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!

Thursday, December 16, 2021

 What’s Gonna Happen?


Although each one is concerned with “What’s gonna happen to me?” the real question is “What’s gonna happen to humanity on Earth?” The above was adapted from James Baldwin’s I am Not Your Negro. We humans are very rapidly approaching a time when computers will determine every detail of every human being’s days while living here. All will do as they are told out of fear. Same day after day.


Life can be a journey. My journey began with a determination to write a first play. Mister Baldwin stated that a journey is a journey because you do not know where it will lead you or what it will show you or what you find may do to you. I begin now.


Jewsus was murdered in Tear and Year One. Crazy Horse was murdered in 1877. Billy the Kid was murdered in 1881. Pat Garrett was murdered in 1908. John Kennedy was murdered in 1963. Martin and Bobby were murdered in 1968. Bob Dylan wrote a song most foul about John Kennedy’s murder.


Face the facts. Human thought has created a world filled with lesser and greater humans. The idea is everywhere throughout all societies. In fact it is the heart of a society. Those not greater or lesser have no interest in an organized society. Why was it necessary ever for a human being to create out of the brain the concept of a greater or lesser human being? What is the source of such thinking? The thinking is that freedom is the right to strive to become greater as defined by the system. Seriously, now, could that be even associated with freedom or is it a solid definition for a form of slavery? 


It looks like this: there is a universal consciousness shared by all humanity psychically. The word psyche is from the Greek and is little understood, like the terms love or God. All people are far more powerful psychically than we realize. The psyche means that in every man and woman that concerns an inner world. Humans, a long time ago, disconnected from it meaning ceased to live in the moment solving any problem that arises immediately without creating a new problem as free humans. Something may have happened that caused some people to feel unsafe.  Perhaps it is connected to the Satan story wherein a favorite angel rebels against the Creator. Wants power. Whatever happened we crossed a line as a people. We substituted conditioned thinking based in memory of past experiences for universal consciousness. And we suffer as slaves because our thinking is too limited for a psychic purpose. The inner world is ever bit as vast as that outer one. For example, nobody wins a war. Nobody wins an argument. Nobody is more important than anybody else. Down deep, everybody wants the same thing. Nobody wanted a light bulb. A house divided against itself cannot stand. Those kinds of truth are ignored or forgotten by science as we know it. Our solutions from limited knowledge always create more problems. 


Einstein himself became terribly distraught about the release of atomic energy and what to do about it. We sense we are going to be buried in the problems we create. That is a hell of a way to live and nobody need be told that! It was sold to us as children to be  a way to free ourselves by making choices as individuals while also trying to somewhat consider the needs of whole humanity. Well, it turns out choice is not freedom. It is division within a person’s psyche and a house divided against itself is confused so cannot stand. It was a sorry trick for we are in fact slaves now to “What about me?” And the separate “me” we worry about is a thought without existence as a fact. A fictitious conceit, like a cold, is the common disease. A robber, it takes the ease from life that lies in universal consciousness. Rather than being “me” we are in disconnect from universal consciousness. Pity.


Around 2006, a short 15 years ago, I was living in a quiet, peaceful village outside Austin Texas. Traffic there was practically nonexistent. I am told today the average cost of a house in that neighborhood is 

$ 500,000 and the next silicon valley will include about thirty miles of land stretching from that small village to Marble Falls Texas!


The word God can have two entirely different meanings now. The original meaning is: that which gives life and feeds us naturally which all living things share in common…the source of the universal consciousness referred to above. The new meaning is: What we must be taught how to pray to and how to live so as to please or gratify in order to be given what we want as individuals. We may pray, “Lord protect my sheep, protect my family, protect my nation, protect me, destroy my enemies. We are taught these things concerning the psyche by so-called spiritual experts or priests who study as scientists study the material world and inform the masses.  Many are told it is noble to suffer and struggle to arrive some day, after death, at an understanding of what has been done to them. Others are taught “psychic” tricks or secrets as effective tools to compete for toys in the greedy, competitive material world and come out wealthy… too late. And it is about as effective as science in the job of improving life for humans. Sad is it to find out every being had within all along the key which can never be lost. What’s gonna happen? 


It is not too late to reconnect to universal consciousness. That is, to have a brain entirely free of conditioned thinking in matters of the psyche and to be clear to solve problems immediately as they arise without causing more. I moved from the village that is becoming a crowded city to continue to live a wonderful, fulfilling, exciting, creative life with no worries and lots of love outside the reach of conceited chaos. Your brain ain’t your brain, man, it is the brain of humanity. Ain’t that grand news! Know thyself. 


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