Encounters with a mind beyond words

‘When the student is ready, the teacher will appear’, to quote the theosophists. But for Jes Kerzen, the reverse was true.

Just after gaining a permanent teaching post in a specialist unit for children with speech and language difficulties, came an encounter with a six-year-old autistic boy, Asher, who would change her life.

In A Mind Beyond Words: My decades of discovery with an extraordinary guide (6th Books, April, 2024), Jes describes how, amazingly, Asher (Ash for short) coached her in telepathy, his ‘first language’, and how it works. A deep emotional bond was formed as Ash grew to adulthood and the pair explored ever-deepening psychic potential over a 25-year period.

‘Without his intervention, I would never have attained my current level of engagement with life’s mysteries which has been and continues to be so inspiring and revelatory as each day passes,’ Jes writes. Although her book is described as a life-enhancing ‘spiritual memoir’, and so it is, it’s also a ‘psi memoir’.

One day, when the pair were alone in the classroom, Ash came out with it: ‘I should tell you that I’m telepathic,’ he said to Jes. It might seem odd that a child then aged eight should use the word, with full comprehension, Jes admits. But Asher — not his real name, says Jes, to save him from becoming a ‘lab rat’, a cause…