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The Hero With a Thousand Faces
All the great stories of human civilization are about the exact same thing. A journey professor of mythology, joseph campbell, in his seminole work, the hero with a thousand faces, calls it the mono myth. The hero heroine leaves home and hits some kind of a wall or crisis. They either die, literally, and are reborn, then they experience a miraculous salvation from outside of themselves. Then they pass that salvation on and return home. It's the same story in a thousand iterations, from ancient greek mythology and literature to george lucas based his entire thing on this book. And as gerald said, we just believe that you speak, that you have direct access