Regaining Lost Childhood
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…
Category children
Magnetic Attraction! How Asher Pulled Me In.
What follows is a true story. I thought you might like to see in detail what a remarkable (and devious!) little kid Asher was. Imagine a classroom in a primary school in the south of England, in the closing years…
Why was I the right person for this job?
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not for a moment trying to compare myself to Jane Roberts, the amazing lady who channelled and wrote about Seth during the 20th century. She’s been a hero of mine since I first discovered their…
The Day we made Paper Aeroplanes
It was way back in the 1980s. The National Curriculum (government imposed) was in full swing and they’d started to send out OFSTED inspectors to check that we teachers were dumbing the kids down to a suitable degree — teaching…
Flowers in a Blue Vase
I’d been wondering recently. I’d acted in good faith. As a teacher of small children with speech and language difficulties, it never crossed my mind not to try to ‘improve’ their verbal communication skills. I thought it was my job.…
When My Two Worlds Collide
I’ve kind of become used to my life as Jes — writing esoteric articles, chatting in person and online with like-minded souls, having telepathic conversations with Asher about other dimensions, and promoting the book I wrote about this ‘secret life’…
My Real
Why I’m telling this story: The boy’s tale Imagine you have a story to tell — a fantastical, stunning, inspiring story in which every word is true…but you are completely unable to share it with anyone else. You sit there,…
Looking Deep Into the Future
Asher didn’t talk a lot, back when he was six. There were several reasons for that. The most obvious was a condition called oral dyspraxia, which meant he had difficulty controlling the movement of the muscles in his mouth and…
How a game of chess changed everything
This is a true story. I suspect every teacher has a few like this. It happened around 25 years ago. Long ago, I got the job of running a special class for children with communication difficulties. I loved the job…