Sir Michael Palin reads The Food of Paradise, from Idries Shah’s World Tales

ISF is extremely grateful to Sir Michael Palin for sparing the time in his busy schedule for recording Idries Shah's story, The Food of Paradise.
With its roots in Central Asia, this story is one of the cornerstones of World Tales.
All sales of the limited edition of the title will go to ISF's Books For Afghan Children Project -- providing free illustrated books to children in Afghanistan.
Thank you to everyone who has supported this important project!
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[@christophorhill2320]

Absolutely wonderful!
I'm going to commit this story to memory; it needs to be retold! Thank you for providing this reading. 🙏

[@nuthineatholl6434]

This story is especially in my thoughts just now, as I seem to be living it! The world is indeed so full of a number of things.
How wonderful to hear it in Mr. Palin's voice. You see, I was expelled from a posh prep school back in '78 -- in part for my chronic dorm-curfew-breaking in the TV-equipped commons room (so as to watch at any cost the first American TV airing of "Monty Python's Flying Circus", then showing at around midnight on the local station). . . I considered the surreal viewpoint of the "Python" troupe, along with the ideas presented by Idries Shah ( discovered in that school's library via intriguing references in their copy of Robert Ornstein's "Psychology of Consciousness") as two of my most important influences during early adulthood, helping me towards a "new framework of knowledge", one redolent of love, agile improvisational intelligent adaptiveness, and good humor, in despite of my culture's systemic and merciless efforts to instill its own -- a leaden helotist thing, darkly paranoid and selfishly filter-bubble-like. As E. E. Cummings put it in "pity this busy monster, manunkind":
--- listen: there's a hell
of a good universe next door; let's go
Many cheers!