A Mighty Impulse
John L. Waters
October 21, 2005
A mighty impulse needs to be expressed. The expression comes through tangential non-penetrative stroking movements. As an author writes, the paper is not hit but rubbed with the pen instead. The act of writing is like a lover stroking his or her beloved. Over time true love is expressed in words. Writing with a ball point pen is quite different from walking. The pen slides along so easily.
In walking one's feet don't slide. In skating, skiing, and surfing one lightly strokes the substrate. Writing is like riding in a stroller or on a trike or a bike. One's body feels the loving stroking movement and soars higher and higher emotionally. Riding on the bus, too, one feels comforted, euphoric, and relaxed as in the arms of a good and kind friend.
Indeed, love is both a sense and an expression. A love boy loves his pets and spends a lot of time in tangential non-penetrative activity. Both inside the house and outdoors you often hear him humming, not yelling or talking. You often see him rocking himself and going nowhere. His rocking body doesn't penetrate space very far. Other children walk or run deep into space! The love boy just rocks and rocks and rocks. He doesn't aspire to be a cowboy or an astronaut.
In our present society a boy who doesn't talk and run and laugh loudly is considered ill, damaged, repressed, or psychotic. Furthermore, when this boy appears to love animals more than people, we note that he hums to them, and strokes them, and utters odd or silly sounds to them, and we note that a love boy can't do that to other children without getting yelled at or punched in the kisser. So really the love boy is sensible in loving animal pets! He needs a daily outlet for his strong inclination, his mighty impulse, and his great talent.
Love is a sense and a feeling. Strong love caresses the world and eyes things lovingly. A pipe carries water and lets it run tangentially through a great distance. An inner tube rolls quietly along without making hardly a sound. The love boy is drawn to pipes and inner tubes and he collects these objects. This is just an expression of his love. In fifth grade the boy gets a duck chick and a hen chick and he raises his pets lovingly, and they teach him a lot about love. He is often talking silly to them and petting them and caring for them in other ways. He's just a natural love boy.
Other boys shout with loud penetrating voices and throw fast balls. For hours a day other boys practice their penetrative impulses, so that they become excellent speakers and they play hard ball with words. They sometimes hit the love boy and he withdraws because he's not used to such treatment. Other children can't understand the love boy's non-penetrative, gentle nature. Neither can the love boy understand, because the simple truth isn't yet common social knowledge. The love boy is really funny, like Ferdinand the Bull in Munro Leaf's famous children's story.
Years of schooling avoid the main issue. The love boy has to suppress his natural impulse and his native talent. The odd boy learns to talk and he learns to walk and he doesn't rock anymore. He doesn't hum a tune. He drives a fast car even along a quiet street. Many of his hours are spent in study, rather than in expressing his silly and loving nature. His natural gift is being lost to society!
Decades pass. In due time inspirations, revelations, dreams, and other sources of ideas and information help the middle-aged man understand his original joy, talent, expressiveness, and nature wasn't really a disorder or an illness at all! The problem was that the boy grew up in a relatively joyless and loveless society where children were urged to be penetrators and pokers, not strokers and silly tangential persons not striving to get somewhere fast. School was arranged each day to give quick and competitive children tasks and goals. The love boy was like Mary and her Lamb, and the Lamb wasn't welcome at school. One metaphorical Mother Goose rhyme about the Lamb's caregiver Mary and Christ the Lamb of God, the love man and culture hero says it all.
One could say harshly that the love boy had been "spoiled" so that he didn't ever adjust to the society of rushed, pushed, penetrators whose voices often screamed at him to "pay attention" and find a direction and a goal and start moving his butt forward. The comfort of rocking remained an escape from the society of warriors and the ambitious parents of boys who adjusted to the stiffness and the sternness of language less silly than Mother Goose. Consequently the other boys dropped Mother Goose and took up tennis, football, or skillful argumentation and thesis-creation. These more serious and more respectable men attained honors, degrees, and social rank. Meanwhile, the love man remained tangential, non-penetrative, and periferal to the social issues. All the while the gap kept increasing between sane and caring society and the aggressive and ambitious warrior mentality and its devastating impact on natural life both nonhuman and human.
Many young people are still partly children and many children remember the joy of being rocked and hummed to. This is why many young adults can recognize the need for the balance and integration of the penetrative thrust and the non-penetrative stroke. The new teaching however is not yet widely promoted, and more and more prophetic children are being diagnosed as ill, damaged, repressed, or psychotic! Meanwhile, global salvation is at hand, but only in the form of young people's clear consciousness and safe and sane action. This is the revolution to peace in the nick of time.
Copyright 2005 by John L. Waters. All Rights Reserved
LINKS
My website at Humboldt State University
My search for a publisher
My letters of recommendation
In walking one's feet don't slide. In skating, skiing, and surfing one lightly strokes the substrate. Writing is like riding in a stroller or on a trike or a bike. One's body feels the loving stroking movement and soars higher and higher emotionally. Riding on the bus, too, one feels comforted, euphoric, and relaxed as in the arms of a good and kind friend.
Indeed, love is both a sense and an expression. A love boy loves his pets and spends a lot of time in tangential non-penetrative activity. Both inside the house and outdoors you often hear him humming, not yelling or talking. You often see him rocking himself and going nowhere. His rocking body doesn't penetrate space very far. Other children walk or run deep into space! The love boy just rocks and rocks and rocks. He doesn't aspire to be a cowboy or an astronaut.
In our present society a boy who doesn't talk and run and laugh loudly is considered ill, damaged, repressed, or psychotic. Furthermore, when this boy appears to love animals more than people, we note that he hums to them, and strokes them, and utters odd or silly sounds to them, and we note that a love boy can't do that to other children without getting yelled at or punched in the kisser. So really the love boy is sensible in loving animal pets! He needs a daily outlet for his strong inclination, his mighty impulse, and his great talent.
Love is a sense and a feeling. Strong love caresses the world and eyes things lovingly. A pipe carries water and lets it run tangentially through a great distance. An inner tube rolls quietly along without making hardly a sound. The love boy is drawn to pipes and inner tubes and he collects these objects. This is just an expression of his love. In fifth grade the boy gets a duck chick and a hen chick and he raises his pets lovingly, and they teach him a lot about love. He is often talking silly to them and petting them and caring for them in other ways. He's just a natural love boy.
Other boys shout with loud penetrating voices and throw fast balls. For hours a day other boys practice their penetrative impulses, so that they become excellent speakers and they play hard ball with words. They sometimes hit the love boy and he withdraws because he's not used to such treatment. Other children can't understand the love boy's non-penetrative, gentle nature. Neither can the love boy understand, because the simple truth isn't yet common social knowledge. The love boy is really funny, like Ferdinand the Bull in Munro Leaf's famous children's story.
Years of schooling avoid the main issue. The love boy has to suppress his natural impulse and his native talent. The odd boy learns to talk and he learns to walk and he doesn't rock anymore. He doesn't hum a tune. He drives a fast car even along a quiet street. Many of his hours are spent in study, rather than in expressing his silly and loving nature. His natural gift is being lost to society!
Decades pass. In due time inspirations, revelations, dreams, and other sources of ideas and information help the middle-aged man understand his original joy, talent, expressiveness, and nature wasn't really a disorder or an illness at all! The problem was that the boy grew up in a relatively joyless and loveless society where children were urged to be penetrators and pokers, not strokers and silly tangential persons not striving to get somewhere fast. School was arranged each day to give quick and competitive children tasks and goals. The love boy was like Mary and her Lamb, and the Lamb wasn't welcome at school. One metaphorical Mother Goose rhyme about the Lamb's caregiver Mary and Christ the Lamb of God, the love man and culture hero says it all.
One could say harshly that the love boy had been "spoiled" so that he didn't ever adjust to the society of rushed, pushed, penetrators whose voices often screamed at him to "pay attention" and find a direction and a goal and start moving his butt forward. The comfort of rocking remained an escape from the society of warriors and the ambitious parents of boys who adjusted to the stiffness and the sternness of language less silly than Mother Goose. Consequently the other boys dropped Mother Goose and took up tennis, football, or skillful argumentation and thesis-creation. These more serious and more respectable men attained honors, degrees, and social rank. Meanwhile, the love man remained tangential, non-penetrative, and periferal to the social issues. All the while the gap kept increasing between sane and caring society and the aggressive and ambitious warrior mentality and its devastating impact on natural life both nonhuman and human.
Many young people are still partly children and many children remember the joy of being rocked and hummed to. This is why many young adults can recognize the need for the balance and integration of the penetrative thrust and the non-penetrative stroke. The new teaching however is not yet widely promoted, and more and more prophetic children are being diagnosed as ill, damaged, repressed, or psychotic! Meanwhile, global salvation is at hand, but only in the form of young people's clear consciousness and safe and sane action. This is the revolution to peace in the nick of time.
Copyright 2005 by John L. Waters. All Rights Reserved
LINKS
My website at Humboldt State University
My search for a publisher
My letters of recommendation
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