Thymely Tales: Transformational Fairy Tales for Adults and Children

By Lauren O. Thyme

As a child , Lauren loved Grimm’s Fairy Tales and Aesop’s Fables.

Like the Grimm Brothers and Aesop, Thymely Tales combines unforgettable, fantastical characters including Bag Ladies, Princes, Fireflies, Pirates, Fairies, Psychologists, Nurses, and CIA spies.

Thymely Tales’ simple stories illuminate universal archetypes and spiritual and ethical values similar to those found in the writings of Plato, Carl Jung, and Joseph Campbell.

Each fairytale in Thymely Tales is based on an actual person, and his/her struggle to learn, grow, and evolve. Lauren’s own tale is entitled “Luminous Laura the Firefly.”
Stories such are these are amazing vehicles that help people to appreciate and understand profound truths which cannot easily be expressed or understood in logical, rational terms.

Thymely Tales 2nd edition is written for both children and adults and includes a new section entitled “How to write your own fairy tale.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lauren O. Thyme
• Release date: Oct 20, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370233656

Lauren O. Thyme

BiographyAt the tender age of five, Lauren experienced a near-death experience. When she came out of her coma, she could then see and hear her Council of Elders (a group of ascended masters who advise, teach and nurture her) and became clairvoyant, clairsentient, clairaudient, mediumistic, and pre-cognitive.Lauren remembers 104 of her past lives in detail, including identifying people she meets and what their relationship had been in one or more past lives.Lauren O. Thyme is a psychic and spiritual reader for the last 55 years. She has also studied and practiced astrology for 46 years.Ms. Thyme graduated with a B.S. in Psychology from Sierra University in 1988 and studied with Dr. Joshua David Stone for a year, interning in order to become a MFC counselor.Lauren studied with High Priest of Sekhmet Peter Paddon and was ordained as Priestess of Hathor through the Fellowship of Isis. Lauren created her own Egyptian Lyceum (school) of Hathor, Sekhmet and Anubis, and continued her studies of ancient Egyptian Mystery School. She visited Egypt three times, the last time while leading her own metaphysical tour. Four of her past lifetimes included being an initiate, twice a Priestess, as well as a High Priestess of Hathor at Dendera, Egypt.In 1996 Lauren had a second major transformational experience and was gifted with a new birthday and birth chart. After that experience Lauren was drawn to travel internationally, visiting sacred sites and writing/publishing articles based on her experiences there. Her website TIME TRAVEL freely promoted metaphysical tours offered by 106 tour companies. She created THE EGYPT STORE and sold Egyptian reproductions. She practiced organic gardening for over 30 years, then bought / operated a permaculture farm on Whidbey Island for 7 years. She now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.THYMELY TALES 2nd edition: Transformational Fairy Tales for Adults and Children;ALTERNATIVES FOR EVERYONE 2nd edition: A guide to alternative health care;FORGIVENESS equals FORTUNE 2nd edition (co-authored with Liah Holtzman -- available only on Amazon);THE LEMURIAN WAY 2nd edition: Remembering your Essential Nature; (available only on Amazon and Kindle);ALONG THE NILE 2nd edition, a novel set in pre-dynastic Egypt;FROM THE DEPTHS OF THYME: Life, Sex, and Transformation (a book of poetry);COSMIC GRANDMA WISDOM (a collection of Lauren’s spiritual and metaphysical essays);STRANGERS IN PARADISE (a novel of past lives and forgiveness);TWIN SOULS: A KARMIC LOVE STORY (a novel of past lives and healing relationship karma);TRAVELING ON THE RIVER OF TIME, a do-it-yourself handbook on exploring past lives.

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THYMELY TALES

Transformational Fairy Tales

For Adults and Children

Lauren O. Thyme

Illustrated by Devon Q. Thyme

Copyright 1987 Lauren O. Thyme

2nd edition  2016

Designed and Formatted for publication

by CreativeNM

Table of Contents

TITLE PAGE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

HOW THYMELY TALES CAME INTO BEING

HOW YOU CAN CREATE YOUR OWN FAIRY TALE

BROTHER GRIM

SUSIE THE GREEN SNAKE

DARK DEAN

KING ROMAINE

ANNA

ASK FOR WHAT YOU WANT

HEATHER GREEN GRASS

TEENIE THE ELF

DARK DEAN GOES TO WASHINGTON

LUMINOUS LAURA

THE MAN WHO COULDN’T DIE

THE BLAMER

GOD’S LAP

THE MERMAN WHO WANTED TO DANCE

VICTIM

THE GIGGLE PRINCESS

MAGGIE AND THE FROGS

FORGIVEN

THE WILD ROSE

THE FAIRIES

KILLER T’S

TO BE OR NOT TO BE

FIREWALKER

THE PRINCE WHO THOUGHT HE WAS A FROG

HOPE

IT’S NOT FAIR

BILLY BUTTERFLY

THE MAGI AND THE SLAVE GIRL

A GATHERING OF ANGELS

LITTLE BOY LOST

ANGELA AND THE GIFT OF RECEIVING

THE STRANGER THAT CAME TO TOWN

PIRATE’S TREASURE

MOVE OVER EINSTEIN

AUTHORS NOTE

WHO IS LAUREN O. THYME?

MORE FROM LAUREN O. THYME

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I am grateful to my clients, friends and family for inspiring these stories into being.   My thanks to Dr. Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell for explaining archetypes and the Hero’s Journey.  And to David Wilcock for clarifying the universal power of stories.

HOW THYMELY TALES CAME INTO BEING

Thymely Tales came about as a series of synchronicities leading to an abandonment of my career goal.

I had finished my B.S. in Transpersonal Psychology and was intending to proceed with a Master’s degree, working towards becoming a counselor. 

Dr. Joshua David Stone had recently moved to Sacramento where I was living.  Stone had a Ph.D. in Transpersonal Psychology and was a Licensed Marriage, Family and Child Counselor.  He was also an American author and teacher in the Ascended Master Teachings (sometimes called the Ascension Movement), a group of religions based on Theosophy, as well as an influential spiritual teacher in the Ascension Movement.  I asked Joshua if he would be my teacher and adviser while I interned for a year under his guidance.  He happily agreed.  Stone created Easy-to-Read Encyclopedia of the Spiritual Path containing numerous volumes and worked with ascended masters.   Joshua helped organize Wesak, a celebration of Buddha’s birthday, at Mount Shasta every year until his death in 2005. Only in retrospect do I realize how influential Dr. Stone’s influence was on me and how well our beliefs and experiences matched.

As time went by I became more unhappy working as a counselor. I observed that each of my clients seemed to prefer that I give them a short and snappy solution to their problems, preferably using a magic wand. One day out of my own desperation, as I sat contemplating my unhappy client, a story popped into my head.  An allegory of that person. His own fairy tale.  I related his story to him and surprisingly he burst into tears, unlike his usual stoic, argumentative self.  The metaphor had a greater impact than any of my advice, assistance, guidance or wisdom.  Over the following weeks he referred to the story over and over and he began to change of his own accord.  That client’s story is entitled The Prince Who Thought He Was a Frog.

I began making up stories and telling them to my other clients, with the same effect.  I then started creating and narrating stories for my friends and family members.  Each person would cry at the conclusion, then remember the story in detail, sometimes for years or even decades.  The metaphorical tale had a profound impact that rational ideas and suggestions lacked.

One day I was traveling with several friends on our way to a picnic.  I told them what I was doing and they insisted I make up a story for each of them – which I did.  They each cried and told me that the story was a deep representation of their life stories.  My friend Suzy (whose story became Susie, the Green Snake) suggested I write down all the stories and make it into a book.

I terminated my internship, stopped seeing clients, and commenced writing.  Thus Thymely Tales was born. 

Each story in Thymely Tales is based on a real person and his/her struggles to learn, grow and evolve.  My own is entitled Luminous Laura the Firefly. 

In my childhood I loved Grimm’s Fairy Tales as well as Aesop’s Fables.  Like the Grimm Brothers and Aesop, THYMELY TALES combines unforgettable, fantastical characters like Bag Ladies, Princes, Psychologists, Nurses, Fireflies, CIA spies, and Fairies, using straightforward stories illuminating archetypes, as well as spiritual and ethical principles in a simple way.  Metaphorical archetypes are similar to those elaborated on in the writings of Plato, Jung, and Joseph Campbell.

When I was working on Thymely Tales I was living with my partner, Devon Q. Thyme, who illustrated some of my tales for the book.  I appreciate Devon’s talent as he captured the essence of each fairytale.  Thank you, Devon!

Thymely Tales are written for both children and adults.  Some parents who bought my book read one of these fairytales to their children every night at bedtime.

I continually discover that stories are amazingly powerful vehicles for individuals to appreciate and remember -- at a feeling, emotional, spiritual level -- what cannot be expressed or understood in literal words. 

HOW YOU CAN CREATE YOUR OWN FAIRY TALE

The value of creating your own story is emotionally, psychologically and spiritually beneficial and revealing. Here’s how you can create a fairytale for yourself.

Step 1—Sit in a comfortable place where you won’t be interrupted or disturbed.  Turn off cell phones, radio, CD player, TV.  Close your eyes

Step 2—Imagine that you remove your logical mind; place it on a table near you.  You won’t need it, and can retrieve it later.  Your logical mind will get in your way; it may try to edit, censor or make sense out of your story or even discount what you make up.

Step 3—You will need your imagination, even if you think you don’t have one or cannot easily access it. 

Step 4—Beginning with the words once upon a time, there was a ….. create a character that will represent you at your most fundamental level.   Imagine standing in front of a full-length mirror and observe yourself as the character.  Tall, short, fat, thin, attractive, unattractive, male, female, human or non-human.  BREATHE.  If you are fearful of doing this exercise incorrectly, or that you can’t think of a character, MAKE IT UP.  The character could be serious or funny.  It doesn’t matter.  It can be a character you love.  Or one you dislike.  The character could be non-human.  It doesn’t matter.  MAKE IT UP.  Your internal wisdom will unerringly guide you, as long as you let go of your logical mind.

Step 5—Next, make up a scenario and an environment for that character to live in.  When in doubt, MAKE IT UP.  See the details and describe them to yourself.  Sense the wind or heat on your skin.  Smell whatever fragrances are around you.  Touch yourself and objects.  Hear voices.  Feel the emotions of your character.  Happy, scared, peaceful, angry, compassionate or bitter.  MAKE IT UP.

Step 6—Make up a dilemma or problem for that character to experience.  If you get stuck, MAKE IT UP.

Step 7—Make up other characters for that character to relate to, be friends with, or be antagonist towards.

Step 8—Create action and problems for all the characters to interact.  How does that feel?

Step 9—You can add a wise character, who can help your character out of his/her dilemma and/or to offer assistance.

Step 10—After you have created conflict and difficulties for your character, make up a positive resolution for the scenario and your character.

Step 11—Open your eyes. Bring your logical mind back into play and write down your story in as much detail as you can remember.  Save it (print it) and re-read it to yourself … and to others if you like.  YOU are all the characters, the problems, and the resolution in your fairy tale.  Contemplate and meditate on what the story, the conflict and the resolution means to you.

BROTHER GRIM

Once upon a time there existed a family by the name of Grim. There was Mother Grim and Father Grim and Brother Grim, their little boy. This family was very, very serious. They never laughed.  They never smiled.  They never joked. In fact, they were so serious and heavy that each and every one of them was immensely large. They were heavy as well as quite grim.  Brother Grim was the lightest of the three. He only weighed four-hundred eighty pounds. He was still growing, though, because he was just a young boy.

Brother’s best friend lived next door. His name was Jack Light.

In comparison, Jack Light was skinny. He weighed one-hundred-ten pounds, and was very tall. He loved to jump around and never stood still for a moment. He also never stopped smiling or giggling or laughing. He was always so cheerful, that Brother Grim would get a headache.

Then Brother Grim would say, Oh Jack, why do you have to bounce around so much and be so silly? I get a headache just watching you!

Jack would giggle all the more and jump around and say, Well, that’s because I feel light all the time. You should try it for a change. It would do wonders for you!

Brother Grim said, Well, I couldn’t possibly do that, because I’m much too serious for all that frivolity.

Jack Light would say, Oh gee, that’s too bad, and off he would go, skipping down the street.

Sometimes Brother Grim would sit at his bedroom window and watch Jack Light, and all of Jack’s friends.  I can’t possibly act like that. I’m much too serious. My life is grim after all. Isn’t it?

One day soon after Brother Grim was playing outside with Jack Light. Jack suggested that he should take off his old heavy overcoat that he always wore.

Brother Grim said, I couldn’t possibly take this coat off. What would happen?

Jack replied. I don’t know what would happen. It certainly has to be better than wearing that old heavy overcoat all the time. It must weigh at least one hundred pounds.

Brother Grim said, Well, maybe someday I’ll take it off. Right now I don’t want to.

Jack Light giggled at that and said, O.K. See you tomorrow then, and went bouncing off.

Brother Grim went to his room and closed the door. Maybe Jack has a point. Maybe I could take off this old heavy overcoat that I’m always wearing.  Very carefully he unbuttoned each of the buttons on the coat. Then he took the coat by the lapels and slightly opened it. Just as he did, giggly bubbles like hundreds of butterflies flew out. He closed the coat very fast, and buttoned it up. His heart beat hard, Oh dear! What was that?  What were those giggles?  He was frightened.   I’m going to keep this overcoat buttoned up good and proper because I don’t know what this commotion is or those giggly bubbles!

The next day Brother was sitting in his room. He decided to try again and undid his buttons. He gently pulled his coat by the lapels, started to open it up.  Once again giggly bubbles flew out from under his coat. The bubbles tickled his chest and made him giggle himself. Little bubbles were coming out of his chest and through his body. He felt good! So he opened up the coat some more and more giggles bubbled out. He started to laugh even harder and pretty soon he was rolling around on the floor of his room laughing until his cheeks hurt.

Oh, this feels so good!  I’m going to leave the overcoat open from time to time.

Each time Brother would get a little braver.  He’d open the coat, then came the bubbles and out would come his giggles. He would begin to laugh again, tears streaming down his face. Brother Grim’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Grim started to notice that Brother Grim was getting smaller. He was losing weight and his clothes didn’t fit anymore. He also started to do unusual things with his voice, like laughing and giggling. They thought it was very unusual.  But his parents would sneak off to their own room and secretly would unbutton their own overcoats. They would become giggly too! What was happening to the Grim Family?

One day, Brother Grim decided that his overcoat was just too heavy and he took it off entirely.

His parents were amazed. Brother looked like a regular boy now. He no longer weighed four-hundred eighty pounds. In fact, he wasn’t even one-hundred ninety pounds any more, now. He was very light and lean and happy.

They decided to take their overcoats off, too. Pretty soon the whole Grim family could be heard all through the neighborhood, laughing and joking. They had to go buy new clothing. None of their old clothes fit them anymore. They were light and happy and full of giggles. Jack practically lived with them now because their home was such a wonderful place to be.

One day Brother Grim