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EP 75: Clare Murphy on Story and Meaning

The Emergency Mind Podcast

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The King Has Donkeys Ears

There are many stories like this in folklore all around the world that secrets make you sick. When I started working with the NHS as the National Health Service here in England, I said, we're only story-turned workshops. A boy is brought up on his knees before the king and the king says, well, I told you not to tell her,. The boy said, oh, I was at the point of death. And besides which, aside from the killing of the barbers, you're a good king. We don't mind if you have donkeys ears. Right? So he goes home, he lives and his mother is like your feet. He starts walking around, he's

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