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!

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

 WORDS AND THOUGHTS THEY MAKE


Words and the thoughts put together using them are very limited in their real usefulness to human beings insofar as having any value in the sensory enjoyment and fulfillment of anybody’s life. Plus they are very dangerous if not carefully handled so as to avoid the effect they can cause by bringing conflict, confusion, and their downright evil consequences in most relationships. So many of our most potent words are meaningless when examined honestly by minds not already deadened in predetermined and absolutely false conclusions. This condition is a widespread and prevailing form of blindness having nothing to do with eyesight. Such is the true meaning of blasphemy or profane talk. People have been burned and lynched and tortured and disfigured and mishandled in horrible and shocking ways that make humans shudder and vomit by this brand of blindness. And so many lives are made to be empty and meaningless.


The first word to be discussed here is “intelligence”. In most parts of the world, “intelligence’ is measured by a person’s ability to use words of a language composed of them to make thoughts with them. If one looks into it or has to live with it in a school it is easy to see that this means most people have been taught that human thinking is ultimate intelligence on the planet. And even a kid having problems with school, especially one of these, sees that it is so only because such a practice makes “measurement” and its separation of the intelligent from the unintelligent quite possible. Sadly, these kids form the belief that for them this world was not made. In that, all of us lose a great deal of human intelligence through blindness to its many other facets. It is concluded even that there is no such thing as direct, immediate intelligence naturally present. It is seldom  encouraged in schools and cannot be measured. See how the interest in controlling a population is involved in the measuring business? The only way into it is by an unaided search within one’s being for it. When found, it is paramount.


The next word to be discussed here is “civilization”. All the word actually describes is “groups of people which have laws and live in cities”. But the word is almost always used so as to carry harsh shame of unworthiness and disregard to any who are labeled as “ uncivilized”. To not live in a city having laws is thought to mean the people in question are lesser until they come to live in cities and have laws. Where has the intelligence gone? Its absence shows people can be civilized and have none. 


Get this- this writer graduated from a law school thought of as brought about by one of these “civilizations” where students are taught that there are so many books of laws in a typical legal system that nobody could possibly read or hear of even a small part of them in a lifetime and more are being made constantly but ignorance of the law is not a defense available to anyone charged with violation of a law. You decide. Can that nonsense be justification for claiming all others, “those not civilized”, are lesser in some way? A study will show all civilizations come “loaded” with such insane terms. In the 1950’s in the civilization “America”, for example, many lives were ruined under a label “UnAmerican”. In the 1940’s, world wide a war was fought at a terrible price in lives over the term “Jew”. 


This writing will close for now with another question. It is supposed by the masses of people “civilized” that living by obtaining one’s food at a grocery store by exchanging money for it from those who claim to own it is superior to all alternatives. That there is no better way. It is a foregone conclusion to them that “uncivilized“ people are “wrong” about it. This, without even considering that to be “civilized” actually has nothing whatever to do with how one obtains one’s food.