"It's your superpower. Tapping into the dream. It's a good thing not a bad thing."

Ruth is seen to evoke powers of Buddhahood as well, especially in her travels across time and space in which she puts Haruki #1’s French diary for the Yasutani family to find towards the end of the novel. Ruth is shown traveling through this multiverse and ultimately may have been able to briefly cross over into Nao’s world through a dream to help save Nao and her dad from tragic fates. The goal of achieving Buddhahood teaches one learns to accept finitude, mortality, and the great ending, and in practice, one learns to cultivate the patience, compassion, and peace that leads to freedom. For the sake of the Anthropocene, the world depends on the sudden enlightenment of our race so that we can lead the way, or at least prevent our impending doom. To become the perfect environmentally conscious bodhisattva, no matter how unrealistic that goal may be.