“Have you ever met one of those highly evolved beings?” I asked curiously.

“Of course. Everyone who comes to this world through the special portals like us has to meet them. It’s like reporting in,” Yoshida replied.

“What will they do to us?” I asked with a slight tone of anxiety.

“There’s no need to worry. They mean no harm and want to meet us to confirm that we are really prepared to stay here wholeheartedly. Usually, there won’t be a problem since those who made it here has already passed certain criteria,” he tried comforting me.

“As I told you, when you passed through the portal to this planet, they announced your arrival and asked everyone to prepare and welcome you. Hence, all of us here know about you already. They have also assigned a job to every individual, each in charge of our respective areas of responsibilities, to help prepare you before the meeting with them. And I’m among those who have been assigned to prepare you,” he said,

“What’s your real assignment, if I may ask?” I asked him.

“It’s synchronicity. You came to this planet through a portal through which not too many people have passed before. In fact, hardly anyone has ever used it at all. That portal is more like an emergency door. Normally, it’s used by the highly evolved beings who are on missions on the other side of the world, especially in the event that they cannot get to the main portal in time. But the probability of this happening is almost nil, as flying saucers can fly at warp speed around the world in less than a minute,” Yoshida said.

“Originating from Earth as you, I was assigned to help you orientate yourself and inform whatever you wish to know about this planet. This planet is called Tuengra. This is the most befitting name that it has been given. In the past, people in our world referred to this star as Thueng, or the Dueng planet. And our Earth has been named Gaia on this planet. Hence, from now on, when we talk about this planet, I’ll use the name Tuengra, alright?” he asked, but I know that this was not really a question.

“I knew about a year in advance that you would come here. Even though I was born on the same planet as you, we still have a language barrier when we communicate with each other. You speak in your native tongue, and I use mine. Unlike the people who are born here, who can speak in any language they want to, I have learnt your language from the archive in the universe for one full year,” Yoshida said.

“You taught yourself to speak my language? You are so proficient and I feel truly honoured. I’m beginning to believe that my arrival on this planet is definitely not a coincidence,” I said, looking at him for confirmation.

“Yes, nothing is a coincidence,” Yoshida said determinedly. “The jigsaw puzzle of this universe has already been put together. It was only a matter of divine timing.”

“It’s as if the plan had already been made for me to be here at this place and at this specific time, right?” I asked.

“I think so,” Yoshida agreed.

“But what if I hadn’t followed that plan? What if I had decided not to go on the trip with my friends? What if my friends had changed the travel itinerary? What if we had changed our mind not to go to the forest where that portal was located? What would have happened, then?” I asked.

“Well, are you here now?” Yoshida asked, looking deeply in my eyes.

“Yes, I am,” I replied.

“Then, it could have never been otherwise. It was preordained,” he answered.

“I am not trying to confuse or frustrate you. This has happened because everyone who was traveling with you was … well … inspired as well,” Yoshida stumbled over finding the right words.

“You mean ‘celestially inspired’?” I corrected the expression Yoshida had used.

“Uh, yes, right, ‘celestially inspired’ indeed. The words sound quite similar,” he agreed.

“But why me? Why am I here? What am I to do here? Why me, and not my friends, or some other person on my planet?”

“You have to ask the one who wanted you to come. I can’t answer this question,” Yoshida replied.

“Come on; you said your job is to answer all the questions that I have,” I demanded.

“That’s right, but my precise job is to answer all questions on the similarities and the differences between our two worlds. Since I was born on the same planet as you, He thought that I would be the most suitable person for this assignment. However, any question on someone’s intention, the person who knows the answer best is the owner of that intention. I may be able to tell you, but it wouldn’t be appropriate. And it might not be the correct answer,” Yoshida replied.

“Then everything that happens for a reason can be attributed to someone’s ‘celestial inspiration’, right?” I interpreted.

“Sometimes, this ‘someone’ that you mentioned does not refer to another person, but could be attributed to your inner self,” Yoshida responded, but his response led to another puzzle to be solved.

“It seems that your answers only lead to more questions, and I’m well aware of your intention,” I was onto him.

“Yes, and I’m glad that you are keeping up with me,” he admitted.

“Is there someone else inside us? You don’t mean that I’m possessed by a spirit, do you?” I had to confirm, as this world already had too many surprises.

“Go easy on yourself,” Yoshida suggested. “That someone is actually our own self, not anyone else. I’d like you to try and understand this because this is the most fundamental principle that will guide you in the future.”

“Inside every human being there are two parts that form our consciousness. The first part is the conscious mind, with which we are quite familiar since we experience this conscious state of mind regularly. This part controls our body while we are awake. Whatever we do, we do it all through the conscious part of the mind.”

“The second part is a part that we can’t observe so easily. Simply put, when we are using the conscious mind, the other part can’t appear, as it’s a separate entity of its own. Some people call it the ‘subconscious’ or ‘unconscious’ or ‘superconscious mind’. Whatever we call it, it is the same thing – our true essence,” Yoshida explained.

“In our Eastern philosophy, we call it ‘the soul’, which is like the owner of ourselves, for which the conscious mind acts only as a representative, doing the physical acts for the soul. Can you picture this?” he checked to see if I followed.

“Yes, I think I do,” I nodded.

“Everyone born on this planet Tuengra understands this principle well. And they make use of this understanding.”

“Every extraordinary skill that people possess on our planet Gaia such as telepathy or the ability to access the hidden knowledge of the universe or to make contact with the Source, needs to communicate through the soul,” Yoshida added.

“However, almost all of our people on Gaia have lost the ability to communicate with their soul; only a handful know how to do that.”

“Please explain more, I’m quite confused. How do I communicate with my soul?” I asked back.

“I’ll explain the structure of how it works first, and later on how one can do it,” Yoshida replied.

“Let me illustrate by using the radio that I used when I was a pilot as an analogy,” he continued. “Now suppose our conscious mind is a radio, and our soul is another one. Both devices are installed within us. And there are hundreds of thousands of radios scattered across the universe. Normally, all the souls throughout the universe can communicate with one another by tuning into the same spiritual frequency, including ours. The problem is not with our radios, because they can always communicate; the problem lies with the other radio, used by our conscious mind that does not use the same frequency, so it misses out on the communication that is being conducted at the universal frequency. We only use our local frequency, hence, we don’t know what the others are communicating,” Yoshida explained, and then continued: “So, in principle, we can only access the universal knowledge by first tuning our conscious mind’s frequency to the same wavelength to that of the soul’s. Whatever information we seek, we can only use the soul as a conduit for the search.”

Yoshida then added: “Normally, the soul can always receive information from our conscious mind because its frequency wave is higher. The conscious mind, however, can’t receive information from the soul as it doesn’t listen much. We tend to believe more in the ability of our ears, eyes, nose, tongue, and skin.”