DRIVING WITH YOUR EYES CLOSED: How I became the Barefoot Doctor

Product Description


I tend to suffer from compulsive liberationist tendencies - in other words, I'm a natural-born liberator - so I hope reading this book serves to set you free of anything holding you back from transforming your own life into the most magnificent adventure imaginable.
I say I'm a supercharged Taoist because for more than 35 years I've been training in Taoist martial arts, qigong, and meditation. Just as it promised in the instruction leaflets, these practices have generated an accumulation of supercharged energy that courses through me and everything I do. This makes my life exciting, endlessly varied, and full of adventure. Using the ancient Taoist wu-wei manifesting methods - focusing on being, not doing, and intending things into existence rather than trying to force them - I'm able to create reality as I wish it to be, almost instantaneously. I say this humbly. Also, by letting the Taoist philosophy underscore everything I think, do, and say, I've learned to be flexible in my thinking. Flexibility lets me enjoy all aspects of the ride to the fullest, whether in an up phase or a down one. I feel blessed by all this and want to share my good fortune with you. I want you, in your own style, to be blessed in the same way.
I've always had a desire to share the wonder of the Tao with others. That's been my motivation for as long as I can remember. I have an enthusiasm for it, a childlike exuberance that carries me through life in a way that uplifts and cheers me. I've found that over the years my exuberance has helped others feel exuberant too. That is how I want this book to leave you feeling, and I want all of Britain and the whole world beyond to feel exuberant too.


About the Author


Barefoot Doctor has been a Taoist healer for forty years, and is trained in all forms of holistic Chinese medicine and acupuncture. He has published books on all aspects of Taoism and how to take command of your mind/life. He was trained initially at the age of 11 by Tio Honsai, his then Aikido master, who himself was a great healer. He taught him how to channel healing force (ki) through his hands, by which he was soon able to help those around him dispel all sorts of aches and pains, and also feel far calmer and clearer-minded. He subsequently trained in depth and hands-on with one of the greatest of all the great healers of the human soul who ever graced the earth, the late, great R. D. Laing, with whom he gained not only acute insight into the human condition and its mechanisms, but also practical learning by being with many people in states of extreme distress. He began a healing practice in London in 1983. These were early days for the world of holistic medicine, and being one of the very first and well-schooled, if not yet greatly experienced, thus able to gain good results for people, the practice rapidly grew, drawing to his door celebrities, and inevitably in their footsteps, journalists. The ensuing publicity then enabled him to bring to the world what he'd been working on all the while, a series of offerings by which people could heal themselves-whether by reading a book, through electronic 'medicine music' for meditation or to play on the dance floor, which he composes, produces and occasionally performs, deploying sonic frequencies in various combinations to produce specific healing effects; through online trainings and internet-based gatherings; through other more conventional media; giving talks; holding seminars; running retreats; hosting alternative 'conscious clubbing' club nights; and even at one point, in the true spirit of the conceptual artist, through a range of fragrances and body products he created for fun, but which spontaneously grew into a relatively large commercial concern for a while. Further information on Barefoot Doctor can be found at the following websites: For wisdom, trainings, healing music, retreats and more: www.barefootdoctorglobal.com; For books, trainings and more: www.waywardpu