A WHOOPER SWAN'S DIARY: November 2019

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, November 20, 2019

The Gist of It

I was born on the day of my birth on Planet Earth.

I took it wrong.

When I was willing to be shown I was mistaken, I was shown.

When I discovered I was mistaken I ceased being mistaken.

My life began to make sense to me.

I am content. And I am grateful to be so.

My name is Nobody. My age it means less.

Nobody can teach anybody else that he or she is mistaken.

Willingness is the key.

When an honest man discovers he is mistaken, he will either cease being mistaken or cease being honest.

Monday, November 18, 2019

Think over this.

The dominant theme of every civilization has been -

Look what we built. We put together ideas to make a way of life run by a few great leaders who brought forth a conquering wave of violence to claim a whole Empire. It was financed by a false system of abstract wealth and placed upon the backs of a hypnotized citizenry taught to value it above all else and call it THE REAL WORLD. Our children will thank us for it, was the mantra.

Have any children ever thanked their parents for teaching them to believe in an empire of this sort? No. It taught them life is a tragic mistake, make the best of it while you can and pass it on.

People who believe in Dynasties say nothing is accomplished without sacrifice. Notice that fact. Would it not be tragic to learn that accomplishment was never the aim; but simply to spread love to everybody? I am certain children would never cease thanking their parents for that.

Thursday, November 7, 2019

LET’S MAKE
A NEW WHEEL

Why, do you think, would anybody bother to admonish another that only a fool reinvents the wheel? Why not mess around with their wheel? It's damn sure broke. Start from scratch. Make it up as an original, all or any part of it, as if you were not born yesterday, but at the dawn of today. Not for somebody else though, for you! You may meet up with allies in places you least suspect to find them and discover unexpected resources you tend to neglect.