EXCERPTS FROM TEDDY AND JOSIE – BOOK ONE​​

A small blue figure sailed through Josie’s window, riding high on a wisp of cool night air.
It followed the breeze across the room and then, with arms outstretched and back
erect, slowly drifted down onto a pillow next to the sleeping boy.

     Early the next morning, sunlight filtered into the cheery bedroom, first in thin
bands, then bursting full and wide. Josie winced, then blinked as he rubbed the
sleepiness from his eyes. He opened one eye and then quickly the other. When Josie
spied the blue figure, he jumped out of bed, heart pounding, and grabbed a slipper to
defend himself. Then, as he began his best swat, he heard the creature call out. “No,
stop!” Josie froze on the spot. The last thing he expected was for it to talk.
 

     “What are you?” Josie screamed out.

     “Good heavens,” the little blue creature exclaimed. “You needn’t holler. My ears may be small, but they function quite well, thank you. And it’s not what are you, but who are you?”

     “All right then. Who are you?” Josie continued.

     “My name is Theodore Bearingsworth the Third, but you may call me Teddy
unless you are introducing me to royalty, of course.”
 

     Josie rubbed his eyes even harder than before, but Teddy was still there when he
stopped and opened them. A cloud of shimmering, blue dust billowed around Teddy
then settled onto the bed, forming a small pile.

     “Gosh, you’re not blue, after all,” Josie exclaimed.

     “No, no, I’m just covered in blue dust. Can’t say that I mind, though considering,”
Teddy said while patting his neatly pressed white shirt and sky-blue bow tie, jacket, and
trousers.
 

     “Where did you come from?” Josie asked, still not believing what he was seeing. “And how did you get here?”
 

     “I came here from another realm in answer to your wish. Josie was so distracted
by Teddy’s arrival that he completely forgot it was a school day. His mother called out,
“Breakfast,” and this spurred Josie into high gear. In a matter of minutes, he had
dressed, brushed his teeth, and combed his hair. It was a relief to have something
familiar to think about and do. He grabbed his backpack and bounded across the room
towards the door.
 

     “Hey!” Teddy shouted. “What about me? I’m hungry too!”

     “Well, what should I do with you?” Josie asked.

     “I could ride on your shoulder,” Teddy suggested. “That way, I wouldn’t have to
strain my voice to be heard.”

     “What if my mother sees you?”

     “I wouldn’t worry about that,” Teddy responded.

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     Josie didn’t have time to question what Teddy meant because his mother was
already calling him for a second time. So, he gently lifted Teddy onto his shoulder.
Teddy wiggled in place, tugged at the bottom of his vest, and straightened his bow tie
before grabbing onto Josie’s ear lobe.

     Josie reluctantly entered the kitchen, walking a little sideways, hoping to
camouflage Teddy.

     “Don’t worry,” Teddy whispered.

     “She won’t be aware of my presence. I’m like a crack in the wall to her.”

     “A crack in the wall?” Josie questioned.

     “Yes, when there is a crack in the wall, you may notice it at first, but over time, if
you don’t focus on it, you will reach a point where you aren’t aware of it at all.”

     “So, she could see you if she wanted to?” Josie asked as he sat down at the table.

     “Most definitely,” Teddy answered. “She just needs to expand her awareness.”

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     Teddy could tell, by the puzzled look on Josie’s face, that he needed more
information. “Awareness is like a zoomable flashlight, which allows you to twist the
head to adjust the width of the light. You can easily light up an entire room, or you can
narrow the light down to zoom in on just one object. Awareness operates the same
way. We can expand our awareness to experience all of creation or decrease it and
only experience a small portion. Your mother is only aware of what exists in the
physical reality.”

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 “Mom, I met a new friend today.”

     “That’s wonderful,” she said while smiling.

     “His name is Teddy, and he’s a fairy.”

     Mrs. Alester’s smile slid right off of her face. “Now, Josie, don’t you think your
imagination is running a bit wild?”

     “No, Mom, he’s here right now, on my left shoulder.”

     Mrs. Alester approached Josie and peered very closely at his shoulder.

     “Josie, there isn’t anything there. Now, no more talk of this nonsense.”

     Mrs. Alester walked over to the oven to remove a batch of cookies, shaking her
head as she did. Josie glanced over at his fairy friend and began to doubt his presence.
Teddy immediately started to fade away, so he yelled, “Hey!” right into Josie’s ear.
Josie’s ear smarted, and he could not deny that Teddy was definitely there.

     “You started to fade away,” Josie said.

     “I didn’t go anywhere,” Teddy explained. “Your awareness of me decreased because of your doubt. If you want to experience things beyond the physical realm, you will need to believe that all things are possible.”

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Teddy dried off with a fluffy hand towel, wrapped it around himself, and appeared
next to Josie. “I wanted to make a nightshirt for you,” Josie said. “I found some scraps
of material in my Mom’s sewing room, but I’ve never sewn anything before.”

     “Ah, but you have,” Teddy said. “In another time and another place.”

     “What other time and place?” asked Josie.

     “Well, this may come as a surprise to you, lad, but you have lived many other lives
in many other places.”

     “I have?” Josie said in amazement. “Why don’t I remember them?”

     “Well, some memories are more difficult to recall than others due to the mechanics
of the mind. The mind, you see, has three storage areas referred to as the conscious
mind, the subconscious mind, and the unconscious mind. The best analogy that I can
think of is a computer. A computer has a viewing screen, files, folders, and a hard drive.

     Our conscious mind is like an open file displayed on a computer screen. Our subconscious mind is like a computer folder that contains multiple files. If we want to
read a file, we can easily open the folder, select a file and display it on the screen.”

     “The unconscious mind is like a computer hard drive where permanent computer
data is stored. We can retrieve information from a computer hard drive, but for the most
part, we are not even aware that it exists. The same holds true of the unconscious
mind.”

     “Can you give me an example of this?” Josie asked.

     “Yes,” Teddy continued. “At some point in time, you learned how to add one plus one. It’s easy for you to recall this knowledge because it is stored in your subconscious. It is not, however, as easy to recall what you wore to school or what the weather was like on the day that you learned how to add because the mind stored those memories in
the unconscious.”

     “Is that where my past life memories are stored?” Josie asked.

     “Yes, laddie.”

     “How can I call up memories from my unconscious mind?”

     “As your awareness increases, you will naturally become more aware of what is
stored in the unconscious.

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“I don’t think I can just leave in the middle of the night to go on a journey. What if
my parents come into my room to check on me, and they see that I’m not here?”
“If your parents come in, they will see your body, in your bed, sleeping soundly,
but you will be someplace else.”

     “I don’t understand. How can I go anywhere without my body?”

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     “You don’t need your physical body to travel to other realms. You can use your
other bodies.”

     “I have more than one body?”

     “Yes, lad. When you were born, you were given the use of five bodies, one for
each of the lower realms. You have a physical body, an astral body, a causal body, a
mental body, and an intuitive body. They wrap around you like gloves over a hand.”
“I think I understand,” Josie said. “The real me is a spiritual being composed of
light and sound who uses five bodies, one physical and four non-physical, to
experience the lower realms.”

     “Yes, laddie, you get an A+!”

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       “The Astral will surprise you in many ways,” Teddy began. “One of my favorites is
that it is not limited by time. We can travel there in our dream bodies for just a few
minutes and experience an adventure that would have taken hours, days, or weeks to
transpire in the Physical. You will also notice that the Astral closely resembles the
Physical. It is similar to a movie studio with all the props and scenery we would ever
want or need to create a film of our choice. Only in this instance, it’s not a movie we are
making; it’s a life. We visit the Astral, choose the things we want to experience, then
serve as channels for them to travel through and manifest in the Physical. For example,
a songwriter visits the Astral, hears a song, feels inspired by it, then serves as a
channel for it to come through to the Physical. The same holds true of artists, book
writers, architects, inventors, and so on. We can also channel life scenarios, both
positive and negative.”

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      “Every creation in the physical reality is composed of atoms, which are in a
constant state of motion or vibration. An object may appear to be inanimate, like a table
or a chair, but at its atomic level, it is in constant motion - vibrating at a particular rate.”

     “The human body is basically a collection of vibrating atoms. So, when we refer to
someone’s vibratory rate, we mean the rate at which their collective atoms vibrate.
Vibratory rates have a direct correlation to awareness, the higher the vibratory rate, the
greater the level of awareness. So, if you want to increase your awareness, you will
need to increase your vibratory rate. This can be accomplished by becoming mindful of
the places where you spend your time, the company you keep, the things you eat and
drink, the music you listen to, the way you spend your time, and even your thoughts
and emotions.”

     “That sounds like a lot of stuff to have to think about,” Josie responded.

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