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, April 4, 2023

 SYNCHRONIZATION


Naturally, man and woman 


What a phrase to spend time with 

and gain more and more meaning from


Naturally, man and woman born on Earth in tune harmoniously with the rhythm of our home;

the rhythm, the heartbeat, the electric charge-

for every cell, every bone, every muscle every organ is conductive of its sacred current, 

our current


Synchronized!!


He who is de-synchronized can be (and will be now) “mesmerized” into a separate “self” image with duties; duties to please those who possess a use for you…but

it’s alright, Ma, if he cannot please them.

Nothing, now, is sacred!


So, as death’s honesty falls naturally depression grows ’til it drowns them

who knew it all along “something bad is bound to happen”.


Sunday, April 2, 2023

 AN INTELLIGENCE WE HAVE BEEN TRAINED TO BETRAY


Suppose for a moment that the words “heart” and “soul” are referring to the same thing and that thing is a certain quiet, still intelligence sensed some of the time which exists in spite of the most important belief to which I am committed which is that I am a separate individual. I must be ambitious. I must compete. I must succeed. I must strive to become more. My question to you, Sir, and Madam, is, do you imagine the possibility that you can exist simultaneously as “separate” and as “Indivisible”? You see, the word “individual” obviously refers to the “indivisible” something that cannot be divided. Look at the word. And yet you are divided! Within yourself you are divided, fragmented. An argument is going on inside of you. It is further suggested that fragmentation is your only real problem for it is the source of them all. The argument among your fragmented parts inside is confusion. Confusion makes every decision go awry. All that makes of life a mess.


Clarity is what we need. Can we have it? It may be we have it but ignore we have it. The “ heart” referred to above is clear. It is without fragmentation. In clarity action is pure, immediate. 


People are easily addicted to sex, for example. Life is difficult for them. We fuck. It felt good to fuck, so, I’ll fuck often with every partner I can exploit. That thought is so limited! You don’t believe that, do you? Here comes the hidden secret. Clarity says, “examine into all the time spent not feeling good to see if the cause of that is a fragmented self. It may be there are more things to do than I can ever imagine that are good for me. Clarity avoids addiction or attachment. It is unlimited and it is open to a whole, unknown Universe where the indivisible awakens with the thought, “hey, another day, I wonder what gifts this one will bring”?




Friday, March 31, 2023

 NATURAL HUMAN BEINGS


When a natural man and a natural woman become so close that they mate and make a baby it has always, from the beginning right up to today, been unquestionably obvious to each parent that they are responsible for the care and upbringing of the child. Each one will walk through the fires of hell for that baby because the child is worth it. This is known in the cells of the their bodies like the need for water and sunshine and is wrapped in an invincible love. 


The above being so, as all agree, why would you say we have come so far from the Garden? Well, it just may have to do with a trick that separated us from each other on the inside breaking the natural bonds of compassion. Notice the term “natural man and natural woman”. From time to time it is shown what that means when a human being reaches out automatically without thought for his own safety to try to save a complete stranger. In those cases, the hero always says “ I had to do it.” 


Here is the point: in all aspects our societies hammer into us a slogan that “you are an individual and that means you are separate from everybody else and must be ambitious and competitive to make your way in the world”. They do not add “the world we made and we direct”. But, it is so. It is obviously so. Yet, it is also obvious that the word “individual” means “not divisible” which is the opposite of “separate” and “ambitious” and “competitive”. Would it interest you to know whether the world (another world) where the term “individual” was coined is still present and open to all free without exception? It is so. It is the natural world. Mother Nature’s dominion.


Notice for yourself how when a human is thinking he is separate from other humans that person, through insecurity, must assume a position of competition. Each such unnatural human watching from a separate point of view sees that nobody else is going to take care of and watch over me because they are separate from me. So, the games people play were invented so each can substitute compassion for the belief he will win. The ultimate game is he who dies with the most toys is the winner! 


Consider this-in such an unnatural world you are bound to strive all your life to do the “right “ thing only to discover at the end that it was all “wrong”. The biggest surprise of life is the discovery “All along I could have done anything fearlessly with no effort at all.”




Thursday, March 30, 2023

 INDIVIDUALS       ALONE


Let me shed a light.


There are so many humans on Earth right now who have been mesmerized by the age of seven to believe themselves to be chickens by other chickens. If you get my drift. Here is going to be revealed the sad state of earthlings all over the planet. It is to be told by a former chicken who found grace to remove the spell.


Once there were two terms (symbols for who we are). These two were-


All one

Individual


The meaning was we are NOT SEPARATE. We are actually indivisible. Harmony was our natural condition. We sang and danced as a way of life and they were not used merely to distract us from pain and sorrow for there was none of either. All day every day we supported and cared for each other by every action and all our actions were that for there was no selfishness. Why? There was no division among us. We called it our Garden.


Today, the terms are alone and individual and now mean: completely separate from all others. That change makes no sense. We are each on our own, with no direction home, complete unknowns, like rolling stones. However, (get this) we are commanded by the authorities who came to rule us, because we are in disharmony and a danger to each other now, to work together on projects they (the rulers) choose in shifts each day which they designate to be a workday (most days) and we are ordered to work in programmed patterns taught us by trainers or go hungry. In old age, we are retired, on meager incomes, to wait around and die. It is so obvious that the term “Individual” means flatly INDIVISIBLE (all One ) so how did we get it turned around for all of us and why?


What has been revealed here today is that all your life will be spent doing what is right and every step of the way it will have all been wrong. How does it feel? Is it possible for every human to look honestly inside at how they are living now and end it? YES!


SECRET: It is not love which leads to the institution of marriage (a pattern made by rulers in a failed effort to control disharmony they created as the foundation of their illusory power) but a lack of love.

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

 REAL COURAGE


If anyone suggests to you in any manner whatsoever that should you choose to join with them in some organized effort and should you be accepted they promise to educate, train, coach, and otherwise prepare you to become a real somebody in the world summon up instantly the raw, real courage from the depths of your being to look them straight in the eye and and reject the offer with upmost dignity and respect and tell them flatly “if you do not see that I am somebody as I am you have nothing to teach me that would not be a waste of my time. I see through your mask and want you to know your plan to condition me for some small part of life you have corrupted so as to serve your ambitions for power through control and domination of others that you personally or your bosses own and control is not to my liking! I prefer to go my own way standing barefoot in the good mud of Earth trusting that which you see not to watch over me as I wander delighted in wonderland. Thank you and good day. ”


To all those who wear masks of membership in some exclusive group with  requirements for membership it appears that wanderers in an unknown land are trusting some craven false idol of their imagination too ignorant to realize the advantages we offer while the actuality is these courageous ones rely upon what abides in the heart closer than the veins in the neck and comes and goes a whole life long with each breath taken. There is no other so loyal, so true. It cannot get any more real.


The writer was from the outset a reluctant joiner. Only did he join what he was forced by law to sign up for. He attended a public school where his name was on the roll. He attended Sunday school up to age 12 but never joined to the dismay of many of his relatives who assured him he was bound for Hell for eternity. But those curses only strengthened his wish to walk alone when he considered how foolish would have been a decision on his part to shrink to a level to gain the approval of a group that would speak to a child in that manner. It is appalling that any human could so twist words up as to make that practice of clear abuse an act of love.  Crazy!


In time, the child grew up in a world that appeared to be completely dominated by countless “groups” competing among each other in violent tones. He searched in it for anyone who might not be hating somebody else but found no one and eventually was dragged down to the level of the mask wearer world. He hated, hated , hated, and finally hated himself. He saw that you get to be President by working hard to get the majority of the mask wearers to vote for you in a weird campaign of lies. It sickened him. He even saw the President murdered serving inside the mask wearing political world. It was years later before he could see how damning of the corrupt world he had become lost in that act was. The boy fought back, but against whom?  All he fought with were wearing many masks as well he discovered. They changed by night like Doctor Jekyll. No cause made any sense.


So, he pleaded within his heart to be helped. Help came. He met in rapid succession many who had been miserable like him who had found a way to live as humans inside an organization of humans that was and was to remain anonymous never to be organized! These ones had what the boy had lost…real courage. 


For many years now the writer has lived a magical life of wonder and fulfillment daily as simply and clearly attentive to each moment. As such, he has wandered the avenues and boulevards of cities blessing the neighborhoods where he walks by his presence. Now, I ask you. Who is more vital and worthy? Such a one as just described or the CEO, Chairman of the Board, majority stock holder and founder of the most wealthy company on the face of the Earth? It is hoped the answer to you, the reader, is clear. If not, that it be clear soon is the writers wish. Do you doubt, for a moment, that one who is devoted enough to be what he is in the face of “PROMOTERS” will go uncared-for by its maker?

Sunday, March 26, 2023

 BUSY PEOPLE LOOKING FOR AWARDS


We are each somebody busy trying to be somebody else. The poets call it dreaming.Those who would be teachers call it a good idea. Institutions hope it will lead many to join their group. Walt Disney called it imagination. Bosses call it fresh meat. Wise ones call it being a fool. Life is lived by a poor player who struts and frets his hour upon the stage and is heard from no more…a tale told by an idiot…full of sound and fury…signifying nothing…and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. (some lines of wisdom about ambition drawn from Macbeth by W. Shakespeare)


You want to be somebody else because you want to be secure, admired, loved, accepted. Right? Being somebody else guarantees the one who wants those things will never know them. Any who know true love will be their own person. Get to know all you can about love.


Think about it. Listen. If one has got to be somebody else is it not obvious that one who is rejected by himself cannot possibly ever know love or be part of anything or belong anywhere? Life, in that case is totally wasted…lived by somebody else…and that somebody else is you mesmerizing itself. Find out who you really are.


The real you is consciously aware that he or she is the world and the world is he or she. That is the birth of true love and compassion. If I look into your eyes and recognize we are one that love is real and will not change according to time or culture or anything born of time and thought. It is altogether different from a love that arises from me (a product of culture) loving you ( only another cultural image). That love is the love of idiots. It’s a wonder they still can feed themselves. (last line borrowed from Bob Dylan song Idiot Wind) It is advised you listen carefully to a Dylan song Tombstone Blues now. I shall.





Saturday, March 25, 2023

 I read this recently that at the level of skin man and woman are so different, at the level of muscle and bone we are both obviously humans and at the level of the heart we are one.