Psychic Literacy by Ingo Swann

Author:Ingo Swann [Ingo Swann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The John Traynor Event

IN 1882, IN IRELAND, there was born one John Traynor. From all accounts, he grew up to be an average Irishman (if the Irish can be accused of any such thing as average-ness) of lower, middle-class status. He had already lived his mundane life as a worker-laborer by the time the Great War (World War I) broke out. He was mobilized into the Royal Naval Reserve. A short time later at the battle of Antwerp he was shot in the head.

He lay in a coma for over five weeks. But when the surgeons finally found time in their over-crowded hospital, and since Traynor was still alive, they operated on his skull and pulled pieces of bone out of his badly damaged brain. Thereafter, he regained consciousness, recovered completely, and was posted to Egypt. There he was shot again. When he recovered from this wound, he volunteered for the landings at Gallipoli, which turned out to be one of the most dreadful and useless confrontations in modern military history.

At Gallipoli, in April 1915, during a bayonet charge, Traynor was again shot in the head, and two bullets hit his chest. One passed through, but the other lodged under his right collarbone, completely severing the brachial plexus. With these important nerves to his shoulder and upper arm severed, his right arm was now to be totally paralyzed forever. Four successive operations to sew the nerves back together failed. The surgeons finally recommended that his arm be amputated since it would be totally useless. John Traynor, bless his Irish heart, refused.

Shortly after he began to have epileptic seizures. Both legs were partially paralyzed, and he could no longer walk. The epilepsy grew worse, and he became doubly incontinent. He was confined to bed or a wheelchair. In April 1920 his skull was trepanned (removal of part of the skull), and a silver plate was inserted into the hole to protect his brain. In other words, John Traynor was in a physical condition of the worst kind. Back in Ireland, he became a total burden to his poor wife who eventually could not manage, and arrangements were made in July 1923 to house him in the Mossley Hill Home for Incurables where his pension from the Ministry of Pensions would support him for what was assumed to be the rest of his short life.

Before he could be so permanently disposed of, however, John Traynor had heard about pilgrimages to Lourdes, where the Virgin had appeared to the young girl, Bernadette Soubirous, and which had thereafter become the most famous healing shrine in the world. Traynor spent his last gold sovereign as a down payment, even though the priests in charge of the pilgrimage told him he would probably die on the way, and this would be a serious inconvenience to them.

Undaunted by the priests’ reluctance, Traynor persuaded his wife to pawn anything they had left and raised the balance of the cost of the pilgrimage fee of twelve pounds. Once embarked on the journey, his condition worsened, and he had several epileptic seizures.

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