The Swan Center for Intuitive Living
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January 2026 Spiritual Tidbit
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 backerect, slowly drifted down onto a pillow next to the sleeping boy.
Early the next morning, sunlight filtered into the cheery bedroom, first in thinbands, then bursting full and wide. Josie winced, then blinked as he rubbed thesleepiness from his eyes. He opened one eye and then quickly the other. When Josiespied the blue figure, he jumped out of bed, heart pounding, and grabbed a slipper todefend 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 Teddyunless you are introducing me to royalty, of course.”
Josie rubbed his eyes even harder than before, but Teddy was still there when hestopped and opened them. A cloud of shimmering, blue dust billowed around Teddythen 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, andtrousers.
“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
“What if my mother sees you?”
“I wouldn’t worry about that,” Teddy responded.
Josie didn’t have time to question what Teddy meant because his mother wasalready 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 tiebefore grabbing onto Josie’s ear lobe.
Josie reluctantly entered the kitchen, walking a little sideways, hoping tocamouflage 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
“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.”
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.”
“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
“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 herhead 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.”
Teddy dried off with a fluffy hand towel, wrapped it around himself, and appearednext to Josie. “I wanted to make a nightshirt for you,” Josie said. “I found some scrapsof 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 livesin 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 mechanicsof the mind. The mind, you see, has three storage areas referred to as the consciousmind, the subconscious mind, and the unconscious mind. The best analogy that I canthink 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 toread 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 mostpart, we are not even aware that it exists. The same holds true of the unconsciousmind.”
“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
“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.
“I don’t think I can just leave in the middle of the night to go on a journey. What ifmy 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?”
“You don’t need your physical body to travel to other realms. You can use yourother bodies.”
“I have more than one body?”
“Yes, lad. When you were born, you were given the use of five bodies, one foreach of the lower realms. You have a physical body, an astral body, a causal body, amental 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 oflight and sound who uses five bodies, one physical and four non-physical, toexperience the lower realms.”
“Yes, laddie, you get an A+!”
“The Astral will surprise you in many ways,” Teddy began. “One of my favorites isthat it is not limited by time. We can travel there in our dream bodies for just a fewminutes and experience an adventure that would have taken hours, days, or weeks totranspire in the Physical. You will also notice that the Astral closely resembles thePhysical. It is similar to a movie studio with all the props and scenery we would everwant or need to create a film of our choice. Only in this instance, it’s not a movie we aremaking; it’s a life. We visit the Astral, choose the things we want to experience, thenserve 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 achannel for it to come through to the Physical. The same holds true of artists, bookwriters, architects, inventors, and so on. We can also channel life scenarios, bothpositive and negative."
“Every creation in the physical reality is composed of atoms, which are in aconstant state of motion or vibration. An object may appear to be inanimate, like a tableor 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 tosomeone’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, thegreater the level of awareness. So, if you want to increase your awareness, you willneed to increase your vibratory rate. This can be accomplished by becoming mindful ofthe places where you spend your time, the company you keep, the things you eat anddrink, the music you listen to, the way you spend your time, and even your thoughtsand emotions.”
“That sounds like a lot of stuff to have to think about,” Josie responded.