"Finally, you can hear me now."

"Who are you?"

"The other you"

"The other me?

"Yes.

"Am I going crazy?

"Ahah, not at all"

"How is something like that possible then?"

"Simple, you're listening.

"I don't understand. Listening to what?

"Of yourself."

"So I'm talking to myself."

"In some ways, yes, in others, no.

"I'm getting more and more confused! Who, or what are you?"

"Let's put it this way, I'm the light you remember to turn on in the dark times."

"So, simply put, I would have turned on this light"

"Exactly."

"In what way?"

"I told you, you've been listening."

"But I'm not listening to anything!"

"Ahaha, do you really believe that the only way to feel your surroundings is only through your 5 senses?"

"Don't you?"

"They are the way to feel the world outside of you, I am on the inside, they are of no use to you here"

"So I would be using another sense? Intuition? As far as I know it's considered the sixth sense."

"Eh, close. Let's say more correctly that you're using your soul."

"Ah, I had no idea that was possible, I still find it hard to believe actually"

"Well, stop wracking your brains with your rationality then and trust me."

"Trust you say?"

"Yes, exactly. There is a whole universe outside and inside each individual, but very few listen to what they have inside."

"I see, right now I'm listening to the universe inside of me."

"Exactly."

"And you are part of it?"

"Exactly again."

"But I don't know you!"

"Ahahah, I know you though, I've been around you for a long time"

"So you're not me!"

"It's complicated, I am and I'm not you"

"OK, I'm going crazy!"

"But no! To make it easier for you, you can think of me as the part you don't know about yourself, is that better?"

"Alright... and how long have you been with me?"

"Since your birth."

"So you were born with me, you are my consciousness?"

"I was born long before you, but you can put it that way."

"You have a will of your own.

"Witty, but let's not get off topic."

"Okay, other me, what's the point of this unlikely psychedelic chat?

"The reason can only be known by you, this is your world, you talk to me and listen to me because you want to, because you felt the need to."

"I would need so many other things, but they just didn't appear to me"

"I'm sorry to disappoint you"

"Of course"

"You already know why you can hear me, you've been through a time of deep despair. You have been in the depths of darkness, but in that sea of darkness you have fought back"

"All I know is that I suffered excruciating pain."

"Betrayal always is, I would like to remind you that there is someone who died on a cross for betrayal."

"Yes, I know. But I'm not him"

"No it's true, that's the point, you are you. That counts."

"That doesn't make it any easier.

"No one will, but you. Since you're here, it means you're starting to."

"I don't see how"

"No need, you're already doing it, what you need is awareness"

"Awareness of what?"

"What is it that gives life meaning? What is it that gives meaning, real meaning to existence?"

"I don't know, love?"

"A textbook answer, it's actually right, but what does love give a boost to?"

"I don't know...no, wait..."

"I'm listening."

"On the quest?"

"Very well, the search. The search for God, who is inside and outside of us. It is the search that pushes us to mature, to evolve, it is the search that gives us purpose."

"It doesn't seem to me that there is much of a search for God right now."

"Indeed, and that's why the world is falling apart. There was a time when man put in first place feelings directed to the achievement of that mystery that surrounded him in his search. A mystery that was not unraveled by simple scientific explanation."

"But science has allowed the progress of mankind."

"Absolutely, but at what sacrifice? Progress in itself is not a bad thing, but if you implement that progress supplanting a part of what we are, believing it impossible, because it is not demonstrable then there is a big problem there."

"Is this to say that man has turned away from God?"

"Worse, man rebels against God."

"But that is nonsense, for what reason should he?"

"For the same reason that a son no longer recognizes his father, he repudiates him. He doesn't need him except for his own interests, and since he doesn't feel heard, he rebels."

"If what you say is true, it doesn't sound like a good situation to me if we count the reality we are facing"

"In fact, it's not nice at all. Progress is aimed at profit, knowledge at subjugating peoples, principles of equality and fraternity are put aside. Knowledge is no longer aimed at inner growth, but at the achievement of a practical end."

"I don't feel like disagreeing, but not everyone is like that."

"Yes it's true, this complicates things even more."

"Why?"

"For the same reason a father suffers from seeing his children kill each other"

"... But there must be something you can do to change things!"

"Hard to say, what would you do?"

"Me? Ah I don't know. I would try to change myself, no actually! I would try to discover myself."

"Continue"

"If love is the drive and the quest is the means, God should be the goal. But how to reach him if not through myself? To seek him, within myself. But to do this I must first become aware of my surroundings, opening my ears, or rather my soul"

"Very interesting!"

"After that, it would be necessary to set an example for those who are on a similar quest, so that each individual in his personal quest changes the collective world around him!"

"Ahahah, easier said than done!"

"You're right, how stupid."

"No, you are absolutely right. In this world of "if I don't see I don't believe", there is a strong need for examples to follow. Paradoxically, it seems like we are back in ancient times, showing that we have advanced only in certain aspects, remaining firm in others"

"Yeah..."

"I liked your answer"

"Eh, thanks"

"You'll just have to carry on then."

"Continue for what?"

"Have you already forgotten?"

"I understood in my research."

"That's good."

"Are you leaving?"

"I'll always be here, I'm always by your side, but you can't stay here with me talking all the time. You have a life to run."

"Right"

"You pursue your quest, that's exactly why I decided to follow you"

"Eh, because I'm out of this world?"

"Because you see beyond the world"

"Good answer, other me"

"Keep going, my prince"