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The beginning of Journey Back to the Source starts off with the house in a decrepit state and at the brink of being torn down. As the story continues, we follow the story of Marcial's life in a backward formation, starting with his death all the way to him not existing before birth. It's strange because we experience life from birth to death and not from death to birth.

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"Hunger, thirst, heat, pain, cold. Hardly had Marcial reduced his field of 'perception to these essential realities when he renounced the light that accompanied them. He did not know his name. The unpleasantness of the christening over, he had no desire for smells, sounds, or even sights. His hands caressed delectable forms. He was a purely sensory and tactile being. The universe penetrated him through his pores. Then he shut his eyes-they saw nothing but nebulous giants-and entered a warm, damp body full of shadows: a dying body. Clothed in this body's substance, he slipped toward life." (pg 430)

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Aseem realizes his impact on the future throughout the different visions of time he experiences. What is strange about this is that he realizes it from a person (possibly himself) from the future. It's difficult to depict and know what the future holds, so Aseem having an idea of what happens to Delhi in the future is based off of a supernatural ability.

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"He wishes he could have asked his future self more questions. lie is afraid because it is likely (but not certain, it is never that simple) that some kind of violence awaits him, not just the violence of privation, but a struggle that looms indistinctly ahead, that will cut his cheek and injure his arm, and do untold things to his soul. But for now there is nothing he can do, caught as he is in his own time-stream." (pg 94)

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Mist has to deal with the oncoming changes that the Earthers bring onto her home planet. She's forced to witness her customs die out through the Earthers colonizing her planet and influencing the younger generation. What is strange is the setting itself. It shows the colonization of an alien planet that has existed for centuries with people who can unable to experience sound unless they get something implanted into their necks. It common to see colonization occur in different countries on Earth but the colonization of an alien planet is something that has never been done before.

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"Flowers-in-the-Sun shrugged. "Mother, look around. The Earthers are watching us. And the girls my age aren't holding their mothers' hands." Mist lifted up her eyes and studied the crowd around her. It was true - true and strange - the mothers of older children were definitely not holding their children. They weren't even walking with them. In fact, the mothers all seemed lost, forgotten, childless as they stood on the edge of the road, their backs against the high walls of the cliff. Their lost eyes watched dejectedly as their children chattered on in animated mouth-talk with other children." (pg 216)