One day I went to
a petting zoo wherein there were many species of birds. I looked at them in wonder as I
realized that the bird Kingdom is the living embodiment of the cosmic play on the
sublime and the
ridiculous.
I saw that some species of
birds are far on the sublime end, while others are far on the ridiculous-looking end and most
combined both to one extent or the other.
Many great Kingdoms are like
that. Polyamory is one of them.
I tend to resonate with the sublime in
Polyamory, that is, the still more multifarious
unfolding of the generations
it can yield; the far deeper ability to express love it affords us; the opportunity to
overcome our baser emotions and the emancipation it holds out to us.
Polyamory can, and indeed has, been
expropriated by those who make it ridiculous - nothing more than just another fetish, just
another perversion.
They are currently the
majority of people who practice Polyamory.
The base is nothing other
than the noble being but into practice by those not Spiritually/Morally prepared
to apprehend the sublime and respond to it with sacred awe.
I think that Polyamory is worth the effort required to redeem it
from those who debase it and
who alienate the just plain folks who are now suffering in unsatisfying relationships who might
benefit from
what Polyamory, responsibly and nobly practiced, has
to offer.
Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan,