Jann Burner
Jann is a writer/photographer. He is a third generation San Franciscan, currently living in the Ozarks of S.W. Missouri.
Jann can be reached directly at jann@getgoin.net
Jann can be reached directly at jann@getgoin.net
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Articles by Jann Burner
October 10, 2009
Why Are We in Afghanistan? Do we really need multiple thousands of boots on the ground? Is there another alternative?
October 24, 2008
Like many others who live in Bayside communities, I have sat upon the dock of the bay watching with something bordering on religious awe as sailboats drift by powered by nothing except the breath of God and the steady hand of the captain on the tiller. Like close encounters with an old friend, I ...
October 15, 2008
Just as I am dropping off to sleep, something (sounds like a wild cat) commits murder close to my tent. The screams and shrieks are short but intense, very unnerving. It always shakes me up when a life is taken close to my tent. I then turn and toss all night. I am too soft. Too many nights i...
August 15, 2008
We are like the first uneasy settlers from the East suddenly facing the expanse of the Great Plains after the security of the Eastern forests and cities. We are the first culture to break through the forest of history and the web of past connections. We are at the edge of a New Frontier, a New D...
August 11, 2008
The Mind rules.
The brain is paint on the canvas;
Merely autumn color--a mouse in the grass.
The Mind is the eagle
Looking down on the mouse.
Mouse-brained man chases his chemistry
All over the field.
Eventually the eagle will close with mouse.Man is grounded in his philosophical attitude tow...
July 23, 2008
I have been sitting in the rear of Zim's restaurant for the past ten years wearing dark glasses and sucking up cups of coffee like they were spare galaxies and my mouth a ravenous black hole in deep space. In vain attempt at directed discovery I have dragged my soul carelessly through captured dr...
July 23, 2008
Young people see every day as another day. Older people can look back on their lives and recognize certain specific days as being pivotal. There are special days, days that will rule the rest of your life. Days that will reverberate like a Chinese gong and send their vibrations with you for the r...
June 22, 2008
This article is Part II of a piece originally published last August.
Don´t look now but a new generation of elders are moving in. Bottom line is the Baby Boomer Generation is not going to age like their parents generation. This is the generation which brought us Hippies, Rock & Roll, the Environ...
December 05, 2007
Until the 1980's most kayaks were of the white water variety, fast and maneuverable on a swift moving river but short, low in volume and relatively unable to hold a straight line on the ocean. They offered an exhilarating ride but little encouragement to travel. The long distance cruising kaya...
December 05, 2007
The following is a true story, or rather it is a true experience from the story of my life. Some say that just because something happens doesn't really make it "true".
I was sitting in a doorway on Haight Street in San Francisco back in The Day watching the human parade pass by and feeling m...
November 24, 2007
Jannsun Rader had started work for Matrix right after he tired of trying to write the great American Novel, which was about five years ago, right after the war. He was old for a Web Zone designer but who knew? Who cared? His work was all done via satellite and as long as his work was good, his onlin...
November 18, 2007
I have problems with wild cats, at least the urban variety. I had nine here at one time, and they were so wild that I couldn't even pet them and the SPCA wouldn't come collect them. Thought I would go nuts and then they were wiped out by some feline disease. Only two survived, a black mother an...
October 22, 2007
What if Al Gore is mistaken? At the risk of being stoned to death, let me offer a thought. What if Al Gore has made an error. Oh, I'm not saying that there is no global climate change and I'm not saying that our lives won't quite probably be irrevocably changed forever, but what if he is mistak...
August 24, 2007
Reprogramming your mind for the later years:
The key is being able to access memory in detail. As we age our bodies may fail us, our personal economics may falter, our short term memory may become "quirky", but usually, as we age, our long term memory becomes increasingly clear. My mother, in...
August 14, 2007
Here's yet another story on how the judicial system can get you, chew you up and spit you out.
When I was a young man, fresh out of college, I worked as a film editor at a major TV network. Being the "new guy", I only got to work vacation relief so my pay check periods had holes. Since there wer...
August 13, 2007
(Oct. 20, 1980)
A letter from Ronald Reagan Letter to Robert Poli, head of the Air Traffic Control Union, PATCO.
Dear Mr. Poli:
I have been briefed by members of my staff as to the deplorable state of our nation's air traffic control system. They have told me that too few people workin...
July 29, 2007
Behind our time imprinted 3 dimensional reality is a mosaic of consciousness not held within the confines of a time line. We are a consciousness which has thrown out an infinitude of individual personal experiential realities and each separate "me" is cast out alone within a specific frequency or...
July 25, 2007
HYPNOTHERAPY
In the future hypnotherapy will become mainstream and it will include much more than is currently evidenced. In the future Past Lives (as well as Future Lives) will be accepted as true and people will use hypnotherapy in order to explore their past and prepare for their future. ...
June 10, 2007
When I was a boy the motto of the Boy Scouts used to be, "Be Prepared". When I learned how to drive, the number one rule was to drive defensively. "Think ahead. What might happen that you don't foresee." When I learned how to sail, the number one rule was to look ahead, plan for the unforeseen...
May 06, 2007
There is a strange thing that happens to taxi drivers who drive too many years and put too many strange chemicals into their system. Nobody talks about it but it is more common than you, as a passenger, would want to believe. It results in drivers who will simply not pick up at certain locations, ...
April 28, 2007
Watching television, movies, reading books and newspapers and magazines as well as observing people in the street I can almost see a spiritual power sculpting the human entity; turning it first this way and then that way, pushing in at one point, pulling, stretching and stressing points and aspects ...
April 26, 2007
This is a very pleasant sensation, at this instant--being a writer; being able to entertain and introduce the three prime portions of human consciousness: the physical animal, the thinking brain and the transcendent mind. When these three parts come together they form a bubble which exists quite ou...
March 03, 2007
Once you've been in the room within your imagination where the creative machinery lives--once you've seen the creation of color and smelled the spiritual smoke given off by the wheel of life then you'll never be the same. Your life will be transformed from that moment on. If you are lucky enough ...
February 15, 2007
Some thoughts on retirement ...
People spend their lives trying to buy their freedom; trying to retire-- some day, and yet the ones who manage it haven't a clue what to do with it when the day finally comes. The competitive goal oriented programs necessary to play at business and acquire money a...
February 15, 2007
When in a relationship we are involved in a tug-of-war. Someone else is holding the other end of our rope. Suddenly the other becomes the reason for our happiness, our unhappiness or our boredom. We now have an excuse. Suddenly our "illness" can be diagnosed and it has a name and so we call it...
February 14, 2007
Recently scientists have made some very odd discoveries concerning the human brain. Seems they've discovered through brain scans of people of Genius capability that they use less of their brain at any one time than a normal person. How can this be? Wouldn’t a genius, by definition use massive amount...
February 03, 2007
As soon as we draw a line through "The Moment" (any moment), we split the circle of supreme intention thereby dividing the sphere of ultimate potential. When this happens the crystal of realization is fractured. Like dropping a red hot glass marble into a bowl of cool water, it fractures and each...
February 03, 2007
The Big fear (that we all seem to have) is of being “FREE”. It would seem we are all spiritual agoraphobics. Our innate spiritual integrity has been stained like a drop of ink in a glass of Clear Mountain spring water.
We rush from childhood to adolescence to adulthood establishing more and mor...
January 26, 2007
After watching and listening to President Bush deliver his State of The Union Speech a couple of his comments began to strongly draw my attention.
Here is an exact quote from the President's State of The Union which has me a little concerned. "Tonight I ask the Congress to authorize an increase...
December 20, 2006
Been thinking about the Democrats and what the "Problem" is. Edgar Cayce used to describe a race of beings on Earth way before Atlantis. These beings were very evolved and lived in cities deep underground and they had a perfect culture. Sort of a "California Culture" without the beach. What finall...
December 18, 2006
Once upon a time in a universe far, far away I drove taxi on the night shift. It was in a place called San Francisco and the most amazing things would happen behind the wheel of absolute reality. Often I would meet the most amazing people, like the time I picked up two sisters.
I picked them up...
December 06, 2006
I got a call in the deep Richmond district of The City, out by the beach. It was five a.m.. I rang the bell and out came a young woman, maybe twenty-one. She was carrying an overnight sort of bag and she was extremely pretty. As we proceeded to her destination I couldn't help but stare at her in...
November 30, 2006
Ran into Mr. Frank today. He's living in room-10 at 371 Columbus. He enjoys it and is the world's best exponent of small is good and less is best. He owns nothing but some clothes and a small am/fm radio. He drives a cab about six months per year and doesn't drink, smoke or carouse with the lad...
November 18, 2006
I am sound asleep and then there is a bright light shinning in my eyes. I peer out my small port hole and it looks like the UFO from the ending scene of "Close Encounters" has landed right outside on the water. We are about forty miles from Cuba and about one hundred miles from our next island, ...
November 09, 2006
Therapy works for two reasons. First the patient or client has a need to “understand” something, or to have “something” fixed. The client is in some level of discomfort. Secondly the therapist has their “intention” to be of service, to assist the client in understanding their dilemma and to ease th...
November 04, 2006
If, as therapists, we can regress a client into a past life, might it not also be possible to do future mentoring to our present selves? If we can trace "To Cause" the reason for a physical or psychological ailment by regressing a client, why can't we "forward" that same person and see what illne...
November 04, 2006
A lot of people think it really matters that they make a lot of money, and become successful at something with heavy bragging rights. The only thing that matters is that no matter what you do, be present for the experience. To paraphrase Woody Allen, "The secret to success is showing up." Just...
November 04, 2006
Let me ask you to wrap your mind around the “idea” that TIME, as we perceive it, is not linear. It does not move from the past into the future like a highway. Nor does it begin on page one with something like “In the beginning…” and end three hundred pages later with something like, “and they live...
October 26, 2006
It was after midnight. A small room in a smaller town on a blue highway. About twenty people sitting around drinking beer, one guy is playing drums too loud, another cowboy is playing basic blues rhythms on a cheap guitar. It's open mike night. Nothing going on. A group of bored people sitting aroun...
October 08, 2006
That vast Overmind of human consciousness which we metaphorically refer to as the Internet is nothing more that a matrix of zero's and ones in binary code. The most mundane as well as the most profound visions of mankind can be distilled down to a string of zero's and ones. Using this metaphor one...
October 08, 2006
Driving to the airport one day I passed up an old bum; a hobo walking along the side of the freeway. The man looked familiar. I had passed this man once or twice before. He was always just walking along with his bundle.
Coming back to town another time, I saw the same old hobo walking alongs...
September 17, 2006
The following images and ideas are metaphors. They are not held to be hard truth in the empirical sense, more these metaphors are meant to be truth sensors. When a specific metaphor and a reader's personal experience close, they set up a vibrational resonance. When the "resonance" is first felt o...
September 14, 2006
Two Aztec Queens
I picked them up in the Richmond district. They were very old, eighty or ninety at least. Two sisters from Mexico. Two reincarnated Aztec queens. One sat in the rear and one sat in the front next to me. She liked the way I drove.
"You handle it like a toy," she said. "Yo...
September 13, 2006
WHAT IS A "MEMORY PALACE"?
In the ancient days, long before writing, when man lived in the moment and thrived upon the still warm memories of real Gods and Goddesses, the story tellers of old had a problem. Their stories became interwoven and entangled and elongated over time until a good tale...
September 10, 2006
I see entire shelves of what we used to call Science Fiction now being devoted to FUTURITY writing. No longer Dreams or Imaginings but bold blueprints for probable futures, lined with products and details from this new time to come around the next bend in the river of time. Things are increasing i...
August 12, 2006
The greatest part of life is a dream. Images and insights flit bat-like through our mind and condense on the walls of our brain and gradually drip down in the form of words, metaphors, and analogies to form stalagmites and stalactites upon the floor/ceiling of the cavern in which we live. These ex...
August 12, 2006
Like big boats playing shark in shallow water these large bumper cars traveled the coastal streets of late San Francisco. Their steering wheels all black crusty plastic spinning first this way and then around the corner between the bread truck and the bus and--watch the old man crossing the stre...
August 05, 2006
"Life is easy when you've got new tread."
In San Francisco, on the West coast of America in the state of California, there used to be a group of individuals called taxi drivers. For a very small fee they would be with you in their vehicle. They would transport you wherever you wished to go. Th...
August 02, 2006
That vast Overmind of human consciousness, which we metaphorically refer to as the Internet, is nothing more that a matrix of zero's and ones in binary code. The most mundane as well as the most profound visions of mankind can be distilled down to a string of zero's and ones. Using this metaphor o...
June 29, 2006
Here's how to end our involvement in Iraq without loosing face, or loosing any more of our soldiers.
We put a total embargo on the country. No flights in or out, no ships allowed into port. We isolate them and we simply tell them to…
"Work it out. You all want to blow up one another and cu...
May 07, 2006
People spend their lives trying to buy their freedom; trying to retire-- some day, and yet the ones who manage it usually haven't a clue what to do with it when the day finally comes. The competitive goal oriented programs necessary to play at business and acquire money are useless as process...
May 03, 2006
Character is timeless. But we do not grow chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, sometimes in another. Sometimes there are whole dimensions in which there is little or no growth. It is a very uneven process. It is all partial and relative. We can be mature in one realm and qui...
April 29, 2006
No, not my eye glasses and no, not even my contacts. Yesterday I had a stranger with a very sharp knife actually slit open my left eyeball, suck out the lens, replace it with an artificial lens and send me home with an appointment to come back in the morning. Quick turnaround. There was no disco...
April 28, 2006
All this talk about illegal immigrants. About Mexicans streaming across the border and competing with the other people already here, for the minimum wage jobs. Waving Mexican flags and speaking of taking over. And now the media is getting everyone stirred up. Yep, that's how it is done. The peo...
April 25, 2006
I think I've discovered something of importance. I think that deer, especially aggressive male deer, have figured out that hunters drive cars! And even more, that certain specific members of the Deer Tribe have taken it upon themselves, like suicide bombers, to hunt down and attempt to destroy ca...
April 25, 2006
If I were a parent (which I'm not), here's what I might do when my child first began to speak the common language.
Get a tape recorder and ask the young human a few basic questions. Questions like..."Where did you live before you came here?" "What caused you to pass on in your last life?" "W...
April 24, 2006
Humans are creatures of the Mind. We live within a rich interior landscape every bit as real as the penthouse in which our physical body resides or as real as the curb upon which we lay our head at the end of another fruitless day. And the more desolate one's exterior world the more pressure th...
April 18, 2006
Been thinking about the Democrats and what the "Problem" is. Edgar Cayce used to describe a race of beings on Earth way before Atlantis. These beings were very evolved and lived in cities deep underground and they had a perfect culture. Sort of a "California Culture" without the beach. What finally ...
April 18, 2006
Metaphor Bridge...sharing common wisdom in an uncommon manner.
Had an interesting epiphany last night. It hit me how we all inhabit very small, very enclosed spaces...call them rooms. We even create physical, metaphorical equivalents and call them...houses. (combinations of many small square ro...
April 15, 2006
Metaphor Bridge...sharing common wisdom in an uncommon manner.
Emotions are not something that you wear like makeup or clothing. Emotions are not something that you acquire like a rash or a physical injury. Emotions are not something that are part of you like your skin. Emotions are like food. ...