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!

Sunday, April 24, 2016

A new disease arises among the children as they seem to always have a way of doing. The children suffer with it. There is no help. The trouble has not been labeled so as to be a disease in the eyes of the professional world which means nobody has caught onto a way to turn this plague into a cash cow. Until some trained pro stumbles onto the scene, probably without a clue he is doing so, the children will suffer and so the parents. The adults will remain silent because it is frowned upon by society to have a new, unlabeled problem in your family. That makes you a pariah. But, when a money guy steps forward, having seen the opportunity to clean up financially, the picture changes. Afterward, the money guys will pay for a paper praising the merits of capitalism which has come on the scene to end misery once again, but, is that what's really happening? Or, is a new trouble for the world being dropped in the laps of capitalism? Like in war, there's great piles of money to be made in health care businesses. Greed is the name for this game. By now, everybody knows this is happening. Nothing new is being exposed here. It is the norm. My point is not to raise a stink to make some dough opposing the greedy. We are all greedy.

It is my hope to simply offer the suggestion to the readers to make a change as individuals that might make you glad you did. Is that an attractive alternative to the mess we are in as people?

Here is my suggestion in a nutshell-try living in service to a promise of a healthy world on a daily basis and leave the question of the size and content of your daily bread up to chance. In other words lift no finger to feed your desires. Here is your code: What I most need I must give away. I suggest further that when you do this you will have the bonus of learning the actual source of all desire. And, further know that repressed desire causes disease in you and your loved ones. There is a major lack of knowledge of the power we carry to prevent troubles or to nip them in the bud easily and inexpensively. Ironically, this is tied to ignorance of what makes you tick as a human being. Greed is hope for a better world turned inward dressed as a vampire.

So, now, I come to the place where I ask you whether it is not practical for you to at least try my suggestion? What have you got to lose?