A WHOOPER SWAN'S DIARY: 08/05/23

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!

Saturday, August 5, 2023

HELPFUL WORDS

I would like to be helpful. There is a big problem on Earth. It has brought uncountable troubles to people. The problem is thinking and its misuse. One can use thinking to make a handle that turns on cold water and another that turns on hot water. That is mechanical and helpful. Humans are living organisms, not mechanical.

However, we have all been trained to use thinking in place of immediate perception and to analyze our way to wished-for truth concerning human lives. Truth is never found that way and, moreover, analysis has disastrous side effects mostly undetected by the analyst who stubbornly continues in the direction of analysis, but tries harder! More troubles pile up. Inevitably, life becomes difficult and finally unbearable. The analyst dies in deep regret.

What happened to immediate perception? Minds abused in analysis become tired, overcrowded constantly chattering in more and more confusing conflict. Laws are made by teams of confused analysts bickering. Living people are expected to fall in line with such laws. The jury trial we are so proud of depends on arguments presented through the authority of counsel and a judge well considered by a jury of analysts leading to truth. Bullshit! You must see that analysis is divisive. When one divides, psychologically, it is most destructive. Analysis invented authority and authority relies upon more analysis. They are a team of trouble makers seemingly so rooted in people as to be unstoppable. Courtroom counselors purposefully divide the jury panel psychologically. Analysis leads to invention (like the hot and cold water handles) while immediate perception leads to creativity. Invention and creativity are poles apart. Life is creative.

Modern writers are published because they tell of people struggling inside an insane world of analysis and feed the disease. People identify with the stories they tell and assume the writer to be a genius. Ha! Libraries and museums as we know them, not the bombs, have to go. They tell warped lies ALWAYS MADE FROM PARTIAL GLIMPSES OF THE TOTAL PICTURE that keep us divided. They are not after truth. Not at all. They bring the bombs!

A favorite Biblical story from childhood is the one where Solomon the wise King was presented with an argument between two women each claiming to be the mother of the same child. In the story, Solomon surprises everyone by pronouncing that he will simply cut the child in half and give one half to each woman. Such as that is an example of immediate perception. One of the women revealed her love for the child by surrendering her claim entirely to save the baby. For Solomon to make such a pronouncement as he did required a still mind not tangled and spent in the process of analysis. Immediate perception is also called intuition and faith. And we so badly need its power. Jesus asked listeners to consider the lilies. They neither toil nor spin and yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed as one lily. Search it out in you. Humans have such untapped capability for living the good life for which all yearn. Each one is called on to find it inside for the reason that inside each one is the whole, complete consciousness of humanity. I am you and you are me and we are everybody!