Will Napoli Biography
Biography, Part 1
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Will Napoli grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland, raised in the pop culture and to believe the American Dream was as easy as pie to
achieve. Through literature and art he became aware that there were reasons to question the path put before him, but it was his
own dreams that foretold a different path altogether.
While still in high school, Will had two dreams that he could not ignore. The first left him with a clear vision of a scene by a river,
something he could see as plain as TV just by recalling it. He did recall it, several times. It was a fascination. He could clearly see
these simple seconds from a dream, but he didn't know what it meant. Later that day he and his family traveled to visit relatives.
There was an event they attended at a location Will had never been to before. He saw the same marble stairs by the river that he'd
seen in the dream and then the other elements emerged and approached those remembered few seconds. He witnessed the
vision he'd had. The scene itself meant little, but the confirmation of the vision meant something profound. The scene had occurred
precisely as the vision showed it. There was no former input that could have explained all the elements, although one was a
relative. However, the scene was of a random occurrence, a relative petting a passing dog being walked on a leash by a stranger.
Will realized that there was no way he could have been given the information necessary to imagine such a scene prior to its
occurrence. He was familiar with a calm evening and trees and water and the relative, but the specific information that was visually
crisp in the dream, and most importantly, the dream recall would have been highly unlikely to be implanted unconsciously and the
chance encounter with a specific dog and owner would be impossible to predict. This had to be proof, to Will, that precognition is
possible. But that's all that it meant.
Not too long later, Will had a dream that he remembered at great length. He woke and began to type it all out, as much as he could
recall, still in the haze of near-sleep. When he was done he had six chapters of a truly surreal story, but also a startled ending
where the last image, the startling image, that awoke him was the one image he couldn't clearly recall, but he did have a sense of it.
For two years the dream was just an example of the creative potential of dreams. It reminded Will, who went off to college to study
astrophysics, only to change direction and pursue creative writing, that his unconscious mind was the best narrator, the best
story-teller in him. Still, it was success in creative writing classes that gave him reason to reconsider his major. It was a lack of life
experiences, however, that forced him to suspend his education and just live.
Three years later, five years after the six chapter dream, Will realized he was living the dream. Each chapter represented a year of
his life, but all the events in the dream were metaphors for events in real life. It wasn't difficult for him to realize the meaning of the
metaphors, for the most part, but it was difficult to know whether to try to change anything or not. After all, in the fifth chapter Will is
chased by a gunman, but survives. That was two years ahead yet.
Sure enough, two years later, Will was attempting to keep a young thug from stealing his car when a friend of the thug's, who Will
had never seen before, intervened with a drawn handgun, the first ever aimed at Will. Luckily, by now Will was thoroughly convinced
that the dream corresponded to reality, so he had absolutely no fear of the gunman and it showed in the way he handled him. Will
raised his hands to make it clear he was unarmed, but then shouted at the gunman that he didn't need to take his shit, walked
around him the long way, and headed back into the house in which he was staying at the time. This made the gunman nervous and
he ran off. Will moved out of town immediately after this incident for obvious reasons, but it so happens that it was also in keeping
with the dream.
Ironically, after the six years of the dream had been lived, Will was struck with fear over not having another dream to unravel. What
did it mean? Several years and interesting events later it became clear that it did not mean that life was almost over, however, a
period of innocence soon was. Within the six chapter dream Will had a four-year romance with a woman who had two daughters
and it was for Will a complete life with family, condensed. Here was a loving relationship in an intercultural setting, so it was that
Will underwent a thorough transformation from an untested suburbanite to the hero of an urban romance, all the while awakening to
the harshest realities of American life.
When Will moved back to a college town to change yet again he found himself living the life of an artist/mystic. He took time to
develop his philosophy of justice, consciousness, and art. He took stock of all that he had undertaken to study and develop on his
own: music, drawing, games, information handling, minimalist poetry, fiction, philosophy, research astronomy. It was his
renaissance, his mission to take each as far as he could and then to the market. Free from being caught within the bubble of the
dream years, Will embarked on a new four-year romance and invented a card game system while recording hundreds of songs as
demos, a rock-and-roll notebook to later be expanded into full-fledged albums of more than four tracks. He also worked out an
information handling system and a system of symbols useful in describing consciousness and the universe, thus, a model of the
conscious universe. He had previously invented interplanetary calendars just before living the dreamed life, but now he continued
the mission by creating calendars for all the planets of the solar system. He went back to college for a certificate in small business
management. But he was also slowly entangled in a first-hand education in the injustice of justice.
While Will feels he has been victimized by injustice, he nevertheless treats it as a useful educational experience into the way things
truly are, not the TV version. He had a romance in the city where others suffered. Now he was learning about that suffering. It was
serving to educate him to the most important work he had undertaken: his philosophy of justice, the humanitarian work. Will
returned to the city, Cleveland, just before the new millennium and has since served the community while continuing his education
in and out of school. He finally got his college degree and continues after more, but along the way he has become an educator
himself.
It was Will's unique perspective and voice that garnered him his first successes in school as a writer and it his unique path that
allows him to continue to add to the collective consciousness valuable insight, research, work, and service. Will prefers to struggle
in pursuit of improving his humanitarian value content that as he does so his art matures and his work continues to serve the most
deserving.