1. Mood is brain chemistry.
The brain chemistry in a child who feels secure
Is different from the brain chemistry
In a child who feels insecure.

2. When insecurity is the rule in school,
A child withdraws from social contact,
And engages in some behavior
Which elevates his mood.

3. Children enjoy stimulating each other
And being stimulated in return.
Children play interactive games.
This elevates their moods together.

4. What older children do together,
The younger child wants to do.
Mood elevation drives culture.
A new joy creates a new culture.

5. Fifty years ago, children roller-skated.
Today children ride skateboards.
A new subculture has evolved around skateboards.
Two hundred years ago
Only Hawaiians rode on surfboards.
Today there is a whole subculture of surfboarders.
A new joy creates a new culture or subculture.

6. Daring and skill are required to
Learn to ride a skateboard.
A weak or timid child will fall and be hurt
And not keep on with the task of learning.
A weak eye or a weak foot can stop a child,
And when every child is a skateboard enthusiast,
The child who is inept
Is excluded from the common joy.
Feeling excluded,
The weak or timid child
Is even more prone to sadness and illness.

7. A child needs joy to grow.
Optimal health is attained in joy.
Schools then should teach joy.
When schools don�t teach joy
They teach stunted growth and disease.

8. Writing brings me joy and making writing
Helps cure my diseases.
The pains in my body are diminished
As the writing flows through me.

9. Art brings me joy and making art
Helps cure my diseases.
The pains in my body are diminished
As the art flows through me.

10. Music brings me joy and making music
Helps cure my diseases.
The pains in my body are diminished
As the music flows through me.

11. At home I had animal pets.
I stroked them and I talked silly to them.
At school I couldn�t talk silly.
And at school there was nothing
I could show my love for.
At school
I had to conceal my joy.

12. Feathers, fur, skin and hair
Are fun to stroke.
But at school
Young hands were kept busy
Handling balls, books, paper and pencils.

13. At home I cared for pets and plants.
I was a caregiver to many living things.
But I also sought to understand.
A lot was missing I couldn�t comprehend.

14. I went to college and sought to
Please all my professors.
Learning was a joy but over the years
I sensed that something was missing
In the lessons and in me myself.
I saw that the absorption-quest was endless,
And I had no focus, no central joy.
I wasn�t inspired enough by any existing study.
I couldn�t obtain a higher degree.

15. The missing factor was joy and love.
The missing factor was devotion and commitment.
My talent wasn�t academic.
I wasn�t the consummate hair-splitter.
More and more I heard this voice inside.
The voice demanded my attention.
The voice demanded that I listen and
Commit words to paper.

16. There was also music and art.
These long-suppressed joys
Stirred me up and excited me!

17. For twenty years I had gone to school.
I kept going to school for twenty years.
For twenty years I was only a new wineskin
For The System to fill with old wine.

18. As I matured I broke out of school.
The voice you hear now as you read
Became too loud in me.
I couldn�t pay attention to The Master anymore.
The external reality had too long
Been impressed impressed impressed impressed
Impressed upon me
And all that was mine to give had been
So long confined inside of a padlocked box.

19. As a child
It was my nature to express my joy,
But my joy wasn�t in
Playing the games the children loved.
Tic Tac Toe wasn�t my joy.
Reading wasn�t my joy.
My joy wasn�t football or basketball.
My joy wasn�t smiling and talking
And doing the dance of
Sophisticated conversation.
I was in the world but I wasn�t of the world.
A part of me was still
Inside the womb, not yet born.

20. A major part of myself
Remained unexpressed,
And buried deep
In my unconscious.

21. There was one other schizoid boy
Like me.
Like me, he was usually silent and offside.
His voice also was padlocked in a box.
Years later he heard his voice and let it come out.
And he, like me, was apprehended, arrested,
And medicated by a stern
Doctor and Master
Over the inspired psycho-chemical brain.

22. Now it seems clear
That not every one is born to be just
Imprinted by the popular culture.

23. The old cultures expect a boy always
To be oriented to what�s outside himself.

24. For countless millennia each boy had to learn
To be attentive only to the dart approaching him
And to the form of the animal or man
Seen to be the certain target for his deadly shaft.
The man destined to live through battles had to be
Entirely focused upon the external reality.
The boys who didn�t learn the lesson
Didn�t long survive to become the cornerstone
Of their tribe.
They were the stone the builder refused.
Theirs were the genes evolution rejected.

25. This is why today�s boy�s joy
Still is in imitating the older boys
Whose joy is in imitating the adult men.
Hey kid. Do you wanna smoke?

26. From century to century the old traditions
Of the warrior culture are retained.

27. Nothing changes until the whole culture
Is rapidly destroyed or enslaved
By mightier warriors.

28. There is in the healthy future culture
A give-and-take as in breathing.
Each blessed family and the blessed community
Receive the inspired child
And the inspired child receives each family and the community
In joy.

29. Even today, what is within the happy child
Comes out in the child�s sublime joy.
30. The joyful child shows all that his joy is in!
Each family and the community learns
From the child whose joy is unusual.
In this way the future society grows in awareness
Year after year after year,
And decade after decade after decade.

31. But in traditional cultures
And in modern cultures, still,
The standard is set and what a boy enjoys
Has to be what�s traditional
And impressed on him from the outside.

32. Even today, the modern boy�s mind
Is expected to be like an empty vagina-vessel
To be filled with the sacred semen-wisdom from old men
And old women often impregnated by old men.
Every modern boy is expected to be
The object of mass-mind penetration.

33. Conformity and psychic imbalance
Has always been the essential lesson,
For girls as well as for boys,
With macho-rule by the sword, the whip,
The belt, and the stick.
Some children even are scolded and beaten
With harsh words.

34. The sublime joy in many boys
Is terminated when society
Doesn�t cultivate the dynamic balance.
Men and women remain set in their ways
And the old culture
Remains the same for ages
And ages and ages and ages
Until The End comes
At the hand of some Master
Nation Of Greater Warriors.

35. All this lack of dynamic balancing
Is the stuff of sacred legends
And the return of the ancient
Warrior-God
As well as many a science-fiction thriller.

36. The modern way of science
Has proved its usefulness.
Men walk on the Moon and men
From different nations
Meet in space stations
And work together under a flag of truce.

37. Science keeps on helping
Former arch-rivals learn more
About cooperation and peace.

38. It�s my joy now to celebrate
What is!
It�s my joy now to let the voice
Inside of me speak!

39. So I write down what the voice says
Even when some people say
My wording is too simple,
Or even that I�m crazy.

40. I teach the dynamic balance
As the essential new rule of the long-prophesied
And long-awaited
Mythic Messiah
Expected to teach peace
Without being put to death
Through violence or through neglect
By habitually imbalanced folk who just don�t
Make enough effort to understand the message.

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