Topsy Lambert

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The stories wrote themselves as it happened, and all but one were tested in public schools in thearea, and the children fell in love with Topsy Lambert and her thought-provoking adventures. Theyenjoyed making up their own stories and writing letters to the author, as husband of a teacher in theDistrict. The stories all have several different levels as all children¿s stories used to have, and theycontain hooks on which future experiences can be placed.The last story of the monograph is the one that wasn' t included in the set sent to school for readingto the children. This is because while it is officially OK to give the children blatantly commercialmaterial from fast food merchants and sellers of dairy products, or to have a police officer giving a talkon saying "No! to drugs, ¿ while the school nurse is giving out Ritalin, it is not OK to provide somethingthat may have a spiritual content.All the stories do in fact have such material embedded in them, but not in a way that is obvious tothe mundane. Only the last one is explicit in actually having a realized being in the story. This wasdone because the mother was a devotee of such a one, the Siddha Yoga Master called SwamiMuktananda, known as Baba to his followers. Melinda spent many years of her life in his ashrams invarious places. As a mark of respect, this story was sent to him before his mahasamadhi in 1982, andhis translator, Malti, now the holder of the lineage as Gurumayi, wrote to say that he liked it.May all who read these stories see the progression that underlies them, and contact, to somemeasure, the love that brought them into being.All the illustrations were done at the kitchen table with whatever ball point pen was available to meat the time.