeming value.
Because you choose to wait
for Jesus to return to Earth,
Because you choose to wait
for your self-righteous Rapture,
our Great Transitional End
of naturally sinful,
unspiritual
carnal
mortal Earth,
Which do you also choose to do while you wait
to die
so you can Paradise live divinely,
timelessly,
cooperatively,
with fullest possible integrity
of Earth nearly become,
yet denied,
Heaven?
Do you choose
a life lived in communion
with God your Father of creative love,
like sunshine
blessing lily splattered green meadows,
embracing isolated willow trees
producing modest yellow spring blossoms
caressed by healing butterflies
and bees?
Or do you choose
a more LeftBrain dominant life
of capitalized Ego-autonomy,
a dying paranoid Win/Lose life trend
toward isolation
and Lose/Lose helplessness?
Do you too often choose mono-egotistic competition
despite long-term health risks?
Over-extended tragedy
for all potential future children
of all organic EarthTribe,
communal polypaths
inviting resilient multipurposed Paradise
of Health today
Reforesting
healing
planting and harvesting
communing with non-sectarian organic Earth,
Especially when sun shine calls
to ultra-violet daydream rainbows,
crescent stars shine
bright night
extended family
crystal communions,
story-telling fire-circle flames,
songs of full theological disclosure
in nature's liturgical spirit dance,
Bicamerally exploding
peaceful sufficiency of messianic return
both affluent and effluent
Because you choose not to wait
to return to messianic/bodhisattva wealth
of Win/Win health
and ecopolitical reforestations,
anciently awaiting
anxious transubstantiations
Secular EarthHere
with sacred UniversalNow,
ego-healthing space
within eco-bilateral Time.
A secular soldier's demise came from friendly fire.
Soon demons dragged him into another friendly fire.
A succubus said,” Please dream of freedom and sex,
But there is no option to leave the Hell complex.”
The Sargent felt the thermostat was set too high.
His thirsting throat rapidly became parched and dry.
Satan offered him a brew of ghost pepper juice.
Despite an urge to vomit he could not cut loose.
The Sargent asked to tour all the circles of Hell.
Satan laughed and said, “Dante had nothing to tell,
For all his fabulous prose he was never there.
And expect no Purgatory for respite care.”
Sarge said, “Dante the poet would not lie for sooth.”
Satan asked, with a pilot shark smile, “What is truth?”
“Why am I here?” the Sarge in acute anguish cried.
“For enlisting in eternity's losing side!”