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, May 31, 2023

 A New Way of Learning


I want to speak of something very important. I am going to try something new in order to do it…I am going to follow the lesson I want to describe to reveal the answer. It will be fun.


A few days ago there were written words describing how catching a ball is to enter a new dimension from the ordinary one that’s the common way we live. One must go beyond thought. One must not allow thinking to play a role in catching a ball or one will miss catching it. It happens fast. One begins to catch the ball before it even is thrown or struck by a bat. The motion of the throw is vital and one begins a movement associated with where that motion is going to send the ball totally outside of thought. One might say the doing and the learning are simultaneous. This is being written in that way. Learning and doing as one thing. This is a completely different way than we are trained to live our lives. What people normally do is think of an ideal they want to bring into actuality…maybe it is work related… then formulate a plan by thoughts to do that and then try to execute the plan. This is where we can waste a lot of energy…trying. People often say “ I try” after they are commended on a job well done. And this means there is going to be a continuous struggle for them to keep up the satisfactory accomplishment expected of them and by them. In this is the beginning of a way of life felt to require effort. The conclusion to be drawn is “life ain’t  easy”. This new way being followed as this is written is effortless…a flow…most pleasant. It feels like one gets even more energy from doing than one had before it. No trying. Are you interested in this? I am.