Tales of Popcorn, Reiki and Re-membering

Themes

Every so often, I gather copies of my book and various bits of handmade merch into a couple of suitcases and head into my local town to trade at a spiritual or holistic fair.

I love meeting and chatting with people, sharing my stories and listening to theirs.

There’s often a theme running through my fair days. Sometimes, most of the discussions revolve around autism. On other days it might be grandparenthood, telepathy, or psychic ability. All those subjects cropped up at the latest fair, but the overarching theme was definitely the lost wisdom and genius of childhood.

Genius? Does that sound like hyperbole? Truly, it’s not.

I’m long retired from teaching in the state sector and have nothing to lose, so I’m happy to speak out about the wrongs of our education system, of the way our society raises children, and how tragically easy it is to shut them down.

It had been on my mind since attending a recent conference on Consciousness and Education. There were some interesting and inspiring speakers there, but no one was radical enough for this old renegade! My discussions at the fair underlined that still further.

Lost Childhood Wisdom

First, I met a beautiful young woman. She’d come to seek me out after listening to The Telepathy Tapes. We had deep and wide-ranging discussions. One thing she said, though, affected me particularly strongly. She spoke of how she’d known so much as a little child and that now she was an adult, she felt the need to unravel all the conditioning she’d received since then and return to the knowledge and wisdom she’d once held.

I was reminded of Asher’s words in The Realms Beyond Words, our second book which is due for release in April 2027. Speaking of babies and young children, he said:

The newly arrived person is imbued with a massive degree of wisdom, as it has just moved from The Realms and is able to retain a high level of ‘knowing’. It knows, for example, that it is spirit and recognises the other souls or Light Beings around it.

The idea of an infant as a wise soul, struggling to fit into the limits of a physical body and a restrictive society, is one that resonates deeply with me. I’ve seen far too many radiant little people closed down by the pressure to conform.

The Ones Who Remain Open

Not every child is successfully prevented from maintaining their links to their innate wisdom, though. There are some who manage to retain their awareness and creative genius.

Another discussion I had with someone at the fair echoed that. This gentleman, having listened to my story of Asher’s childhood abilities, nodded thoughtfully.

“Autistic, you say? Yes, they’re different.”

It turned out that he had once worked as a taxi driver, ferrying young children with additional needs to and from a specialist provision each day. These drivers always travel with an escort assistant, and both usually get to know their young charges very well. He recalled one child he drove who was minimally verbal. This child always sat in the front seat as he needed to be separated from one of the other youngsters.

The man told me that, on their way to collect the children, he and the assistant would chat about what they’d done at the weekend or on the previous evening. On one occasion, the assistant had told him she’d been to the cinema. When the children got into the taxi, the little boy in the front seat said, “Oh, popcorn!”

The driver, who was clearly a very receptive person, understood not only the word spoken, but grasped the message the little boy was conveying. He said, “Yes, that’s right, she went to the cinema.”

He told me there were multiple occasions when this child had picked up information without being told, but that no one else realised the significance of what he was saying and what he knew.

Later in the afternoon, a teacher told me of a child who had announced in class that some famous person was dead. Two hours later, the death was announced on the news media.

We agreed that those judged to have additional needs often manage to slip beneath society’s radar and retain their psychic and spiritual gifts, as my own teaching experience has shown me.

How to Nurture the Children?

In his expanded state, Asher is able to visit realms where education (soul expansion) is ongoing. Here, again from our new book, are some of his thoughts on how we could approach such practices on Earth:

Asher: To educate in the best way is an expansive process, not a restrictive one. There should be many questions and many creative opportunities but no prescriptive answers…

It all works well when learners are given the chance to shine.

Jes: So, you’re suggesting open-ended study and learning how to learn and discern, not being instructed.

Asher: Yes, that is vital. So is finding ways to include non-standard learners. The organisation could be far more flexible than at present. A mentor would be an enabler, not an indoctrinator; far more like a professor supervising a PhD student.

Experimentation, innovation and creativity would be permitted and celebrated, but driving down into deep study of a narrow field would be equally acceptable. Place emphasis on learning by doing, not by being told.

A curriculum could be created according to personal inclinations and tendencies. Forcing all children to conform to the Beta brain state, regardless of whether they have any aptitude or inclination to work in that way, is alien and hugely stressful to many who are now incarnating and causes so many problems in behaviour and mental health.

At this point, I feel drawn to include a video I’ve shared before. Featuring the late George Land, it’s so relevant to all the above. Every educator and parent should watch this!

A Master Class in Parenting

Just as my day at the fair was coming to an end, a mother and her young daughter, aged about 5, wandered into the hall. The child was attracted by the ‘Test Your Psychic Powers’ game I run as loss leader, to draw people in.

The idea is to decide which prize you want to win, pick one of five cards, paying £1 and always winning a prize worth at least that much — your chosen gift if The Force is strong with you!

The little girl was aiming to win one of my miniature books. She looked hard at the cards (all face down of course) wondering which would be lucky.

Imagine my delight as I heard the mother say, gently, “Take your time. You could hold your hand over each card in turn if you want to. One might feel warm or a bit tingly or fizzy, perhaps. Remember how it feels when we do Reiki.”

Needless to say, the child selected the correct card and went off clutching her prize.

Just imagine if all parents, all teachers, all the significant adults our little ones encounter, could be that ready to recognise, accept and nurture the gifts and skills the children are born with.

They have so much to teach us.