Parallell Worlds: A Transpersonal Autobiography

By Josephine Sellers

As far back as she could remember Josephine had experienced psychic phenomenon, knew she had lived before and seemed to carry within her a passion for exploring what life is really about. With her husband Brian by her side, their joint curiosity evoked for them a challenging, interesting and sometimes exciting life, but more importantly, they discovered they had led many lives, some of them together upon ancient sites in Dorset and Somerset. They were on a mission this time to rectify and adjust the energies generated by the events of centuries past.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Archive Publishing
• Release date: Feb 2, 2017
• ISBN: 9781906289393

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THE AUTHOR

Josephine Sellers is a Mother, Grand Mother and writer. She has had careers in the legal profession, art and craft movement, publishing, and is a Transpersonal Counsellor specializing in Equine Assisted Psychotherapy.

She runs a Complementary Therapy and Teaching Centre in Dorset and lives in Somerset with her husband and extended family and animals.

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Title Page

This book was first published as

The Return

(Wessex Aquarian Publications 1989) revised and expanded as

The Return of Yesterday’s People

(Capall Bann 2002)

This revised and expanded edition by Archive Publishing includes all of the first and second editions,

with material up to the present day.

www.archivepublishing.co.uk

Dorset, England

Text © Josephine Sellers 1989, 2002, 2012

The rights of Josephine Sellers as author have been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

A CIP Record for this book is available from the British Cataloguing in Publication data office

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All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical articles or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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www.JosephineSellers.com

Paperback: Printed and bound in Latvia by Lightning Source

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DEDICATION

For Brian and our family.

Thanks to my Grand Daughter Poppy

for her editorial and photographic support.

The cover design is taken from an original silk painting, and as

with all the illustrations in this book,

is by Lisa Dickinson

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

THANKS to my Daughter Lisa for the book and front cover illustrations, to Michael Berman for the three Shamanic poems. Also to John Lloyd, my Researcher and good friend, who always made sure I kept my feet on the ground, and to the countless other friends and colleagues, mentioned in my story, who gave of their unstinting help and last but not least thanks to Ian Thorp of Archive Publishing for recognising my story as a transpersonal autobiography.

FOREWORD

I was delighted to be given the opportunity to write a few lines about this unusual book. I met the author, Josephine Sellers, many years ago at a talk she was giving about her strange life experiences. Since then I have had many dealings with the Sellers family and we have become good friends. I have followed their adventures with great interest. Their integrity is beyond question. This is important to know because the story that unfolds in this book might be considered, by some, to be unbelievable.

Josephine recounts their tale with frank innocence. Gradually, she and her husband Brian begin to understand the significance of the task they have agreed to undertake. Their initial reluctance, to be swayed by the information ‘channelled’ to them by Yesterday’s People, is understandable. Then, as their difficult circumstances intensify, they need all the help they can get and begin to trust the guidance they received from various ethereal quarters. The lessons they learn apply to us all.

Life is not easy for the Sellers family but I leave Josephine to tell their story.

Barrie Anson

Homoeopath & Author

PREFACE

This book is a true account of the unusual happenings that have occurred in my life and that of my immediate family. Over a long period they interrelated with each other to produce evidence of earth energies, reincarnation, inter dimensional communicated wisdom and the need for the rescue of damaged souls in limbo. I think even the most hardened cynic would find it difficult to scorn or reject the whole of my story. There would seem to be so much to lose and so little to gain by doing so.

A part of this story, and the events it covers, took place in a very old thatched cottage in a Dorset village. Our move to this very particular spot was foretold by a number of independent sources. The purpose behind our return, as it turned out to be, became known to us - but only after many difficulties.

The story also describes my relationship with a Dorset country parson in a life some four hundred years ago. The Reverend William Thomas has much to say that can help us greatly in coping with the pressures and influences of life today and that is one reason why this inter dimensional friendship was re-kindled.

Psychic phenomena were also experienced when I went to live with my family in other locations in Wessex and I now began to understand that my life, this time around, was about unfinished business from past lives and I appeared to find myself involved in the phenomenon of group reincarnation.

I have met and made many good friends over the period of time when these events took place. Without their support and encouragement this book would not have been written. They have offered me practical assistance and most of all they have worked alongside me as I have tried to unravel the mystery that has unfolded. The experiences, which I and my family have undergone as a result of the events I am going to describe, have sometimes been very hard. Deep discussion and careful examination of the facts, as they were revealed, made it apparent to us all that the events that took place were more than strange coincidences. They hold a deep and universal significance for all of us. I have been able to prove the validity of some of the psychic information received by searching through historic records.

Brushes with the authority of the Church, the Banking System, Legal Profession, Education and Medical Professions are a part of my story of struggle to find personal authenticity. And I offer the suggestion that in the Aquarian Age, each one of us, needs to seek the knowledge of our own reality. It is through this Gnosis that we will be able to cope with the dangerous tendencies and detrimental influences that are beginning to pile up on the horizons of the future as we approach 2012.

Josephine Sellers

Transpersonal Counsellor

October 2011

Contents

The Author

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

Part One Initiation

Part Two Revelation

Part Three Transformation

Conclusion

Epilogue

PART ONE – INITIATION

Master Dreamer – by Michael Berman

Cat with the all-knowing eyes

Let me attune to your secrets

And take me with you

On one of your dream journeys

Back to the hidden mysteries

People today no longer have time for

The balance that you possess

Can only come from deep understanding

Cat with the all-knowing eyes

Teach me so that I may find what you have

And what I strive to rediscover.

INTRODUCTION

I have been writing my story for the past twenty seven years and this is how it all began:

Today is Friday 16th December 1988 and I am ready to tell my story. It was five years ago on Monday 15th January 1984 that I felt driven to take up pen and paper and begin to record some of the more unusual events that had occurred in my life. I had a feeling around that time that something was about to happen. I knew the past had a bearing upon what was going to happen in the future and I felt an overwhelming need to recall events from childhood that would eventually yield a result as yet unknown. I knew, then, that I wanted the writing to be a piece of work that would help to enlighten and inspire readers, just as many books about the paranormal had inspired me in the past.

I had, at the outset, little doubt in my mind that we all live many lives in different circumstances and different situations. However, my greatest frustration then was my inability to find other people who shared my understanding. The events of the past twenty seven years have confirmed my suspicions and they have given me, I think, sufficient reason now to offer to others evidence which will help them to decide for themselves where the true depth in life lies.

To give the reader an insight into the kind of person I am, and how I think and live, I had best describe couple of events from my childhood that have always remained firmly in my memory and set me upon a life of psychic exploration. The first experience took place when I was about seven years old. One night I awoke from sleep to find the bedroom flooded in lilac and purple light. Alarmed and frightened I screamed out to my parents as I felt sure the electrical sockets in the room must have been faulty. The intensity of the light seemed to me as if it were electrical and charged with brilliant power. My parents rushed up to the room when they heard my screams and, after calming me, assured me that there was not an electrical problem.

In later years they explained that, at that time, I had been having health problems with my ears, nose and throat and that they had asked for absent healing for me from a well-known and powerful healer; absent healing being a process where a healer mentally directs healing energies to a person at distance. Their explanation of my frightening experience was that I had actually been able to see the healing energies surrounding me. I have since come to know that young children are often visually quite psychic until the more material influences of culture and upbringing repress their sensitivity.

It was during this period of my childhood that I very often had the strange feeling of being watched by a clergyman. Such feelings seemed to be an intrusion into the freedom of my childhood. The ‘presence’ ever watching over me, seemed to encourage me to take care of my behaviour and to develop a powerful conscience. Not so much a guilty conscience as an inner feeling of what seemed to be the right or the wrong thing to do at the time. Further on into my story, the presence of this clergyman unfolds into a strange psychic relationship.

The final deep rooted memory I have of the inner feelings of my childhood is of an incident at about the age of twelve. I seemed to become aware that I had to work hard at my education in order to achieve success as I felt that I had something important to do in my later life. It was difficult then, as it is now, to put these inner instincts or feelings into words, as I had no idea what it was that was so important for me to do. However, I responded to my intuition, and made a quite dramatic advance in my academic work, moving two grades up the school ladder in a three month period – a progress that would normally have taken as much as two years. After that, life became a serious and worldly affair. I gained good results and left school to become a legal secretary in the City of London until I got married at an early age.

Looking back now it is clear that I was tuned into my inner self in those early years and was responding, if unconsciously, to promptings deep within. This generally seems to have been the case throughout my life, to a greater or lesser extent. However, as my tale will relate, I have now learned to become much more aware of these promptings. My reactions are much more conscious and I am actually able to put them to good use. I know now that we are all born with this gift of intuition. This can be of enormous benefit throughout our worldly lives – if only it were recognised in our culture. If this talent could be accepted and encouraged in early childhood and if we, as adults, could refrain from forcing our own beliefs on our children thus allowing them to develop their own sensitivity, much sadness could be avoided in later life.

CHAPTER ONE

My husband Brian and I met as teenagers and married at a young age on the 3rd September in 1965. He was my one and only serious boyfriend. I saw Brian one evening across a crowded dance floor and an electric current passed from my eyes to his. We have been together ever since. During the years of our developing relationship we rarely discussed anything to do with psychic matters, though he was aware of my parents’ interest in the subject. My Mother and Father were both interested in Spiritualism and Spiritual Healing in particular. He does not remember any particularly strange or psychic experiences from his childhood but always had a deep inner conviction of right and wrong. As for myself, during my teenage years, I was more concerned with enjoying life, and since the spontaneous psychic happenings of my early years, I had not experienced anything out of the ordinary.

It was during the early days of our marriage that I began to have memories of what I eventually realised related to a previous existence. These memories were of a grand lifestyle in sharp contrast to the small house and few possessions of our first struggling years. I could recall myself as a young lady dressed in long elegant clothes with long and beautifully coiffured hair. I lived in a grand country house, and I remember waking up in a four poster bed, with breakfast brought to me on a silver tray. From the casement window I could see a beautiful garden in which I would sometimes ride in a horse-drawn carriage. I could recollect instructing somebody to have my grey horse saddled ready for me to ride. In our somewhat austere early marriage surroundings I used to tease Brian by saying I was used to a far grander lifestyle than he could provide for me.

It was not until after the birth of our first child, a girl, Lisa, that I suddenly became interested in exploring psychic phenomena. I felt very much that I would like to visit a psychic medium to see what I might learn. I asked Brian if he would come with me and he agreed, though he admitted that he did not think much of such people. With the help of my parents it was not difficult to track down and make an appointment with a very well know international medium. His performance certainly lived up to his celebrated reputation. He startled us with the highly accurate and detailed psychic information that he received about both of us, past and present. This information was of a personal nature and nobody but Brian and I could have known about it. We were also given a forecast of our future together.

At the time of our visit Brian and I were living at Uxbridge, just outside London. The medium told us of a move, in future years, to a county with a coastal border. A good part of Brian’s working life, he said, would be spent designing at a drawing board. Brian was told that he would become well known for the work he carried out and that one day we would own undulating land of a considerable acreage in this coastal county. This forecast for the future seemed most unlikely to us. Brian was at that time working in an office carrying out clerical work and the idea of doing work of a remotely artistic nature had not entered his mind, nor did he consider that he had any such abilities and so we felt this information was possibly inaccurate. It was put to the back of our minds and it was only many years later that we were to realise its startling accuracy.

He also told us that we were soul mates and had deliberately chosen to return together to earth to share our lives for a particular reason. The reason was not given. Over the following years this was something that many mediums told us, although none could, or would, tell us the purpose of this return. I suppose that was for us to discover through inner search.

After this visit, I decided to tell Brian’s Mother where we had been. I suppose I expected her to be rather shocked and was very taken aback myself when she replied that she and her sisters had been having psychic experiences for many years. It was a situation she had kept very much to herself, so much so that even her own son was unaware of it. She had a tendency to foresee future events, an ability which she found at times disturbing. She would see, or sense, a disaster and the form it would take but had little idea of when or where it would happen, or the people who would be involved. Brian had never thought very much of psychic mediums. Their failures always seemed more obvious than their successes but much of his scepticism vanished after our visit to this medium and his interest was greatly aroused. From that day on we began to take a far greater interest in spiritual matters and I, in particular, began to read the first of many books in my search for the truth. Through this interest we have met many people who have been strongly gifted with psychic abilities and I became particularly interested in the gift of healing.

Throughout my childhood I had received healing, either by contact, in which the healer actually lays hands on the patient, or by absent healing, when the healing process is projected, as it were, over long distances to the subject. I always found that the contact healing given to me in childhood made me feel very warm, happy and sleepy. One very rewarding experience occurred when I asked for absent healing from an internationally known spiritual healer, Harry Edwards, on behalf of a very dear, life-long, friend of mine who had suffered a severe mental breakdown. Within a few days the results were dramatic. She was released from a mental hospital, having, only seven days prior been committed for a three month stay. She told me, sometime later, that she had sat on her bed one evening, in that hospital, looked at all the troubled patients around her and knew immediately she did not belong with them. From that time on her mental state became totally stable and has remained so ever since. I have to believe that directing healing energy towards her had achieved the desired result, as she had been in a disturbed state for a considerable time. The confidence I gained from this experience led me to seek absent and, sometimes, contact healing for a number of friends over the following years with very happy results.

Two years after the birth of our daughter, our second child was born, this time a boy, Paul. Eight months before he was born I had been told by another medium that my baby was a boy and I was given the exact day and hour of his birth which subsequently proved to be totally accurate.

Despite appearances it seems that every birth is a carefully planned event. I now understand that a soul who is returning to an Earth life selects the circumstances of birth, so that it may embark upon areas of human experience which have not yet been undertaken. This idea of the development of the soul is very ancient indeed and lies behind many of the Eastern religions. As a philosophy, or an understanding, it certainly does help people to come to terms with the tragedies of this life. If we accept, for instance, that people born into terribly crippled bodies or minds may have actually selected those lives for themselves, we would find it very much easier to help them overcome their afflictions and also to relate to them as personalities. Our approach would not be crippled by maudlin and confused sentiments of pity or reproach, nor would we need to blame God every time something goes wrong!

There is much evidence available today to support the theory of reincarnation and I have met many people with their own stories and experiences and they have helped me to find some comfort with my own understandings. However, it is clear to me now that the conflict between my cultural and religious education and my inner knowing continued to cause me discomfort and uncertainty for many years to follow.

Planetary situations at the time of birth play a major part in determining the life experience patterns to follow. The day, date and time of birth are important factors taken into consideration by a returning soul. The predicted arrival of our son emphasized the feasibility of such ideas.

It was soon after our son’s birth that Brian began to feel very restless in his office environment. He gave his circumstances much thought and then, one day, announced that he was going to leave the indoor office life behind and become a landscape gardener. Our respective parents were surprised and concerned but my own reactions were closer to astonishment and alarm. We had two young children and a mortgage to cope with and this announcement posed a severe threat to our financial future. However, he obviously had not made his decision lightly and, though he had absolutely no training whatsoever, his mind was made up. I knew he had a great dislike for working inside and I also knew he wanted to work for himself and feel free. Who was I to stop him?

Our first winter was a lean one. We could afford no luxuries; every penny spent was counted. We invested, for us, a small fortune on tools and advertisements. The initial orders were not promising and Brian, working outside for the first time in his life, suffered so badly from bronchitis that the doctor feared pleurisy was on the way. This would return each winter, he assured us, if Brian continued to work outside. Fortunately we decided to ignore his advice but they were worrying times.

I think that, in our inner hearts, we truly felt that we were on the right track and an obstacle was something that just had to be overcome. To others, at the time, and maybe even to ourselves, we probably appeared to be just plain obstinate. We often made mistakes and some of them were very painful but the rewards were a growing strength and confidence.

It was at this time that both of our sets of parents retired and decided to move Poole in Dorset. Not long after they had all settled into their new homes we joined them for a holiday. It took only two such holiday visits to Dorset for Brian and I to realise that Dorset was where we wanted to bring up our children. Once we had enjoyed the delights of the rolling hills and seen the beauty of the Dorset coast line, the London suburbs suddenly seemed very undesirable.

To uproot from London meant having to leave the newly developed landscaping business behind. But, the pull of Dorset was