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January/February 2002 Featured Stories
The Psychic Children Speak to the World

by James Twyman

"We are given an opportunity by each moment in Life to remember something. Something about what we’ve always known, but have forgotten. And every so often the world sends our way a Blessed Reminderer - a person who has been chosen to give us back to ourselves. James Twyman is such a person."
   Neale Donald Walsch, from his forward to Emissaries of Love

We have all heard stories about masters and sages who possess amazing powers and are able to perform miracles that defy logic. I remember when I read Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda when I was 22, with its stories of Hindu saints and the incredible lives they led. It changed my life forever, and I remember thinking how wonderful it would be to have those same abilities. I wanted to be a healer, or a miracle worker, for I knew that it would signal something important, that I had attained some high degree of spiritual enlightenment. That would be the proof, I decided, and I couldn't wait until that wonderful day.

Many years have passed since then, and I think I've learned a little more than I expected. I have had the chance to live with Emissaries of Light, to travel to areas of the world torn apart by war and share prayers of peace, and in the end there has only been one important lesson I have learned.

But it wasn't until earlier this year when I met a young boy from Bulgaria named Marco that it all finally fell into place. He was one of the amazing psychic children we have all been hearing about, and he showed me that we all have the power within us, right now, this very moment, even though most of us have only begun to awaken to its glory. He asked me a question, the question all the psychic children are asking right now. "How would you act and what would you do if you knew that you are an Emissary of Love right now?" In other words, what if you stopped waiting for it to happen, and realized that it already has? Would it be enough to convince you that you already have everything you need to be happy and live a fulfilled life? Would it be enough to convince you that you are already enlightened?

After I was with Marco for one short evening, amazing things started to happen. I was eating some yogurt three days later, and as I held the spoon in my hand I was amazed when I realized that it had bent in my fingers, dipping to a ninety degree angle without any physical effort at all. I had bent it with my mind! Days later I realized that I could read what was going on inside people's minds, not abstract, general thoughts, but actual words or phrases they were thinking. Marco had done something to me, and it literally blew my mind wide open. These things seemed to be a normal occurrence for the psychic children I met, but now it was happening to me! I was suddenly like those Indian saints I had read about, and it all nearly went to my head.

Luckily I realized that it had nothing to do with these powers, but with the love that inspires them. I kept remembering the question Marco asked. "How would you act and what would you do if you knew that you are an Emissary of Love right now?" I wasn't becoming anything. I was already there. Without that realization, none of the "powers" mean anything. Otherwise it's just showing off. Performing. It's all very interesting, but in the end, where's the love?

I traveled to Bulgaria where I met four other children just like Marco, and they too exhibited the same amazing powers. But the love was more profound than anything I had ever experienced before, and that was what convinced me. Bending spoons and blooming flowers are nice, but I needed more, and they delivered.

The whole story will be told in the book Emissary of Love to be released this spring. I'll be in Portland in the beginning of March to talk about it, and may even bend a spoon or two. But hopefully we'll also be able to go a bit deeper and feel the message behind the psychic children's powers. That's all I really care about now, and I hope you'll agree that it's really what we need in the world.

See you in March.

Come to "An Evening with James Twyman" on Saturday night March 9th, 7:00 p.m. - 9:30 pm at Unity Church, 4525 SE Stark, Portland. The cost is $20. See ad for details.