Well it's raining down on me on Colorado mountainside I see the trainer coming with his one knee on like Thunder in the distance shaking off the trees The night train to nowhere goes Quarter after three I'm catching the night train Got a ticket to ride I'm catching the night train Got a ticket to ride I'm catching the night train Got a ticket to ride I'm catching the night train But it only goes one way So I want to tell you a story that to me proves that we are never alone.
I recently returned from a backpacking trip to the USA and it was ground breaking in more ways than one really.
It was a journey,
A deep journey of inner healing.
It was fun,
It was adventure,
It was all of these things and more.
I've always struggled with feelings of loneliness,
Feelings of being disconnected and that hasn't got any better in this day and age where things are starting to go more online every year.
So I can be connected to lots of people and still feel that disconnect inside.
But on this trip I had an epiphany and it came after a long night on the night train and it was a bizarre night indeed.
It was a night of contrasts.
I just left the loving warmth of being with wonderful friends who'd been feeding me,
Putting me up,
Showing me all the hospitality to being left on a cold station platform in Gallup then getting on the train full of Amish people and to us people here in Europe that really does look like a movie set.
But if that wasn't enough there was a strange light in the sky just as we were going past Area 51 and everybody was wondering what it was.
Well,
The next morning it turned out to be a SpaceX rocket.
But the whole thing,
All those carry-ons in one night on the train just really felt to me like I was travelling through the twilight zone.
In LA I had a long layover and I went to this waiting area and fell into one of the plush seats there.
I was just sitting there and thinking about the lessons that I was receiving that this trip to the US was teaching me because I'd received so much from so many people in so many different ways.
And that was something at the time that was very strange for me too.
It was difficult for me because I was closed off from receiving for most of my life.
So I was there just sitting,
Thinking,
Minding my own business and suddenly an old Rasta fella turns around sharp and says right in my eyes and he said right through me.
It was like an X-ray going through me and that's where he heard my thoughts.
Hey sis,
We all need a little help sometime right?
Well,
I hadn't said a word,
Not out loud anyway.
Yes,
But we have to be willing to receive.
Oh,
I like that sis.
I really,
Really like that.
Hmm,
Willing to receive.
I remember that.
So this strange conversation out of nowhere turned into this deep,
Deep discussion about the mysteries of the universe.
I mean,
Here I was with a guy I'd literally met 10 minutes ago in the train station in the City of Angels and we were discussing the origins of the universe.
We were talking about the awakened people and how so many of the unawakened ones were still trying to break the matrix and that we were entering the Golden Age of Aquarius.
And I mean,
I was thinking what?
What's happening here?
I mean,
That's not the kind of thing you usually do when you meet a stranger in a train station.
But this guy,
He saw me.
I mean,
He didn't see me.
He saw me.
He truly saw me.
And I saw him when I started looking closer,
When I looked past the scruffy exterior,
The ruggedness.
There we were two light beings connecting in the middle of a city of millions and millions of people.
And it was absolutely frightening and wonderful all at the same time.
And then,
Just as suddenly as he appeared,
He told me that he had to go for his train.
But just before he left,
He turned around and said,
Oh,
By the way,
I'm one of the sons of Little Richard.
Now,
Anybody who knows me knows I'm a musician and Little Richard is one of my biggest musical heroes.
I mean,
I've played many of his songs in the band over the years.
This was just surreal.
Was it true?
I don't know.
But on the other side,
Who am I to question?
So then he disappeared as swiftly as he had come into my life.
He came without me realizing and then he was just gone again.
Almost like Morgan Freeman in that movie where he played God.
And I was sitting there.
And at that moment,
I had this epiphany and it dawned on me.
There are so many of us.
We are everywhere.
And we really,
We really are not alone.
