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, February 9, 2023

 If you think you have a career that can be named or defined you are a boob, a fool, a prisoner in a jail of your own making where you are both the prisoner and your own jailer and where you are going to live throughout the term of this arrangement is the modern slave plantation whatever you may believe to the contrary. It matters not what they pay you it is not enough for what you have sold. You will eventually come to understand that the chances of a jail break are just very low. In fact, many like you have escaped through great and  arduous effort only to voluntarily return many times. Another thing. You will be allowed, even encouraged, from time to time, to change to an upgraded career with more perks. It won’t make a lick of difference. The deal you have made is so bad it cannot be quantified. The short of it is you have bargained with corruption to share in their artificial world. All your acquaintances will have done the same and these will be your crowd and to you it will seem the whole world is like the one you are in and that there really is no other. This factor alone will be a great pressure to stay for your choice is a complete unknown too scary to imagine. In this world you find yourself in people will from time to time say,


”I really don’t think there is anybody here who does not have a boss to answer to and this place seems like pure chaos. Nobody is in charge. We keep repeating the same pattern to nowhere. And that’s funny when you think how hard they sold us on the idea that to think otherwise than to join their system was to embrace chaos.”


When I was there I would often proclaim, “ Yeah, I know it's a sorry world but it’s the only game in town. I must adjust somehow.” Well, if you feel that way let me assure you it is not the only world. There is another. Right where we stand. Your locked up mind won’t let you see it. But it is here. Now. And open to all. It is freedom.


To enter is immediate and it is totally an inside job. Study what this means. Question everything you have been told. Discover your true nature. Then will it be known it is not the world that must change it is you! Discover each day and for the remainder of your days more and more of the endowment within. 

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