A WHOOPER SWAN'S DIARY: 08/04/23

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, August 4, 2023

LEARNING

Let us speak of school. The key to understanding school as educational for its students is the fact every school acts from its purpose. That is what is key.

An institution has more than one purpose. There is its purpose written in words. Words are divisive. That means anything that is not within its written purpose is separate from it and apart from it. The school is divided from the start. Some will interpret the words of its purpose this way while others will interpret the meaning another way. A school is divided against itself from the outset. So, what education is to come from it? It must be limited. What the cost to the student of a limited education?

Suppose a school where there are no teachers only students. Suppose in this school students decide what they are to learn and with whom? Suppose the only rule of this school is: there are to be no rules?

Second, every institution has a written purpose and an actual purpose. The actual purpose is what controls its activities. The actual purpose is shared by the “authorities” of the school. They make its decisions. They speak often behind closed doors concerning this actual purpose. In fact, any teacher hired has to first convince the current authorities of the school that the actual purpose will not be threatened in any manner. This fact controls the interview process and its outcome. New teachers are aware that their answers in the interview process will decide the outcome so answer accordingly. What is the nature of an education to be dispensed by such dishonest teachers? Little wonder the new teacher’s purpose to educate is forgotten and becomes “a way to earn money for me and mine”. And a follow-up, “life is that way”

Any parent who loves his child will cry at the prospect of sending that innocent to school. Parents have to dig for an escape to live with in “we have no other choice”.

Ask yourself, honestly, why would anyone require children to attend a school? Why do human beings not live in a way that welcomes children to life certain all will get their unlimited education from life itself which is not determined under the countless, well hidden limitations of human authority?

How many of you believe that what is written here represents “wild, chaotic

undisciplined anarchy? That is because you have no knowledge of who you and others are and no faith in life and no actual understanding of your own nature when set free. It is unknown to you. The meaning of “discipline” comes from “disciple” and is “one who learns”. Really learns. There is such a much better way.