Twisted Fables for Twisted Minds: This’ll either heal you or make you go insane

163 Pages·2017·2.3 MB·English

by  Barefoot Doctor

BAREFOOT DOCTOR
TWISTED FABLES
FOR TWISTED MINDS
This will either heal you or make you go
insane

© Barefoot Doctor, Stephen Russell 2017
First published by Element in 2003
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For Jake
A word from the author This is a reprinted updated version of Twisted
Fables for Twisted Minds, though we still welcome any feedback on
references, items or chunks that need updating in your opinion as we can
adjust manuscript mid-flight─and in return the author will reward you
with an acknowledgment in the revised version.
Barefoot Doctor 2017
FOREWORD
by Dr Squid Gridlo, Philosopher
When first approached by Barefoot Doctor to write the foreword to this
collection of fables, on account of his reputation I was, of course, flattered.
On the initial read-through I was amused and bewildered.
On the second run-through, although I still had some mild feelings of queasiness
and disorientation, I was starting to wonder if there wasn't perhaps something in
what he was saying.
By the third time round, I was forced to admit, bemusedly, that this collection of
loosely-woven histories of a group of highly bizarre individuals was in fact of
the utmost profundity and importance to the world.
What initially appeared as utter nonsense, suddenly came alive to me as a living
metaphor for the absolute absurdity of the so-called real-life stories of the
countless people I have had the privilege of drawing into conversation, during
the course of my extensive travels on this crazy planet.
Though not being given naturally to contemplating matters of the spirit, being
more of a pragmatist by disposition, I found myself being transformed
incrementally and exponentially with each passing parable by the certain
knowledge of one thing, which finds its exegesis so eloquently facilitated in
these pages.
This, namely, that the only constant factor in all known existence is change.
Furthermore, that change is unpredictable by nature. It is only in the acceptance
of being in the state of not knowing what comes next, that one finds
enlightenment and hence joy in the absolutely unfathomable mystery of life and
death.
These fables, each allegedly based faithfully on snippets of true occurrences, all
cut and pasted anarchically together, will at first seem totally unbelievable. That
cut and pasted anarchically together, will at first seem totally unbelievable. That
is for sure. However, when you stop for a moment to reflect on the truly
ridiculous stories of those you meet along the way as you wander this great
thoroughfare of life, you may well begin to wonder who's the more crazy: you,
or Barefoot Doctor.
In the end, you'll probably agree with me that we're all of us inmates in this
loony bin we've created here on Earth, and it is for this precise reason I am proud
to provide this foreword to what can only be described as a totally insane text,
and hope you derive as much pleasure and benefit from it as I have.
Dr Squid Gridlo, Lucerne, Switzerland 2003
AUTHOR'S BRIEF INTRODUCTION
Twisted Fables for Twisted Minds is an unlikely expedition into the deeper
realms of the human psyche. It deals radically with the theme of quantum
personal transformation, something occurring with greater and greater frequency
and intensity in people's lives at this time, as the thrust for evolution accelerates
against a backdrop of impending catastrophe.
In this book I use the age-old teaching device of distracting your thinking mind
through the telling of fables (always stronger in impact on your psyche than
fact), causing you to enter a mild, childlike trance state wherein you find
yourself quite happy to suspend critical judgement just long enough (for a
barefoot doctor) to pop a series of nuggets of potentially precious transformative
data into your personal circuitry, which will contribute immediately (it is hoped)
to your spiritual, mental, emotional, physical and material wellbeing, in a far
more efficacious way than would happen if you simply read a straight-ahead
self-help manual.
Read the fables as twisted fiction with a moral, or read them as entertaining self-
help, it doesn't matter─either way you risk profoundly disturbing the status quo
of your mind, but nothing worthwhile ever occurs in this life without a bit of
disturbance preceding it and the personal pay off could be huge─for both of us.
Of course some of the characters you'll relate to, some you won't. By the same
token, some of them won't relate to you either, but that's life and let's not get
silly about this─the important thing is that when you recognize yourself in any
of the characters, you learn to love yourself, or at least like yourself more as a
result.
These fables are inspired by the 'miracle' of healing that comes to every life at
the most unexpected moments and in the most unlikely ways. May it come to
you at precisely the moments you need it most, in the ways that suit you best,
and may all limitations to your perfect peace, fulfillment, moment-to-moment
and may all limitations to your perfect peace, fulfillment, moment-to-moment
satisfaction and contentment, whether self-imposed or apparently otherwise, be
instantaneously and incrementally removed with every passing word.
Barefoot Doctor, Eastern Catalunya, 2003