A WHOOPER SWAN'S DIARY: 03/03/23

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!

Friday, March 3, 2023

Separation of RELIGION

A Christian is to believe Jesus Christ, Son of God, died for his or her sins and His Father thereby forgives all sins of the Christian who so believes and such a believer will not perish but have life everlasting.

The Bible presents Jesus to a reader as a holy man who is pure love…for all. The story is of a shepherd who loves each lamb so much he will leave all his flock behind to search for the lost lamb. As a child I was taught the story and even taught the story to other children. It is not surprising that a person becomes a lost lamb. First, right after birth, came a set of patterns I am to follow in life. These patterns soon become the facts of our situation. Trying to follow them brings conflict and confusion and, finally, desperation. When it happens to one of us we are ready to hear the story. A lost lamb in a human body wants more than anything to be found by someone who loves him or her. That feeling is like no other.

This writer need go no further into the matter. It is enough to understand the attraction to any of the religions organized by man. I feel lost. A group with a name and symbols and a headquarters offers to help me. Enlisting in an organized religion, in some manner I am led to give my life over to an image I make in my thoughts of what it is like to be a complete human. One more loveless pattern.

This writer writes only to question whatever led to the “organization”in the first place of what is so universal. It has unquestionably separated humans rather than uniting us. Created conflict where none is called for. In fact, to make a separate religion amounts to an attempt to make a separate “life”. That is so arrogant!

The term religion comes from the same word as relationship. Life is relationship and how we respond to it. I am the living. You are the living. They are the living. All the same. Period. Actually, Jesus became famous for saying “love your enemies”. Now, perhaps, is the time to embrace such wisdom.

The method described in paragraph one above means when any child of God dies to its selfish life as it is being lived in separation that one act of pure love opens the human to an unknown selfless way of life where that one and any who follow suit will not perish but have life everlasting at the instant of such a psychic “death”, which means life never dies since death is always followed by a new beginning. What else is it than “life everlasting”? At the very famous Last Supper of the Christian religion Jesus told his disciples he was leaving the “master-disciple ” role, so goodbye. He asked to be remembered and then promised he would come again, right away, and did and continues to be born all around this Globe every day. Salvation complete. All organized methods fulfilled in the ending of conflict. This important understanding is real, based in fact not belief, unorganized, and unites all humanity.