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All You Need Is Love (St. James Publishing $14.95)
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.";-JOHN LENNON
Imagine. That's what John Lennon asked people to do. And Jewelle St. James complied. Inexplicably her life was blown off course in 1980, backwards through time, by an inescapable feeling that she had been Lennon's lover in a medieval English village during the 1600s.
This obsession, or spiritual possession, began when the married Beatle was assassinated on December 8, 1980. For four years afterwards, St. James was in a state of perpetual grief. Her husband Bob was, in a word, skeptical. She couldn't explain why she was grieving for someone she had never met. The quest to validate her feelings led her to the Sussex Records Office, trying to make a connection between John Lennon's soul and a 17th century Fittleworth resident named John Baron. Was her soul somehow related to the soul of a woman named Katherine James of Petworth? Born in February of 1666? Possibly on February 12th, her own birthdate? Delving into reincarnation led to the demise of her marriage and also produced a remarkably readable account of her predicament and quest, Just Imagine (St. James Publishing, 1995).
Her psychic journey continues in All You Need Is Love (St. James Publishing $14.95), introducing new characters that include one of the Bronte sisters. Towards the end of the second book she begins to understand how her imagined love affair with John Lennon-when he was John Baron and she was Katherine James-resembles her own teenage love affair with the dashing Patrick Brian White of Revelstoke. Just as she had been struck to the core by news of Lennon's death in 1980, Jewelle St. James was shocked to hear of her boyfriend's death in the summer of 1974. She heard the news on the radio that he was killed after his vehicle had skidded out of control, hitting a B.C. Hydro truck. Channelled through a psychic, John Lennon had once spoken to her, saying only, "Follow your heart, Katherine. I am waiting in the wings."; And some foxgloves had once whispered, "Heal, Heal."; Whenever she hears Van Morrison singing 'Crazy Love', she thinks of Patrick Brian White, not John Lennon. Love, apparently, is a many-splendoured, many-splintered thing.
Jewelle St. James was born in Duncan in 1953. She grew up in Field and Revelstoke. And she lived in Sussex, England in the 1600s. All You Need Is Love 0-9732752-0-0
[BCBW Winter 2003]
Imagine. That's what John Lennon asked people to do. And Jewelle St. James complied. Inexplicably her life was blown off course in 1980, backwards through time, by an inescapable feeling that she had been Lennon's lover in a medieval English village during the 1600s.
This obsession, or spiritual possession, began when the married Beatle was assassinated on December 8, 1980. For four years afterwards, St. James was in a state of perpetual grief. Her husband Bob was, in a word, skeptical. She couldn't explain why she was grieving for someone she had never met. The quest to validate her feelings led her to the Sussex Records Office, trying to make a connection between John Lennon's soul and a 17th century Fittleworth resident named John Baron. Was her soul somehow related to the soul of a woman named Katherine James of Petworth? Born in February of 1666? Possibly on February 12th, her own birthdate? Delving into reincarnation led to the demise of her marriage and also produced a remarkably readable account of her predicament and quest, Just Imagine (St. James Publishing, 1995).
Her psychic journey continues in All You Need Is Love (St. James Publishing $14.95), introducing new characters that include one of the Bronte sisters. Towards the end of the second book she begins to understand how her imagined love affair with John Lennon-when he was John Baron and she was Katherine James-resembles her own teenage love affair with the dashing Patrick Brian White of Revelstoke. Just as she had been struck to the core by news of Lennon's death in 1980, Jewelle St. James was shocked to hear of her boyfriend's death in the summer of 1974. She heard the news on the radio that he was killed after his vehicle had skidded out of control, hitting a B.C. Hydro truck. Channelled through a psychic, John Lennon had once spoken to her, saying only, "Follow your heart, Katherine. I am waiting in the wings."; And some foxgloves had once whispered, "Heal, Heal."; Whenever she hears Van Morrison singing 'Crazy Love', she thinks of Patrick Brian White, not John Lennon. Love, apparently, is a many-splendoured, many-splintered thing.
Jewelle St. James was born in Duncan in 1953. She grew up in Field and Revelstoke. And she lived in Sussex, England in the 1600s. All You Need Is Love 0-9732752-0-0
[BCBW Winter 2003]
Submitted on November 20, 2003 in By David.
