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, August 23, 2022

                    UNATTACHED LOVE


“I love you” as it is spoken by people to each other is like a cowboy who throws a rope over a calf. It means, “Do not be alarmed, little one, I know what is good for you better than you do. I will take care of you. Trust me.” At the slaughter house it will have occurred to the now cow “Hmmm. I doubt that cowboy was my friend.” 


How did we get to this point and how long ago? It comes from the thoughts of the speaker and is named “attachment” by those who examine into the human brain. A human is driven somehow to say these 3 little words to others at what is thought by the speaker to be the appropriate time. It definitely means now “Gotcha!” Civilizations teach that one should reach this moment with certain others in order to be “proper”. But, is it?


Without going further at this time, let me offer to you that there is, as a fact, unattached love. No vocabulary will ever reach into it. It is a pure feeling. When felt, words such as “I see the beautiful embodiment you are” might come. It is a whole other thing from what is meant by “I love you” inside today’s societies.  Self is not present. Time is not present. When both parties are together in the same timeless moment there will be a mutual love experienced as a fact, not as a concept. It can be trusted without doubt. When the two, or one of them, are not feeling the presence of unattached love itself it is a matter of how much the actual fact means to them. Will they see what is missing or remain outside love’s direct experience resorting to selfish methods insisted upon by attachment? Attachment carries “possessiveness” in the form of life in a cage. That sucks. Fact of love is beautiful. Concept of love is sorrow. Fact of love allows no room at al all for concepts as it is another dimension from thinking entirely.


I feel like weeping now, not smiling.

Monday, August 22, 2022

 We Hand You Your Hats!


Ye ambitious, faithless, bogus and unreliable scientists who work for governments, who work for private and public funded operations whose very existence corrupts to a high degree the nature of a genuine scientific undertaking in the form of authentic, unbiased searches for truth. We are not as stupid as you think. I represent the rest of humanity. We see through your masks. You guys are so busy seeking a fortune measured by dollars you can no longer be trusted by the rest of us. You may now be on the verge of a trillion dollar breakthrough; I represent the rest of humanity. We are not so stupid as you think. Your dollars fund wars! We are on to you. Even Jesus would never forgive what you do.


Are we going to be made happier by your pseudoscientific scores; so many half truths and lies? Is the world as a whole better off for your existence? Or, do we feel emptier? Lonelier? And more lost?


Let it be known! There is an organization unorganized by the hand of man; a fountain that fills itself! No funding necessary! No leaders; only trusted servants! A child shall lead us. Innocent. Empty-headed. Who will not take a dive. Will not accept a bribe. That nameless child shares the one heart of the rest of mankind. All humans came here as that child. We hand you your hats! None of  the rest of us are in need of your kind. Bow out! You are welcome to join with us at any time you decide to mend your ways. 


All things being equal, the simplest answer is usually the correct one and so it is that for the rest of humanity the remainder of the whole (you) is no less the whole than are we. That is why you will be invited to drop your bogus ways anytime you choose. We ask only of you that you take no steps to interfere with those living here together in peace through love of one another. Not as one nation. No nation. Soon you may sense we are not even here. If your own heart breaks and you begin to feel too lonely, seek us out. 


Friday, August 19, 2022

 People who want you not free will admonish you that with every bit of freedom comes an equal  amount of responsibility. They cancel freedom in one strike with that admonishment and do not apologize. Have you ever really considered for yourself what freedom is?  What it is not, maybe? Is freedom a state in which you are seeking a reward? Seeking your fortune? Or, is it obvious to you that by seeking  a reward you cancel freedom in a single stroke yourself and become prisoner to a hoped-for future? Do you see that tomorrow never arrives? See how success becomes paramount for those who seek rewards. Failure is not acceptable for them. I say for a free human being failure must be ever bit as important as success. Actually, I say, a good, solid real life depends on a possibility of failure. The thrill depends on it. Any other way is not life at all. 

It has been said many times that to be prepared when opportunity comes is key to a good life. The possibility for failure is critical for such a way. And, moreover, today fully-lived is indispensable to being prepared for opportunity when it shows. Consider a forest in nature. Consider a ball game. In a contest between teams of equal ability, financing, and training the outcome will be uncertain throughout. Time will end the game arbitrarily and a winner declared just to have a winner, don’t you see? Winning is meaningless since it never is real even when the teams are of equal strength. When there is a mismatch, forget it. The real fun comes when there is an upset and the underdog wins! Why is that? It points out how we really do not feel comfortable in contests. In show business it has long been the case that a fan secretly hopes for the celebrity to fail also. A goofy world has been created for humans to go crazy in.


I say that it is far better to say, “Let me be a man” then ever to say “let me be a good man”. Same for the women, of course. The thought to be a good man carries with it a thought of not being a bad one. That is a choice. And that is separation in thought and thought alone since a choosing must create conflict within and without. Conflict leads to sorrow. Is sorrow a good thing? Of course not. 



To ask only to be a man is to be willing to discover truth. To be at peace with the truth of who you actually are is freedom. I say that is the secret behind the concept of forgiveness. It is to admit to another you were just being who you are and to hold that against you is an absurdity. The one forgiven who actually perceives “I am that which I despise” is bound to change instantly without effort. That is the beginning of freedom. Try it. In that way discover you have always been worthy of freedom.




Monday, August 15, 2022

 To speak of God who has been deposed by man from Its Great Kingdom is silly, ridiculous. The Power behind life as we know it from the beginning cannot be banished by man. That is too silly. More wise by far for each man to banish himself from his own flimsy kingdom made by thought over time with smoke and mirrors. The Once And Only Kingdom is, was, and will be. Harmonize with it by removing all concepts that bind your own life. Come empty of choosing for you want finally not to find “what I like” but “what is real”.  You will not be shopping any longer. You must first look into it very seriously and with all your attention see what binds you. Once you see it all the binding elements will be banished from your mind, by your mind, and you will be free to represent the rest of humanity. You can do this if you have the requisite intensity.

Sunday, August 14, 2022

 My parents seemed always to worry about money.

It was mentioned often in the walls of our home. 

“We cannot afford it” began every conversation about spending the dollar. 


We cannot, not, not, not

We cannot.

A limited point of view.


Whether we eventually spent it and enjoyed ourselves or not they had to have the conversation it seemed to me. Whether it was a meal out, a new shirt, a vacation, a bigger house, a new car, an acre of dirt 

we had the conversation. 


It really got me when my Dad, the one most convinced that we were poor, would actually bring up the question of whether we might splurge to have fun knowing all along 

he would take the most extreme position finally and eventually assure us we were not going to spend one dime, but first, 

he would torment us by beginning a “whole family’s desire” for something new.


I recall that every vacation went through several decisions not to go before we finally threw things in suitcases and hauled ass or we stayed home as undeserving, miserable people.


Just traveling, with nowhere to go, has given me to know what luxury really is-


I know not where my next meal is coming from. Experts define me as among the poorest of the poor to be pitied.  And yet I have a quiet mind. A quiet mind does not attract attention and cares not to impress anybody. It is that simple. Never does a conversation in my head occur before I act. Such action is uncorrupted by words. And I act from an intelligence that will suffer no nonsense. Trouble-free, this life has magic all over it, and I feel like the wealthiest human on Earth each and every day.


What is clear is it was never the “thing” our family lacked it was simply to be surprised with some new way to see what there is to see. Life, and life alone, absolutely overflows with an unlimited supply of that at all times and there is more than enough for everybody and the supply is protected in such a manner that nobody can deprive another of it. Clear thinkers are not concerned with greed and those others whose thinking is unclear see not the actual wealth though it abounds perceive not the existence even of a human being with a quiet mind. 


Sincerely, Johnny Smith

Friday, August 12, 2022

 Angels rush in where fools fear to tread and the joke is that the place is where nobody need defend himself against any other and beauty abounds all around and kindness rules and generosity overwhelms while harmony prevails. The place is timeless and is within the human consciousness of everyone deeper, much deeper than is the place of ego, also within us,  which was put together by the world of human beings over time so time rules there and it pleases human egos which fear in horror any place where time is not available to them for they worship time. 

Egos have to think, you know, and figure out everything in advance of action. Where the angels rush to be there is no thinking at all which means, of course, there is no confusion at all. You can go there instantly and stay as long as you like but you cannot take ego (your self image) with you. There is a way to work out an arrangement with ego (the thinker) to divide your life between the timeless and the time bound. Look very closely at both and realize, hey, we will let thinking do what it is good at and we will do the rest from the place of beauty. There is so much more intelligence where there is no wastage of energy on conflict and confusion.

Tuesday, August 2, 2022

 He who offers you nothing brings the greatest gift. Watch for that one. Drop everything when it is offered. Life is at stake. You know not how many opportunities will be yours this lifetime.