THE STORY OF JOHNNY WHOOPER SWAN We go to school trusting our parents. We meet a teacher there who stands up front with a big desk, and a pointer. She or he trains us in an authoritative manner. We attach mentally to a life long need for authority in order to live lives successfully. Right so far? In my case, at the age of 25 I was ready to enter the practice of law where I hoped for success and a happy life finally. Very shortly, very shortly, I became anxious. There was a foreboding. I was made more uncomfortable with each experience. Law work is nothing like what I was told it would be. The system is corrupt. But I still cling to my expectation that career success is necessary to my happiness as a man. Each day my grasp of what the fuck success amounts to after all becomes more clouded, murkier. I hear songs on the airwaves and at concerts which describe my life as the life of a fool. What am I becoming? I want to rip off my business suit to run naked in the street with my hair on fire! But I am too afraid. In strange, weird (weird comes from a word meaning wise), fragmented steps I go about a journey of my own believing myself to be the first man to have failed in such a total way which journey works so as to break up my career, end a marriage, and start an entirely new way of relating with my two children whom I love deeply. Almost magically I meet a woman who is a career counselor who asserts a beautiful message that I am made to be joyful in my work everyday and at all levels. This understanding sets me on a completely new course. It is no longer a world of systems to me but an undivided one of unlimited beauty. It reminds me of a painting. A true masterpiece. I am drawn from within to learn the truth about my identity and nobody else can teach me that. From this point onward I will use thinking capacity for mastering mechanical processes and follow my heart, which includes my whole nature, which includes your whole nature and that of every human being for all the rest. I’ll go by the name Johnny Whooper Swan who does not explain itself to anyone. By my fruits shall I be known. Watch me soar!

Wednesday, August 17, 2016

The Proper Mode




All of science and mathematics and technology put together will never bring a human being closer to understanding how the world, or any part of it, operates.

  
And, All the world's religions together could never bring a human being closer to understanding how the world, or any part of it, operates.



The great teacher, Gregory Bateson, once stated that all of mankind's 

problem's are traceable to one thing: the difference between how people think 

and how nature operates. That is what I am talking about. The best thinking 

of man is always off base. The good news I have for you is that man can be 

shown how to think in a new way. And, the funny part is, the teacher of the 

new way is going to be yourself as shown in what follows.





Human beings are given an intelligence that operates precisely as does 

the whole of nature. In that mode can we know, finally. That is the mode of: 

Know thyself. The most obvious is overlooked by science and religion. We 

humans are not separate from nature, but inside it. The way it is organized, 

no one will ever understand the world by studying mosquitoes for only 

another mosquito can know what that existence is like. But, duh, we can 

study ourselves, each one a scientist in his or her own right, and realize that 

we already know. By knowing me, truly, I know the mosquito, the eagle, the 

elephant, and all other men and women. If this sounds too simple to be true, 

let me assure you that to know oneself is a mighty undertaking. But that 

should not prevent an effort to do so since nothing else even has a chance of 

showing us how much we have thrown away of the original gift we were 

given with our first breath of life. We all agree that the ocean is made of tiny 

drops. It turns out to be so that the ocean is inside the tiny drop of water as 

well. Do not take anybody's word for this, find out! Know thyself.


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