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This is not scripture. This is The Book of Fred. What follows is a myth, a satire, a galactic fable about free will, divine folly, and the strange evolution of consciousness in even the most unlikely of places.
Was Darwin right? Are we just hairless apes descendants of one great-grandmother monkey? She must have been quite the visionary. Of all the creatures that shared her jungle none thought to invent poetry, plumbing, or particle accelerators. Just her kids. While the others stayed busy licking their fur and chewing leaves.
Is schizophrenia really a dis-ease? This page is dedicated to a dear friend labeled “schizophrenic” by a system that often diagnoses what it cannot understand. Here, we open a window into other ways of being, knowing, and remembering. May this space offer not just information, but dignity. And may it be a light for those who walk between worlds.
For my Friend and Mentor Aleli Jordan, who said the words that began it all:“You have to write.”
Dr. Julio de los Santos; A medical doctor who explored not only sickness, but Life in all its beautiful manifestations
Excerpts of a book written by my father on Art Criticism and José Martí as an art critic