The Phantom Tollbooth

I think that Shamanism, like any mystical tradition worth its salt, requires that we upend conventional ways of seeing the world. And in so doing we upend ourselves. Because the world looked at from the point of view of Spirit, that incredibly broad and forgiving and subtle vision, is just not the same as the world seen from the point of view of the Labour Party or the Tory Party or Science or common sense. And humour is a great way of showing this, as the traditional trickster stories attest to. And in this spirit I want to recommend The Phantom Tollbooth.

If you like Alice in Wonderland and Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy and if you also like children's books, then you'll like this. And it includes a country where the kids are suspended in mid-air, because they grow down instead of growing up, so that when they reach adulthood, their feet exactly touch the ground. And it means their head is always at the same height, so they always have the same point of view as they are growing up and don't have to keep changing it, and that saves a lot of bother.

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