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, July 3, 2018


Maybe long ago some people went astray and what they thought continues to this day. Hunters were out doing the hunt. They found nothing to kill that they were willing to eat and feed to their families. It was to them a bad day. They went out again. No luck again. For many days they went on the hunt and returned empty handed. People in the village were starving. Someone died. A child. Then another. This time was very sad and difficult for these people and the survivors later spoke of it as “The Terrible Hunger”.

They made stories to tell each other to remind themselves of how terrible it can get. One slip up caused them to change into a warring tribe that was always afraid of not having enough to feed everyone. It never occurred to them to take a careful look inside, at themselves, and see their role in the what came to be known popularly as the period of starvation. What they did was draw a conclusion on the wall so it would be kept uppermost in the minds of all for the rest of their existence as a tribe.

A series of events enough like this one occurred where tribes of humans lived all around the Earth who had never met, but would eventually meet, that this world, Earth, became a place where people expected to go to war and so kept large armies on the ready and fed through stories the fires of hatred toward others they would expect to war with over enough. Children were taught war games. There resulted groups around the Earth who have actually hated each other for thousands of years. They blame each other for the pain of war as matter of fact. It is not a fact and never will it be. Seems every tribe now has a current Big Hatred brewing in the background for instant use when thought necessary by its leaders.

I can imagine a scene for us all. When we die and meet God, as individuals, and are asked, "Well, how was it? Tell me the truth.” each of us will stammer and then realize we have to speak truly and we will say,

I always wondered, Lord, why you planted a tree of good and evil if you knew in advance we would eat from it? It was trouble, Lord. It all began when we went out for food one day and found nothing.
It was a terrible day.”


And God, speaking on behalf of it all, will answer simply, “Beams of love. Beams of love.”



Sunday, July 1, 2018


Upon finding a relic of beauty from the ancient past
that captivated his heart,one of the explorers wondered 
aloud, 

“Who was the one who came here so long ago who took 
the trouble to make this lovely object and leave it 
to be found by one such as me?”

Another replied, “You did, silly.”

Saturday, June 30, 2018


An Important Factor For Living


There is something important. 

What is important matters. 

It is not important because you make it so. 

It is important. 

What you make important is paltry.


Furthermore, what trivial thing you make important 

will determine your fate and you will not like it. 

All drama is based upon it, someone makes a mess and the hero

has got to clean it up. 


In the drama he makes what is insignificant to begin with

into a hollywood brand of successful ending. In real life 

trifling things are only made worse by continued meddling. 


All the experts are put to work day and night

to make sense of a situation when the situation 

defined by them which they address with such vigor 

never was of any importance. It is so for the reason 

that what is seen as being in need of repair is not remotely 

related to the important

thing.


Better to find what is important as soon as possible 

and act upon it. It will determine your fate and it 

will surely be a pleasant one. In the words of a true

genius, “You don't explain what happened, you dig it.”






For Elliot

Thursday, June 28, 2018


For a long time

it has been popular to tell that the real culprits who are running our lives are not the men or women with guns or the politicians who order them to shoot but the media bosses behind the scenes, or the illuminati who meet in secret cells of corruption to plan the world, or the masters of war who own the politicians and who sell the rockets, bombs, weapons, and bullets at a huge profit from promoting the annihilation of enemies in war after war after war. So far, it's always finger

                      pointing >

Why? Maybe it is a simple matter that there is no profit in, no money to be made from, no power to be gained over fans and admirers by telling a crowd that they have no enemies to hate for who will join a movement and pay to hear that? How can one make a hot selling video game for peace? 


It will be settled one day, if ever, by a simple awakening by individuals who realize suddenly,

Oh, my God, it is me. I create the world that terrifies me by the thoughts I have allowed into my head. And I can change the world I live in by finding a way to put those thoughts at bay. Someone told me once I would find this place of understanding and swiftly would I act upon it.”


The rest, a new life, will unfold effortlessly rather automatically.

                                                         
                                                               

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

There is no video game for peace!


Sunday, June 24, 2018


If you cannot count what is important you make 

important what you can count. Soldier, Vietnam



Monday, June 18, 2018


No part of the body is separate from the whole. 

 It is a unified instrument. 

The human underbelly is definitely not separate from the whole society. 

 In that way, one can understand that when you punish a criminal you punish yourself and in time it will start to show and one day must lead to a great



fall 
      fall
           fall.