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In June 1981, high spirits, including Jesus Christ, came down to tell me something extraordinary: that I was called to a unique mission. I was called to be a spiritual leader on a global scale.

When a high spirit makes an appearance on earth in this way, it is with a numinous radiance that causes your body to become very warm, and the messages communicated are so filled with truth and light that you are overwhelmed and tears well up. Such was my experience.

The following month, a hidden part of my consciousness the Buddha himself began to speak to me in a mixture of Japanese and Sanskrit, urging me to embrace my destiny and to spread the word of Buddha. He revealed to me that I am an incarnation of El Cantare, the supreme consciousness of his group, and that my mission is to save all living creatures through the revelation of the Truth worldwide.

These revelatory experiences were so overpowering and the scope of the mission set out for me so enormous that I could not conceal my shocked amazement. Still, I also realized at once that I am a reincarnation of the Buddha, and that it has been my mission to reorganize the high spirits in heaven while also integrating all the various religions on earth to create a new world religion. It is up to me to gather all the peoples of the world into this new faith, to pioneer the development of a new civilization, and thus to herald the advent of a new age for the world.

However, I did not feel that I was ready to undertake this incredible responsibility, even though I had immediately intuited the authenticity of my calling and accepted it wholeheartedly. I was still in my twenties and working for an international trading company. Hence, I decided to continue working at my job until I reached the age of thirty. I was, of course, experiencing a great deal of inner turmoil as I operated in the everyday world of business while fully aware of my true identity and vocation.

In 1982 I was assigned to my company's headquarters in New York as a trainee, all the while knowing that I had received a message from Jesus and been commissioned for a cosmic undertaking by the Buddha. Thus, this Buddha-to-be spent many a day working with my fellow operatives on Wall Street in the intense world of international finance. Meanwhile, I learned English intensively and passed the entrance exam to the City University of New York, where I studied international finance at the graduate level.

But, not unexpectedly, I was less than happy in what I was doing. The gap between the mundane realities of my everyday life and the intense experiences of my spiritual world grew ever more unbridgeable. My sense of identity was severely tested.