A WHOOPER SWAN'S DIARY: 03/24/22

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, March 24, 2022

A Book Inside

Do you read books? Do you know there is a different sort of book inside you? Do you know inside you is the whole history of humanity from its beginning right up to this moment? Not the history of kings and queens and wars and dates but the entire record of life as it has actually been experienced by all of us is recorded in each of us. There are more links in your brain than there are atoms in the observable Universe!

Can you read the book of life in you? Do you? Are you in touch and current? If not, your own life is lopsided. Any life lopsided is not at all reliable, is it?

The education system today is about memorization and is lopsided. So, we can either stumble along as best we can or, sensing a great responsibility to do so, we can make it a real priority to learn to read the book of real life inside us and benefit from a wholistic education. Anyone is free to turn from the lopsided world at any moment to let the sunshine in.

Education as practiced is exclusively geared to the preparation of a child in a way to become a participant in a competitive game of earning a livelihood as an employer or an employee in some career field. It is deliberately lopsided in this way. Educated people will actually participate in the system and gladly receive compensation for doing so knowing it is lopsided. That requires them to be lopsided human beings everyday they live. It cannot be viewed as anything but a dishonest betrayal to all that is beautiful about being human. It must create suffering in all who do it for what is missing, the sunshine, is what in a child is psychologically sensitive to beauty, love, kindness, generosity, tenderness, tolerance, and all which arises from the truth the child is inseparable from the whole of humanity for all time. It is written inside each one as a hunger and thirst.

Humans are suffering all around the earth. You and I are inseparable from that suffering. Reading the book inside with clarity can bring understanding and liberty. It is so important. Too long we have depended on others to read the book for us. Nobody who has read the book will read it for another. That is a law. It is written. Find what your work is and do not let anything dissuade you from it.