I have met some truly remarkable human beings in my ‘Short’ life time, but one man comes to mind as another level of extraordinary and you’re about to hear exactly why…

Once upon a time, there was a very unremarkable looking, middle aged man who lived in a hostel in Port Douglas, Australia.

This man appeared to be in his late forties early fifties, was balding on top, sported a short, scruffy bit of beard and a huge, rotund pot belly which was sagging over his swim shorts, worn without a t-shirt, due to the tropical heat of Port Douglas.

When I first arrived at Dougies Backpackers Resort I didn’t pay this hefty older dude much attention; I only noticed that he was helping clean the place, so he must have worked for his accommodation there.

Over the next few months of me and my then girlfriend Sarah, working a really nice cleaning job at one of the nearby holiday resorts and settling down into a working holiday sort of life at Dougies, we got to know some fellow backpackers staying there, but for some reason, I never got talking with the big guy at all.  

Maybe it was because he seemed a bit unfriendly or just unsociable as he seemed to like to keep more to himself, so him and I never interacted, though I would always see him watching the news on TV every day. 

He would be sat leaning back in his chair, his massive belly a great mound of flesh, but little did I know what was behind that rough, brutish exterior…

It was one fateful day, after 2 and a half months of us staying in the same hostel as him, that we finally came into contact with each other.

Sarah and I were enjoying our day off work spending our time lazing by the swimming pool when the big fella lumbers over (from watching the news on TV) and plonks himself down next to us and slops into the pool. 

Conversation started up, and the topic of conversation was… the news!

I distinctly remember him saying: 

“They teach you their fears.” (‘They’ being the people on the news)

I remember that because it was such an unexpectedly profound thing to say, especially coming from a guy I had (to my own detriment) judged to be a bit of a slob, and so both myself and Sarah were suddenly very eager to talk more with him.

We quickly get into one of THE MOST FASCINATING interactions I’ve ever had.

He tells us about ‘Dowsing‘. 

He proceeded to give us a simple example and said that if he formed a question like: Is there any gold in that ring? (Pointing to a ring on the side of the pool) then in general terms, he would feel or sense for an answer and the answer would come almost instantly back. 

I understood the concept but I didn’t really believe him that he could do it.

But he continued. He said he could put questions forward in this way to gain an understanding of anything, including our energies and bodies. 

Looking at us he said OK I’ll have a look at you, and while not looking directly at us but somewhere in a middle distance, he used his hand to make a small swiping movement in the air in front of him, almost like he was flicking through the pages of a book.

He told me that I had a couple of dark patches around my mid section that he got rid of, and that I had a blue aura. With Sarah he said “Ahh, a Psychic… A pronounced third eye chakra”

When he said this I really did become intrigued because I knew Sarah hadn’t spoken with him before, yet he knew that she was, in fact, a type of psychic. 

(I didn’t have any experience of psychics before I met Sarah, and I didn’t used to believe in that being a thing. Even when you mention the word “psychic”, there’s a feeling attached to it of nonsense, falsehood, and maybe an image of Mystic Meg. But, after spending every single second of my time with this girl for a year, I could not deny the things she claimed and the bizarre, unexplainable experiences that we shared… Then this fat guy points it out straight away) 

Another thing he said about Sarah was she had some issue that could use some work done and he offered to sort it for her if she wanted to, he only needed to spend a bit of time on it.

He spoke a little more of healing himself and how he spent a few years reading and practising the technique and learning the various different layers of the physical and energetic bodies. 

He gave another example and he said he had drunk a lot at a party here last night. Any drugs like alcohol and other such substances, he said, are a type of darker energy, but he said he can just change it back when hungover the next day, to his original, clean energy state. His aura being kept white. 

One thing I need to be clear about is… he wasn’t actually showing off. I realise it can sound like he was but as it happened, the way he talked to us was very down to Earth. He wasn’t bothered whether we believed him, he was just  sharing his experience with us.