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Speaking From Felt Experience

Enjoying Earth's promised land of compassionate multicultural communion, we share a preference for deep rich soil and fertile green-blue resonating surf As our bodies adjust to rocky and prickly either me or not me space And our minds flow back and forth through gooey both "me" and organic neurosystemic "we" peace searching times of more-glad/less-bad memory, healthy peak contrasting unwealthy valley remembering felt body trauma and resonantly mindful therapies Inhaling Earth's past vast sacred unions Exhaling into conjoined future compassionate communion. These reflections came to mind this morning as I recalled a recent clergy question: "What did you FEEL when you first read this proposal for a change in our corporate orthodox Universal Salvific and Unitarian CoRedemptive liberated feminist tradition." I remember listening for neurosensory enlightened language for distinguishing core empowering/disempowering Feelings primally limited to: Glad-anticipating win/win peak mind/body experiences Bad-anxious about lose/lose dualdark valley experiences Sad-depressed about my own win/lose long-term chances Mad-about suppressed short-term survival odds against overpowering PatriarchalGod's timeless dispassion. My gladness trying to thrive despite an unholy trinity responding to trauma history of multigenerational peak/valley surfing change Transitions in glad health opportunities reforming bad unease sad disease mad missing ease invoking dissonant neuro-sensexual despair informing future opportunities for compassionate repair. Out of twenty LeftBrain verbal dominant responses to this embodied feelings question, only two actually mentioned feelings underlying predicting positive and negative and ambivalent thoughts. One said both glad about opportunity for deep communal dialogue and sad about lowly lay victims speaking against too powerful and unenlightened religious professional orchestrations Us v them rhetoric creating a polarizing culture of win/lose 0-sum closed-off competitive destabilizing trauma Lack of EarthPeace and Restorative Justice in the deep rich soil and fertile green-blue surf of nature-spirited communion opportunities for peak experiences of LeftMind/RightBody enlightened/empowering FatherSun/MotherEarth co-passionate revival. Another wise woman elder responded with "confused" which encompasses, without resonantly resolving, all of Glad and Bad Sad and Mad chaotic flowing mind feeling toxically disembodied from sacred healing peace restoring EarthTribe Justice co-passionate mission statements unconditionally embracing EarthTribe healing vocations. What no one said was "compassion" for the romantic-comedy of peak experienced Glad and the traumatic-tragedy of dark valley experienced Bad's short-term critical Mad and long-term chronic Sad Lose/Lose absence of healthy enlightened messianic minds Surfing through empowered co-redemptive neurosensory bodhisattva bodies of spiritual/natural mental/physical crown/root light/power co-passionate communicators Win/win naturally resilient co-mediating spiritual practicers rooted in peak crowning experiences of comprehensive synergetic feelings more resiliently Glad less dispassionately Bad Speaking our restorative justice free and co-responsive win/win searching truths to patriarchal/capitalist win/lose systemic trauma. As we step into sacred EarthMother's Anthropocene unscenic salted soil and lifeless lack of surf Deadly retributive dissociative polarizing entitled systemic Anthro-mind v Earth-body unconsciousness Of win/win resilient Glad mind health and safe body wealth compassionately restoring EarthJustice, LeftBrain verbally enlightened and RightHemisphere nonverbally nonviolently co-empowering co-intelligent spiritual love thoughts derived from natural health feelings.

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