A Spell, A Prayer, & A Wish: Prequel of The End of Fate Trilogy Read online

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  Marwan dreamed that he was sitting next to a campfire, across from someone—a woman. He couldn’t make out her face, and couldn’t see who she was, but he could see two glowing, green eyes behind the fire’s light. Marwan was asking her a question like they knew each other.

  “What is my purpose in this life—can I know?

  The mysterious figure replied, “Listen, many things exist at once. Time moves differently than you think right now. Your purpose in life has both happened and has yet to happen. Your purpose manifests in many different ways, yet there will only be one composite outcome. Your purpose consists of life, first and foremost. Yet within life there is death, love, war, family, friends and enemies, which all appear in order to make each and every dream, premonition, realization or nightmare of yours become true.”

  Marwan could hear what she was saying but her voice sounded far away, further than it should be just being on the other side of a campfire. It was hard for him to really focus on what she was saying.

  She continued, “I am particularly fond of you, Marwan. For you are baby Rowan, the soul I am in love with. Rowan is who you became when you grew up and who you will become once you grow up. Right now, your soul has experienced much over many lifetimes and is at the end of a long journey. You are about to go through a transition and transform. Once this transformation is complete, you will embark upon a path that will consciously thrust you into the simultaneous aspects of this Universe and the One Experience in ways never before experienced by a native soul on your planet Earth.

  “In order for you to understand your purpose—your dream—you need to understand that the reality of our One Experience is a puzzle made from dream-pieces emanated by all the spirits of this Universe. The intersections of the dream-pieces fit together like a multi-dimensional riddle. To me, the dream-pieces—known as souls—are more like a dialetheistic existence of seemingly contrasting destinies, which somehow both contradict and coexist perfectly with one another. I like to call this the Great Compromise.

  “In some ways, the Great Compromise is not an actual compromise at all, but an overlapping of glorious individualities. It doesn’t make sense when described in a linear or mechanized worldview, where 2 + 2 = 4. In fact, it doesn’t make sense at all. You can’t understand it even if you were the smartest person to ever live. It is not logical. It is amazing; it is love. It is feeling something new for the first time and not understanding it. It doesn’t have a beginning or an end—it is always. It is All-That-Is and it is the Great Compromise.”

  Marwan watched the fire crackle in front of him as he pondered what the woman had said. He felt a vague attraction to her, not unlike her elusive-sounding voice or invisible figure, and wondered what she meant exactly by saying she loved Rowan, a supposed future version of himself.

  Marwan asked, “Who are you?”

  The woman said something but Marwan just couldn’t understand what she said. Her voice sounded too muffled. Then Marwan realized he was dreaming. But somehow he felt like he wasn’t dreaming. He felt like he was transported to some other place, a Spirit World.

  Marwan said, “I don’t really understand what you mean about my purpose and the dream-pieces and how it all relates to me.”

  The figure said, “It is not up to you to understand. But it is up to you to feel. Love is the feeling that provides the intellect all the answers to any questions.

  “Mankind’s intellect was evolved to be just a tool to use, like eyes or nose or ears. Yet, you place so much value on that single tool, even when you are gifted with the sense of feeling, intuiting and greatest of all, experiencing. Experiencing love is the greatest end to any path or answer to any question. Feeling is a direct conduit for you to manifest The Way and tap into the Great Mystery in methods your brain can never imagine. Only the scarcest of men are wise enough to know they are fools. And these wise fools know they will never truly understand.”

  Marwan asked, “Well, how can I become this Rowan person that you love?”

  “You have been gaining bits and pieces of many energies while letting go or losing pieces of your original energy and your soul is about to undergo a phase transition. This phase transition is akin to water becoming steam, or ice melting into water. When the right conditions are met, the soul transforms into a new soul, like molten lava from rock or a butterfly from a cocoon.

  “Once you pass from this mortal world, as your last life as Marwan, your soul will transform into someone new—Rowan. This is your destiny, the end to your fate.”