We're
like this- a bunch of goofballs riding on a spaceship we named Earth
at tremendous speed having begun an adventure beyond all imagining by
dedication to the courageous process of learning to crawl now
dreaming of building and piloting spaceships to travel to other
spaceships since we have neglected and abused this once pristine blue
one and want a new start away from those we view as troublemakers
hoping to leave them behind...and they are us.
Life cannot be explained. Accept this much for now and flow with me. Authority has us in complete denial about it most of the time. This blog wants to show there is a whole different way to live and humans can do it and have done it before. It is hoped we get that job done.
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, June 14, 2016
Monday, June 13, 2016
Only a person who
finds it in himself to resolve all problems from the truth of his
existence will know what he was born to do. While one depends on any
others for safety and direction and the dollars to pay for his needs
one remains crippled, sad, lonely and dissatisfied. All one needs is
in storage safely awaiting delivery to you by the hands of everybody
you meet as if by magic at the exact right moment in time. You know
that. You knew it at the beginning.
You doubt what you
know because you are haunted by ghosts placed in your mind to lead
you to depend upon society, the total ghost, for all your needs from
cradle to grave. And beyond. (Although there is no evidence society
has more than a story for that one.) It has pills and donuts and
dirty pictures and toys that break and all the rest, though. You will
not want for a thing, it is said. Sign up. Then call the police or
fire department or insurance companies or one of the other many
friendly government offices or a church or the military industrial
complex into your problems to solve them for you. All of your many
enemies surround you now. Get help. Fight cancer. To fight it you are
going to need experts and we have plenty. Cancer hates you and is
trying to kill you. Do you believe that? Sign up.
What bullshit!
All the named
enemies you fear, all and every one of them, are but illusions. That
is so. Rattlesnakes do not want to bite you. That is the last thing
they want to do. You are not on their menu. Taste awful. Tough.
Anyway, they need to conserve the venom. So, they warn you before
they strike. Do you know even one human friend who will do that for
you? No sir. Other humans warn you only when they have no intention
of striking...yet. When they decide to kill they strike from ambush
and with greater numbers and more weapons than you.
In the human realm
the only enemies you have are the result of one of your ghosts having
provoked one of theirs. The only war is the one constant war in the
ghost world (world of the total ghost) you believe you inhabit
because you now are the ghosts placed in your mind in combination.
That is what doctors treat so they promote its actuality and your
fear of it. The doctors are as crazy as your (and their) ghosts
permit them to be. The moment you decide to call off the ghosts in
your head and order them to cease provoking neighboring ghosts, you
will know peace. It is not as easy as it sounds. In fact it is much,
much harder than to continue to believe in ghosts. But it is great.
Oh, that is what you
were born to do. And, you knew it at the beginning.
Friday, June 10, 2016
Wednesday, June 8, 2016
I
Am Serious
Here we are in this
great puss pimple of a garbage heap hanging out with these freaks and
we do not know what for,
saying everything
else has got to go!
It happens.
Nobody knows why.
Suffocation perhaps.
One stands and is
joined by
a few more.
Suddenly a movement
is underway that no power on Earth can withstand. What was nowhere is
the world's headquarters for a spell. What a spell!
And it is over.
Did anybody learn a
thing? Not really. But somebody made another killing.
Fashion.
I am looking for
another who sees what I see. Are you there? Out there? Anywhere? I
am Billy the Kid's alias step brother. No credentials. I heard a
minstrel who is different. Calling into a vacuum of dark cold space
that was my heart until it warmed and began to ache for unknown
existence in a language never heard before. It calls for anything but
what is the current style of dress and conduct. Misconduct. It says
any fashion will do. To accommodate everybody. There is a language in
every language that is understood by all. There is a voice which
sounds out souls. Souls are formless realities that give every form
its such-ness. Like the dialog of a play does to actors. Do not
confuse the symbols for the sincere dialog, a formless wave. Waves
without form need love in order to make cookies we can actually eat.
When we speak to another we wave their being. In ignorance, we wave
it wrong and they retaliate. In truth, with a low voice, love's
voce, we wave it perfectly. Harmony happens. I used the word love.
Nobody knows what that means.
It springs from the unknowable. To un know. A word that is unknown
is fresh. Is always out of fashion. It is better left undefined for
it
is not its meaning we want but its unapprehended
nonmeaning-ness which
gives sight to sore eyes. I am wispy
filament and I am serious.
Monday, June 6, 2016
END
OF TAPE
The investigation is
complete and the treasure found and the treasure is simple. Humans
come to Earth with the profound inside them, all of it. Priests were
invented when the attempt was made to extract the profound from its
source and pretend it needs to be taught, making it the subject of
special Holy Men or Women. Ever since, people have blindly accepted
the situation described in books as if asleep. Priests' first job is
to hypnotize victims into believing God ordained them to serve this
way. Look close and you will see. It has always been priests
ordaining priests.
But, even the most
dedicated atheists have been so hypnotized. They are closer to truth
because at least they do not follow priests. However, they are
robbed of the divinity in their breasts as much as the hypnotized
believers based on their strong and justified mistrust of the
religious who shout, heresy! We all got robbed.
If you see a scene
wherein a man and woman embrace and kiss in a way that causes a
special feeling to arise in you and you have to name what you saw and
you name it love you may try to teach others to love each other. You
cannot. Do you not see that? It, what you observed, was in the
people, not separate from them. Any attempt to separate it and deal
with the abstract notion you believe you have found is madness which
ruins something exquisite which remains at home in the hearts of us
all. If you wish love for others do the obvious...love them.
Art is an
inseparable quality of each human being to evolve its own beautiful
way. Love is an art. Life is an art. Once understood, one
automatically drops the names, life
and love and
art and simply
and genuinely accepts
what is. The feeling is peace. Once
that is understood,
one drops the term peace.
The attempt to separate parts of what cannot be separated by
naming them and then dealing with them as abstract notions you
believe you have discovered is madness.
And it is the crude
treatment science uses to understand something by cutting it apart
and examining the parts. For instance, there is no such thing as
agriculture. What you have called up until now, learning, is
a substitution of fantasy for reality. All and every so-called
helping profession is a form of madness. Little wonder they have such
tragic effects on those they purport to serve. Rather than violently
slice, chop and hack up art, decide to serve it. In so doing, you
will rediscover lost abilities to know all about yourself and others
in a new way of life that works!
Some time it's best
to feel all alone…
gotta feel somethin'
like that when you bo'n...
Some time it's best
to be out on your own
jus' hands, a voice,
an' skin an' bone
Nobody needs a suit
to put upon
an' nobody needs his
name carved on stone
What's yer name,
boy?
Got nu'n
Let's go, Got Nu'n.
William Blake wrote
all this better than me a long time ago. Most called him crazy. About
here is when it pays to be crazy.
Saturday, June 4, 2016
Men and women
complain, they protest.
Write stories,
answer questions from the press.
Organize their work
and carry the torch into the street
pounding out the
rhythm: Give all there's no retreat!
Demanding justice,
with a will to sacrifice so intense
that to deny them
any longer will finally make no sense.
And still there is
no change that lasts. In a matter of a few years everything will be
forgotten and it will be as it was before. One wants to conclude that
man is such a useless animal he cannot actually improve. All his
institutions are as purgatories. What is called for is a purgative
which must be administered from outside their walls. How to
escape...and the purgative...
It's a
hard one to swallow. So hard is it that all who read it blush then
go on to the next teaching so they do not have to understand the hard
one. That means the next generation remains in purgatory. This is
getting old and monotonous. Calls for a change of pitch or a new way
of intoning.
Purgative:
It is not enough to know with certainty;
what
one knows must be so.
It was told in
antiquity a long, long time ago
that the gods cursed
man, not whole anymo.
What does that mean?
And,
What's it got to do
with the soul?
Man, wo man, two of
us roll
in opposite
directions 'round a donut hole.
and since nuthin
else matters we're vicious…
disconnected monkeys
and supersttious druggies
divided in sex and
gender malarky
mad to reconnect;
but too mad to ask Sparky.
Some times dominate
other times be dominated,
whatever, just makes
us more distrusting, frustrated
just to feel whole
for a little while is a lost art
and every time we
are asked, why not go and ask Sparky?
He say: I got no
explanations fer ye
got no solutions to
impart
jus wanna say:
NOTICE
all the ways you
have tried to once again be connected
all point back to
the source which the gods disconnected;
and that's all;
except when you do, think about forgetting to even try to reconnect
because-
we tend to hang
together with people who think like we do, or wethinktheydo
and the joke is that
we do it to form unions who will join in our quest to destroy any and
every thing that is not us and be reconnected by the necessity of
being all there is left and that's a suicide pact combination last
man standing scenario and the punch line goes:
see,
you were whole all the time we were just screwing with ya.
I told
this to set the stage for a finale I hope will enlighten me. The deal
is it takes two to make a deal. The deal goes down because it's a
deal. What is no deal goes not down. Only up. Whenever one person
notices even for a second that each of his connections is connected
to a trillion dollar bash, where all deals lead, that has at its core
a terribly vicious nature that goes with us even when we go as lambs
into a closet alone to pray, doubt falls away- in a one time
understanding manner. All who go to a superior being for a real talk
find a mirror. In the reflection is seen who you have been pretending
to be. So long as you have not a sympathetic rapport with the mirror-
you call it God. Am I now ready to accept that true love is by its
nature bound to reveal truth?...then let it.
I am sitting alone
at home on a Friday afternoon in April, 2016 watching the film
Inception featuring Leonardo Dicaprio wherein a mature female
actress asks a younger one, Do you know what it is like to be a
lover? To be half of a whole? And for the first time in my life I
understand that two, a male and a female, can recognize, not the
other half of themselves, no, that is pure selfish thinking and
loveless...but recognize the other half of a self that is whole
already into which I am included...the other half of what is not
me and never will be me is
more like it. It amounts
to the recognition of the unity of all things. Well, of course, it's
love. Wild, free, untamable
love. Later today, I was
reading a novel and someone wrote that young
men and women are soon used
up in the magnetic field of love where they
really were foolish enough
to enter. Perhaps
the best thing is to be used up in such a way.
I
watched another film a few days later, a love story set in Greece
during World War II. An old man tells his daughter what he thinks
love really is and I had heard it before as well. He declares love is
not the falling in love, the madness of all that. It is, he believes,
what is left after that fades away, which he is certain it must
because it did so for him. To the old man, love is an entwining of
roots of the two people who fell in love so deeply that one cannot
imagine living without the other even absent the madness called being
in love. Sounds
romantic but it is selfish.
I do not buy it. It feels more like the two damaged souls who fell in
and then out of love with each other were so beaten up by the
experience they prefer never to risk it again. So, they decide this
left over
state with roots entwined (me
and not me wrapped together) is
real love. They make promises to
each other they will break.
That is how love first becomes another
four letter word. What
I am left with is the sense that what we complain about really
amounts to the life in purgatory we designed for ourselves after
failing to stay the course of love that grabbed us, chose us, for its
own. Only in wild love is the
haunting loneliness
of isolated self
overcome.
My teacher said
recently that one understands peace first, then one can begin a
practice to understand self. I wondered, How strange. What does he
mean? Does it apply to me or only to the prisoners he speaks to in
jails? He said to them, You need to understand both.
I see
myself,
not me, whole, and it includes equal parts of female and male
vital powder merged into it so deep and complete as to allow for no
other existence except as that. Bye.
Friday, April 29, 2016
Super
Power
Trapped
inside walls I've walked this world alone so many years so many tears
so many fears I fell on down went underground looked all around and
frowned They say they'll dig a hole in solid ground 'n bury me so
I'll fly free and never know life's mystery
That's all over now somehow I don't see how a bird flew by 'n caught m' eye that little bird said not a word just dropped on my head a black and silver turd that dripped on down and met m' frown and introduced me all around
Welcomed home I stood back up and walked the road no pick up truck followed by a lonesome hound I called him Buck he's a-teachin' me how to wag a tail just enough to bring good luck an' hold onto a bone or two an' before long we had us a family an' rode in a rebuilt camper truck Tha's all I know so don't ask me what's in the Wheaties what's on tv an' another thing the very best thing Buck's taught me I'll love you back ev'n 'fore you begin to love me
Tha's m' Super Power
I see through walls without naming what I see an' it turns out the mystery's how happy lurks in the shadow of every misery an' since the reverse can't be said for misery, well, you're all free!
an'
you can tell the Warden I said that
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