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, March 2, 2022

 We all need to understand this, each one in our own way. You do not live “my life”. No, Sir, or Madam. You and I live our part inside of this life, the one, as it is happening. Play our role. Whether you be Buddha, Genghis Kahn, Adolph Hitler, Albert Schweitzer, Alexander the Great or John Doe or Mary Jones. No one is more important than Anyone else. Not ever has it been so. Bob Dylan told the press, “It just happened like anything happens. I did not strive for it.” He meant it and nobody listened. Perhaps not even Bob himself. Jesus would have said the same. In fact, said he, “Why call me, Master? None is good but God.” The sooner one gets it the sooner one finds meaning and passion…compassion. Same. The thing is known as humility. Melting into humanity understand living. That is the beginning and the end. Alpha and Omega. 


We do not love somebody. When we feel love we feel it for everybody at once for there is but one love. One life, one love, one lesson to learn. Remain in this knowing. This writing is neither elusive nor cryptic, the writer is actually living what is happening. Cease your hiding.  Come forth boldly as you are. 

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