The Traveller - Chapter 1

The Traveller

A Novel

By Paul McCann

Chapter 1

Not  Alone   

 

He was an only child and as he grew up he never made friends , He went away on summer holidays with his parents but apart from that he kept to himself .

He was always a loner and people who knew him would say ,

“He’s alone more times than anyone ever should ever be “

But in saying that , they could see he was happy enough with his life . So they left him alone in his own world . He always liked to be in his own company . After his parents died he decided to move away and live alone on the top of a mountain .

There he grew herbs and made organic medicines that were in great demand .

No one had ever told him how to do that but somehow, he just knew exactly what to do . It was like he could see in his mind the process of making the herbal medicine and it was that easy , he just followed the instructions he was given .

Once a month a helicopter landed near his mountain home to collect his monthly despatch of natural medicines that were being used to cure people from terminal diseases . No one had ever told him about the success of him medicine so he was  unaware of how many people he was helping in the world .They feared that if he knew the value of his product he would ask for more money so they withheld  all the facts about how many people his medicine had cured .

Day by day he continued to make medicines for people who needed them . There were herbs there growing on the mountain top that could not grow anywhere else in the world . He had always this ability to understand that and never complained about anything  . He liked to meditate and connect with the energy of life around him .  

Sometimes in his isolation he felt  that he wasn’t alone and then one night , he woke up from his sleep to see woman standing in the corner of his room .

She never spoke , she just stood  there watching him . He had no fear and strangely enough , something told him that he knew who she was ,

After that night he started to feel different about many things .He was receiving knowledge in contemplative ways about his life and how important his work with medicine was  .

There was a presence of someone always there , unseen but present . Now and then he would hear and see things he couldn’t explain,  like the knock on the door but there was no one there , or the straw broom that would fall to the ground by itself . Other times house  hold items would fall to the ground by themselves or the water tap would suddenly turn on almost like an invisible friend was trying to get in touch . He had no fear whenever any of these events would happen as he realized his invisible friend meant him no harm .

“There is an aspect of love and caring I feel with my invisible friend .Then one night he woke up and went downstairs to make a cup of tea and a voice said ,

“Don’t be afraid , be aware because its time for you to see what I can do. “

The voice was gentle but powerful in its expression  .

He finished his tea and went back to bed when suddenly he began to float around the room , The voice spoke to him ,
“ Learn to control your flight . Think where you want to go and you will be taken to that place , there is nothing to fear but fear itself ”

He remembered as a boy his parents would take him on summer holidays to a  guesthouse near the sea , so he though of that and immediately he was lifted above and instantly transported there . The voice spoke to him again .

“You are never alone . I am with you where ever you go . Fear not :”

He walked along the seashore remembering the place he went as a child and then he thought . This communication is all going one way and he decided to ask a question “

“Who are you and what’s happening ?”

The voice answered ,

“ I know this must be hard for you to understand but you have some friends on the other side as well as a guardian angel who is always with you . There is no reason why this had happened because it is meant to be . You always might have thought that you were alone but you were never alone. “

He felt a kind of relief at the things that were said and asked ,

“So are you the reason why I have been seeing and hearing things all the time ?”

The answer came back,

 

“It was my way of introducing who I am , but there is much more going to happen to assure you of who you are and the protection that you will always have around you”

‘ In the past I have sometimes  felt someone holding my hand or touching  my shoulder “

At that moment he felt someone squeeze his hand and a soft voice said ,

“Yes, never fear  for you are never alone . There is so much to see in what is unseen and so much to know from the unknown .”  

He thought to himself .

Seems as if I can go back to places in my past.

He closed his eyes and thought about his first day at school and in that instant he was transported there to that time where he stood in the classroom but no one there could see him . He walked around looking at the faces of those he once knew .  .

A voice within him said ,

“You have a rare gift of intellectual mental transportation . It’s your gift alone  See now the answers you’re looking for .“

Suddenly everything started to open up in his mind like this awesome eureka experience that lasted for less than a minute but in that moment in time all of his questions were answered . He saw brief images of his life so far in a series of doors opening and closing with reasons why each event had happened and hoe everything just fitting into place like pieces of a jigsaw falling into place to show this picture of where he was at this moment in time  .

Then he heard  the school bell ring and he closed his eyes and started to think  about another special place in time he had always known  .

The day when Jesus was born in Bethlehem and suddenly in that moment , he was transported to Bethlehem where he stood there beside the child who lay there in a crib . The child suddenly began to grow and took the appearance of a young man and said ,
”Well hello there , don’t be afraid . No one else here can see you but me . What a wonderful gift you have to know  what is happening . I’m so happy that you have brought your gift here . You are going to experience a wonderful world you never knew existed and all the changes you will be going through will make you aware of the calling you have and how you can to make the world a better place for those who live their lives in suffering and pain .  “

Suddenly all around the manger , voices of angels began to sing as a bright light shone down all around that place . Above in the sky the darkness of night was shattered by bright star that hovered above and then began to move around the sky  

At that moment two unseen fingers closed his eyes and he was transported back to his room where he went fast asleep . In the morning as he woke he thought it had all been a dream and carried on about his day working on the mountain top in his herb garden .  As he worked there alone he felt a presence . In that moment  a figure of a man dressed in white walked towards him and said ,

“You are now one of us . A traveller . We come and go between places , past and present . We can make changes for the better in the world .So fear not as from now on and we will always be there with you in your travels,  whatever you do and where ever you go . “

 

End of Chapter 1

 

Link to chapter 2

https://www.abctales.com/story/mcscraic/traveller-chapter-2

 

The Traveller

A Novel

By Paul McCann

 

 

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